Baraka Artist-run space is an alternative art space, focused on experimentation and research in the field of visual arts. The space represents an organism in continuous development that was born in 2013 at the initiative of four students from the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara in collaboration with the West University of Timișoara.

Over time, things settled down and coherently took shape, and currently, the Baraka Artist-run space is coordinated by the Baraka Artist Cultural Association, an association defined as an artistic research center, an independent initiative with a collaborative character, open to partnerships from the institutional sphere, but also from the private sector. At the same time, the association represents a resource context dedicated to the needs of the artistic producer (artist) and the public, to develop a direct and formative dialogue through research, exhibition, and promotion of art.

In the last ten years of the space, both a discourse and a personal artistic practice with an interdisciplinary character of each member of the group have developed, as well as a route based on a permanent collaboration maintained through openness and the desire to connect with the artistic climate of Timișoara and from other areas, but also through interactive projects with the general public through mediation, workshops, and debates.



Today, Baraka Artist-run space is a space that has an exhibition context, work studios, a program of residencies, an archive section, and space for dialogue and workshops addressed to both students and the general public. The central aim of the space is to remain a place of intersection and meeting of ideas, projects, and visions that can take shape and be built in an interactive, collaborative way, and that keeps the local scene connected to the global contemporary art scene.