Nicol Vacaru

Nicol Vacaru is a contemporary artist working primarily with ink on paper, exploring figurative abstraction through expressive line, movement, and negative space. Her work focuses on human presence, identity, connection, and the inner states that often remain unspoken.

Through fluid yet deliberate brushstrokes, human profiles and figures emerge, overlap, dissolve, or become enclosed within larger forms. Working in black ink as well as warm sepia and ochre tones, Vacaru balances density with openness, allowing untouched areas of paper to become an active part of each composition.

Trained in architecture, she approaches the image with a strong sensitivity to structure, rhythm, proportion, and space. Her practice moves between control and spontaneity, transforming minimal gestures into emotionally resonant works that invite reflection rather than prescribe a single interpretation.

Her drawings explore what exists between the visible and the internal — the subtle connections, memories, tensions, and transformations that shape human experience.

Technical University of Moldova, Faculty of Urbanism and Architecture
Architecture Degree, 2006–2013

Art School, Orhei, Moldova
Fine Arts Studies, 2000–2003

Chisinau, Moldova — “Funart” Exhibition — 2013

Nantes, France — Radisson Blu Exhibition — 2015

Ancenis & Messac, France — Group Exhibitions — 2015

Chisinau, Moldova — Personal Exhibition — 2015

Barcelona, Spain — Cotxeres de Sants Exhibition — 2015

Chisinau, Moldova — Personal Exhibition, Teatrul Alexei Mateevici — 2022