MARSHALLING YARD (ground floor)
Continuing to look at its own collection as a random database of artifacts (approach inaugurated in the exhibition The Collection as an Archive, 2015), MNAC uses the landmark spaces from the ground floor of its venue (formerly known as “the Palace of Ceaușescu”) as a marshalling yard, where art works are brought in the open for (visual) browsing, but also for maintenance, in view of a thorough re-organization of the art depots.

MNAC Coordinator: Irina Radu
Exhibition design: atelier ad hoc
On show: 10.11.2016 - 08.10.2017

THE EPHEMERIST. A MIHAI OLOS RETROSPECTIVE (1st floor)
Active between Romania and Germany in the years 1970-2000, Mihai Olos left an impressive body of work, exploring various techniques (painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, fashion, performance, poetry), and several stylistic trends (late modernism, conceptualism, minimalism). The Ephemerist is the first attempt at a comprehensive look into the work of probably the most important artist in post-WW2 Romania, spirit kindred to Buckminster Fuller, Yona Friedman and other such visionaries.

Curator: Călin Dan
Assistant curator: Sandra Demetrescu
Exhibition design: skaarchitects
Partners: Olos Estate, Galeria Plan B Cluj / Berlin, Negrești-Oaș Museum, Baia Mare Art Museum, the Museum of the Municipality of Bucharest / Ligia and Pompiliu Macovei Art Collection
On show: 10.11.2016 - 26.03.2017

NISTOR COITA. RETROSPECTIVE (2nd floor)
This retrospective showcases mainly the large series made after year 2000, from St. George and the Exercises in cohabitation, to the Mythological Studies, Passages and Cosmographies. The exhibition emphasizes the virtues of drawing, as Nistor Coita (1943-2013) defined himself as a graphic artist, and not a painter, cultivating drawing as an art form that has brought him nearer to the virtues of writing, in its original meaning of pictogram, and to the late modernity of Lettrism.

Curator: Ruxandra Demetrescu
MNAC Coordinator: Mălina Ionescu
On show: 10.11.2016 - 26.03.2017

OLIVER RESSLER. PROPERTY IS THEFT (3rd floor)

Property is theft! (La propriété, c’est le vol!, the famous declaration made by French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1840, has the impact of a political slogan and serves as the title of Austrian artist Oliver Ressler’s first survey exhibition in Romania. The crisis of Neoliberalism, Oliver Ressler’s favourite theme throughout his activity over the past twenty years, points to the fundamentally economic under-structure of all present social and political imbalances. Focusing on films and video-installations, the selection of works on display raises issues as global warming and the processes of rampant privatization in the former Communist countries, together with the reaction of people and the social movement to them - the strikes, protests, blockades of fossil fuel industry and occupation of factories and squares (Occupy!) that have recently occurred. The financial and economic crisis in the context of aggravating ecological, social and political problems, are topics presented as kaleidoscopic points of view around one single profound, apparently insolvable issue: contemporary capitalism.
Oliver Ressler’s new 2-channel video-installation “Everything's coming together while everything's falling apart” was produced for this exhibition with the support of ERSTE Foundation, BKA – Kunst and Otto Mauer Fonds.

Curator: Adriana Oprea
Supported by: ERSTE Foundation, BKA – Kunst, Otto Mauer Fonds
On show: 10.11.2016 - 26.03.2017