Alexandra Niculescu

Alexandra Niculescu (b. 1988, Bucharest) is a visual artist based in Bucharest. Her practice investigates the body as a site of memory, transformation, and inner truth.

Working primarily in large-scale gestural painting, she blends abstract expressionism with a post-Rococo sensibility to create a visual language of catharsis and healing. Her personal experience of motherhood, marked by thrombophilia, became the foundation for her artistic symbol, the “Unstoppable Body,” an expression of resilience and rebirth.

Drawing inspiration from art history, Rococo architecture, and the memory of her childhood on Bucharest’s Calea Victoriei, among the great palaces that later became museums, Alexandra transforms biography into a universal visual statement of feminine strength.


Artist Statement

My practice explores the dialogue between body, memory, trauma, and transformation. I draw from abstract expressionism, from gesture as a form of physical and emotional release, but reinterpret it through a contemporary feminine lens.

I work mainly on large-scale and monumental paintings, where gesture becomes a vital trace and a full bodily experience. Broad movements, dense layers of paint, and luminous transparencies build an emotional architecture of the body.

I draw inspiration from Rococo as movement, curves as echoes of the body, and from the memory of my childhood in Bucharest, on Calea Victoriei, among the great palaces that later became museums.

I create an art of truth, honest and authentic, born from the body, from fragility and from strength. Beauty arises where truth becomes visible.

For me, painting is not a static image, but a living process, an act of catharsis, healing, and release. My works propose an interior Rococo abstract expressionist language, where raw gesture and delicacy coexist, and the body becomes a space of continuous transformation.


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