Bucharest’s Art Safari to return this autumn with new exhibitions

Bucharest’s Art Safari exhibition is set to return this fall with an edition centering on music, the story of the nocturnal city, love, and legendary bags worn by stars and superstars.

The new season takes place from September 29 to January 14 at the Dacia-Romania Palace in downtown Bucharest.

For three months, Art Safari becomes the only museum of music in the capital of Romania, through a multisensory exhibition celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Madrigal Choir. Also part of the season is the story of the nocturnal city, narrated in the "Nightlife" section. Finally, from the famous Victoria & Albert Museum in London comes the exhibition "Bags: Inside Out," featuring iconic bags that have made history.

The "Love Stories" exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery in London, featuring masterpieces by Andy Warhol, Man Ray, and David Hockney, has been extended by popular demand and can be seen until October 1.

The Madrigal exhibition contains 16 vibrant spaces, 60 costumes, 70 records, unique information, and interactive and sensory musical experiences, a collective history of Romanian Christmas, politics, and society, sound, color, and scent – all seen through the eyes and experience of 60 years of Madrigal. The audience is invited to discover how a small chamber ensemble created during the communist years with students from the Bucharest Conservatory became one of Romania's most powerful and important cultural brands.

At the same time, the “Nightlife” exhibition shows how in recent generations, humans have given the night a new meaning. The city has been the instrument for the nocturnal remodeling of ethology, concerns, imagination, and beliefs.

"An endless confrontation between the desires of hidden and darkness-loving behavior (the world of criminals, thieves, social misfits, everything that the diurnal tries to heal) and the extension of daily concerns, for which the diurnal no longer offers enough time. Here we refer to some professions, including those related to the leisure industry," said Adrian Majuru, director of the Museum of Bucharest and curator of the exhibition.

Pieces from the collections of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine "Dr. Mina Minovici" and the Francisc Rainer Institute of Anthropology – Romanian Academy will be exhibited to the public for the first time, alongside those offered by the Museum of Bucharest.

"Bags: Inside Out," an exhibition created in partnership with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, shows bags as never before. From a necessity to a symbol of luxury and status, from backpacks and delivery bags to Birkin bags and Louis Vuitton suitcases, the show explores the style, functionality, and design of this accessory.