Visual Arts

The exhibition has been extended until November 13, 2022 Starting from June 9, 2022, the Rotonda foyer of the „Sala Mică” Hall will host a new exceptional exhibition: SCENO.graphy - an exhibition of scenographic art, consisting of projects and scenography works, both for film and theatre, as well as digital scenography works, created by students (bachelor and master) from the Department of Scenography and Artistic Events of the National University of Arts Bucharest (UNAB / UNArte). All the items in the exhibition are made from recyclable materials, costumes and masks are created on the principle of Upcycling - a plastic recycling practice used in workshop projects and promoted for more than 5 years by the Scenography and Artistic Event department. The concept of the exhibition is based on ideas and values that are also found in the pedagogical mission of the Scenography and Artistic Event Department: freedom of expression of the artistic identity in its various forms; scenography as a meeting place for the different creative branches of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, decorative and applied art, architecture, kinetic art, the art of dancing with literature, music and the technique itself; adapting the field of scenography to the 21st century through the virtual world; or building digital characters and environments (game design, 3D art, character design, environment design). We invite you to discover UNArte SCENO.graphy! and to meet the exhibiting artists: Ruxandra Maria Laza (1st year), Ana Mihalache (1st year), Cristina Catinca Bondoc (1st year), Maria Morariu Brînzei (1st year), Miruna Olaru (1st year), Diana Roxana Stănculescu (1st year), Andreea Burada (2nd year), Iulia Enculescu (2nd year), Sarah Cristel (3rd year), Simona Gruia (3rd year), Andreea Maria Valentina Zaharia (3rd year), Nicoleta Durbac (3rd year), Cristian Brîncoveanu (1st year Master's degree), Anamaria Cârlan (1st year Master's degree), Anca Stăiculescu (1st year Master's degree), Ligia Kimberly Vintilă (1st year Master's degree), Gabriela Vlădușel (1st year Master's degree), Gabriela Carina Stoica (2nd year Master's degree), Ionuț Răcoreanu (2nd year Master's degree), Ana Udeanu (2nd year Master's degree), as well as the current teachers of the Scenography and Artistic Event department: Roxana Ionescu, Cristian Niculescu, Viorica Petrovici, Anca Albani, Doina Sibiceanu, Adrian Lis, Andreea Popa, Remus Gabor. Exhibition hours are Tuesday to Sunday – 2 pm to 7 pm or on request for organized groups.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

Starting from June 8, 2022, the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre will host in the Media Foyer (the wing facing Tudor Arghezi Street) a disturbing exhibition of photographs, whose title, The Road to Pink, speaks for itself... The exhibition is organized by the Blondie Association - Share for Another Share, an association that was founded so that all children, regardless of their material or social situation, always receive adequate and timely medical treatment. The exhibition aims to raise awareness and is also a fundraising. Photos of Blondie children - including children from Ukraine evacuated from the war and sick children transported to hospitals abroad - will be on display. "....we want to grow in number, to make a difference and show that if evil happens to come from the sky, we lift planes to bring good up there too" – that is the message of the Blondie Association. We spread the word! Starting from today, June 8, 2022, at 11 am and until June 30, 2022, at the National Theatre of Bucharest, Media Hall, we create (we say, we don't have evidence) the longest infusion ever seen. Yes, we are building a 1 km long infusion which, with your help, we'll be filling with pink liquid throughout the whole period! For every donation of at least €10, we will paint 1 meter of the infusion in pink. And so on until we fill it all up! We named the event The Road to Pink because that's how the lives of seriously ill children begin - with a long and very hard road. You'll see these children within the event, the children from the Blondie flights - Arya, Marki, Andra, Dominic. Paul and Ilinca. We'll be there every day to give you the pink syringe. The excitement is yours. The good, theirs! #drumulspreroz #1kmdeperfuzie   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

Starting from June 6, 2022, the Media Foyer (Intercontinental wing) of NTB will host the painting exhibition "Desprinderi" (Departures) by the artist Norica Veșcă, who exhibits a series of paintings in oil and acrylic, illustrating, according to their theme, the symbolic title proposed by the author, being as many escapes from the greyness of everyday life, "departures" towards high, towards color, towards light... Norica Veșcă graduated in 2000 from the painting class at the National University of Arts under Professor Ștefan Câlția and was the recipient of government scholarships in Greece and Egypt. She paints scenery and creates costumes for films, she is also an art teacher and her teaching activity occupies an important place in her concerns, frequently organizing painting classes for children. She has participated in annual group exhibitions and has had solo exhibitions at the National Theatre in Bucharest, the Romanian Cultural Institute, Antena 1, Mogoșoaia Palace, the National Library, the Romanian Peasant Museum, the Ministry of Romanians Living Abroad, etc. Member of the Union of Fine Artists. The exhibition Desprinderi (Departures) remains open until July 15, 2022 and can be visited daily from 10 am to 6 pm.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

