About
Renata Neculoiu is a contemporary artist whose practice moves between abstraction and figuration, exploring intimacy, memory, and the shifting relationship between past and present. Based in Bremen, Germany, her work reflects an ongoing inquiry into how childhood experiences shape our inner worlds and continue to resonate through time.
Her paintings do not depict memory as fixed narrative, but as atmosphere—spaces where colour, texture, and gesture carry emotional weight. Working primarily in oil, she builds surfaces through repeated layering, burying and revealing images, scraping back through paint to uncover what lies beneath. Thrown pigment and intuitive marks disrupt the illusion of permanence, echoing the instability of memory, identity, and history itself.
Conflicting hues may collide, while softened edges suggest reconciliation, erosion, or forgetting. Abstraction in her work is not an escape from reality, but a way of engaging it more honestly—through emotion, contradiction, and the residue of lived experience rather than literal representation.
Her paintings offer no definitive answers. Instead, they create spaces to confront discomfort: inequity, disconnection, environmental fragility, and the fragile persistence of hope. Layered surfaces hold fragments of the past—memories from her own childhood woven together with the memories she seeks to create for her children, imagining painting itself as a space of safety and growth.