On August 1, 2025, at 1:00 PM, the Peleș National Museum in Sinaia invites you to participate in the opening of the exhibition "Romanian Artists on the World Map", a journey through the history of local contemporary art.

Produced through a partnership between the Peleș National Museum and the Brukenthal National Museum, the exhibition includes works from the collection of lawyer George Șerban and is curated by Anamaria Grigor and Dr. Alexandru Constantin Chituță from the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu.

The exhibition project was conceived in 2023 on the occasion of the National Day of Culture, the exhibition being opened in the Great Hall of the ICR headquarters in Bucharest. With the support of the ICR, the exhibition was organized in the period 2023-2024 at the National Museum of Art of Moldova in Chisinau, at the ICR headquarters in Budapest and Vienna and at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu. The exhibition also had an itinerant character and marked, in the country and abroad, 20 years since the establishment of the Romanian Cultural Institute, "offering a retrospective of Romanian graphics".

"The mission of this exhibition, in fact an exhibition series in the making, which will be revealed to the public at the headquarters of the Romanian Cultural Institute, is to explore and celebrate the creations of Romanian artists who, through their creative destiny, already belong to the entire world," said Liviu Jicman, president of the Romanian Cultural Institute.

Journey through the history of Romanian contemporary art

The exhibition "Romanian Artists Around the World" brings together works by more than 50 Romanian artists who have settled in countries around the world, where they have worked or are still working.

"The exhibition proposes a journey through the history of contemporary art, through the graphic work of its main protagonists, and intends to offer an alternative view of the most emblematic artistic experiences from the 1970s to the present. The collection of lawyer George Șerban is well-known and established today as one of the most valuable in our country, and an important part of this collection is dedicated to Romanian graphics, but in this exhibition there are also works of sculpture," said Alexandru Constantin Chituță.

The exhibition is a plea for art, with the aim of contributing to the promotion of Romanian artists and cultural creators in the diaspora and to surprise the public with a variety of colors, shapes, styles and techniques. Collector George Șerban has lent the works of the over 50 artists in the exhibition free of charge.

"In this exhibition we will see a series of artists who graduated from art studies in Romania and emigrated, either before the 90s (the majority) or after. Some of them are no longer with us, but their works remain, which we collect, admire and sometimes exhibit in such exhibitions. After the 90s, many of them returned to Romania or are returning with exhibitions in Bucharest or other parts of the country," pointed out George Șerban.

"Romanian Artists Around the World", from George Apostu to Jules Perahim

The exhibition will feature works by the following artists: George Apostu, Victor Brauner, Cristian Breazu, Tudor Banuș, Livia Balu, Georgeta Borusz, Ciobanu Victor Vladimir, Doru Covrig, Doina Botez, Oana Cajal, Petru Csehi, Aurel Cojan, Damo Istvan, Horia Damian, Wanda Decca, Camilian Demetrescu, Adrian Dumitrache, Ana Golici, Nicolae Golici, Harry Guttman, Herold Jacques, Hildegard Kleper Paar, Marcel Iancu, Ion Nicodim, Kovacs Johanna, Denissa Șerban Maschek, Wanda Mihuleac, Paul Neagu, Petre Balanica Nicăpetre, Peter Pusztai, Jules Perahim, Raluca Pilat, Georgeta Irina Pusztai, Valentin Popa, Adrian Pora, Magdalena Rădulescu, Dodi Romanați, Petre Rusu, Hedda Sterne, Saul Steinberg, Delia Perrois Sechel, Petre Velicu, Csaba Zemlenyi, Mihu Vulcănescu, Traian A. Filip, Kira Cristinel Popescu, Alma Mariana Ștefănescu-Scheinder, Alexandre Istrati and Sofia Frankl.

Photo: ink work made in 1976 by Alma Mariana Ștefănescu-Scheinder (1948, Sibiu – 2015, Germany)