Exhibitions

From May 7, 2025, a unique photography exhibition entitled Traces, Textures, Shadows will be on view in the MEDIA Foyer of the TNB (Grand Hotel wing). The author of the photographs is the filmmaker Alexandru Stanescu, doctoral student at the Center for Excellence in Image Studies, director and editor at TVR. The opening takes place on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 19.00. The art critic Madalina Mirea, curator of the exhibition, will present. The event will be accompanied by a piano micro-recital performed by the young pianist Iosif Mirea, as well as a poetic moment whose author and performer is Radu Dumitrache. The exhibition offers glimpses of everyday life, captured in a melancholic and meditative state, which the passer-by ignores in the rush to the next task of the day. A gaze obsessed with the past is that of the photographer eternally at the ready, with the lens of a simple cell phone, smartphone or digital camera, reaching out for irretrievable details, chance encounters and coincidences whose meaning cannot be pinned down, in the grand cosmic scenario. A decadent, romantic and poetic nostalgia mixes in these images with the waves of a not very shy social criticism, emitted by a witness of the interminable transition era which, in Romania, lasted over three decades. Stanescu almost avoids the human characters, concentrating on the urban context, on the scenography of a street or of a deserted interior, each of them bearing the traces of a life that has passed, like the leaves and flowers of the seasons. Nothing disappears, everything leaves visible traces, in a setting that is as palpable as it is dazzling and implausible, a reality that is unreal in the speed with which it turns to dust and smoke. “The present is not to be defined by what is, but by what is being made” - said the philosopher Henri Bergson. "Nothing is less than the present moment, if by this we mean the indivisible boundary separating the past from the future. In practice, we perceive nothing but the past, the pure present being the unmeasurable progress of the past, biting into the future". This impossible perception of a time that paints deserted walls, passing faces, dreams and often vain desires, is sought by Alexandru Stanescu's eye eager for relevant details. Partners: Centrul de Excelenta in Studiul Imaginii (Center for Excellence in Image Studies) Media partners: TVR Cultural The exhibition will run until the end of May 2025. Admission is free. Visiting hours: daily (except public holidays) from 11.00 - 18.00.   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu 

On December 1, 2024, at 16:00, the National Theatre Museum will open a new exhibition in the Foyer of the "Ion Caramitru" Hall dedicated to Édouard de Max (1869 - 1924), an internationally renowned Romanian actor and member of the prestigious Comédie-Française. The exhibition focuses on the life and career of Édouard de Max, recognized for his innovative approaches and unconventional style, who made a remarkable contribution to the Parisian theatre scene during the Belle Époque. The exhibition will give visitors the chance to discover one of the costumes worn by the actor during his official tour in Bucharest in 1904, when he played Hamlet, as well as vintage photos. Following the opening, the public is invited to participate in a guided tour of the exhibition "Regina Maria at the Theatre", organized within the project "Innovative exhibition with restored cultural assets from the TNB Museum collection", funded by the EEA Grants 2014-2021, RO-CULTURA Program (www.muzeultnb.ro). The exhibition presents stage costumes and objects belonging to great Romanian actors, recently restored and exhibited in the new space dedicated to the museum, inaugurated on March 27, 2023, on the occasion of the World Theater Day. The main attraction is the train dress that once belonged to Queen Maria of Romania, and the exhibition is complemented by interactive, visual and auditory elements. Access is free. Location: "Ion Caramitru" Hall Foyer TNB Time interval: 16:00 - 20:00   Translated by Andreea Codrea-Boeriu