The emblematic Marble Hall on the ground floor of the National Museum of Contemporary Art hosts the Heritage/ Patrimoniu installation by the artist Eugen Raportoru, an exhibition project curated by Călin Dan.

In Heritage/Patrimoniu, the installation now made for the Marble Hall of MNAC, Raportoru refers to the specificity (of historical order of) the Museum. By using the same cocktail of vernacular and official, of painting plus installation, of standard solutions combined with improvisations, of noble materials with some decomposed ones, he builds a memorial dedicated to the place on which the Palace (of Ceaușescu or of the Parliament) was built abusively . after it was turned into rubble the very neighborhood from which Bucharest rose, the city evolved from a Neolithic settlement to a 20th century capital, Balkan and modern in equal measure.
MNAC illegally occupies this architectural symbol of political power, and Raportoru’s installation illegally occupies the Museum, thus adding another link to the chain of events meant to keep alive the memory of a disaster on a historical, urban and human scale orchestrated by the Ceausescu regime in the years 70 and ’80. ” — Călin Dan

The Heritage installation, made in partnership with Roma Education Fund Romania, can be visited until March 31, 2024.

Eugen Raportoru (b. 1961, Bucharest) graduated from the University of Art Bucharest, majoring in painting. Raportoru frequently exhibits in the country, but also abroad. He exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in the Vatican under the auspices of UNESCO, at the Ethnic Museum in Oslo and Stockholm through the Roma Party, and in 2022, he exhibited at the Venice Biennale, under the ERIAC commission (European Institute of Art and Roma culture).