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The Multicultural Centre of Transilvania University of Brașov invites the academic community, as well as the wider public of Brașov to the opening of Dreamscapes,the most recent exhibition. 

Dreamscapes proposes a decoupage from Cicirean collection, offering an outline of the last decades’ visual practices, articulated through the personal act of collecting. Featuring artworks created by twelve artists between 1972 and 2024, the exhibition opens up a realm where reality subtly overlaps with the mythology of dreams. In-between individual memory and collective gaze, autobiographical milestone and recent art history, Cicirean collection fulfills, as a whole, the functions of an ever-evolving and -changing archive, with each work of art being both a subjective choice, arising from the private act of collecting, and an objective portrayal of the Romanian art scene’s evolutions after the 2000s.

The exhibition brings together creations signed by the artists Mircea Cantor, Cristina Chirilă, Horia Damian, Andrei Gamarț, Ion Grigorescu, Gili Mocanu, Sultana Maitec, Laurian Popa, Radu Pandele, Lea Rasovszky, Roman Tolici and Ecaterina Vrana. Each of its pieces unfolds like a fragment of dream, suspended between reality and projection, while the exhibitional construct traces a non-linear narrative, an unpredictable path with alternations of abstract and figurative, geometry and gesturality.

The owner of the collection, Avi Cicirean, has been drawn to art since childhood, influenced by the artistic environment where he grew up, including his grandfather’s paintings and sculptures, as the universe that set his first visual landmarks. Over the last fourteen years, this initial familiarity has turned into a consistent approach to exploring contemporary art, in which communion with creation becomes both an exercise in knowledge and a form of self-definition. Therefore, the presentation of the collection in a public exhibition acquires the valences of a self-revelation act, but also of a means for turning private experience into a shared space.

We will be therefore waiting for you at the Multicultural Centre (ground floor of the Rectorate building, 29 Eroilor Blvd.) to attend the opening ceremony taking place on Friday, 5 December 2025, starting at 6:00 p.m., as well as to visit the exhibition which will be open to the public until 7 January 2026, from Monday to Friday, between 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.