Art Safari, the largest event dedicated to art in Romania, announces a new edition, between September 5 and December 14. The new season proposes an exceptional program: a trip through Pallady’s Paris, when the Romanian artist tied a beautiful friendship with Henri Matisse, a collaboration with two museums in Paris.
Theodor Pallady, “in Vernil dress on red armchair” at Art Safari
The story of a genius, George Enescu, the visionary who laid the foundation stone of symphonic music in Romania, a related event held under the aegis of the George Enescu International Festival, supported by Rompetrol.
Romanian contemporary art and … Mathematics – Young Blood 5.0; an incursion into the Japanese contemporary design; But also an exhibition anchored in the immediate reality, about food waste.
Here is the full program of exhibitions:
Paris Pallady
After engineering studies (started at Polytechnic in Dresden), Theodor Pallady (1871-1956) totally changed his options and continued his studies at the Paris Academy of Arts, with Gustave Moreau, along with Matisse, Marquet and Rouault, among others.
Pallady was a life friend with Henri Matisse. Pallady is the one who offered Matisse a collection of traditional Romanian, who served Matisse as inspiration.
“Pallady lived and worked in Paris and Bucharest. He instilled that unique air of Paris in almost all his works, that Parisian state of the bourgeois being not aspiring not to the terrestrial paradise.says Erwin Kessler, historian and art critic, curator.
The exhibition is made in partnership with Musee de L’Oragerie and Musée Henri Matisse – Départment du Nord, which borrows works signed by Henri Matisse, and with the support of the French Institute in Romania and the France Embassy in Romania.
Exhibition orchestrated by Maria Munteanu, with an accompaniment by Erwin Kessler.
Enescu and Minotaur
History can be seen as a labyrinth, for which the 20th century produced at least three minids: World War I, World War and communism. George Enescu’s biography sails under the times with an unlikely, so miraculous: from Liveni, a village from northern Moldova, to Paris, where his “Oedipus” opera has the absolute premiere at Palais Garnier.
70 years after the passing of the great modernizer of Romanian music, we know that the influence of George Enescu in the national culture was pivotal, and his international validation is indisputable, being claimed by both Romania and France. This exhibition tells the story of a genius.
“The Enescu and Minotaurul exhibition propose an emotional foray into the fate of a genius, offering the public a visual and symbolic interpretation of George Enescu’s path, modeled by the great attempts of the 20th century, true” minoturi “of history. This exceptional related event within the George Enescu International Festival marks the first collaboration between Artaxim and Art Safari, with the support of Rompetrol, in a year with a special symbolic load, 70 years after the disappearance of the great composer. Through this initiative, the music meets the cultural memory in a contemporary dialogue, bringing Enescu to the foreground as a symbol of resilience and a creation that transcends time ”declares Cristina Uruc, interim manager Artaxim, organizer of the George Enescu International Festival.
Consultant Vlad Văidean
Co-organizer: Art Production Foundation
Main partner: Artexim, institution subordinated to the Ministry of Culture
Partners: “George Enescu” Philharmonic, “George Enescu National Museum,” George Enescu “Memorial Museum in Dorohoi, National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest National Opera, National Music University of Bucharest
Main partner: Rompetrol
Exhibition scenography: Diana Nicolaie
Installations: Alexandru Rădvan
Young Blood 5.0. Hello, Math!
Contemporary art and mathematics are more related than it seems to us. The exhibition proposes a reading by which mathematics becomes an auxiliary tool to look and present the subtle connection between art and mathematics, highlighting how proportions, geometry and harmony can give rise to visual beauty.
At the same time, it can be seen as an underline of the triumph of science, as a landmark of truth in an era of misinformation, inviting the public to rediscover the power of knowledge.
“The writer Henry James (1843-1916) note in 1896 that every good story carries with and in itself an unseen drawing: the drawing in the carpet-an invisible structure, which opposes the immediate, but can be discovered from a distance, by contemplating the whole. The metaphor suggests the existence of a hidden system, without which it would remain. He wants to assume this perspective and transpose it in the context of contemporary art, ”says Calina Coman.
Japanese Design Today
Temporary exhibition (September 5 – October 12, 2025)
An itinerant exhibition presented by Japan Foundation, launched in 2004 and updated in 2013, which brings together about 100 Japanese design objects, especially from those launched after 2000, along with some older masterpieces.
The contemporary Japanese design has its origins in the post-war era, in the 1950s, and emphasizes ingenuity and functional elegance-qualities that have been preserved and adapted over time. An exhibition-course in the lifestyle of the Japanese people through design.
Partners: Japan Embassy, Japan Foundation
The art of not dispeling anything. An exhibition about food waste
Temporary exhibition (September 5 – October 5, 2025)
An initiative of the bank for food with the support of Edenred Romania and Lidl Romania
Between aesthetics and ethics, “the art of not dispeling anything” invites us to look beyond consumption, to small, but essential gestures, which define our relationship with both food and environment. A moment of breathing in which we look closely how time leaves its traces. Where before there was freshness, promise, lust, now it is waste, negligence and forgetfulness.
“We are urged to a moment of reflection about what it means to choose consciously, to look carefully and to let nothing lose meaning. The art of not dispeling anything invites a more conscious look and perhaps a little more care.” says Maria Ursică, who cares for the exhibition.
About Art Safari and Tickets
Tickets with 50% discount (from 150 lei to 75 lei) have already been put on sale online. The offer is only valid until September 5, so lovers of art and cultural leisure are invited to take advantage. Art stories are played by the public also through special experiences such as nocturnal and day guided tours, art workshops for adults and children or Sunday brunch.
Art Safari, supported by Lidl, George, Glo, Rompetrol, Porsche, Kinder, Peroni, Edenred Romania, is specialized in the creation of exhibition pavilions and national history. Annual organizer of the Bucharest Art Pavilion-the largest conglomerate of art exhibitions in Romania-reached the 17th edition, realizes, in partnership with the Romanian and International Art Museums and private collectors, retrospective exhibitions that aim to recover the heritage values. With a strong educational side, its mission is to bring the art of public and educate the new generations, including by organizing art workshops, guided tours and contemporary art exhibitions in unconventional spaces, such as Henri Coanda Airport or the Bucharest subway. Art Safari, a cultural project funded by the Ministry of Culture, is carried out in partnership with the Museum of Bucharest. In the 16 editions so far, it has registered over 1 million visitors. More details: Artsafari.ro.
