ADRIAN DICĂ

Visual Artist

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Industrial Landscapes — Field R, 150×150 cm. Layered tonal surface with traces of raw structure and open sky, Adrian Dică.

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Adrian Dică × Nusco City

Bucharest, 2026

An exploration of contemporary painting within residential architecture, presenting original works by Adrian Dică in the Nusco City model apartments, with the project expanding to include two penthouse residences.

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Adrian Dică, SEEDS painting installation in the courtyard of Cantacuzino Palace, George Enescu National Museum, Bucharest, 2026

RECENT PROJECT

SEEDS

Painting Installation · 2026

22 August — 8 September 2026

George Enescu National Museum

Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest

Twelve works from the ongoing SEEDS series leave the wall and are dispersed at ground level, in an installation that changes the relationship between painting, space and viewer.

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Painting is my response to oblivion.

My artistic practice explores the traces that human existence inscribes into matter, memory, and time. Painting becomes the medium through which I investigate how these traces are preserved, transformed, and revealed.

Metaphor is a central principle of thought within my practice. Painting functions for me as a form of thinking, while the series becomes a method of carrying the same investigation from one work to the next.

I work with oil, acrylic, industrial paints, stains, and pigments, using both conventional and experimental processes. The work develops between construction and deconstruction, where deliberate decisions coexist with controlled accident.

Selected Works

Bodies of Work

Long-term painting series exploring memory, landscape and the material traces of contemporary life.

Detail of a small-format Seeds painting by Adrian Dică, thick swirling yellow and green impasto with dark accents

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Seeds

Small-format paintings, 15×15 cm, oil and acrylic on canvas — the testing ground for texture, color and an abstract expressive language.

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Intermezzo — Landscape XXV, mixed media on canvas, 150×150 cm. Pale blue sky over a luminous, layered plain — diffuse pastel palette with subtle industrial traces, Adrian Dică.

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Intermezzo

Paintings in mixed media on canvas, 150×150 cm — a transitional series between a distilled, controlled stage and an emerging visceral direction. 2022–present.

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Industrial Landscapes — Armaghedon, mixed media on canvas, 150×150 cm. Dense layered surface in dark earth tones and grey, post-industrial ruin, Adrian Dică.

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Industrial Landscapes

Paintings in mixed media on canvas exploring post-industrial landscapes — forms left behind in deindustrialized zones at the city's geographic and cultural center. Variable dimensions, 2017–2021.

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Preapocaliptic 2 — Adrian Dică, mixed media on canvas, 150×150 cm, 2016. Blue watercolour wash over white ground with industrial crane structures in rust and ochre.

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Preapocaliptic

Five large-format paintings (150×150 cm) — the body of work developed for the MA thesis at the National University of Arts Bucharest, 2016. Mixed media on canvas: oil, acrylic and stain.

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Wasted — Room 4, oil on canvas, 111×180 cm. Dark corridor receding toward a single arch of light, chiaroscuro composition, Adrian Dică.

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Wasted

Seven oil on canvas paintings exploring abandoned interiors — corridors, rooms and disused industrial spaces. Variable dimensions, 2014–2016.

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Garbage II — Adrian Dică, mixed media on canvas, 93×150 cm, 2014. Three dumpsters with yellow and blue lids in a dark urban alley, from the Garbage series.

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Garbage

Nine paintings developed for the Bachelor thesis at the Faculty of Painting, National University of Arts Bucharest, 2014. Mixed media on canvas. Awarded the Faculty of Painting Excellence Award, 2014.

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Selected Exhibitions

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Royal Academy of ArtsLondon, UK

Art on a Postcard – 10th Anniversary Auction

Gathering LondonLondon, UK

London Art Biennale

Chelsea Old Town HallLondon, UK

Studio Notes

Adrian Dică’s SEEDS installation in the courtyard of Cantacuzino Palace, with paintings placed at ground level and a green spade, Bucharest, 2026

Essays8 September 2026

I Need a Spade

A text about SEEDS, about painting leaving the wall and being brought down to ground level, and about the question that has accompanied the series for ten years: what changes when we alter the place from which we look at painting?

Head cast in translucent resin with a wire crown of thorns, in progress in the studio — Metha-Lan, Adrian Dică, 2014

EssaysAugust 7, 2026

Tick the Box That Says You're Not a Robot

Trust is shifting from the text to the authority that guarantees it — in art as in AI. Adrian Dică argues that the authority of an artwork rests on lived testimony about the creative act, and names the institutional risk "authority laundering".

Plastica mică — Adrian Dică, small-format work on canvas in pale pink, yellow and light blue, a diffuse pink figure over a warm field

EssaysAugust 3, 2026

Bohemia Never Dies, It Just Self-Preserves

Bohemia does not disappear: it self-preserves by strategically retreating from the market into slow time, the unfinished work and the uncalculated gesture. Adrian Dică traces the mechanism from the cave to the algorithm, via Bourdieu and Warhol.

Inquiries & Representation

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