Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York

Romanian Cultural Institute in New York / ICR New York The official page of the Romanian Cultural Institute in the United States, based in New York City
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The Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) is a public agency dedicated to cultural diplomacy and international arts exchange. Born in its present form out of the rehabilitation of the notion of Romanian cultural cooperation, the RCI has thrived, since 2005, under the guidance of a new and visionary executive board. Through its network of dynamic antennas, RCI has forged a highly visible and flourishin

g open space for intercultural dialogue, connecting vibrant Romanian arts and artists to the evolving international scene.

05/28/2026

🇺🇸📚 The North American tour begins in just a few hours! Dallas, we're ready!

🎥 Just hours before the opening event of their North American tour, acclaimed author Tatiana Țîbuleac and translator Monica Cure send a special greeting from Dallas, where tonight they will meet readers for the first conversation celebrating the English-language release of "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes", published by Deep Vellum Publishing.

✨ We're especially delighted that tonight's discussion at The Wild Detectives will be moderated by Will Evans, founder of Deep Vellum Publishing and the visionary publisher whose commitment to international literature helped bring this extraordinary novel to English-language readers.

📚 Watch Tatiana and Monica's invitation and join us for the first stop of a literary journey that will continue across North America in the coming days. Whether you're in Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, D.C., or New York, we invite you to celebrate one of the most acclaimed novels in contemporary European literature and its remarkable English translation.

✨ TOUR DATES ✨

📍 Dallas — The Wild Detectives
🗓 May 28, 7 PM
Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with Monica Cure, moderated by Will Evans

📍 San Francisco — Bay Area Book Festival
🗓 May 31, 1:30 PM
Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with Rita Bullwinkel

📍 Chicago — Madison Street Books
🗓 June 1, 7 PM
Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with Monica Cure, moderated by Ali Kinsella

📍 Washington, D.C. — Lost City Books
🗓 June 3, 7 PM
Tatiana Țîbuleac and Monica Cure in conversation with Ena Selimović

📍 New York — Rizzoli Bookstore
🗓 June 4, 6 PM
Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with Monica Cure, moderated by Raluca Albu

🌍 Already translated into more than seventeen languages and celebrated across Europe, "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" now begins its journey to American audiences in Monica Cure's acclaimed English translation.

🤝 We look forward to seeing you along the way. RSVP: https://shorturl.at/uuxkv

✨ Last Thursday, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting opened at the Romanian Cultural Institute New York with an evening ...
05/28/2026

✨ Last Thursday, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting opened at the Romanian Cultural Institute New York with an evening that transformed the gallery into an immersive landscape of memory, absence, and shifting identities. Inspired by Milan Kundera’s iconic novel, the exhibition unfolds through fragments, gestures, and layered narratives that invite visitors to question how personal and collective histories are constructed, remembered, and erased. Bringing together Romanian, American, and Mexican artistic voices, the exhibition quickly became a vibrant point of connection within New York’s contemporary art scene.

🎨 Curated by Charles Moore, the exhibition features works by Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Carlos Genova, Dumitru Gorzo, Nicholas Guzman, Erika Harrsch, Aurora Király, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Vlad Nancă, Șerban Savu, and Mihai Zgondoiu. Across painting, installation, photography, sculpture, and mixed media, the artists explore migration, displacement, intimacy, political memory, and the fragile architecture of belonging. The dialogue created between these distinct practices offers a compelling reflection on the cultural intersections shaping contemporary life today.

🖼️ We were honored to welcome the curator and artists present for the opening reception. Throughout the evening, the gallery became a space of conversation and discovery, where visitors moved between moments of irony, vulnerability, tension, and humor — echoing the emotional complexity at the heart of the exhibition itself.

🌍 At a moment when conversations around identity, borders, archives, and cultural memory are becoming increasingly urgent, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" contributes an important international perspective to the ongoing dialogue within New York’s contemporary art ecosystem. The exhibition highlights the power of artistic exchange to create new ways of seeing, remembering, and relating across geographies and generations.

🤍 Thank you to everyone who joined us for this unforgettable opening night and helped make the evening so special.

📍 "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" can be visited at the Romanian Cultural Institute New York – Brâncuși Gallery, located at 200 East 38th Street, New York, NY 10016, through June 19, 2026.

🕰️ Exhibition program: The exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday, between 9 AM – 6 PM.

📸 Discover more photos from the opening on our social media channels and read more on the official RCI New York blog: https://www.rciusa.info/post/the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting

🇺🇸📚 Acclaimed Romanian author Tatiana Țîbuleac arrives in New York for a special evening celebrating the English-languag...
05/26/2026

🇺🇸📚 Acclaimed Romanian author Tatiana Țîbuleac arrives in New York for a special evening celebrating the English-language release of "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes", translated by Monica Cure and published by Deep Vellum Publishing.

