BOOK LAUNCH “Touch Nature at /SAC Bucharest”
Book Launch | April 16, 2026, at 6:00 p.m.
Venue | Cărturești Modul, Academiei 18-20 Street, Bucharest, Romania
Event Language | English
Guest Speakers | Victor Bartiș (book design), Justin Baroncea & Maria Ghement (exhibition design), Sabine Fellner & Alex Radu (exhibition co-curators) and Judith Wagner (artist in the exhibition)
Book Specifications | Paperback, 244 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm, English language
Texts | Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement, the artists from the 2024 exhibition "Touch Nature" at /SAC Bucharest
Coordinating editor | Alex Radu
Book design & image curator | Victor Bartiș
Translation & editing | Cristina Ginara, Anne Marie Lolea, Lidia Dobrea, Andreea Chircă
Exhibition and editorial project managers | Anne Marie Lolea, Andreea Chircă, Lidia Dobrea
Photographs by | Adi Bulboacă, Ana Maria Micu, Elena Maxemciuc, Horia Manolache, Lavinia Cioacă, New Folder Studio
ISBN | 978-606-980-276-2
Publishers | /SAC & Editura Vellant, 2026
Supported by | Romanian Order of Architects (OAR) through its architecture grant, Vellant Publishing, Austrian Cultural Forum (for the exhibition, book, and launch)
Pre-order link | https://www.vellant.ro/carte/touch-nature-sac-bucharest-4819691020
Concept | "The Touch Nature books are created after the exhibition with the same name. Bringing together Romanian and Austrian artists alongside their perspectives of the ecosystem, of the world around us and inevitable the one inside us affected. It felt very much like the artist version of a scientific literature, a natural history book from the 1850s, when people were freshly discovering their surroundings. For a while those books didn’t have to be updated, but now they do.
I felt like you holding in your hands an object like this would be an accurate feeling to be immersed in, and would be the right world that could hold numerous points of view, different but on the same subject.
There were two exhibition spaces at the same time, with two different takes - an apartment from the Anthropocene and bigger space, a forest growth filled with plants and artworks blending into one environment. And just like these, as they were different spaces under the same curatorial concept, so are the books, created as individual but housed into a box cover. The third book holds all the texts, floor plans, artist presentations and additional details that further describe the world created." (Victor Bartiș)
"Touch Nature @ /SAC Bucharest" Exhibition details (2024, /SAC Berthelot and Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania)
Curators | Sabine Fellner & Alex Radu
Artists | Uli Aigner, Matei Bejenaru, Floriama Candea, Codruța Cernea, Adriana Chiruta, Ciprian Ciuclea, Larisa Crunțeanu, Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, Michael Endlicher, Thomas Feuerstein, Peter Hauenschild, Barbara Anna Husar, Nona Inescu, Kitty Kino, Aurora Kiraly, Alexandra Kontriner, Ana Maria Micu, Nicoleta Mureș, Klaus Pichler, Monika Pichler, PRINZpod, Oliver Ressler, Gregor Sailer, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Hans Schabus, Ramona Schnekenburger, Marielis Seyler, Paul Spendier, Oana Stanciu, Mircea Suciu, Dan Vezentan, Judith Wagner, Nives Widauer, Laurent Ziegler.
Exhibition design | Justin Baroncea & Maria Ghement
Exhibition graphic design | Irina Radu, Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement
Set-design production | Atelier SET
/SAC team | Andreea Chircă, Iulian Cristea, Lidia Dobrea, Anne Marie Lolea, Elena Maxemciuc
Exhibition Supported by | Austrian Cultural Forum, Ministry of European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria
https://www.sac-malmaison.com/touch-nature
Book Launch | April 16, 2026, at 6:00 p.m.
Venue | Cărturești Modul, Academiei 18-20 Street, Bucharest, Romania
Event Language | English
Guest Speakers | Victor Bartiș (book design), Justin Baroncea & Maria Ghement (exhibition design), Sabine Fellner & Alex Radu (exhibition co-curators) and Judith Wagner (artist in the exhibition)
Book Specifications | Paperback, 244 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm, English language
Texts | Sabine Fellner, Alex Radu, Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement, the artists from the 2024 exhibition "Touch Nature" at /SAC Bucharest
Coordinating editor | Alex Radu
Book design & image curator | Victor Bartiș
Translation & editing | Cristina Ginara, Anne Marie Lolea, Lidia Dobrea, Andreea Chircă
Exhibition and editorial project managers | Anne Marie Lolea, Andreea Chircă, Lidia Dobrea
Photographs by | Adi Bulboacă, Ana Maria Micu, Elena Maxemciuc, Horia Manolache, Lavinia Cioacă, New Folder Studio
ISBN | 978-606-980-276-2
Publishers | /SAC & Editura Vellant, 2026
Supported by | Romanian Order of Architects (OAR) through its architecture grant, Vellant Publishing, Austrian Cultural Forum (for the exhibition, book, and launch)
Pre-order link | https://www.vellant.ro/carte/touch-nature-sac-bucharest-4819691020
Concept | "The Touch Nature books are created after the exhibition with the same name. Bringing together Romanian and Austrian artists alongside their perspectives of the ecosystem, of the world around us and inevitable the one inside us affected. It felt very much like the artist version of a scientific literature, a natural history book from the 1850s, when people were freshly discovering their surroundings. For a while those books didn’t have to be updated, but now they do.
I felt like you holding in your hands an object like this would be an accurate feeling to be immersed in, and would be the right world that could hold numerous points of view, different but on the same subject.
There were two exhibition spaces at the same time, with two different takes - an apartment from the Anthropocene and bigger space, a forest growth filled with plants and artworks blending into one environment. And just like these, as they were different spaces under the same curatorial concept, so are the books, created as individual but housed into a box cover. The third book holds all the texts, floor plans, artist presentations and additional details that further describe the world created." (Victor Bartiș)
"Touch Nature @ /SAC Bucharest" Exhibition details (2024, /SAC Berthelot and Malmaison, Bucharest, Romania)
Curators | Sabine Fellner & Alex Radu
Artists | Uli Aigner, Matei Bejenaru, Floriama Candea, Codruța Cernea, Adriana Chiruta, Ciprian Ciuclea, Larisa Crunțeanu, Anna Dumitriu & Alex May, Michael Endlicher, Thomas Feuerstein, Peter Hauenschild, Barbara Anna Husar, Nona Inescu, Kitty Kino, Aurora Kiraly, Alexandra Kontriner, Ana Maria Micu, Nicoleta Mureș, Klaus Pichler, Monika Pichler, PRINZpod, Oliver Ressler, Gregor Sailer, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Hans Schabus, Ramona Schnekenburger, Marielis Seyler, Paul Spendier, Oana Stanciu, Mircea Suciu, Dan Vezentan, Judith Wagner, Nives Widauer, Laurent Ziegler.
Exhibition design | Justin Baroncea & Maria Ghement
Exhibition graphic design | Irina Radu, Justin Baroncea, Maria Ghement
Set-design production | Atelier SET
/SAC team | Andreea Chircă, Iulian Cristea, Lidia Dobrea, Anne Marie Lolea, Elena Maxemciuc
Exhibition Supported by | Austrian Cultural Forum, Ministry of European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria
https://www.sac-malmaison.com/touch-nature