Biography

Daniel Gaciu – Visionary Artist of the Surreal and Abstract

Daniel Gaciu is an artist born in 1989 in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania, involved in many art directions like painting, drawing, street art, sculpture. In 2010 he went to study at the university “Design Academy Eindhoven” for three years, but he left the studies and returned to Bucharest where he is currently living since then. In 2014 he started to paint on canvas with acrylics and also started to draw with pencils and ink on paper.

He is a mixed media enthusiast, so he likes to create art from and on any type of material!
In 2024, Daniel Gaciu celebrated 10 years of painting and drawing. Through these years he approached many styles in his searchings, but the surreal, the abstract and the visionary would define the best his discoveries. His art is without limits, symbolic, mystical, full of elements, chaotic, dreamy, a reminder of the sacred veil of reality, metaphysical.

Daniel started to paint graffiti on the streets of Bucharest since teenage and he currently does murals and street art with an abstract touch.

He is passionate about graphic design since teenage and during his studies in Netherlands he created objects following his designs.

Within time, Daniel created in many workspaces in Bucharest that represented bricks in his evolution, and he currently owns an atelier in the center of the city. Here, people can come visit his little private gallery, and can admire his paintings and drawings.

Pe scurt: Daniel Gaciu este pictor, desenator, muralist și artist street art din București. A studiat la Design Academy Eindhoven (2010–2013), pictează în acrilic pe pânză din 2014 și a expus în muzee și spații de artă din România, printre care Muzeul de Istorie și Arheologie „Alexandru Ștefulescu” din Târgu Jiu și Cercul Militar Național din București.

Press & mentions

• Agerpres — Rezistența prin Cultură brings almost 50 artists into a virtual gallery (July 2026) Press release naming Daniel Gaciu among the artists of the Rezistența prin Cultură virtual gallery.
• ArtWire — Daniel Gaciu: Searching for Reality Through Color, Form, and Thought (June 2026) A feature on Gaciu’s painting practice, including the work “If your mind gives you many answers, that is a question…” (2018–2022).
• Casoteca — “Desenul este limba dintre sculptură și pictură” (June 2026) An in-depth interview with Daniel Gaciu about form, tradition, abstraction and art education.
• Rezistența prin Cultură — artist profile Selected works including “Teren cromatic”, “Omega”, “Plăsmuiri din neam” and “Cariera de la Aghireș”.
• WWF România, Gazeta, June 2023 Feature on the TRANS.FORT exhibition at the fortified church in Apold, presenting Gaciu’s work.
• Curatorial.ro — INTERVIU. Rapperul Chimie: Menirea unui artist este să fie om și responsabilitatea lui este să îmbunătățească (May 2022) Interview in which the rapper Chimie thanks Daniel Gaciu for teaching him how to look.
• Ziarul Financiar — Pe scena artistică a Bucureştiului a apărut recent Kulterra (November 2021) Article on the opening of the Kulterra art gallery in Bucharest, mentioning Gaciu’s 70-minute sound work “Pe unde dincolo și aici”.
• Arta Plastică, nos. 42–43 (2020) Listed among the artists of the group exhibition “Gesturing toward solitude”.
• Wallpaper* — The highlights: Dutch Design Week 2013 (October 2013) Features “Organic Cups”, vessels made of dried melon skins and beeswax, shown at Agri Meets Design.
• Architectenweb.nl — DDW 2013: constructies voor de toekomst (October 2013) Shows “Organic Ways”: melon skins coated with beeswax, at the Biobased Wunderkammer during Dutch Design Week.
• Agro & Chemie, issue 3 (October 2013) Coverage of bio-based design at Dutch Design Week, including Gaciu’s beeswax-coated melon skins.
• CRISP / Design Academy Eindhoven — Kindred Spirits (2013) Publication crediting Daniel Gaciu as a participating student in the Open Design Space research.

Contact

• Instagram

daniel.gaciu@gmail.com