✨ Join us at Rizzoli Bookstore for a conversation dedicated to one of the most powerful and emotionally resonant novels in contemporary European literature — a story of reconciliation in which a mother and son finally make peace with each other and with themselves.

📍 Rizzoli Bookstore, New York
🗓 June 4, 6 PM

🎤 Tatiana Țîbuleac in conversation with translator Monica Cure, moderated by Raluca Albu (BOMB Magazine). The evening will be followed by a book signing.

📖 From one of Romania’s most celebrated writers, "The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes" is a devastatingly beautiful coming-of-age novel exploring grief, memory, forgiveness, and the fragile bond between a mother and her son.

🌿 Aleksy still remembers the final summer he spent with his mother in Northern France. At eighteen, desperate to escape a family shattered by loss, the quiet months spent together in a small French village feel unbearable — until his mother reveals that she is dying.

💔 Fourteen years later, urged by his psychiatrist to revisit those memories, Aleksy relives the summer when everything changed. For readers of Claire Keegan and Elena Ferrante, Tatiana Țîbuleac’s novel is an unforgettable meditation on love, anger, tenderness, and redemption.

🎟 RSVP here:
https://www.rciusa.info/events/tatiana-tibuleac-the-summer-my-mother-had-green-eyes-north-american-tour-2026-05-28-19-00

🤝 This event is organized by RCI New York and Deep Vellum Publishing, in partnership with Rizzoli Bookstore.

✨ On behalf of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to Cristian MUNGIU a...
05/23/2026

✨ On behalf of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to Cristian MUNGIU and the extraordinary team behind “Fjord” for winning the Palme d’Or at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival!

🎬 This is more than a remarkable cinematic achievement — it is a deeply moving moment for Romanian culture and for everyone who believes in the power of bold, human, and uncompromising storytelling. Through fjordthefilm, you have touched audiences across borders and reminded the world why cinema matters.

🎊 We celebrate Cristian Mungiu’s singular artistic vision, the unforgettable performances of Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, the dedication of producer Tudor Reu, and the immense talent, passion, and hard work of the entire cast and crew who brought this exceptional film to life.

🇷🇴 Your success fills us with pride and emotion. At Cannes, “Fjord” has not only earned the highest distinction, but has also carried Romanian cinema once again to the forefront of international culture with elegance, intelligence, and extraordinary artistic force.

👏 We wish the entire “Fjord” team continued success in the exciting journey ahead and in the many international festivals, awards, and competitions to come! We look forward with admiration and anticipation to everything this beautiful film will achieve around the world.

🖤 Tonight at the Romanian Cultural Institute New York: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting opens its doors — a major gro...
05/21/2026

🖤 Tonight at the Romanian Cultural Institute New York: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting opens its doors — a major group exhibition bringing together Romanian, American, and Mexican artists in a layered exploration of memory, identity, displacement, and political inheritance.

✨ Curated by Charles Moore and inspired by Milan Kundera’s iconic novel, the exhibition unfolds through fragmented narratives, unstable recollections, and shifting emotional landscapes. Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed media, the exhibition reveals how memory is constantly rewritten through bodies, spaces, archives, and ideology — where forgetting becomes not only loss, but transformation.

📸 Aurora Kiraly (Romania) works across photography, textile art, drawing, and installation, exploring memory, perception, and identity through feminist perspectives and deeply personal visual narratives.

🎭 Hortensia Mi Kafchin (Romania/Germany) creates vibrant figurative paintings shaped by hybridity, technology, ecology, and contemporary trans experience, merging the intimate with speculative futures.

🏛 Nancă (Romania) investigates political symbols, architecture, and public space through objects and installations that examine how ideology and nostalgia persist within contemporary culture.

🌫 Șerban Savu (Romania) is known for his atmospheric figurative paintings depicting everyday life in post-socialist Romania, balancing realism, history, and subtle social observation.

♻️ Mihai Zgondoiu (Romania) develops multidisciplinary works that critically engage with media culture, false icons, ecological awareness, and the social contradictions of contemporary life.

🌙 A subtle tension between irony and melancholy runs throughout the exhibition — a space where tenderness, estrangement, contradiction, and humor coexist without resolution.

📍 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
🥂 Opening Reception: Tonight | 6–9 PM
📌 Romanian Cultural Institute New York — 200 E 38th Street, New York City
🎟 RSVP: https://www.rciusa.info/events/the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting

🖤 This May, Romanian Cultural Institute New York presents The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, a major group exhibition ...
05/18/2026

🖤 This May, Romanian Cultural Institute New York presents The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, a major group exhibition bringing together Romanian, American, and Mexican artists in a layered exploration of memory, identity, displacement, and political inheritance.

