Andrei Nițu

Andrei Nițu (b. 2000, Bucharest, Romania) is a painter living and working between Amsterdam and Bucharest. He completed his studies at the National Art High School “Nicolae Tonitza” in Bucharest and graduated in 2023 from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague.

Nițu’s practice focuses on painting as a site for examining identity construction, emotional projection, and the role of external influences in shaping subjectivity. His works frequently address how images function as mediators between personal experience and broader social, psychological, and ideological frameworks. Painting is treated as an active and performative medium, rather than a purely representational one.

EDUCATION

2023: Royal Academy of Arts KABK, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2019: Royal Academy of Arts KABK, Den Haag, The NetherlandsNational Art High School “Nicolae Tonitza”, Bucharest, Romania

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026: Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest (forthcoming)
2024: Garden of Lies, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2023: Your Honesty, Atelier 35, Bucharest

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025: Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People, Catinca Tabacaru
Gallery, Bucharest
Reality Check, Museum of Realist Art, The Netherlands
Cars Before Horses, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
Aquarius Pavilion, Pharmakon, Bucharest
2024: Fabricated Love, Enari Gallery, Amsterdam
The Meeting a Blade and an Orange, CONECTOR, Cluj, Romania
2023: Best of Graduates, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Young Talents, SBK Kunstuitleen & Galerie, Amsterdam
By and By, Stiter von Doesburg, Amsterdam
Young Blood 2.0, Art Safari, Bucharest; Curator: Mihai Zgondoiu
2022: eyelid noon, IOMO Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Three Birds No Stone, LaakClub, Den Haag, The Netherlands
To Give a Dog a Name, Billytown, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Good Days Forever, The Grey Space in the Middle, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2021: 2121 Time Capsule, Goodbuy Gallery, Bucharest
Lean and Mean, Loods 6, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020: Where to? Young Artists About Migration, Nationbal Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest

PUBLICATIONS

2024: “Four Most Promising Artists of the Moment,” Harper’s Bazaar, The Netherlands
2023: First Words, self-published book