“Full Season” by Celula de Artă

In a symbolic period of transition, on the border between light and darkness, the “Full Season” exhibition proposes a meaningful end to the season.

Ion Puican, 29.11.2025, 14:00

In November, Celula de Artă or The Art Cell closes the 2025 curatorial season with the “Full Season” exhibition, an exhibition that brings together in a single space the works of the artists who have animated the Vertical Gallery throughout the year. In a symbolic period of transition, on the border between light and darkness, the exhibition proposes a meaningful end to the season: an invitation to introspection, to connect with the invisible side of existence and to reflect on inner transformations. About this end of the exhibition year, we spoke with Anca Spiridon, cultural PR and curator of the “Full Season” exhibition: “We decided to close the year of Celula de Artă with one last major exhibition, “Full Season”, which is a collective exhibition of textile art. Somehow to mark a year full of challenges for the team, a year with two international residencies, a year with two other important cultural projects carried out in extended teams and, of course, the exhibition season at the Vertical Gallery. For the first time we have exhibited consistently and coherently in one of the spaces of the Art Cell only textile art works and installations. Somehow we see this event that we are holding at the Technical Museum until November 30 as a conclusion, but also as a period of respite for everything we have achieved this year, in which we want to enjoy the things that have happened and to draw our conclusions, to learn our lessons.”

What was the curatorial approach of 2025 for the Vertical Gallery within the Celula de Arta? What concept did it start from and what were the results? What was the selection approach for the artists exhibited in 2025? Anca Spiridon has the answers: “When we chose the theme of the exhibition season at the Vertical Gallery, we started from two ideas circulated in our bubbles by artist friends, visual artists, but also writers. Namely, that in visual art, textile art is Cinderella, the one that is the least represented, the least seen in exhibitions and galleries. Although things are changing a lot for the better, starting with the last few years, there are more and more events that highlight contemporary poetry. We really wanted to be able to expose them to the public who are passionate about either one or the other, so that we could give them the opportunity to explore another form of artistic expression. And yes, it is wonderfully potentiated, because one comes with the auditory component, and the other with the visual one, in the end both reaching a fairly deep emotional chord and creating an impactful experience depending on each viewer. What is very nice is that the works that we exhibited in the 2025 season of the Vertical Gallery were not chosen. They were simply proposals from artists who were recommended to us or whom we knew, and whom we wanted to have in this first attempt to exhibit textile art. Coincidentally, they all brought personal experiences to the forefront and captured intimate states, but at the same time with which it was very easy to relate. They capture moments of fragility, of remembrance, of identity construction, moments of introspection. And when we brought them together in the large exhibition at the Technical Museum, they simply sat natural side by side, so that visitors can cross this inner landscape of emotions and have a coherent experience of discovering them.”

“Full Season” brings together textile installations, collages, visual structures and poetic interventions that explore identity, memory, fragility and the process of becoming. From works that transform fabric into the language of the soul, to installations that give shape to mental and emotional processes, the exhibition becomes an inner landscape that the public is invited to see: “The exhibition also features installations that transform mental or emotional processes into visual form. Precisely because visual language helps a lot when certain feelings and emotions cannot actually be put into words. We believe that this is the role of art to bring out what is less visible or less easy to express. And what we found very nice is that before you can read the label of the work, visual language, simply, is sometimes enough to facilitate understanding.”

Celula de Arta is an artist-run space that for years has been taking art out of the white cube and bringing it into accessible and lively places. In this context, the “Full Season” exhibition becomes not only the end of a curatorial year, but also an invitation to authentic presence in the common space of sensitivity. Anca Spiridon  tells us more about the mission of Celula de Arta:  “We are ending the eighth year in which Celula de Arta operates as an artist-run project that aims to bring art into accessible spaces, to take it out of the classic gallery and museum area. Even though we still occasionally have exhibitions in such white cubes and bring it to the public. And over time, we realized that this approach has brought us closer to a community of visitors who would not normally go to art galleries, who appreciate unconventional venues and the relaxed atmosphere in which the artistic proposals that we want to pass on.” (EE)