MARe/Museum of Recent Art has recently opened a unique exhibition, with works made by children, within the educational workshops organized at the museum. The exhibition celebrates four years since MARe opened its doors to the general public, both adults and children eager to discover contemporary art. For four years, the museum’s educational department, Dep. Art has been organizing weekly creative workshops for children aged 4-12 years.

The exhibition will be open to the public until November 9 and is dedicated to both children and adults: “Adults can discover their children, in deep ways they do not know them, even if they are their parents. Even adults who do not have children can discover childhood and art in this exhibition,” says Erwin Kessler (art historian, curator, and director of the MARe/Museum of Recent Art).

The exhibition includes over 50 works made in various techniques: from drawing and painting to collage and modeling. The exhibited works are the result of themes that debate different aspects of contemporary society based on notions of spatiality and perspective, memory/remembrance, authenticity and remake, techniques and styles from the history and theory of art.

The retrospective exhibition is an extension of an ambitious educational program that has been made up since 2018 until now mentoring sessions, exhibitions dedicated to children (Maps, Fables, and Fairy Tales within the Înseninare/Brightening program, hosted by the Goethe-Institut Bucharest; Pictoria și Sculptoria, on the ground floor of the museum – mentor Regina Ionescu, within the Program Fabrica de Sens co-financed by AFCN), courses for children with hearing loss (Sound images), photography, courses (Archifoto), video art (CineMARe), etc.

Currently, the organizers of the Dep. Art educational department are planning the presentation of the permanent collection, Diversitate stilistică/Stylistic Diversity, exhibited on the 1st and 2nd floors of the museum, through the eyes of children, in children’s guided tours.

“The moments spent together in the workshop are like happenings – unique, impossible to access outside the space and time we create together. The way we interact and react face to face with art and with each other is what we will try to play in this exhibition. It’s all about how we visually express what we feel and say in words, the results are spontaneous and surprising. Children inspire us every time and we invite you to let yourself be inspired by them“, say trainers Ana Lăzărescu, Robert Manuel, and Elena Ghițoiu).

“Through the educational workshops at the museum, an art-loving community was also created. We want to celebrate the very-young art lovers through this exhibition dedicated to them“, says Antonia Iordache, curator of MARe/Museum of Recent Art and coordinator of the MARe de Mic educational programs).

About MARe/Museum of Recent Art:

MARe/Museum of Recent Art, opened in October 2018, in Bucharest, at 15 Primaverii Boulevard, is the first private art museum built in Romania in the last 100 years. The program targets Romanian contemporary art, being at the same time open to the international art scene, which is visible in the three simultaneous exhibitions that it presents at any time: the permanent collection of Romanian art, the collective exhibition of Romanian art, and the temporary exhibition of a prominent international artist (until this date they were Jeff Wall, Martin Creed, Thomas Ruff, Marcia Hafif, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Heimo Zobernig, Gregor Schneider, Tino Sehgal, Hermann Nitsch, VALIE EXPORT, Matt Mullican, Thomas Demand, Arnulf Rainer and now Stephan Balkenhol).

MaRe projects have benefited over time from the support of the Ministry of Culture, AFCN, Expo Arte, Goethe-Institut Bucharest, Austrian Cultural Forum, Italian Council, Terra Foundation for American Art, etc., but also from sponsors and partners such as UniCredit Bank, Volvo, MasterCard, Samsung, Cambridge School of Bucharest, Spandugino Foundation, etc. Making between four and six temporary exhibitions per year, but also with an impressive number of punctual events, MARe / Museum of Recent Art has become in more than two years since its opening one of the most dynamic cultural institutions in Bucharest.

Partners: UniCredit Bank, Cambridge School of Bucharest, GinArt Joc, Ototo

Cover photo: MARe de Mic Workshops, Mentor Ana Lăzărescu, @MARe/ Muzeul de Artă Recentă