BR brings you the best of Bucharest’s cultural highlights for the weekend ahead.
PERFORMANCE
Women
Bucharest National Opera
Friday, January 31, 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.
Gabriel Croitoru concert (in picture)
The Radio Hall
Friday, January 31, from 19.00
Romanian violinist Gabriel Croitoru, who received 2008 the Guarneri violin that belonged to George Enescu, which is included in the universal patrimony, will perform a Niccolo Paganini’s concerto. More details about this concert, here.
FILM
ShortsUp Weekend
Cinema Patria
February 1-2, from 20.00
On Saturday and Sunday, ShortsUp is conducting a therapy session via quality humor, which will bring a smile on the faces of the most brooding of spectators. The Short Comedy Weekend will take place on February 1 and 2 at Cinema Patria and it includes two different programs of awarded short films, a contemporary art exhibit and a special entertainment space for practicing your own humorous routines. More details about this concert, 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