About
Renata Neculoiu is a contemporary artist blending the line between abstraction and figuration whose work primarily explores intimacy, memory and relationships. She is currently based in Bremen, Germany.
Her work is an exploration of society’s fractures and contradictions, painted not as literal scenes but as atmospheres where colour and form carry the weight of our times. She uses oil paint layered over and over, sometimes burying images, sometimes scraping them back into view. Sand, thrown pigment and intuitive gestures break the surface, interrupting the illusion of permanence and reminding us that history, memory and identity are all built on unstable ground.
She approaches the canvas both instinctively and deliberately with wild marks. The process. becomes a cycle of destruction and renewal- throwing paint, erasing, carving back through layers. In this tension, figures often begin to surface, emerging uninvited from the chaos as a witness to our collective struggles.
A clash of hues may conflict, while a softened edge hints at reconciliation or forgetting. The abstraction is not a retreat from reality but a way of engaging it more directly, through emotions, contradictions and the residue of lived experience rather than straightforward narrative.
Her paintings are not answers but spaces to confront what is uncomfortable: inequity, disconnection, environmental fragility, resilience and hope. The layered surfaces hold the same complexity as the world we move through-messy, unstable, yet filled with the possibility of transformation.
