The exhibition „Nature Always Finds a Way”, signed by artist Ramona Șlug and curated by Nicoleta Popa Grigore, opens on Monday, February 16, 2026, in the Contemporary Art Hall of the Golești Museum.
A graduate of the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Ramona Șlug is a visual artist, curator, and art educator. A member of the Union of Fine Artists of Romania, she has participated in numerous exhibitions in Romania and abroad, working across various artistic media including painting, drawing, and object art. She lives and works in Bucharest and Curtea de Argeș.
Her recent practice explores the intersections of education, nature, heritage, and artistic expression.
The exhibition *Nature Always Finds a Way* brings together a series of works created using different techniques — drawing, collage, and painting. Regarding this exhibition, art critic Gabriela Popescu states:
“Ramona Șlug’s current exhibition invites us to reflect on one of the most pressing and widely debated themes of contemporary culture: NATURE and its reflection in ART.
We live in an era marked by rapid climate change, so drastic that affected species no longer have the necessary time to evolve in order to survive. We are told that the only hope lies in human intervention. In short, HUMANITY is responsible for the disaster LIFE on planet Earth is facing — yet the only possible salvation also depends on it.
But is this truly the case? Ramona’s exhibition, whose title adapts the well-known saying ‘If there’s a will, there’s a way,’ seeks to alert us — through the language of art — to another possible solution to this problem, one that, as a species, should perhaps alarm us.
The resilience and inexhaustible inventiveness of nature form the conceptual starting point of this series of works, situated at the threshold between figuration and abstraction.
These works began their ‘life’ as studies of easily identifiable vegetal structures (branches and roots, lichens, tree rings, leaves, veins, bark, etc.), intertwined, slipping among stones, dissected, projected against the sky, animated by an apparently endless imagination. Yet they did not remain confined to botanical precision. From the initial sketches — fragmented and recombined — new compositions gradually emerged, moving from collage to graphic works and then to painting, evolving from recognizable imagery toward abstraction through the reorganization of the landscape’s fundamental elements. A wild, predominantly vegetal landscape, from which human presence and all its creations seem to have been deliberately removed.
These works suggest that nature finds a way to endure, regardless of the obstacles placed in its path — recomposing, reorganizing everything again and again. For the most essential impulse of life, despite its fragility, is to perpetuate itself.
And the primary impulse of art is to reinvent itself time and again, just like the nature it reflects, in order to overcome every obstacle.
Thus, beyond its aesthetic dimension and its evident admiration for nature’s ingenuity, this exhibition also serves as a profound and serious warning to today’s generations: nature will always find a way to survive — but this may happen with or without us.”
The opening reception will take place on Monday, February 16, 2026, at 3:00 PM, and the exhibition will remain on view until May 6, 2026.
We warmly invite you to join us!
Text: Nicoleta Grigore
Translation: Camelia Călin
