ADRIAN DICĂ
Close-up of studio debris and painting materials — spray cans, packaging and scraps scattered across the floor of Adrian Dică's studio, shown in desaturated tones

About

Adrian
Dică

Contemporary Visual Artist

Adrian Dică is a Romanian contemporary visual artist whose practice investigates memory, industrial landscape, material traces and the paradoxical coexistence of beauty and decay.

Artist Statement

Adrian Dică's artistic practice moves between painting, installation and experimental approaches to image-making. His work explores memory, industrial ruins, material traces and the fragile persistence of images in time. Rather than treating landscape as a neutral subject, Dică approaches it as an affective and existential territory, shaped by disappearance, residue and transformation.

Working with oil, acrylic, water-based stains, industrial paint and pigments, he builds layered surfaces where contrasting elements coexist. Pastel colour meets ruin. Beauty is placed next to degradation. Intimacy is confronted with monumentality. The image becomes a space of tension, where matter and memory are continuously reconstructed.

His paintings often begin from the visible world, but they move toward something more unstable and internal. Industrial fragments, abandoned places, damaged surfaces and chromatic accidents become signs of a broader reflection on time, consciousness and the fragile ways in which human presence remains inscribed in the world.

Selected Highlights

  • AOAP, Gathering Gallery, London, 2024
  • London Art Biennale, 2023
  • 1st Prize, Painting Biennale Chisinau, 2021
  • National Museum of Art, Bucharest
  • National Museum of Art, Chisinau
  • Five Plus Gallery, Vienna
  • Jecza Gallery, Timișoara
  • Quadro Gallery, Cluj
  • Collections in Romania, UK, USA and EU

Biography

Born 1984,
Alexandria

Adrian Dică was born in 1984 in Alexandria, Romania. He lives and works in Bucharest.

He studied painting at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, where he completed both his BA and MA under the guidance of Professor Marcel Bunea. His formation as an artist developed around painting, material experimentation and the relationship between image, memory and cultural residue.

Over the years, his work has expanded from painting into installation, performative gestures and research-based visual projects. His practice remains anchored in the physicality of painting, but it constantly questions the image as a place where memory, matter and perception meet.

Dică has exhibited in Romania, the United Kingdom and across Europe. His works have been shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, London Art Biennale, National Museum of Art in Bucharest, National Museum of Art in Chisinau, Five Plus Gallery Vienna, Quadro Gallery Cluj and Jecza Gallery Timișoara.

His works are part of public and private collections in Romania, the United Kingdom, the United States and across the European Union.

Studio

Adrian Dică is also the founder of HYPPA, a branding and creative direction studio focused on visual identity, websites and strategic design.

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2026
    SEEDS — Painting InstallationGeorge Enescu National Museum — Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest
  • 2021
    Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
  • 2019
    Arthalle Gallery, Bucharest
  • 2017
    Ha-ha! La-la!Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest
  • 2014
    The Great GarbageHouse Night, Bucharest

Selected Group Exhibitions

Education

Collectors

Documented sales history: multiple completed private transactions, with documented values ranging from €2,000 to €7,000. The highest publicly documented sale was achieved at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London, at £6,000. Supporting private sales agreements are retained confidentially.

Get in Touch

For exhibitions, acquisitions,studio visits or collaborations,please contact:

adriandica@gmail.com
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