Now in its 5th edition, the Bucharest Sculpture Days event returns in 2025 with a radical and necessary theme: #theotherbody (#celalaltcorp) – an exhibition of contemporary sculpture and transmedia that brings to the forefront the human figure as a space of tension between norm and identity, between history and future, between the physical and augmented body.
There is a body that we easily recognise: the one in the mirror, the one in glossy advertisements, the one learned, shaped, and accepted. But there is also the other body. The body rewritten by trauma, love, and identity. The augmented, politicised, vulnerable body. The body that does not fit into norms, but explodes into forms. We challenge you to look beyond the surface. Because in art—as in life—what you see is not all there is.
Reka Csapo Dup, curator
The event takes place between April 26 and May 11, in the spaces of the SENAT Gallery, the Institute Gallery and the courtyard of the Plastic Fund Complex in Bucharest (Combinatul Fondului Plastic). The official opening takes place on April 26, at 6:00 PM.
Artists participating in the Bucharest Sculpture Days
Under the curatorship of Reka Csapo Dup and with the participation of critics Adriana Oprea and Horațiu Lipot, the exhibition brings together the works of over 45 established and emerging artists: Alina Aldea, Ion Anghel, Vlad Basarab, Anca Boeriu, Alin Carpen, Titi Ceară, Traian Cherecheș, Ștefan Radu Crețu, Călin Dan, Misha Diaconu, Darie Dup, Raluca Ilaria Demetrescu, Elena Dumitrescu, Albert Kaan, Iosif Király, Cristina Lilienfeld, Petru Lucaci, Laurențiu Mogoșanu, Dragoș Neagoe, Vlad Olariu, Alexandru Papuc, Radu Panait, Radu Pandele, Alexandru Patatics, Cosmin Paulescu, Romelo Pervolovici, Adrian Piorescu, Adrian Pîrvu, Maria Pop, Marilena Preda Sânc, Alexandru Ranga, Bogdan Rața, Cristian Răduță, Elena Scutaru, Marcel Scutaru, Sever Petrovici Popescu, Ștefan Siminic, Maria Sicoie, Elena Surdu Stanescu, Irina Tanase, Ovidiu Toader, Catalin Udrea, Mihai Zgondoiu, Marian Zidaru, Victoria Zidaru.
It is only now, now in its 5th edition, that the Bucharest Sculpture Days approach, through the works of 45 artists and authors, because specific to the current situation, interdisciplinarity is a condition, perhaps the most natural theme that could be dedicated to this artistic discipline – the body –, contextualized through hybridizations and syntheses, digressions & alienations all interpreted as #celalaltcorp (#theotherbody).
Why natural? The answer at hand would be that sculpture, without reference to the body, and in its absence to its presence, is conceivable. More abstractly, perhaps because anything that pierces the two-dimensional surface of illusion towards the three-dimensional, carbon-material reality, is instinctively analogised by cognition with an entity and, implicitly, with a body.
At this nodal point between the body and the sculpture, it is also interesting to note that a paraphilia called agalmatophilia exists. Also known as pygmalionism or statuophilia, it is a sexual fetish that essentially manifests itself, no more and no less, than a form of sexual attraction towards statues.
The #celălaltcorp exhibition is open to the public daily from 12:00 to 18:00. Admission is free.
An event organised by the Sculpture Branch of the Union of Plastic Artists of Bucharest, with the support of the Ministry of Culture.
Special events & extended program April 26, 2025
- 5:00 PM – Open workshops: Marian & Victoria Zidaru, Ana Zoe Pop, Cristian Pentelescu
- 5:00 PM – #celălaltcorp opening at UNA, a collective exhibition by students of the National University of Arts in Bucharest and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest
- 6:30 PM – screening of the documentary NAPO – Dan Păduraru & Cristi Calist 1995 – The Institute Gallery, Combinatul Fondului Plastic (Plastic Fund Complex)
- 7:00 PM – DryLandscape (karesansui) – video-performance
- by Alexandru Patatics & Cristina Lilienfeld – SENAT Gallery, Plastic Fund Complex
- 7:30 PM – 56/Z – screening of the documentary about Generation Z and the memory of the 1956 revolution – The Institute Gallery, Plastic Fund Complex
The film will also be screened on: - April 27, 4:00 PM
- May 10, 4:00 PM
- May 11, 4:00 PM
Related exhibitions and projects: - #celălaltcorp at HDU – guest sculptors: Bogdan Breza, Mircea Roman, Dan Munteanu and others
- SCULPTORI PENTRU VITOR (Sculpters for the Future) – modelling contest for students of fine arts high schools, with the winners being awarded on May 11
- Despre Portrete (About Portraits) #3 – international collective exhibition at Gallery Studio 76 (April 26 – May 31)
