The female artists Anca Mureșan, Emilia Persu, Ileana Ştefănescu, and Beti Vervega open their studios on Saturday, October 22nd between 12 – 6 p.m. during the event “La pas prin atelierele UAP din Șelari 13/ Walking through the UAP studios on Șelari 13”, a cultural project initiated by the Nucleu 0000 Association, which aims to familiarize the general public with the creative spaces in the center of Bucharest.
At the same time, Atelier 35 Gallery, which is located on the ground floor of the workshop building on Șelari 13, will be opened for visits. Here the visitor can see the Nucleus 0010 Exhibition. Inopportune Meetings, a group exhibition that brings together works signed by artists: Roberta Curcă, Alexandra Ivanciu, Diana Miron, Marina Oprea, Nicolae Comănescu, Anca Mureșan, Beniamin Popescu, and Elena Scutaru.
Hidden in heritage buildings, most often in historical areas of the city, studios are rarely accessible to the general public and, most often, they remain closed even to specialists or the artistic community.
Spaces dedicated to contemporary abstract art animate the Old Center of Bucharest. Creative workshops in Șelari revolve around the legendary Atelier 35, a gallery of the Union of Fine Artists which puts to the maximum test the creativity and ingenuity of young artists and curators, up to the age of 35. Mysterious to those who intuit from the street their colors, hunted by creators and art lovers alike, the workshops are the place of refuge where an artist wants to experience, destroy, build, and throw, without a precise purpose sometimes, always without value judgments. Some workshops acquire such a clear identity that they become museums. Others host legendary encounters, and others are scoured, in search of those personal things, objects, sketches, or notes, that could bring new meanings to an artistic path.
The FEMALE ARTISTS who have accepted the invitation to open their studios to the public:
Anca Mureșan (b. 1965) graduated from the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest (1991) in professor Florin Mitroi’s painting class. In 1998, she began hes specialization under the direction of Prof. Komrad Klapheck at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she also completed her studies in 2000. She works in Düsseldorf and Bucharest.
Emilia Persu is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts “Nicolae Grigorescu”, 1998, in the Painting department, Florin Mitroi class. Member of the Union of Fine Artists of Romania since 1998, she has held several management positions within the Union over the years. With a vast international artistic activity, including personal and group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Lisbon, Milan, Paris, Budapest, etc. and works in public and private collections, Emilia also works as a curator, organizing various exhibitions.
Ile Ştefi (Ileana Ştefănescu) has a Ph.D. in visual arts, graduated from the National University of Arts, painting department (2004-2008), but also the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest (1987 -1993), The Science and Engineering of Metallic Materials. In 2008 she became a member of UAP Romania, Bucharest Painting Branch. The artist has an intense activity participating in national and international exhibitions and symposia. She lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. She was awarded the Second Prize at the Chisinau International Painting Biennale (2019), the Romanian UAP Prize for Postal Drawing Brâncuși, Târgu Jiu (2019), the Diploma of Honorary Mention at the International Art Olympia Tokyo Competition (2019) and the First Mention at Gh. Petrașcu, Targoviste (2004).
Beti Vervega is a graduate of the “Nicolae Grigorescu” Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest in 1996, in the Painting department. A member of the Union of Fine Artists in Romania since 1997, she has been debuting since her studies in 1994, in a series of exhibitions with a program organized by the artist Teodor Moraru at Galla Gallery in Bucharest where she exhibited together with great personalities of the Romanian art. In 1997 she opens her first personal exhibition “Fragments” at the Galla Gallery, and shortly after, the artist leaves for Africa for 9 months, a journey that will influence her artistic practice for a long time. In 2003 she organizes a series of exhibitions in unconventional spaces “Art closer to the public” and, since 2010, she has been curator of various contemporary art exhibitions such as: “FemArt”, “Arte in Bucharest”, the National Salon of Contemporary Art, “Interior Laboratory”.
INTER-EXTERIOR is a project organized by the Nucleu 0000 Association, in partnership with the Union of Fine Artists in Romania
Launched at the beginning of October, when the creative workshops in Amzei Square were opened, the Inter-Exterior project is a tool for familiarizing both the specialized and the general public with the UAPR buildings in the center of Bucharest. In addition to its educational function, the initiative tries to bring into public discussion, especially in the environments directly interested, the problem of the lack of creative workshops in Romania. The topic is discussed within the Inter-Exterior initiative, a project co-financed by AFCN and coordinated by artist Gabriela Mateescu. The approach has the mission to initiate a dialogue centered on the need for access to creative spaces, given that, in Romania, workshops at affordable costs and with long-term contracts are offered only by the Union of Fine Artists.
Co-financed by AFCN
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*The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results can be used. They are entirely the responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
