What to do this weekend

At a loose end? BR brings you the best of Bucharest’s cultural highlights for the weekend ahead. 

FAIR

Saint Andrew Fair

November 29 – December 1

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The National Peasant Museum

Craftsmen from all over the country will come to Bucharest for three days to showcase products of traditional cuisine, as well as other goods. Events will include creative workshops and theater plays for children.

FILM

Croatian Film Days

November 28 – December 1

Elvira Popescu cinema

Friday, November 29

18.00 – I LOVE YOU/VOLIM TE, d.: Dalibor Matanić

20.00 – THE LOVE LIFE OF A GENTLE COWARD/ LJUBAVNI ZIVOT DOMOBRANA, d: Pavo Marinković

Saturday, November 30

10.00 – KOKO AND THE GHOSTS/ KOKO I DUHOVI, d: Daniel Kušan

18.00 – WILL NOT END HERE/NIJE KRAJ, d: Vinko Brešan

20.00 – JOSEF, d: Stanislav Tomić

Sunday, December 1

18.00 – I HAVE TO SLEEP, MY ANGEL/MORAM SPAVAT’, ANDJELE, d: Dejan Aćimović

20.00 – METASTASES, d: Branko Schmidt

EXHIBITION

Book illustration (in picture)

Instituto Cervantes

Until January 20

The Bucharest Cervantes Institute and the Miguel Delibes foundation are opening the ‘Common land. Illustrated Delibes’ exhibition, showcasing book illustrations by 16 of the most important contemporary Spanish illustrators. More details about this event, here.

Polka Folk

The National Peasant Museum

Until December 1

A collective of young Polish designers presents the Polska Folk exhibition, which includes furniture, lighting, graphics, products and architecture influenced by traditional Polish folk patterns and craft techniques.

The 19 objects from the exhibition are inspired from the Polish traditional art, handicrafts and decorative art, with the materials used by the designers being genuine and local. The exhibition is organized at the initiative of the Polish Institute in Bucharest. More details about this event, here.

Invasion 68 Prague

Annex MNAC (Calea Mosilor no. 62-68, 3rd floor)

For the first time in Bucharest, the well-known photographer Josef Koudelka will present Invasion 68 Prague, an exhibition that presents the historical moments of August 1968. During those days, the thirty years old photographer realised a series of photos, which he later managed to take out of the country, when he immigrated to France. The photos were published by Magnum Photos agency one year later, in 1969, in many international magazines, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the invasion, without the author’s name. In the same year, Koudelka was honored with “the Czech anonymous photographer” award with Robert Capa golden medal from Overseas Press Club. Josef Koudelka, one of the most prominent contemporary photographers in the world, has been recognized as the author of the photographs only in 1985, after his father, who was still in Czechoslovakia, died. More information about this event, here.

100 miniatures chairs

Promenada Mall Bucharest

100 miniatures of classical seats which convey the history of the chair, from the Industrial Revolution to the artistic experimentation, will be exhibited at Promenada Mall, the latest mall in Bucharest, on the occasion of the opening of a new Cărturești Library.

The exhibition will unveil 100 fascinating prototypes of classical seats dating from between approx.1800 to 1990, presented in terms of nine chronological groups. Faithful reproductions of drawings, photographs and catalogues illustrate the path of development of the seats, from the first draft via production to their actual use. The exhibition offers a fantastic opportunity for those who wish to be part of an aesthetic universe closely linked to the art history over the last two centuries. More information about this event, here.

Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/ Intellectuals

America 24/7

The National Library

The American Bucharest Corner was inaugurated on June 20 at the National Library and two exhibitions take place: “Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/ Intellectuals.” which shows Native American contributions as scholars, professors, museum curators, and writers as well as makers of traditional fine arts, video and photography to document their cultural heritage and their struggle for sovereignty and a second poster exhibit, “America 24/7”, accompanied by a book, the result of a project by American author and publisher, David Elliot Cohen, and American photographer, Rick Smolan.  More than 25,000 digital photographers across the U.S. – including 36 Pulitzer Prize winners – responded to the invitation to take pictures of their towns, families, neighbors and friends for 24 hours a day for seven days.  The best photos capturing the diverse authentic America were included in the exhibit. More details, here.

Q.E.D. by Mircea Cantor

The NationalMuseum of Contemporary Art

Until April 2014

More than 1,200 people have attended the opening of the first local solo exhibition of one of the most important young artists to emerge on the international scene over the last decade: Mircea Cantor, winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp Award 2011. The QED exhibition, the largest survey of the artist’s works to date, comprises 30 pieces. More details here.

Oana Vasiliu