The exhibition ‘HEMP – Back to the Future’ organized by CREART and the Bucharest City Hall on a concept by the Ivan Patzaichin – Mila 23 – Rowmania Association in partnership with the Baita-based Textile Museum, opened on Friday at Romania’s Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
The event brought together representatives of the International Bureau of Exhibitions (BIE), commissioners general, representatives of national and international cultural institutions, as well as officials from other pavilions, the Romanian Foreign Ministry said in a release.
Commissioner General of the Romanian Pavilion Ferdinand Nagy officiated the ribbon-cutting ceremony alongside two of the exhibition’s main contributors: Dr. Florica Zaharia, Curator Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and director of the Baita Textile Museum, and architect Teodor Frolu – the exhibition’s curator and co-founder of the Ivan Patzaichin – Mila 23 Association.
‘The ‘Hemp – Back to the Future’ exhibition represents a bridge between research, heritage and design, intended to bring Romania and Japan closer through shared values and a future-oriented vision,’ said the Commissioner General.
The opening was followed by a Romania-Japan cultural dialogue, organized with the support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Tokyo, which saw presentations given by Dr. Florica Zaharia, Professor Yuko Fukatsu of the Tama Art University, Arch. Teodor Frolu, and co-founder of the Baita Textile Museum Romulus-Nicolae Zaharia.
Hans Klemm – former U.S. ambassador to Romania, and Hiroshi Ueda – former Japanese ambassador to Romania, were among the visitors in attendance.
Yoshiyuki Akahoshi, Environmental Science PhD and researcher at Nihon University, and director and curator of Japan’s Taima-Cannabis Museum Junichi Takayasu were also present.
The exhibition, ‘which explores the tangible and intangible heritage of the hemp plant, by putting Romanian and Japanese textile traditions into dialogue with contemporary expressions in design and art,’ will stay open until October 13.
‘The exhibition showcases samples and objects from the collections of the Baita Textile Museum (costumes, fabrics, instruments), hemp clothing creations, a textile installation by Olah Gyarfas (PATZAIKIN), multimedia contributions by Dan Vezentan and Dilmana Yordanova, and three short documentary films made by TV producer and journalist Emi Gheorghe. The project looks at the relationship between tradition, innovation and sustainability, positioning hemp as a symbol of the encounter between the past and the future and as a vector of the Romania-Japan intercultural dialogue,’ the cited source also notes. AGERPRES (RO – writing by: Alina Novaceanu; EN – writing by: Simona Klodnischi)
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