Contimporanul, a Romanian avant-garde literary and art periodical that had first advertised itself as a "social magazine", becomes a voice for modernism in 1924, when it publishes a manifesto virulently attacking the cultural establishment.

The Bucharest International Modern Art Exhibit, an avant-garde event hosted by Contimporanul displaying works by Constantin Brancusi, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, János Mattis-Teutsch, Kurt Schwitters, Michel Seuphor, Miliţa Pătraşcu, Marcel Janco, Victor Brauner, and M. H. Maxy, opens in December 1924.