ANA LUCHIAN

b. 1986, Tulcea, Romania — lives and works between Brussels and Bucharest — member of the HDD group of artists

Luchian’s work shifts between reality and fantasy, the innocent and the provocative — in a raw, bawdy interplay between refined technique and unfiltered instinct.

Raised in a world of craftsmanship and ritual — both sacred and somber — Luchian’s visual language carries an instinctive understanding of life’s extremes. Her paintings move between realism, abstraction, and raw expressionism, confronting life and desire, death and transformation with visceral directness. Drawing is at the core of her practice. Her lines hold the residue of lived intimacy — bodies that have crossed hers, transformed into tension, gesture, and form.

Self-taught, her practice resists the institutional. Mentorship with painter Jean Sobieski sharpened her vision without polishing it flat. The rawness stayed. The voice remained singular.

Since  2024 Luchian lives and works between Brussels and Bucharest and she is a member of the HDD group of artists.

Group Exhibitions Romania

2026

• “A1”, 28 Gallery, Timișoara

• “MEMORIES OF FORM”, Honoring 150 years of Brâncuși, with the support of the City Hall, 13 Amzei Square Bucharest

• “FEELINGS. BODY. FLAWS”, The Union of Artists of Romania—Căminul Artei Gallery, Bucharest

2025

• “The Education Ball 2025– Auction”, Craiova

• “PIG 6”, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest

• “A1”, After 5 Gallery, Arad

• “Living with a Bag”, Be Good Gallery @ Goethe-Institut, Bucharest

• “Report from the Future”, HDD Group, Mogoșoaia Palace, Ground Floor Gallery

• “1<1”, 1 Year Anniversary of HDD Group, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest

2024

• “PIG 5”, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest

• “We CAT do it”, Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest

• “HDD Check-In”, Piața Kogălniceanu 7 Gallery, Bucharest

• “HDD First Gong”, Odeon Theatre, Bucharest

• “NEW WAVE”, Calea Victoriei Gallery, Ana Foundation for Culture and Art, Bucharest