08/10/2026
The “arte” in TravelArte has always mattered to us: another way of discovering, interpreting and connecting with a place.
Our curiosity doesn’t stop with the journeys and experiences we create for our travellers.
We often spend time thinking about what makes something endure: guesthouses given new lives, crafts carried forward, landscapes shaped by generations, recipes, materials or knowledge that change while something essential continues.
We learn a lot exploring exhibitions, studios and the cultural conversations happening around us.
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 in Sibiu resonated with us in many ways. It explores the relationship between humans and nature as parts of the same interconnected system: body and landscape, memory and matter, individual experience and environment, each continuously shaping the other.
At its centre is the idea of persistence. Not as remaining unchanged, but as continuing through change. Through erosion, accumulation, repetition, adaptation, disappearance or return.
It is an idea we recognise. Continuity does not necessarily mean preserving things exactly as they were. Sometimes, what persists does so because it is allowed to evolve.
Perhaps the same is true of our encounters. They continue beyond exhibitions, through memories, landscapes, conversations and images, each reflecting and transforming the others.
📍 Brukenthal National Museum of Contemporary Art, Hermannstadtsibiu
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Organised by: .hermannstadt
With: Paula Anke · Marlene Herberth · Friederike Jokisch · Adina Mocanu · Marina Oprea · Raluca Paraschiv · Renée Renard · Semra Sevin · Lucy Teasdale · Anja Teske