The exhibition "Let's breathe through color" at the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre Bucharest Luiz Marinaș's photographs can be admired from 19 to 29 May 2022, in the TNB Media Foyer, as a prelude to World Allergy Week, 5 - 11 June, a World Allergy Organization event whose theme this year is For Better Breathing - the link between Asthma and Allergies. Every year, millions of people around the world go day and night to the emergency departments with severe shortness of breath due to asthma attacks. Known as the most common chronic childhood disease, asthma affects the physical and emotional health of people of all ages. In addition to the pollution, which has become a real threat to everyone's health, smoking, pets, house dust, mould, pollens, strong odors, toxic substances hidden in toys and objects in our daily lives, strong emotions, temperature variations and, in certain circumstances, physical exertion are well-known triggers of breathing difficulties. On 3 May 2022 the Romanian Association for Education in Allergy joined the Global Asthma Initiative for the fourth consecutive year by marking World Asthma Day with the artistic event Let's Breathe through Color. In the 24 photos exhibited, the photographer Luiza Marinaș captures with great emotion the unequalled miracle of breathing, instilling in us feelings of vulnerability, but also strength, confidence and hope in a colorful life. The realization of the images was possible with the support of the models Antoaneta Cojocaru, Anastasia Nashko, Patricia Cordoș, Mina and Oana-Irina Duțu, Maria (Mihaela Nica-Nedelcu), Despina and Clara. In order to receive one of the available photos you must make a donation of 600 RON to the account of the Romanian Association for Education in Allergy, but please contact us in advance to confirm availability by e-mail, at area@educatie-alergii.ro or by phone at 0745 080 808. The funds raised will be used by the Romanian Association for Education in Allergy to continue its educational and awareness-raising projects on the impact of allergies on the quality of life.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

Starting with April 19, 2022, a new collective exhibition of visual arts - symbolically entitled Awakening - can be visited daily in the Media Foyer of TNB (Intercontinental wing). The exhibition consists of oil and acrylic paintings, glass mosaic, stringart, religious icons on glass and wood, epoxy resin. The theme of the exhibition is "Spring. Hope. Holiday", and the works are signed by artists who are members of the Visual Artists Association from Bucharest. The opening of the exhibition will take place on May 3, 2022, at 5 PM. The host of the opening is Mr. Aristotel Bunescu, secretary of the criticism section within AAPB. The exhibition remains open until May 15, 2022 and can be visited daily from 10 AM until 6 PM.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

The painting exhibition A Call to Memory. Let's not forget… inspired by the “Pitesti Experiment”, held in the Media Foyer of TNB (Tudor Arghezi wing) extends until April 30, 2022. There are three works by Fag Negrescu (detained in the prison from Pitesti, between 1949 - 1951), exhibited for the first time, as well as the works of other six other contemporary artists inspired by this topic: Dorin Apreutesei, Miron Geanina, Irina Doana, Adrian Sia Saba, Ionuț Constantin, Nora Cupcencu. The paintings are exhibited in the Media Foyer of TNB - Tudor Arghezi wing. Curator: Mimi Necula (TVR) This exhibition is part of Victoria Baltag's efforts to organize, throughout the year 2022, a series of cultural-educational events in connection with the feature film and its theme. Organizer: Victoria Baltag, in partnership with the “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater from Bucharest”. The exhibition is open to the public until April 30, 2022, between 11 AM and 6 PM. Free entry.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

Saturday, March 19, 2022, at 18.00, the Media Foyer of the “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater hosts the opening of a double exhibition: - The photo documentary exhibition dedicated to the production of the feature film "The Pitești Experiment", signed by the director Victoria Baltag, whose preview took place recently in the “Ion Caramitru” Hall of TNB. A selection of 250 photographs from over 6,000 photographs documenting a decade of work carried out in order to make the independent feature film about the Pitesti Experiment, started in 2011 thanks to the efforts of the director Victoria Baltag and achieved through the voluntary work of over 600 people, is on display. The feature film presents one of the most horrific experiments of emotional and physical mutilation through torture of the communist regime, known as the "Pitesti Experiment". The photos are on display in the Media Foyer of TNB - Intercontinental Wing - The painting exhibition inspired by the "Pitesti Experiment" There are three works by Fag Negrescu (detained in the prison from Pitesti, between 1949 - 1951), exhibited for the first time, as well as the works of other six other contemporary artists inspired by this topic: Dorin Apreutesei, Miron Geanina, Irina Doana, Adrian Sia Saba, Ionuț Constantin, Nora Cupcencu. The paintings are exhibited in the Media Foyer of TNB - Tudor Arghezi wing. Curator: Mimi Necula (TVR) This exhibition is part of Victoria Baltag's efforts to organize, throughout the year 2022, a series of cultural-educational events in connection with the feature film and its theme. Organizer: Victoria Baltag, in partnership with the “I.L. Caragiale” National Theater from Bucharest. The double exhibition is open to the public between March 16 and April 3, 2022, between 11.00 and 18.00. Free entry.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

