Nean

Brussels, Belgium

Belgian artist Nean (from the French néant, meaning “nothingness”) began painting murals more than fifteen years ago. His artist name embodies a teenage defiance against institutions and the art world’s fixation on signatures over substance, emphasising that it is the art itself that holds meaning. Nean is also a founding member of Kingdom, a crew created with a longtime collaborator and friend. Nean explores creativity through both individual and collective expression. His work bridges cinema, nature, and urban culture, blending raw emotion with surreal beauty to transform public spaces into visual narratives. Starting with paper and evolving into graffiti, his style fuses cinematic storytelling with the organic rhythms of the natural world. Each mural is an invitation to pause, reflect, and step into a space where imagination and environment collide—leaving behind thought-provoking traces of art in the cityscape.