10 art exhibitions to see this month in Bucharest 

It is a great month for #artlovers. Almost all galleries has opened new exhibitions – from painting to installations or photography – here are 10 art exhibitions to see this month in Bucharest. 

Andrei Runcanu – “Fior” @andreiruncanu – 2-15 March 2024 (at Primitiv Plants) 
A talented photographer, thousands of pictures, more than 50 shootings in 8 years. More than 50 photo sessions done in the last 8 years with actresses, models, and women capture moods and emotions born from improvisations with the models’ favourite flowers. Almost all the photos are in analog format, on film, just like the prints that they are created in a camera obscure, also in analog format. Many of them are polaroids. It is a beautiful exhibition to put on this March artistic agenda. Bonus: the location is absolutely gorgeous! 

Art Safari (8 March-28 July 2024, Palatul Dacia-România) – @artsafari_bucharest
This spring, Art Safari returns with 5 new art exhibitions. As in… “Secret Museum” – with artworks from „Dinu și Sevasta Vintilă” museum, Topalu, Constanța – a not so well known museum, which has on its walss a lot of important works from Nicolae Grigorescu, Nicolae Tonitza, Ștefan Luchian, Theodor Pallady, Corneliu Baba, Constantin Piliuță and others. Y
“Eustațiu Stoenescu. The portretist of aristocracy” – about a less known artists, a great portretist. We will se portraits of King Ferdinand, King Mihai I, Queen Elena and others. 
“History of Romania in 100 portraits” – all the rulers, great politicians and sports names of Romania (from Nicolae Bălcescu and Tudor Vladimirescu, to Gheorghe Hagi and Nadia Comăneci). 
“Pangratti Ateliers” – about a very interesting artistic hub, which has functioned for more than 50 years. Corneliu Baba, Ion Nicodim, Ovidiu Maitec and others created here.
“Palace Gardens” (8 March – 14 April, the first temporary exhibition of the Secrets and treasures” – all the paintings with floral themes (Luchian, Grigorescu, Tonitza, Aman). 

Cap de copil, Nicolae Tonitza, colecția Muzeului de Artă din Topalu
Examene, Mihai Rusu
Samuel Mutzner – Kimonoul albastru

MARe (2 February – 20 May 2024) – @muzeuldeartarecenta
“Cei noi / Graduate Curated” – For the first time in the last decades, young graduates and students from the most important national art centers – Iași, Bucharest, Timișoara and Cluj-Napoca – exhibit together in a museum from the Capital. 66 works made by 41 young artists will invade the spaces of MARe/Museum of Recent Art. The exhibition is a premiere also for MARe/Museum of Recent Art, which – in the first 5 years after its launch – systematically exhibited a great range of postwar Romanian art famous artists. The previous thematic group shows, dealing with core issues of the visual culture and national history (from the image of the feminine ideal to the representation of sport, of urban life or of agriculture in Romanian art), were never constructed from a generational perspective.

Adrian Buda
Ada Ștefan

Arsmonitor – “Doi Gorzo” (29 february – 12 April 2024, Piața Presei Libere, A2) – @arsmonitor
The exhibition “Doi Gorzo” (Two Gorzo) is a premiere – a duo show with Ioana Gorzo & Dumitru Gorzo. The artists, with different personalities and works, radically opposite, propose an unexpected confrontation between apparently figurative and obviously expressionist painting. The drawing and the painting of the two artists communicate and complement each other in a less explored territory when it comes to art. In this exhibition “Doi Gorzo”, at Arsmonitor, we can see the reference to the problems of the image, with the meaning of representation and the phenomenon of the iconic.

Mogoșoaia Palace – “The sincerity of an idea” (16-25 March 2024) 

The artist Agape’s Reign will have the second exhibition of 2024 at Mogosoaia Palace
She is developing an original 3D art style, a combination of sculpture and painting signing her artworks using clay, liquid marble, copper, and other materials applied by resistant structures on canvas. The themes of her artworks are elaborated ideas relied on existential themes, raising awareness on different matters and therefore giving visual impressions on them.

ArCUB – “Salvador Dalí’s Universe” (until May 2024, at Gabroveni Inn) – @arcub.bucuresti
One of the largest exhibitions dedicated to the Catalan artist in Romania, with 170 works, “Salvador Dalí’s Universe” invites viewers on an unforgettable journey through the eccentric artist’s works: life-size sculptures, surrealist furniture and other specially crafted works of art whose composition ingeniously uses materials such as glass, bronze, gold and even diamonds. The surreal journey culminates in a unique VR experience.

Gaep Gallery – “Organism” @gaep.gallery  (from 23rd of February 2024) 
Théo Massoulier’s first exhibition with Gaep presents new sculptures, assemblages and bas-relief paintings, which unsettle our conceptual security of what the living state means and speculate on the transformation of our relation to technology. Jewel-coloured micro-landscapes made of miscellaneous elements, zoomorphic creatures informed both by biotechnological breakthroughs such as gene editing and by the iconography of sci-fi or animation films, spray-painted surfaces that seem activated by a sensor in the form of a geometric sculpture resembling robotic parts.

Galateca – “Am fost la capătul lumii / I traveled to the end of the world” (6 – 23 March 2024) @galateca
The photo exhibition is seen as a journey through the worlds and experiences of Liviu Stănescu, as an imaginary passage through life and its realities that are sometimes distant, sometimes immediate and in some cases even palpable. The photographer collects emotions, lives for travel and travels to live. Pick your favourite photo at Galateca.

Kulterra Art Gallery – PHANTASMAGORIA by Shina Hoang (22 February – 17 March 2024) – @kulterraartgallery
Shina Hoang’s collection of abstract art is an intensely touching and symphonic visual representation of emotional vibrations, as well as a form of chromatic storytelling. Her works capture snapshots of human sentiment through intense tones and simple body positions. Through color, she creates a morphology of emotional manifestation, turning her artworks into gateways to emotional landscapes that bridge the physical and spiritual realms. About the artist: is very interesting to know that Shina Hoang, born of Chinese Vietnamese descent in British-occupied Hong Kong, immigrated to the US as a child. But she completed her BA in Visual Art at the University of Art in Bucharest and her Masters in Visual Arts at the West University of Timisoara.

Strata Gallery – Games People PLay, by Roxana Ajder – (28 February – 30 March) – @strata.gallery

Taking her personal photographic archive as a reference point, from which she constructs a painting about nudity, nature, embracing the body, and ways of living, Roxana Ajder is one of the bravest artists of her generation. Her painting develops extensive series of various formats in which the naked body is displayed with an almost disarming naturalness, while managing to animate the unsettling and not very usual space between innocence and indecency, purity and impudence. 

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