10-12 October 2025
Spotlight #9
Theme of the edition: Symbiosis
The theme of the 2025 edition of the Spotlight Festival, SYMBIOSIS/SYMBIOSIS, proposes a change of perspective: from competition to collaboration, from immediate results to living processes. The festival becomes a laboratory where artists, curators, brands and communities unite their energies to experiment and generate new forms of expression, in a dialogue between art, technology and ecology. Spotlight invites a reflection on how we can build sustainable cities and communities, where creativity, empathy and resources translate into a shared intelligence capable of regenerating not only urban space, but also the relationships between people.
About the #9th Edition
→The largest visual art event organized by the City Hall of Bucharest, through ARCUB — Cultural Center of Bucharest
ARCUBorganizes Spotlightsince 2015, the year in which it launched the first light art festival in Romania, aligning the Capital with the international network of major festivals. Through its curatorial vision and its ability to mobilize artists and partners from the country and abroad, ARCUB has turned Spotlight into a landmark of the Bucharest cultural scene, confirming the institution's role as a pathfinder and integrator of new forms of artistic expression in the public space.
300.000+
visitors/edition
20+
light installations or projections
included in each edition
included in each edition
7.000 m²+
of exhibition space on Calea Victoriei and adjacent areas
Curator: Adrian Damian
Scenographer, President of the Romanian Centre OISTAT
Adrian Damian is a scenographer, creator of stage spaces and multimedia installations with a predilection for the use of technology as a means of artistic expression. After graduating from acting at the Faculty of Theatre and Film, UBB, Cluj-Napoca, he studied scenography at UNATC Bucharest and since graduating from the faculty in 2010 until now he has signed more than sixty scenographers in important theatres in Romania and abroad.
Program
10-12 October
During the three days of the festival, Spotlight 2025 will guide visitors along Calea Victoriei, where important buildings and public spaces in Bucharest will offer a light show and video projections. The route begins at the National Military Circle and continues with screenings and installations at the Odeon Theatre, the Palace of Telephones, the Novotel Hotel, the Music Store, the Revolution Square, the Central University Library, the National Museum of Art of Romania, George Enescu Square and the InterContinental Athénée Palace Bucharest Hotel, marking the end of the Spotlight 2025 route.
The Spotlight 2025 program starts, every day of the festival, from 19:00 and ends at 23:00.
