#artday: some cool exhibitions to see in Bucharest this month
A good coffee, a pair of sneakers and a phone ready to take the most amazing pictures: the newest and coolest art exhibitions in Bucharest are ready to be discovered. These are some cool art exhibitions to see in Bucharest this month.
Sandwich Gallery – https://www.sandwichgallery.ro/ – with the exhibition “Cats are taking over” – 45 artists and artistic groups from 7 countries. And it is dedicated, of course, to… cats, in all of their representations and moods. Just lovely. To be seen in the villa @catena.pentru.arta (Radu Calomfirescu 15 street) until 30 of July.
RAD Fair – https://radartfair.com/ – From 29 of April to the end of May – Rad Fair has a beautiful exhibition outside – a sculpture park, with more than 40 artists unite under a theme of diversity and nuance. 3 weeks of free, open-air contemporary sculptures. (More about Sculpture Park – here)
Galateca – https://www.galateca.ro/ – “Frumusețea gestului tău”, Anca Boeriu – The art exhibition invites us into the sensitive and introspective universe of artist Anca Boeriu, a space where the fragile materiality of paper and clay become carriers of profound messages about the present, connection and transformation. In line with the artist’s vision, we are mirrors of the surrounding world, crucibles in which influences mix and shape us incessantly. (Beautiful projects by Galateca – here)
Galeria Posibilă – https://posibila.ro/ – “Companions to the afterlife”, Miruna Radovici – The idea for Miruna Radovici’s latest solo exhibition sparked, in part, from those memorabilia – trinkets, photographs and items left to the artist by her grandmother – „an archivist”, as her granddaughter calls her. These unintentionally sought for objects, apparently meaningless, conveyed within them both the significance of loss – an absence, and a sense of remembrance and embrace, which connects to the larger of human experience. (About other special exhibitions with young Romanian artist Miruna Radovici – here)
Galateea Contemporary Art – https://www.galateeagallery.com – on Calea Victoriei – “Formations in Jumble Jams” by the Greek artist Hector Mavridis (at his first solo exhibition in Romania) – his installations, performances and public interventions provoke an artistic discourse about the unlimited possibilities of ceramics. Until 18th of May.
/SAC @ MALMAISON – international group exhibition “Notes from Underground” – Titled after Dostoyevsky’s Notes from Underground, this exhibition seeks to unravel the tensions between the civilized self and its buried counterpart, between societal constraints and the primal forces they attempt to suppress. – https://www.sac-malmaison.com/ (until 25th of May)
Catinca Tăbăcaru Gallery – https://catincatabacaru.com/ – “Ovidiu Toader & Justin Orvis Steimer” exhibition (until 21st of June). They are like two travelers bumping into one another and learning they speak the same language. Bound by their shared discovery and a reverence for the material as a site of communication.
MARe / Museum of Recent Art – https://mare.ro/ – “All Ours Today” – the exhibition will be extended until the end of May 2025. More than 50 artists from 20 countries, including Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Antony Gormley, Bridget Riley, Richard Serra, Huguette Caland, Olafur Eliasson – artists whose works can be found in the collections of the world’s great museums, such as MoMA, Tate or Pompidou, and explore the dialogue between figurative and abstract art. (More exhibitions – here)
Salonul de proiecte – https://salonuldeproiecte.ro/ – “Călătorii, fotografii, prietenii. Lee Miller, Lena Constante, Elena Pătrășcanu”- until 8th of June 2025. Three women with different artistic paths in Romania, immediately after the end of World War II. They are Lee Miller, a renowned photographer who visited Romania twice – in 1938 and again in 1946, before and after the war; Lena Constante, an artist known especially for her innovative contributions to textile art; and Elena Pătrășcanu, a set designer, promoter of puppet theater and actively involved in left-wing political movements. (READ here – about a beautiful photography exhibition in Berlin)
Art Safari 2025– until 27 iulie – www.artsafari.ro. Ion Țuculescu, Ioan Andreescu, forgotten Romanian painters, but also contemporary voices of Romanian art (Young Blood 4.0), but also photographers meet in the new season at Art Safari. READ here & here – interviews with the new young Romanian artists.
