Asked once what he thought of Ioan Andreescu, Nicolae Grigorescu replied: “Andreescu is the greatest artist the country has ever had, myself included. If he had lived, he would undoubtedly have become our great national artist.” (Radu Bogdan, Ion Andreescu, Meridiane Publishing House, 1961). Indeed, Andreescu had an exceptional sensibility and was undeniably the most profound of Romanian landscape painters. He died even before turning 33 years old, before his fame spread, as it later happened with Grigorescu. 

175 years after the birth of the great artist, Art Safari brings together for the public, in a tribute exhibition, some of Andreescu’s most important works, scattered in museums and private collections.

Curator: Maria Munteanu
Partners: The National Museum of Art of Romania, Brukenthal National Museum

60 years after the decisive 1965 exhibition at Dalles Hall, Art Safari, under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture, undertakes a comprehensive review and perhaps a reassessment of the work of the giant of the beginnings of Romanian contemporary art, the “singular case” that was Ion Țuculescu.
Starting from Țuculescu’s double intellectual figure, as a doctor, researcher and rigorous scientist, but also as a self-taught artist, characterised by an incomparable experimental and humanistic fervour, the exhibition paints the portrait of a truly complete and complex personality of modern Romanian culture, presenting over 100 representative works from the country’s most important museums and private collections. Ion Țuculescu is the totemic figure of explosive creative power, of boundless freedom of expression and of unmistakable national spiritual authenticity.

Curator: Cristian Vechiu
Under the patronage of the Ministry of Culture
Partners: Brukenthal National Museum, The National Museum of Art of Romania

The Forgotten Romanian Painters exhibition brings together over 100 paintings by dozens of artists who have made a significant contribution to the history of Romanian art, but whose names have been lost (or deliberately omitted) over time. The project aims to translate into an exhibition format (and continue) the scientific research of the book which was a major revelation at the time and was written by journalist, writer and art chronicler Tudor Octavian (the volume was published in 2003 by NOI Media Print under the title Pictori români uitați [Forgotten Romanian Painters]).

Exhibition presented by LIDL
Curator: Maria Munteanu

The Young Blood 4.0 exhibition highlights an important feature of the young generation of contemporary artists: flexibility, applied to conceptual, as well as to material or expressive dimensions, which is a key point of visual language. The protagonists of this fundamental principle of today’s art generate complex narrative structures and conduct multidimensional experiments in the visual and decorative arts, aiming to discover and explore personal or universal truths through atypical, unconventional, undeniably authentic means and techniques.

Curator: Călina Coman

The photographic exhibition series continues with the presentation of two German-based artists whose unique visual languages interrogate the medium of photography in a highly personal way. Viktoria Binschtok (born 1972 in Moscow, currently living in Berlin) and Michael Schäfer (born 1964 in Sigmaringen, also living in Berlin) use and reflect on images in the media, exploring the different ways in which they function. Thus, their work can be seen as part of a tradition of artistic interest in the media that dates back to the 1970s.

Curator: Christin Müller
An exhibition organised by ifa in collaboration with Art Safari