termen folosit din 2007
Școala de la Cluj
A term coined in another country, for a generation that never called itself that.
The “Cluj School” is not a school. The term was first used at the Prague Biennale in 2007 for a group of emerging Romanian artists, by analogy with the Barbizon School and the Neue Leipziger Schule.
What binds them is a generation, not a manifesto: people born roughly between 1975 and 1985, mostly trained at the Art and Design University in Cluj, who came of age in post-1989 Romania.
Measured in searches, the term is dead: zero, in English, in the United States and the United Kingdom. The people's names, by contrast, are searched. Which is why this page exists as a story rather than as a category label — and why you will not find a section on this site called “Cluj School”.
The storyPart of the story of Cluj as an art city (1926, 2007): Before the market →
Connections
Most of the generation trained at UAD Cluj
source · 2026-09-10
Who follows
These are the people and places that connect directly to the name above. This is where the exposure actually happens.
Where the generation labelled the “Cluj School” trained
source · 2026-09-10