“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,” Nicolae Grigorescu confessed to Gheorghe Petrașcu. Although he died prematurely, at the age of 32, Ioan Andreescu is considered the most profound Romanian landscape painter, and his contribution to the transition of Romanian art into Modernism is undeniable. 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 seminal 1965 exhibition at Dalles Hall, Art Safari undertakes the most comprehensive review and update of Ion Țuculescu’s work. Starting from his double intellectual figure – as a doctor, researcher and rigorous scientist, on the one hand, and as a self-taught artist, characterised by an incomparable experimental and humanistic fervour, on the other –, the exhibition presents the portrait of a truly complete and complex personality of modern Romanian culture, with 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 unrestrained 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 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 over time. The exhibition project aims to continue the scientific research of journalist, writer and art chronicler Tudor Octavian, published in 2003 by NOI Media Print under the title Pictori români uitați [Forgotten Romanian Painters], and to present it in an exceptional exhibition format.

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 exhibition organised by ifa Berlin (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) presents the works of two photographers, Viktoria Binschtok and Michael Schäfer, who currently live and work in Berlin. Both use and reflect on media images, exploring the different ways in which they function. They also address the increasing autonomy of images in a networked world that will be dominated by digital algorithms in the future.

An exhibition organised by ifa in collaboration with Art Safari