BR brings you the best of Bucharest’s cultural highlights for the weekend ahead.
PERFORMANCE
Women
Bucharest National Opera (in picture)
Saturday, January 25, from 19.00
Romanian choreographer Gheorghe Iancu returns to the Bucharest National Opera stage with a performance that had its Romanian premiere in 2009, Women. The ballet is based on the work of Anton Chekhov, and depicts a complicated love story between a young woman, her husband and her lover. More details, here.
FILM
Sibiu International Film Festival
The National Peasant Museum
January 24-26
Originally held in October, the Astra Film Festival, also known as Sibiu International Film Festival comes to Bucharest to present the documentaries that were staged last year. Astra Film Festival had its 20th anniversary edition in 2013, where for seven days, the city of Sibiu has become the international capital of documentary: screenings, concerts, exhibitions, conferences, masterclasses. The celebration of film has spread its lively spirit all throughout the city: hundreds of flags have been floating above the streets and the city’s youth have organised an unconventional promotion event: an anniversary tour on bikes and motorbikes. More about the program of the festival, here.
EXHIBITION
Contemporary Norwegian Architecture
The National Museum of Contemporary Art
Until March 22
The “Contemporary Norwegian Architecture # 7” Exhibition travels around the world starting with 2011, being so far hosted by Brazil, Cuba, Poland, Croatia, the Czech republic, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Greece, Cyprus, Germany and Bulgaria. In 2014, with the support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Romania, in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art and Zeppelin Association, it comes to Bucharest. More about this exhibition, here.
Q.E.D. by Mircea Cantor
The National Museum 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.
Currently, at the special guess section, the artist invited to exhibit is Victoria Berbecaru. The opening takes place on January 10, from 18.00.
Oana Vasiliu