Visual Arts

At the NTB, starting October 4, 2022, the international photography exhibition Street Spirit On Tuesday, October 4, 2022, starting at 6:30 pm, we welcome you in the Media Foyer of NTB (Intercontinental wing) to the opening of the international street photography exhibition Street Spirit, which brings together the work of 45 photographers from 12 countries, on a unique theme: the spirit of the street captured in the vision of each author, through strange moments, original characters, unexpected associations, inventive overlaps or other situations that the street bring to the photographers who immortalize the everyday. The whole exhibition is therefore surprising in its non-conformist and sometimes playful tone, but it shows the authors' particular spirit of observation. At the same time, the exhibition brings together for the first time 3 street photography groups / communities from Romania: On Spot, Eye Patch Collective and Photo Team Romania, details of which can be found below. Exhibitors: Alexandru Ilea, Mihai Ciama, Andrei Furnea, Romulus Maier, Tudor Drăgan, Cornel Petrescu, Eli Driu, Gabriel Dulinszky, Florin Stanca, Drago Slav, Cornel Hlupina, Cristina Gârleșteanu, Mirela Momanu, Cosmin Gârleșteanu, Gina Buliga, Alex Cruceru, Cristi Mihăilescu, Jens F. Kruse (Spain), Simone Mantia (Italy), Yulia Olhansky (Israel), Tam Nolludap (Philippines), Dipanjan Chakraborty (India), Alain Dornier (France), Marci Lindsay (USA), Orna Naor (Israel), Simone Christina Sander (Germany), Santanu Dey (India), Nur Hadi Santoso (Indonesia), Roberto Bartolini (Italy), Martin Tomaska (Slovakia), Ohad Aviv, Randy Arisgado (Philippines), Melvin Anore (Philippines), Paul Raymond Paule (Philippines), Stephan Krecina (France), Elpi Juan (Hong Kong), Magda Fulger, Mircea Maieru, Mihai Marcolț, Lucian Husac, Silvia Dinca, Cezar Niculescu, Csiki Zoltan, Alejandro Ilukewitsch and Jeffrey De Keiser (Belgium). "Street photography represents joy for us, along with the pleasure of going out to look for interesting subjects to be immortalized, the joy of walking the streets and finding those moments or expressions that fascinate us, of managing to capture them. These searches drive us to go out on these photographic walks in the streets and give us great satisfaction when we manage to overcome the monotony of the everyday in which we are immersed daily, and find those special moments, rediscovered or reinterpreted through our eyes, filtered through our imagination and vision, and then offered to viewers as a gift. Last but not least, it motivates us the joy of sharing the results with the other members of the group, united by the same common passion, photography. We learn from each other, we motivate each other by working together, we exhibit and promote the results of our teamwork together" said Mirela Momanu, president of the Exposure Association and co-founder of the OnSpot group. The exhibition "Street Spirit" will be open in the Media Foyer of NTB (Intercontinental wing) until October 16, 2022 and can be visited daily from 10 am to 6 pm. About On SpotThe OnSpot group was born out of a simple idea to have a team that started out shooting on the street and grew by learning from each other while spending quality time together. The group was created by Mirela Momanu and Fred Fogherty, following the street portraiture workshop held during Bucharest Photo Week, the first international photography festival in Bucharest. Currently On Spot's activity is carried out on social media (Facebook in particular), with members regularly organizing street photography sessions in Bucharest and its surroundings. At the same time, future plans involve the organization of exhibitions outside the country and involvement in larger cultural projects. About Eye Patch CollectiveEye Patch Collective is a street photography group from Cluj-Napoca, founded by Andrei Furnea, Virgil Mleșniță, Alexandru Ilea, Mihai Ciama, Adrian Mihoc and Romulus Maier, which aims to bring quality photography to the public's attention, but also to organize various exhibitions or events focused on street photography. You can find them on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/eyepatchcollective/ and you can also use the hashtag #eyepatchcollective when posting images to be selected and featured on their page. Two of the group's members are also behind the Photo Cell zine, our first project of its kind. Now reaching its fifth issue, the publication was launched in March this year and, in the words of Maier Romulus, is "a kind of amuse-bouche offered before the main course of a photographic feast. It's more than a teaser, a sneak peek into the photographer's work, making you familiar with his vision and looking forward to the release of a photobook. It's also an attempt to bring as many photographic perspectives as possible into the homes of photography lovers, at a good quality and a decent price. Out of a desire to honestly promote as many Romanian photographers as possible." You can find the zine here   About Photo Team RomâniaThe group was born in 2011 and started from the idea of the founding members - Dan Moruzan, Cornel Hlupina, Mirela Momanu and Eli Driu - to work together and promote each other, going through a series of projects based on common themes, exhibitions, organizing street photography contests and carrying out actions and interviews, in order to promote and grow this photographic genre in Romania.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

  Starting September 7, 2022, in the Media Foyer of NTB (Intercontinental wing) a double exhibition of paintings will be launched, that of the twin brothers (!) Cezar and Ovidiu Popa, under the suggestive title Us-2022! The artistic biographies of the two artists seem to be "paper copied": they both graduated from the Nicolae Tonitza High School of Fine Arts in Bucharest (1994 - 1998) and then from the UNA University of Arts (2008 - 2011), after which they devoted themselves to restoration and conservation activities, working together at the Palace of Justice in Bucharest, restoring church frescoes and occasionally painting on glass and furniture. However, their paintings differ substantially in style and subject matter and are marked by the distinct personalities of the two artists. After participating (also together!) in several group and solo exhibitions, the last one being in 1997, at Casa Radio, Cezar and Ovidiu Popa will exhibit on the NTB cyma some representative works of their creation. We invite you to discover them at the opening on Wednesday, September 7, at 7 pm, in the presence of the artists and the curator and art critic PhD. Marius Tița, who will present the exhibition. "It's a unique situation, they are twin brothers, now 45 years old, who have always walked steadily and thoroughly on the path of plastic creation. They have studied and worked together, and on the all-too-rare canvases they make they are still together. The whole evolution of the work of the Popa brothers, Cezar and Ovidiu, is a normal one, without any search or insistence. The plastic approach is also strong in the naturalness of the surrealist expression, the intensity of observation and involvement in artistic expression. Here I am, in modernity and contemporaryity, with a message of opinion, with touches of detail, describing metaphors and allegories that are close to us, that we could have thought of but didn't". Marius Tiţa The exhibition We-2022 will be open in the Media Foyer of the NTB (Intercontinental wing) until 30 September 2022 and can be visited daily from 10 am to 6 pm.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu

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