Going out: Exhibitions to see in Bucharest
We outline some of the exhibitions open or scheduled to, where themes range from the ecological crisis and the myth of the tortured artist to forgotten inventions and the daily life of seasonal workers in agriculture.
Simona Fodor · Journalist
· Updated · 5 min read
We outline some of the exhibitions open or scheduled to, where themes range from the ecological crisis and the myth of the tortured artist to forgotten inventions and the daily life of seasonal workers in agriculture.
Touch Nature
Until June 29 at SAC @ Berthelot and SAC @ Malmaison
The project initiated by the Austrian Cultural Forum, presented in 11 countries in Europe and the US, aims to explore the role of art in addressing the ongoing and increasingly severe ecological crisis through works of contemporary Austrian artists and those of artists in the host country, every time in an original format, adapted to every cultural context.
The Bucharest exhibition, curated by Sabine Fellner and Alex Radu, turns into "an immersion in the spectral diversity of attitudes, experiences and psycho-emotional reactions related to the devastating effects of the ecocidal Anthropocene: from activism to climate anxiety, solastalgia, melancholy, shadowtime, depression, abandonment, and back to imaginings of innovative sustainable solutions."
The artists included in the show are Uli Aigner, Matei Bejenaru, Floriama Candea, Codruța Cernea, Adriana Chiruta, Ciprian Ciuclea, Larisa Crunțeanu, Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, Michael Endlicher, Thomas Feuerstein, Peter Hauenschild, Barbara Anna Husar, Nona Inescu, Kitty Kino, Aurora Kiraly, Alexandra Kontriner, Ana Maria Micu, Nicoleta Mureș, Klaus Pichler, Monika Pichler, PRINZpod, Oliver Ressler, Gregor Sailer, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Hans Schabus, Ramona Schnekenburger, Marielis Seyler, Paul Spendier, Oana Stanciu, Mircea Suciu, Dan Vezentan, Judith Wagner, Nives Widauer, and Laurent Ziegler.
More details here.
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Is Werther still under the weather?
May 23 – June 1 at the Goethe-Institut
The exhibition aims to tackle the myth of the "tortured artist" and its echoes in contemporaneity while also bringing into the discussion the responsibility of the artists regarding the representation and interpretation of mental suffering through the work they create.