Starting January 18th, 2022, the Media Foyer (Intercontinental wing) of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre will host the exhibition Choreography of the Artist, organized by the Arhiva de Arta Gallery* in collaboration with the National Red Cross Society of Romania**. The exhibition, organized for charity, brings together over 40 artists who have enthusiastically expressed their willingness to support the cause of children in the E.G.A.L Centres of the National Red Cross Society of Romania. The organisers would welcome support for this project, including the participation of donations or sponsorships from those who wish to do so. The new exhibition includes a selection of portraits of Romanian artists from the fields of theatre, cinema and music. Looking at the portraits on display in this exhibition, we understand how much it meant for each of the exhibiting artists to transpose on canvas the face of their favourite actor or singer, personalities that marked their childhood and life.The works are created in various techniques: oil on canvas, acrylic, charcoal, metal-plastic - elements and materials that reveal the artists' preoccupations for the study of art. The exhibition will remain open until 10 February 2022 and will have the following visiting hours: Monday to Sunday from 11.00 am to 6.00 pm! *The Arhiva De Arta Gallery is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to promoting national and international artists seeking exposure in the global art market. ArhivaDeArta connects artists both online through its own platform and offline through the art events it manages every month of the year. All of this creates an ever-growing family dedicated to the world of fine art.   **About the Romanian Red Cross. Romania became a signatory to the first Geneva Convention in 1864 and ratified it in 1874. Two years later, on 4 July 1876, the Romanian Red Cross Society was founded and started its activities in the present premises of Colțea Hospital in Bucharest, Prince Dimitrie Ghica being its first chairman from 1876-1897. According to the Red Cross Statute, adopted in 1876, women were not allowed to be part of the Society's leadership. That is why, in 1906, they founded the "Ladies' Red Cross Society of Romania". The Society operated in parallel with the one set up in 1876 and was responsible for raising funds for war and disaster relief, training volunteers and recruiting volunteers from almost every town in the country. In 1915, the General Assembly of the National Red Cross Society approved the merger of the two entities. On this occasion, Queen Mary, under whose patronage the Red Cross was at that time, addressed the following message to the Romanians: "The Red Cross, the hope of all in peacetime, as in war, must not perish. Let us all, from small to great, support it with piety, with enthusiasm, with unfailing love".   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu

Young designers' workshop in the Rotunda of the NTB Small Hall: On Friday, November 19th 2021, at 12.00, the Rotonda foyer of the Small Hall of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre of Bucharest will host the opening of the exhibition "Scenography Exercises. Models, costumes and sketches, which includes the creations of the scenography students from the Faculty of Theatre within UNATC "I.L. Caragiale". The digital version of the exhibition will include, in addition to a virtual photo gallery of the students' works, a mini-documentary on the creation process of the Elizabethan costumes and commedia dell'arte masks. The audience will be able to discover how the model of an imaginary performance is built and will be invited to enter the miniature world of unique creations waiting to become reality on a theatre stage.  "... the present exhibition complements the one included in the programme of the National Theatre Festival - 2021 edition, which ended on 14 November 2021. To the works recently exhibited at the Odeon Theatre in Bucharest in the context of the NTF are added other creations by students of scenography, this being possible thanks to the involvement and openness of our partners, UNATC "I.L. Caragiale" and the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre. Moreover, NTB provided us with a very generous exhibition space and, I think, very appropriate to the context. The foyer of the Small Hall is the "antechamber" of a laboratory of young creation that both people in the profession and spectators know as "9G at NTB". To include, therefore, the art of future scenographers in a space dedicated to theatrical experimentation is an achievement that deserves to become a normality"- says Andreea Ciocîrlan, Communication Director of the "Șerban Ionescu" Theatre and Film Festival. The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday from 2.00 to 6.30 p.m.   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu 

