Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977) is a Romanian contemporary artist known for his raw, textured, and psychologically intense paintings that merge history, memory, and abstraction. His work, characterized by bold impasto, fragmented figures, and dreamlike distortions, explores themes of power, trauma, and the passage of time. Ghenie is widely regarded as one of the most important figurative painters of the 21st century, drawing comparisons to Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, and Lucian Freud.
