Two artists who have experienced carol singing in groups in two emblematic regions — one renowned for the aura of mystery that still fuels numerous legends (Ţinutul Momârlanilor, Hunedoara), the other famous for the carol singing groups documented since the 18th century (Ţara Făgărașului, Brașov) — bring back one of the most archaic forms of carol singing to the present day.

Curator: Iulia Gorneanu
Artists: Mircea Modreanu and Valentin Rareș Fogoroș

The exhibition presents a selection of remarkable works, chosen for their artistic value and unparalleled beauty.
Among them are the masterpiece “The Painter and His Model in the Open Air” (1963), signed by Pablo Picasso, as well as “Capriccio with Gothic Church and Lagoon” (ca. 1720–1721), by Il Canaletto. Pablo Picasso visits the Roman city of Pompeii in March 1917, impressed by the ancient frescoes. The discovery of the buried city at the foot of Vesuvius inspires him, and this fascination with the heritage of the ancient world comes to life today at Art Safari, where visitors can discover the unique way in which one of the most fascinating themes in the history of art and artistic taste is explored: the charm exercised, over the centuries, by Antiquity, regarded as the absolute model of ideal beauty.

Master Il Canaletto, renowned for the sensitivity with which he captures the Venetian atmosphere, became a representative of the pictorial genre called veduta from a young age. The work exhibited at Art Safari captures the mysterious charm of Venice, seen as if through a dream, on the border between reality and fairy tale.

Fonderia artistica Chiurazzi
Pittore del Primato
Pittore dei Nasi Camusi
Officina del Pittore di Baltimora
Pittore della Patera
Officina del Pittore della Patera
Bottega di Creti Donato
Vincenzo Martinelli
Poussin, copia da Nicolas
Jan Frans van Bloemen
Giovanni Ghisolfi
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Pieter van Bredael
Carlo Labruzzi
Napoleone Parisani
Duchateau Des Tours
Giovanni (Trevisan) Volpato
Il Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)
Lord Mancini (Francesco Mancini)
Gennaro Luciano
Pablo Picasso

Curator: Fernando Mazzocca, exhibition architecture: Diana Nicolaie, coordinator: Monica Dumitru.
The exhibition is realized in partnership with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Bucarest.

#UnspokenWords highlights the biological, emotional, and social transformations women go through during a pivotal moment in their lives: menopause. Often avoided as a topic, yet profoundly meaningful, it opens up a space for reflection on the ways in which the body and identity are rewritten. Here, art becomes an alternative language—capable of expressing what words cannot fully convey: fragility and strength, absence and presence, silence and reclamation.
The exhibition captures the diversity of this experience: from intimate bodily transformations to socially imposed invisibility, and the everyday gestures of reclaiming visibility and dignity. It doesn’t flatten or standardize, but rather celebrates the plurality of voices, creating a shared visual archive that brings together personal and intergenerational stories.

#UnspokenWords Open Call Winners:
Main Prize: Irina Dragomir
Special Mentions: Andreea Măiastra Aron, Ioana Colac, Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, Teodora Grindei, Valentina Ștefănescu

Exhibition organized in partnership with Vichy.
Exhibition overseen by Maria Ursică.

Update

Collectors’ Choice, the new Art Safari exhibition series dedicated to private collections that reveal personal perspectives on contemporary art, continues with Finding the Right Emotion! The exhibition invites an encounter with emotion as a form of knowledge and visual discovery, tracing a subtle path between introspection and expression, between the gaze of the collector and that of the public.

Finding the Right Emotion is a visual reflection on how emotion becomes both a tool for exploration and an unknown territory. The exhibition brings together powerful and sensitive works from Avi Cicirean’s collection, shaping a journey that moves between memory and the present, between vulnerability and strength, between inner peace and the turbulence of the contemporary world.

This selection of works proposes a cartography of emotions – fragments of introspection, subtle tensions, radical gestures, and silent contemplations. The viewer is invited to explore not just the image itself, but also its emotional resonance: how a painted surface, a body transformed into a symbol, or a recontextualized object can trigger sensations that are difficult to name, yet impossible to ignore.

The exhibition does not offer answers; instead, it creates a space for intimate questions: How do we recognize the right emotion? How do we experience it, carry it, allow it to shape us? In a world dominated by speed and the rapid consumption of affect, Finding the Right Emotion becomes an exercise in slowing down, in recalibrating the way we see and feel.

Through this collection, Avi Cicirean configures a personal yet open universe, where emotion becomes a meeting ground between artist, collector, and audience – a space of authenticity and self-discovery.

The exhibition brings together bachelor’s and master’s works by graduates from three major fashion training centers in Romania: Bucharest, Cluj, and Timișoara. It offers a perspective on the new generation of creators, for whom fashion is not only an aesthetic exercise but also a tool for research, critical reflection, and visual expression. Each collection explores the relationship between personal experiences and universal themes, between cultural tradition and future directions. These works reclaim clothing as an identity statement, through experimental forms, social messages, and conceptual discourses, all brought together in a contemporary visual language.