  The 9th exhibition in Bucharest of the “Soleil de l'Est” Association: The new exhibition of the Soleil de l'Est Association*, which will open on Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 5.30 pm in the Media foyer (Intercontinental wing) of the "I.L. Caragiale" National Theatre, represents the Bucharest stage of the project "Soleil de l'Est Artist Residency, at Luynes, Loire Valley, France" and brings together works by Romanian painters who participated in the artist residencies run by the association between 2001 and 2021. The works exhibited on the rails are created after the return to the country from France, under the influence of the impressions and emotions accumulated during the participation in these residencies. New painters are also present, interested in the message of the Association Soleil de l'Est "Art, to be known, must circulate". The exhibiting painters are the following (65): Achitenie Ion, Albert Levente, Albu Jan, Baba Dorin, Bialcovski Dalia, Blei Nicolae, Catavei Nicolae, Cholet Elena, Cinteanu Mariana, Ciobanu Cristina, Cioca Dan, Ciochina Nicolae, Coman Gheorghe, Contras Bogdana, Costea Gelu, Crăciun Daniel, Dican Gheorghe, Dima Victor, Diviza Vasile, Dominte Merisor - Georgeta, Drăgan Corneliu - Târgoviște, Dumitras Puiu Costachi, Frățilă Adriana, Gavril Mihail, Gribincea Nicoleta, Iancuț Ion, Isăilă Ion Ilarion, Iordache Mirela, Iorga Nicolae, Janku Olivia, Liciu Lucian, Macovei Dumitru, Midvichi Laurențiu, Mara Constantin, Mărginean Alexandru, Mattis - Teutsch Waldemar, Mattis - Teutsch Agnes, Mihus Grigore, Modâlca Mihaela, Murariu Marilena, Nichita Mircea, Negreșteanu Pop Vasile, Neamțu Costin, Onica Stelian, Oteteleșanu Măriuca, Paraschiv Christian, Paraschivescu Valter, Pelmuș Ștefan, Roșca Horia, Radu Eva, Radovan Ciprian, Răducu Marin, Staicu Alina, Stan Gabriel, Tănase Valentin, Tolan Vasile, Tomaselli Angela, Trăistaru Mirela, Tudor Constantin, Vasilescu Corneliu, Velicu Petre, Vescu Teodor, Weiss Cristina, Zancu Sergiu, Zbârcea Daniela. The organizers define the objective of this new Salon as follows: “… to present to the Bucharest audience a group of prestigious Romanian painters from the country and from the diaspora, who represented with honour and high artistic creativity, a value of great cultural value of Romania - contemporary painting. All these painters collaborated with the Soleil de l'Est Association towards organizing in France and later in other EU countries, prestigious cultural events, painting exhibitions, book launches, artist residencies, meetings with members of Romanian communities in France, with French and Romanian people of culture, contacts with local painters and their organizations. The works of Romanian painters have been successfully and interestingly presented in the over 150 exhibitions organized by the Association, since 1990, both in France, Paris and other French cities, as well as in Brussels, The Hague, Vienna, Bratislava, Rome, Aarhus - European Capital of Culture 2017, as well as in Bucharest. It is very important for the Romanian audience to know that the works of these true “ambassadors” of Romanian painting were viewed and appreciated by the knowledgeable and erudite French public. They successfully represented, with a lot of mastery and artistic competence, Romanian cultural values.” On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition on November 18th, 2021 (at 5.30 pm), in the presence of the representatives of the "Soleil de l'Est" Association and the exhibiting painters, there will be a screening of footage with Romanian painters in France and an artistic documentation stand will be made available to the public, with art albums made by Soleil de l'Est. *The Soleil de l'Est Association, created in 1994, organizes cultural events of high professionalism and artistic quality, by presenting in France and other countries in the European Union, a part of great interest and importance of Romanian culture, especially contemporary painting. This exhibition is a summum of the over 150 Romanian painting exhibitions, organized by Soleil de l'Est in prestigious locations, such as Fondation Taylor Paris Montmartre, Cité Internationale des Arts, Espace Christiane Peugeot in Paris, Château Royal de Collioure, European Patent Office, Foyer Main Building Gallery and Romanian Embassy in The Hague (Netherlands), Romanian Representation to the EU (Brussels, Belgium), Vienna (Austria), Festive Hall of the Ministry of Culture in Bratislava (Slovakia), etc. In Romania, Soleil de l'Est presented contemporary Romanian painting in Bucharest, „C. Brâncuși” hall of the Parliament Palace, National Library of Romania, Romanian Cultural Institute, ARCUB, as well as in Brașov, Timișoara, Iași, Mangalia. The exhibition, produced in partnership with NTB within the programme NTB – Paratheatrical - Visual Arts remains open until January 10th, 2022 and can be visited daily between 10:00 - 18:00.   Translated by Simona Nichiteanu