As Romania has made 2026 the Year of Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi to mark 150 years since the birth of the sculptor, several exhibitions highlight the artist\u2019s work and legacy. Masterpieces from the collections of museums across Romania are brought together in one venue, the Museum of Architecture in Romania explores architectural imagination as part of a wider project, and the National Art University of Bucharest is opening its Pinacotheca to the wider public. The work of international and local contemporary artists is under the spotlight at dedicated shows, while other events take recent episodes in Romania\u2019s history as starting points.\u00a0A selection of what can been seen in Bucharest below. <\/p>\n
Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi. The Syndrome<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until October 25, at the National Museum of Art of Romania<\/p>\n The exhibition traces the impact of Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi in local art and examines the various forms of artistic discourse that have been constructed around both his work and his personality, from the interwar period to the present day. The public can see, among other works, portraits of Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i by M.H. Maxy, Theodor Pallady, and Mili\u021ba Petra\u0219cu; tribute works created by M.H. Maxy and Vasile Dobrian; sculptures by Mili\u021ba Petra\u0219cu, Irina Codreanu, Hans Mattis-Teutsch, Ion Irimescu, George Apostu, Ovidiu Maitec, and Vasile Gorduz; as well as contemporary reinterpretations of Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u2019s motifs, from Paul Neagu\u2019s studies based on Bird in Space<\/em>, Mademoiselle Pogany<\/em>, and The Column<\/em>, to works by Iosif Kiraly, Teodor Graur, Mircea Cantor, Vlad Nanc\u0103, Michele Bressan, and Dan Perjovschi.<\/p>\n\n Bo\u00eete, Box, Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until October 15, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art<\/p>\n Also focused on Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u2019s legacy, the exhibition explores how the artist\u2019s influence is transmitted and reinterpreted in local contemporary art. The project brings together video works, photography, and documentary materials that \u201cexamine how Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i’s work continues to be activated, questioned, and re-signified today.\u201d The artists included in the exhibition are Carina Cristea, Tudor Cucu, Gabriel Durian, Peter Jacobi, Aurelia Mihai, Mircea Modreanu, Bianca Ni\u021bu, Nicu Popescu, Elena Preda, and Andreea Samoil\u0103. The exhibited works are meant to function as \u201ccapsules (box\/bo\u00eete) that not only preserve but also activate and reinterpret fragments of the master’s legacy, transforming it from an archive into a laboratory of contemporary ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n Photographs by Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until September 27, at the Museum of Recent Art<\/p>\n The exhibition presents Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u2019s black-and-white photographs, spanning from his years at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris to the monumental ensemble at T\u00e2rgu Jiu, in 1937-1938. Photography was not simply a tool of documentation for the artist, but an practice through which he observed and re-evaluated his sculptural works. His photographic approach was shaped by what has been described as \u201can obsessive attention to light, which he regarded as an integral component of his sculptures, inseparable from the spaces they inhabited.\u201d The exhibition\u2019s three sections place Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i\u2019s photographs in dialogue with contemporary artworks by Carl Andre, Marion Baruch, and Evariste Richer.<\/p>\n Pinacotheca <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 Noua<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n July 1<\/p>\n An early work by Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i, the \u00c9corch\u00e9<\/em>, is part of the collection of the National Art University of Bucharest (UNARTE), which is opening its Pinacotheca\u00a0to the general public on July 1. The art gallery opens alongside the institution\u2019s new Library, gathering various heritage items, historical documents, and more than 60,000 volumes dedicated to visual arts and culture. The Pinacotheca\u00a0will be a permanent exhibition venue dedicated to the university\u2019s collections. The exhibition covers painting, sculpture, historical drawings, sculptures from the Kalinderu Collection, portraits by Theodor Aman, Gheorghe Tattarescu, and from \u0218tefan Luchian’s student period, Theodor Aman’s original engraving press, and artworks by key figures of Romanian art. Among other highlights are the academic records of figures such as Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u0219i, \u0218tefan Luchian, Victor Brauner, Arsenie Boca, and Sofian Boghiu. On July 1, the program includes guided tours and other curated experiences for the wider public at the Pinacotheca\u00a0and the new Library.