The new generations of designers position themselves not only as visual artists but also as social researchers, using fashion to explore themes related to ecology, sustainability, and cultural responsibility. Their works bring innovative materials into dialogue with digital technology, examining environmental impact and transforming the creative process into a laboratory of the future. In this way, fashion becomes an interdisciplinary ground where art, science, and ethics intertwine to provide answers to contemporary questions.

Curator: Sergiu Chihaia
Assistant curator: Cristian Mierla

Writer Henry James (1843-1916) noted in 1896 that every good story carries with and within itself an unseen pattern: the “figure in the carpet”—a hidden structure that escapes immediate perception, but can be discovered from a distance, through contemplation of the whole. The metaphor suggests the existence of a concealed system of connections, without which meaning would remain fragmented and superficial. Hello, Math! adopts this perspective and translates it into the context of contemporary art.

The exhibition offers an interpretive framework in which mathematics becomes a supporting tool for how we look at art. Spirals, sequences, and numerical distributions outline a complex and dynamic matrix of connections between the artworks, one that can only be uncovered through attentive, calibrated, and patient observation.

Each piece, no matter how singular, is part of a universe that transcends its individual existence—a universe where mathematics provides the framework for understanding its uniqueness, through underlying, structural connections seen in their entirety.

Curator: Călina Coman

Artists:
Adriana Ropotan
Adriana Tentiș
Alexandra Baranyi
Alexandra Constantinescu
Alexandra Mîță
Andreea Pădureț
Andrei Popovici
Bianca Papuc
Boca Biborka
Cătălin Angelescu
Dan Cebotari
Dan Dumănoiu
Dana Guzu
David Petre
Edith Torony
Georgiana Țîrla
Larissa Natalia Danilov
Laurențiu Zbîrcea
Lorena Buta
Mihnea Dămăceanu
Miruna Bălașa
Petru Cruceru
Răzvan Tiberiu Necula
Rebeca Ionescu
Roberta Giuglea

Artists participating as members of a collective:
Andreea-Georgiana Pușcașu
Anamaria Volintiru
Carina-Elena Frunză
Dumitraș Flocea
Erika-Elena Ioan
Florentina Neghină
Georgiana-Elena Șușnea
Raluca Niculaie

A connected event held under the aegis of the George Enescu International Festival
Organizer: Art Safari
Co-organizer: Art Production Foundation
Main partner: Artexim, an institution under the authority of the Ministry of Culture
Main partner: Rompetrol
Partners: “George Enescu” Philharmonic, “George Enescu” National Museum, “George Enescu” Memorial Museum in Dorohoi, National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest National Opera House, National University of Music Bucharest

Consultant: Vlad Văidean
Exhibition curated by Monica Dumitru
Exhibition design: Diana Nicolaie
Installation: Alexandru Rădvan

History is a labyrinth where the 20th century gave rise to at least three minotaurs: the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War. Enescu’s biography moves beneath the tides of history following a path as improbable as it is miraculous: from Liveni, a small village in northern Moldova, to Paris, where his opera premiered at the Palais Garnier.
George Enescu’s influence on national culture is crucial, and his international recognition – indisputable, with both Romania and France claiming him as their own.
This exhibition tells the story of a genius.

Grand Paris was both the cradle and the standard of excellence for the art of Little Paris. We are not only referring to the Paris of studios and art schools, but also to the unique essence of experiencing life and shaping oneself intellectually, artistically, socially, and humanly within that unparalleled environment.

After his engineering studies at the Polytechnic School in Dresden, Pallady completely changed both his path and field, continuing his education at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and studying under Gustave Moreau, alongside Matisse, Marquet, and Rouault, among others.

Pallady lived and worked in both Paris and Bucharest. He infused that unique “air de Paris” into almost all of his works—that Parisian state of the bourgeois spirit, one that aspires not to an earthly paradise, but to an urban one. This is the subject of the exhibition Paris Pallady. Despite the large number of works—over 70—and the numerous documents that offer the exhibition historical, social, and anthropological context, this is not a retrospective, but rather an exhibition of atmosphere—a phenomenological essay in which art does not merely depict or represent a subject, but emanates it, generating a desirable and ideal life-environment that the public can absorb through all the senses, not just the visual one.

Pallady did everything for art in a world that did everything for the nation. Grigorescu and his successors glorified the national ideal, rustic idealism, and military heroism. In contrast, Pallady celebrated the comfort of the Parisian urban interior—or its Bucharest counterpart, modeled after the Parisian one.

The exhibition is organized in partnership with the renowned French museums Musée de l’Orangerie and Musée Henri Matisse – Département du Nord, which are lending works by Henri Matisse to Art Safari.
Exhibition orchestrated by Maria Munteanu, with accompaniment by Erwin Kessler
Partners: Musée de l’Orangerie, Musée Henri Matisse – Département du Nord, French Institute in Romania, Embassy of France in Romania