Tell us about Nicodim.
Mihai Nicodim opened his first contemporary art gallery in 2006 in Los Angeles with a focus on exposing emerging American, African, Asian, and European artists to an international audience. Nicodim opened a Bucharest gallery in 2014 and expanded to an additional location in New York in 2021. The gallery was the first to show Adrian Ghenie (Romania), Ciprian Muresan (Romania), Serban Savu (Romania), Simphiwe Ndzube (South Africa), Katherina Olschbaur (Austria), and Moffat Takadiwa (Zimbabwe) in major solo exhibitions stateside, placing their works in important private and public collections, and helping their careers blossom into global prominence. Other notable artists who have shown with Nicodim early in their careers include Isabelle Albuquerque, Michiel Ceulers, Dominique Fung, Devin B. Johnson, Kris Lemsalu, Larry Madrigal, Oscar Murillo, Eddie Peake, Mosie Romney, Max Hooper Schneider, Jorge Peris, Anna Uddenberg, Ambera Wellmann, Hugo Wilson, and Zhou Yilun. The gallery maintains relationships with prominent institutions and has placed works by the gallery’s artists in the collections of Denver Art Museum, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Centre Pompidiou, Rubell Museum, SFMOMA, the Yuz Museum, Pond Society, the Marval Collection, amongst others.
What do you have upcoming?
Marta Mattioli: SEVEN of CUPS On view: October 10 - December 19, 2026 Opening hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12-6 p.m. Address: Băiculești 29, Bucharest Contact : 0721 109 487 Nicodim Gallery Bucharest is pleased to present Seven of Cups, the inaugural large-scale solo exhibition of emerging Italian-Romanian artist Marta Mattioli. The exhibition marks her debut with the gallery and coincides with a celebratory milestone - the 20-year anniversary of Nicodim Gallery’s founding in Los Angeles. For Mihai Nicodim, the founder and owner of the gallery, returning to frame Mattioli’s monumental debut in Bucharest, represents a deeply symbiotic homecoming, bridging the gallery's two decades of championing raw, transformative contemporary practices in Los Angeles, New York and Bucharest. Adding a layer of institutional continuity, the accompanying exhibition essay is penned by Romanian - American writer and curator Luana Hildebrandt, completed by the collaboration with the Romanian art director Marian Palie.
