THE ASSOCIATION

The Association “Friends of Visual Arts” is supporting artists as painters, sculptors, installation artists, film-makers, video and photographer, mainly from Europe with a certain focus on Central and Eastern Europe, especially Romania.

We are convinced, that aesthetic is important for any civilization and that art offers the highest expression of human freedom. We are convinced that strengthen freedom, creativity and aesthetic will bring the human development forward in a peaceful and creative global society

We are supporting art in:

- Organizing the International Summer Academy of Visual Arts, Cisnadioara

- Organizing and supporting international artist residencies

- Matching relevant contacts and international encounters of artists, art-critics, art historians, curators, gallerists, collectors and art lovers

- Organizing group and personal exhibitions

- Organizing and granting art fair participations

- Encouraging socially to buy contemporary art

- Encouraging public authorities to position art in public space

The Association had been established and registered in Cluj-Napoca in 2024 by Gabriela von Habsburg, Thomas Emmerling, Marius Roman, Torsten Jörges, Lucia Goreaev, David Coole and Radu Albu Comanescu.

THE BOARD

FoVA Members visiting the Vernissage of the result exhibition at Summer Academy 2024

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD

Thomas Emmerling, Cluj-Napoca, President

H.R.H- Princess Alina Maria de Roumanie, Bucharest, Vice-President

Av. Marius Roman, Cluj-Napoca, Secretary General

Torsten Jörges, Sibiu, Treassurer

Gabriela von Habsburg, Stockdorf bei München – Tbilisi, Art-Director