Platform Formare Culturală invites cultural practitioners, art professionals, researchers, representatives of cultural organizations and heritage institutions from Romania and the Republic of Moldova to participate in the second virtual roundtable of the project “Nordic Insights: Addressing cancel culture in public spaces through artistic dialogue and cultural innovation”.
International experts and practitioners are also invited to participate if interested in the themes of the project.
Date: October 30, 2025, at 11:00 Romania and Republic of Moldova time / 10:00 CET
Format: Online, in English
Duration: approximately 2 hours
About the event
This roundtable explores how curatorial practices in public art can engage with and recontextualize contested historical narratives. We will examine different approaches to controversial monuments through temporary and permanent artistic projects, connecting experiences from Nordic countries with Eastern European realities.
The event will be facilitated by Niels Righolt, cultural developer from Denmark, and will benefit from the expertise of two distinguished speakers. Alba Baeza, curator at Public Art Agency Sweden, will discuss curating public art and artistic interventions in contested spaces. Sergiu Musteață, historian, member of the Commission for the Analysis and Evaluation of the Communist Totalitarian Regime in the Republic of Moldova and Secretary General of the National Commission of the Republic of Moldova for UNESCO, will address post-communist monument politics and historical memory in the Republic of Moldova.
Topics to be addressed include artistic curation as historical mediation, the comparison between temporary and permanent interventions, educational dimensions of public art, institutional frameworks for artistic engagement with public memory, as well as methodologies for documenting and archiving monument transformations.
Who should attend
We invite cultural practitioners, art professionals, cultural researchers and academics, representatives of cultural organizations and heritage institutions, as well as anyone interested in the subject from Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The event will bring together approximately 20 participants who will contribute to a genuine exchange of experiences and perspectives.
Registration
To participate in this virtual roundtable, please complete this registration form by October 29, 2025. Participation is free thanks to the project’s funder.
The number of participants is limited to facilitate in-depth and interactive discussion.
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Contact
Oana Nasui
Project Manager
Email: [email protected]
Project details here
The project “Nordic Insights: addressing cancel culture in public spaces through artistic dialogue and cultural innovation” is implemented by platforma Formare Culturală from Romania. It is funded by Nordic Culture Fund through the Globus Opstart+ programme, which supports artistic and cultural projects connecting the Nordic countries with other regions of the world, encouraging long-term collaborations and networks that promote artistic development and experimentation.
Formare Culturala is a private resource platform for cultural and creative industries in Romania initiated in 2012 that produces cultural debates, trainings, cultural networking sessions and knowledge transfer projects in the creative and interdisciplinary sector.
Center for Kunst og Interkultur (CKI) is a Danish organization dedicated to audience development, promoting interculturality and supporting cultural democracy. The organization’s fundamental values are based on the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions.
Intercult is an independent production and resource organization based in Stockholm, operating in Sweden and Europe since 1996 as an initiator of collaborative cultural projects and developer of intercultural competences. The organization functions as a European Resource Center for Culture.
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