Art Safari is a sign that Romanian art market enters a new stage, where Romanian artistic system enters the stage of adulthood and gets included in an European network and why not a global one. It’s for the first time when two professional associations like the one of the art dealers, ACOAR, and the one of contemporary art galleries, AGACOR, work together to provide a capable and competitive art market. In addition, the fact that this first edition of the Art Safari Bucharest Art Fair hosts both museums and art galleries exhibitions is a testimony of mutual understanding and of an artistic system where the galleries discover and support the represented artists and museums devote. Art Safari is the first stept to normality” says Dr. Diana Dochia, Co-director Art Safari, Contemporary Art Section. The first edition of the Bucharest Art Fair was organised with the support of the Deutsche Bank Technology Center. Mihai Ionescu, Head of Deutsche Bank’s Representative Office in Romania says: “Deutsche Bank has always supported talent and art genius and we are pleased to support such an initiative in Romania. The art stage can better develop when there is a frame for building a stronger connection among the artist-gallery-collector, cultural institution and the art market, and this is precisely what Art Safari will achieve.” Art Safari’s Programme between the 22nd and the 25th of May (from 12 p.m. – 8 p.m., exception on 23rd when the Pavilion is closing at 2 a.m. and on the 25th when it is closing at 6 p.m.) is loaded with events, from book and album launches by Cosmin Năsui, Pavel Șușară, Ioana Ciocan or Susan Sontag to interactive debates about the art market with specialists from Romania, Holland, Turkey, Poland, Austria and Hungary. Among the Art in Dialog speakers are: Angela Baillou (Christie’s Viena – Austria), Vita Zaman (ViennaFair – Austria), Fons Hof (Art Rotterdam Fair Director – Holland), Rieder Gabor (FlashArt – Hungary), Ioan Sbârciu (UAD Cluj-Napoca President– The University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca – Romania), Lars Ebert (ELIA Board Secretary – The European League of Institutes of Art), Ani Molnar (Ani Molnar Gallery – Hungary), Andrei Jecza (Jecza Gallery – Romania), Cristian Robert Velescu (National University of Art Bucharest – Romania), Adrian Notz (Cabaret Voltaire – Switzerland), Doina Lemny (Centre Pompidou Atelier Brâncuşi – France) and many others. Also, the general public will enjoy performences of well-known artist, screenings and Q&A with Teodor Graur, Călin Dan and Ion Grigorescu, DJ Electric Brother concert on the Galleries’ White Night (when the Pavilion is opened until 2 a.m.) and many other surprises, as for example the lauch of the Lavacow Online Auction House. Tickets can be bought from www.myticket.ro and Diverta network, Muzica Shop, Eminescu Library, Sala Palatului agencies, Artmark (str. C.A. Rosetti nr. 5), Bucharest theater tickets stands and post offices from Bucharest and Ilfov county, and also between the 21st and 25th of May 2014 from the ART SAFARI Bucharest Art Fair reception (George Enescu Square). Art Safari Bucharest Art Fair is organised by ACOAR (The Association of Artworks Merchants from Romania), under the patronage of the Municipality of Bucharest, in cultural partnership with AMPT (Monuments and Heritage Tourism Administration Bucharest), involving AGACOR (The Association of Contemporary Art Galleries of Romania), Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) and with the support of Deutsche Bank. About Art Safari Art Safari is the first professional and public art pavilion in Romania, designed for both heritage and contemporary art, which will bring together more than 100 galleries and art dealers, museums and cultural institutions, both from Romania and abroad. It will exhibit from high quality artworks, paintings and sculptures, to design and collectibles, that will prove refinement and excellent knowledge of the curatorial approach. Art Safari Bucharest aims to build a strong connection between heritage and contemporary art, artist-gallery-collector, cultural institutions and the art market, so as to bring the entire cultural system closer to the public. Art Safari Bucharest represents the passion to jointly build a local artistic system at European standards by involving all art market players.