Anca Poterasu Gallery

From Resource to Landscape:
Roșia Montană between Memory, Activism, and Regeneration

Thursday — June 25, 2025 · Anca Poterașu Gallery · Free admission

Starting from the exhibition Fragments of Poetic Nature, the evening brings together a documentary screening and a public discussion focused on Roșia Montană: its memory, the civic struggle that helped protect it, and the questions that remain open following its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021.

📎Film Screening · 5:30 PM
Children of Uranium (2009)
Directed by Adina Popescu & Iulian Ghervas

Băița Plai was a mining settlement established in the Apuseni Mountains around uranium extraction for the Soviet nuclear program. Through the testimonies of former miners and local residents, the documentary revisits this community, examining the social and environmental impacts of extractive industries and the long-term costs of an economy built on resource exploitation.

📎Public Discussion · 7:00 PM
Iulian Bisericaru, Ștefania Simion, Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Iulian Bisericaru, Ștefania Simion, and Ștefan Ghenciulescu will discuss a place that has survived, yet is still searching for its direction. They will reflect on the consequences of two decades of civic resistance and on the role of art at a moment when political and social narratives seem to have reached their limits.

Roșia Montană is a territory of overlapping layers—Roman, industrial, socialist, and post-socialist—carrying a recent history shaped by the clash between two irreconcilable visions of value: the gold beneath the ground or the land itself.

Its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021 marked the end of an important chapter, but the story remains open.

On June 25, we invite you to join a conversation about what comes after a victory. About how a place that has survived can redefine itself, even as its future remains uncertain. And about what art can do when the arguments have been exhausted.

Ready, steady, go! See you tomorrow at Liste Art Fair Basel with solo presentation by Megan Dominescu 🍀

Come see us at booth #40, June 15-21

Opening Soon! 🌶️

We are happy to share that is featured in the major group exhibition "Labouring Bodies" at in Basel, opening on the 9th of June!

Curated by , the exhibition explores the intersection of body and technology from a feminist perspective, shifting the focus from the “male worker” toward often-overlooked feminized bodies within industrial and domestic labor.

We are proud to see Aurora Király’s work presented in this dialogue alongside pioneering contemporary artists, including Berenice Abbott, , , , Helen Chadwick, Rebecca Horn, , .lacy , Katja Novitskova, Tabita Rezaire, , , , Ursula Burghardt, .bursztyn , , Sella Hasse, , Pati Hill, , , , .koeker , Magda Langenstraß-Uhlig, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, .liu.studio , Lee Lozano, , , Frida Orupabo, Margaret Raspé, , Evelyn Richter, , Doris Ziegler et al.

Location: Museum Tinguely, Basel
👁️ Curated by Sandra Beate Reimann
📅 June 10 – November 8, 2026

If you are in Basel this summer, make sure to add this spectacular institutional show to your itinerary!

Anetta Mona Chișa is taking part in "all the forest stands with you, curated" by Anja Lückenkemper at Te Uru Contemporary Art Gallery, opening on May 31st.

The group exhibition traces the entangled relationalities between the human and the more-than-human world. Moving between perspectives of power, love, and agency, the project directly challenges the colonial and patriarchal binary that separated "nature" from "culture." Grounded in ecofeminist frameworks, "all the forest stands with you" approaches nature, land, and ancestral presence as active participants in a shared, living world, inviting a shift toward reciprocity and coexistence.

Within this conceptual framework, Anetta Mona Chișa presents the video installation "Tell me, dust, about your complicated matter" (2020). The work explores the endless declinations and agency of dust, an unclassifiable singularity resistant to conceptual appropriation. Positioned as a hyper-object that measures all processes, dust narrates itself in the video as a mythical creature, a parent material, and a planetary memory. By looking at how matter and meaning coalesce in these micro-particles, the installation serves as a profound means to ponder forms of coexistence across cosmology, geology, ecology, and human history.

Here are some snippets of the work.

🗓️ 31 May – 9 Aug 2026
📍 Te Uru Contemporary Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zeeland



"Tell me, dust, about your complicated matter"
2020
Anetta Mona Chisa

Tell me how it wanders and gets lost
and where it goes, and who it meets,
the pain it suffers, and how it works to save its life
and bring its particles back home.
Tell me the old story for our modern times.
Find the beginning.