<\/p>\n\n The Museum of Museums<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until October 4, at the National Museum of Art of Romania<\/p>\n More than 100 works from the collections of 16 museums in Romania, as well as from the permanent collections of the MNAR, make up this exhibition that aims to cover the masterpieces that visitors can discover throughout the country.\u00a0Among the exhibition’s highlights is the Glykon Snake<\/em>, an ancient sculpture presented in Bucharest for the first time. Not seen since September 2024, following the closure of the Museum of National History and Archaeology in Constan\u021ba for renovation, the piece is deemed one of the exhibition’s major attractions. The exhibition also showcases a group of prehistoric artefacts belonging to the Gumelni\u021ba Culture, \u201cwhose clay forms, strikingly modern in appearance, invite a fresh perspective on ancient art.\u201d\u00a0Other highlights include the Tetraevangelion<\/em> of Gavril Uric; works by Rubens, D\u00fcrer, Mucha, Bonnard, C\u00e9zanne, Rodin, Bourdelle, Gustav Klimt, Camille Claudel, and Henry Moore; highlights of Romanian art by Nicolae Grigorescu, Ioan Andreescu, \u0218tefan Luchian, Theodor Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Marcel Iancu, Victor Brauner, Horia Bernea, and Corneliu Baba; as well as Japanese woodblock prints by Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai, including the image The Great Wave off Kanagawa<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n MuzA at the Palace \u2013 the Museum of Architecture in Romania<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until June 28, at the Rural Land Credit Palace<\/p>\n The idea of a museum of architecture dates back to the 19th century, and now it has come to life as a traveling museum, which started its itinerary in Bucharest. For four years, it will work as a curatorial program exploring the relation between people, spaces, and architecture in 11 venues in the country, from Bucharest to B\u0103ile Govora, Br\u0103ila, Re\u0219i\u021ba, Cluj, Eforie, Bra\u0219ov, V\u0103leni (Neam\u021b), Timi\u0219oara, Petrila, and back to the capital. This month, the museum has been hosted inside Bucharest\u2019s Rural Land Credit Palace, a building that the exhibition made accessible to the wider public.<\/p>\n The inaugural theme of MuzA is Fantasy<\/em>, a \u201cconcept that explores architectural imagination as a form of memory, projection, and interpretation of space.\u201d The exhibition\u00a0<\/strong>gathers\u00a0works by architects and artists from different generations alongside contributions that engage critically with Bucharest and its histories. <\/strong>It features works by <\/strong>Henriette Delavrancea-Gibory from the Image Archive of the National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, <\/strong>competition projects from the archive of the Union of Architects of Romania, <\/strong>photographs from private collections, and the results of an open call exploring the experience of dwelling in Bucharest, among others.\u00a0Guided tours are also available, and one in English is planned for June 27.<\/p>\n\n Bernard Frize<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until August 16, at the Museum of Recent Art<\/p>\n This solo exhibition dedicated to the French painter gathers a selection of over 40 paintings created between 1980 and 2024, exploring the mechanisms and logic behind the act of painting. The works highlight \u201ca joyful balance between procedural rigor and gestural freedom, exploring how strict rules and physical principles can generate a vast range of pictorial results.\u201d Born in 1949 in Saint-Mand\u00e9, France, Bernard Frize began producing the works for which he is known today in the late 1970s. His works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Kunstmuseum Basel, among others. He lives and works in Paris and Berlin.<\/p>\n Felipe Cohen – Concretion <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until July 25, at Gaep<\/p>\n The Brazilian artist\u2019s second solo exhibition with the Bucharest gallery gathers new reliefs and sculptures. It \u201cdeepens Felipe Cohen\u2019s pursuit of giving tangible form to time, natural light, the atmosphere of a place, and the interplay between them.\u201d The artist uses \u201can artistic lexicon grounded in geometric forms, economy of means, and poetic sensibility\u201d to give form to “fluid states, materialize abstract or evanescent phenomena, and transform moments into memories.