Dates and Locations
– June 23, 2025, at 15:00 – National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing
– June 26, 2025 – Headquarters of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Beijing
Participants
– Mr. Călin Stegerean, Director of the National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR)
– Ms. Oana Cristea Grigorescu, theatre critic
The central event consists of an official meeting between the leadership of MNAR and NAMOC, aimed at establishing a long-term institutional partnership to facilitate exhibition exchanges, joint curatorial projects, and collaborations in the field of Oriental art. At the same time, an official invitation will be extended to MNAR to join the prestigious international network "Silk Road International Alliance of Art Museums and Galleries", under the patronage of the Chinese government and coordinated by NAMOC.
During the NAMOC conference, Director Călin Stegerean will present The Constantin Brâncuși Collection at the National Museum of Art of Romania, illustrated through a virtual tour of the museum’s Brâncuși Hall, offering Chinese audiences exclusive access to MNAR’s most important Brâncuși masterpieces.
Călin Stegerean, former Director of the National Museum of Art of Romania (2016–2017, 2021-2025), graduated from the “Ion Andreescu” Institute of Fine Arts in Cluj-Napoca, Graphics Department (1985), and holds a PhD in Philology from Babeș-Bolyai University with a thesis on Visual Arts and Literary Magazines of the Romanian Interwar Avant-Garde (2011). He previously served as Director of the Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca (2009–2014), head of department, and senior curator. Since 2017, he has also taught as an associate professor at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. As a visual artist, he has held solo exhibitions in Rome, Venice, Vienna, and Cluj-Napoca and participated in numerous international group exhibitions. He has designed over 500 book covers and illustrations and curated more than 80 exhibitions of Romanian contemporary art and heritage collections.
On Wednesday, June 26, at the RCI Beijing headquarters, Ms. Oana Cristea Grigorescu, theatre critic and Radio Romania producer, will deliver a lecture titled Themes of the New Romanian Drama on Stage.
The lecture, delivered by theatre critic Oana Cristea Grigorescu, offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution and identity of Romanian drama over the past two decades. Through the analysis of seven representative plays by contemporary authors, the talk explores how Romanian dramaturgy has responded to the social, political, and moral challenges of post-1989 society. The selected works highlight themes such as family and personal trauma, recent history, collective memory, gender-based violence, and interethnic tensions, offering a vivid portrait of a society in transformation. Including playwrights of Romanian, Hungarian, and German backgrounds, the lecture reflects the multicultural character of Romania’s theatrical landscape and invites international audiences to discover the richness, relevance, and artistic power of its new drama.
Oana Cristea Grigorescu is a theatre critic and producer of audio dramas at Radio Romania Bucharest, in the National Audio Drama Department. She holds a PhD in Music from the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy (Cluj, 2011) and has been a member of UNITER since 1997. She won the UNITER Award for Theatre Criticism at the 2020 Gala. Currently President of the Romanian section of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC.ro), she served three times (2021–2023) as a curator for the National Theatre Festival. Her numerous international distinctions as an audio drama producer include the BBC Best European Audio Drama Award (2023), ABU's Together for Peace (2023), Grand Prix Nova (2020, 2022, 2023), New York Festivals (2018), and more. She produced The Two-Headed Empire during the Romania–France Cultural Season (2019–2020), in co-production with France Culture. A long-time cultural journalist at Radio Romania Cluj (1995–2016), she curated the Radio Gallery and currently serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Scena.ro, also contributing to leading cultural magazines in Romania, Austria, Italy, and Germany.
The official meetings and conference content represent a coherent and visionary initiative for strengthening the artistic dialogue between China and Romania, opening new perspectives for the circulation of cultural values in an international museum framework.
