Sergiu Ciochina

Sergiu Ciochina (b. 2001) is a contemporary figurative painter based in Paris whose artistic practice explores the complexity of the human condition through an intense and introspective visual language. Grounded in reflective figuration, Ciochina develops a painterly approach in which the body, light, and gesture become key elements in revealing inner tensions, vulnerability, and expressive silence.

His artistic training began in Moldova, where he was born and studied painting at the College of Fine Arts in Chisinau, graduating in 2021. His early artistic trajectory in Moldova began with his diploma works—an extensive series of five paintings—and was marked by the presentation of the triptych Chasing Your Own Tail at the National “Brancusi” Center, as well as the exhibition of a provocative painting, Lovers #2. Establishing his studio in Paris represented a defining stage in his development: the city, with its diffused light and dense cultural atmosphere, encouraged a profound refinement of his painterly gesture and an expansion of his visual intentions in blue tonalities—the Blue Soul series.

In May 2025, the debut exhibition Blue Soul took place in Paris, accompanied by the launch of his first catalogue, which reflects Sergiu’s aesthetic practice situated at the intersection of a reimagined classical figuration and contemporary sensibility. The reduction of form, the rhythm of color, and the texture of painterly matter become the means through which he constructs a visually charged universe. This approach is evident in his treatment of figures: they do not merely occupy the compositional space, but inhabit it, exploring memory, emotion, and reflection in ways that transcend traditional narratives of portraiture and scene.

Currently, the artist’s body of work includes over 40 paintings and 90 drawings, as well as two catalogues published in France: Blue Soul (2024) and The Landscape (2025). A significant number of paintings, in both small and large formats, are held in private collections worldwide.

This body of work, together with his extensive landscape series, reflects Sergiu Ciochina’s sustained engagement with figuration and the material processes of painting. Each work is developed through layered applications of paint, measured revisions, and deliberate reductions, resulting in compositions of strong visual presence and emotional clarity. His practice continues to evolve through an ongoing exploration of gesture, light, and the psychological space of the figure.