\u201d<\/p>\n Cohen, who lives and works in S\u00e3o Paulo, is the winner of multiple awards, including the illy SustainArt Award at ARCOmadrid (2016), Atos Visuais Funarte (2007), Fiat Mostra Brasil (2006), and a four-time nominee to the PIPA Prize in Brazil (2016, 2013, 2012, 2010). His work is part of museum collections such as Museu de Arte Moderna de S\u00e3o Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, Museu de Arte do Rio, and SMoCA: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n\n Anton Roland Laub \u2013 Mineriada<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until July 26, at 2\/3 galeria<\/p>\n The exhibition, gathering 14 works by the Bucharest-born visual artist, proposes a reflection on recent memory starting from the violent events of June 1990. The series, part of a trilogy dedicated to the traces left by communism on Romanian society, draws on photographs taken at the time by the artist\u2019s father. It revisits these images in a contemporary visual language \u201cmarked by tension, fragmentation, and absurdity.\u201d This final part of his trilogy addresses \u201cthe societal division and the unspoken trauma of physical violence, raising awareness of recursive patterns in an increasingly polarized world.\u201d<\/p>\n A.REST 1989<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until September 20 @ the National Museum of History of Romania\u00a0<\/p>\n The exhibition, which reconstructs the world of the 1989 criminal investigations of Romania\u2019s political police Securitate, makes public for the first time audio-video recordings from interrogations and prison cells, as well as original artifacts from the Securitate Detention Center and pieces of criminal evidence. Among them is the printing press used by the group formed around Petre Mihai B\u0103canu to produce the clandestine newspaper\u00a0Rom\u00e2nia<\/em>. Confiscated by Securitate on the night of January 24, 1989, the press was recovered and brought back to Romania for this exhibition, after more than 27 years abroad. Alongside the exhibition, the online platform\u00a0www.arestulsecuritatii.ro showcases histories, case studies, documents, audio-video recordings, and interviews with former victims of the Securitate.<\/p>\n\n Floriama Candea, Pepa Ivanova, and Ioana Vreme Moser – Hydrotopias<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until July 9, at Sector 1 Gallery<\/p>\n Based on field research conducted in the village of Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe, the exhibition invites the public to explore the Danube Delta through less familiar perspectives. It gathers works by artists Floriama Candea, Pepa Ivanova, and Ioana Vreme Moser, developed in dialogue with researchers \u0218tefan Constantinescu and R\u0103zvan Crimschi. Through interactive installations, sound sculptures, video works, and artistic research, the show examines \u201cthe connections between water, humans, other life forms, and the infrastructures that shape this territory. The project is grounded in the idea that the Danube Delta cannot be understood through a single narrative, but rather through a multitude of perspectives that reveal the fragility, adaptability, and regenerative capacity of ecosystems.\u201d\u00a0After its Bucharest run, the exhibition will travel to Rebonkers in Varna, Bulgaria, where it will be on view from July 21 to August 9. The project will continue in autumn with a series of presentations and public discussions dedicated to the relationship between art, research, and ecology.<\/p>\n Coto\u0219man & co. The Lesson of Livius Cioc\u00e2rlie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until September 13, at the National Museum of Art of Romania<\/p>\n Roman Coto\u0219man was a co-founder of the Timi\u0219oara-based Group 111 (1966-1969) together with Constantin Flondor and \u0218tefan Betalan. After taking part in the 1969 Constructivist Biennale in N\u00fcrnberg, he emigrated to the United States of America and settled in Philadelphia in 1972. There, he continued his constructivist experiments and his exploration of abstract, minimalist forms.\u00a0This show gathers more than 40 works from the collection of the literary critic, essayist, and professor Livius Cioc\u00e2rlie. They range from painting and graphic works to pieces on wood, from early portraits to minimalist compositions of his maturity.<\/p>\n Roman Coto\u015fman – 110 Solitudes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Until October 18, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art<\/p>\n The exhibition traces the artist\u2019s trajectory through works from the MNAC collection, \u201cwhere minimal, nearly monochrome forms absorb the viewer into a universe of silence and inner rhythm.\u201d \u201cSuspended between Constructivist rigor and meditative sensitivity, Roman Coto\u0219man\u2019s oeuvre proposes a highly concentrated visual experience, where geometry becomes a spiritual instrument, and the fragility of matter acquires the force of an inner monument,\u201d a presentation of the exhibition reads.<\/p>\n\n (Opening photo:\u00a0Pla2na<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The current calendar covers exhibitions dedicated to Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi\u2019s legacy, highlights from the collections of local museums, and shows spotlighting the practice of international artists. 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