✨ Curated by Charles Moore and inspired by Milan Kundera’s iconic novel, the exhibition unfolds through fragmented narratives, unstable recollections, and shifting emotional landscapes. Rather than following a single storyline, the show creates a constellation of images, materials, gestures, and atmospheres suspended between personal memory and collective history.

🌎 Introducing the first five artists featured in the exhibition:

🎨 Carlos Genova (Mexico/Germany) creates dreamlike paintings that move between abstraction and figuration, weaving together multicultural symbolism, mythology, and explorations of the unconscious.

🪵 Dumitru Gorzo (Romania/USA) navigates painting, sculpture, and installation through an expansive practice shaped by folklore, satire, and contemporary social realities, bridging Romanian and international artistic contexts.

🌀 Nicolas Guzman (Mexico) investigates perception and materiality through painting, film, and performance, questioning the elemental act of seeing and the shifting boundaries of visual experience.

🦋 Erika Harrsch (Mexico/USA) creates multisensory and interactive works exploring migration, identity, ecology, and cultural memory through a fusion of traditional media and new technologies.

🔥 Salvador Jiménez-Flores (Mexico/USA) develops socially engaged installations and sculptural works that reflect on migration, labor, cultural hybridity, and community through deeply personal and political narratives.

🌀 Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed media, the exhibition investigates the porous boundaries between the intimate and the political, revealing how memory is constantly rewritten through bodies, spaces, archives, and ideology. In this context, forgetting emerges not only as loss, but as transformation.

🌙 A subtle tension between irony and melancholy runs throughout the exhibition — a space where tenderness, estrangement, contradiction, and humor coexist without resolution.

📍 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
🥂 Opening Reception: May 21, 2026 | 6–9 PM
📌 Romanian Cultural Institute New York — 200 E 38th Street, New York City
🎟 RSVP: https://www.rciusa.info/events/the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting

🖤 This May, Romanian Cultural Institute New York presents The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, a major group exhibition ...
05/13/2026

🖤 This May, Romanian Cultural Institute New York presents The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, a major group exhibition that brings together Romanian, American, and Mexican artists in a layered exploration of memory, identity, displacement, and political inheritance.

✨ Curated by Charles Moore and inspired by Milan Kundera’s iconic novel, the exhibition unfolds through fragmented narratives, unstable recollections, and shifting emotional landscapes. Rather than following a single storyline, the show creates a constellation of images, materials, gestures, and atmospheres suspended between personal memory and collective history.

🌎 Featuring works by Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Carlos Genova, Dumitru Gorzo, Nicholas Guzman, Erika Harrsch, Aurora Király, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Vlad Nancă, Șerban Savu, and Mihai Zgondoiu, the exhibition traces shared experiences of migration, translation, belonging, and the fragile structures through which remembrance is shaped and reshaped.

🌀 Through painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed media, the artists investigate the porous boundaries between the intimate and the political, revealing how memory is constantly rewritten through bodies, spaces, archives, and ideology. In this context, forgetting emerges not only as loss, but as transformation.

🌙 A subtle tension between irony and melancholy runs throughout the exhibition — a space where tenderness, estrangement, contradiction, and humor coexist without resolution.

📍 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
🥂 Opening Reception: May 21, 6–9 PM
📌 Romanian Cultural Institute New York — 200 E 38th Street, New York City
🎟 RSVP: https://www.rciusa.info/events/the-book-of-laughter-and-forgetting

🗽 We’re excited to announce SUPRAINFINIT’s participation in Independent Art Fair New York 2026 with a solo presentation ...
05/12/2026

🗽 We’re excited to announce SUPRAINFINIT’s participation in Independent Art Fair New York 2026 with a solo presentation by Romanian artist Larisa Sitar.

✨ Known for its distinctive approach to contemporary art and curatorial experimentation, Independent brings together galleries and artists shaping today’s international art landscape. For this edition, SUPRAINFINIT presents a new body of work by Larisa Sitar — marking the artist’s New York debut and an important moment for contemporary Romanian art on the global stage.

🏛️ Dedicated to conceptual art practices from Eastern and Central Europe, SUPRAINFINIT has become an active presence within Bucharest’s contemporary art scene, supporting emerging, mid-career, and established artists through exhibitions, newly commissioned works, large-scale installations, and public programming. At Independent, the gallery continues its commitment to presenting practices that engage critically with materiality, history, architecture, and social transformation.

🪨 Larisa Sitar’s works move between sculpture, relief, and spatial intervention, using concrete as both medium and political metaphor. Drawing from the visual language of modernism, social realism, and brutalism, her practice reflects on memory, ideology, and the shifting relationship between the human body and built environments.

📍 We look forward to welcoming you at Booth 111.

🖼️ Independent Art Fair 2026
📍 Pier 36, New York
📅 May 14–17, 2026

🤝 This project is supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York.

🔗 More details:
https://www.rciusa.info/events/romanian-artist-larisa-sitars-debut-in-new-york

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