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== Adelina Ivan== | == Adelina Ivan== | ||
[[File:ArtistPortrait-IvanAdelina.jpg|thumb|"Adelina Ivan - Artist Portrait", photography by | [[File:ArtistPortrait-IvanAdelina.jpg|thumb|"Adelina Ivan - Artist Portrait", photography by Răzvan Jelea / (c) Adelina Ivan 2018]] | ||
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==== Biography ==== | ==== Biography ==== | ||
'''Adelina Ivan''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], (b. 1971, Bucharest) of Romanian ethnical background, lives in [[Romania]]. She works at the crossroads of textile art and painting, using an abstract visual language with open and fluid geometries, where textile forms merge with the painted background, treating textile structures as both visual and metaphorical representations of contemporary complexity, where textile form is no longer a vehicle of representation but a tool of construction – one that privileges interconnection, repetition, and transformation over depiction. BA and MA in Art & Design within the National University of Arts Bucharest and a PhD in Visual Arts at the same University, with the thesis: Fluid Structures and Spaces of Resistance in Soft Sculpture. | '''Adelina Ivan''', (she/her) visual [[Artists|artist]], (b. 1971, Bucharest) of Romanian ethnical background, lives in [[Romania]]. She works at the crossroads of textile art and painting, using an abstract visual language with open and fluid geometries, where textile forms merge with the painted background, treating textile structures as both visual and metaphorical representations of contemporary complexity, where textile form is no longer a vehicle of representation but a tool of construction – one that privileges interconnection, repetition, and transformation over depiction. BA and MA in Art & Design within the National University of Arts Bucharest and a PhD in Visual Arts at the same University, with the thesis: Fluid Structures and Spaces of Resistance in Soft Sculpture. | ||
<br />[[File:ArtistPersonal_IvanAdelina.jpg|thumb|"Being Nadia - becoming an Olympic athlete, or the childhood of a girl in the 1980s", photography by | <br />[[File:ArtistPersonal_IvanAdelina.jpg|thumb|"Being Nadia - becoming an Olympic athlete, or the childhood of a girl in the 1980s", photography by Răzvan Jelea / (c) Adelina Ivan 2016]] | ||
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==== Artistic disciplines: ==== | ==== Artistic disciplines: ==== | ||
* [[Mixed-Media]] | * [[:Category:Mixed-Media_artists|Mixed-Media]] | ||
* [[Painting]] | * [[:Category:Painting_artists|Painting]] | ||
* [[Textile art]] | * [[:Category:Textile_art_artists|Textile art]] | ||
* [[Video art]] | * [[:Category:Video_art_artists|Video art]] | ||
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==== Works in collections and public recognition ==== | ==== Works in collections and public recognition ==== | ||
* exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries. | * exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries. | ||
* works in public institutions collections, art museums collections and private collections. | |||
A selection of works are included in the Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection. | A selection of works are included in the Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection]]. | ||
Works in private collections in Romania, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, UK. | Works in private collections in Romania, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, UK. | ||
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===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions ===== | ===== 1.Selected solo exhibitions ===== | ||
* 2025 - solo exhibition, Pale Geometries – Schugar Rotariu Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DK9eCnpIjbx/?__d=1%3F%2F</ref> | * 2025 - solo exhibition, Pale Geometries – Schugar Rotariu Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/DK9eCnpIjbx/?__d=1%3F%2F</ref> | ||
* 2024 - solo exhibition, Different items – Cabinet44, Bucharest, Romania | * 2024 - solo exhibition, Different items – [[Cabinet44]], Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Exercises of arranging and rearranging– ICR Venice, Italy | * 2022 - solo exhibition, Exercises of arranging and rearranging– ICR Venice, Italy | ||
* 2022 - solo exhibition, Stretched / Relaxed – Cabinet44, Bucharest, Romania | * 2022 - solo exhibition, Stretched / Relaxed – [[Cabinet44]], Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2020 - solo exhibition, A line that waves and winds – Grundarfjörður, Iceland | * 2020 - solo exhibition, A line that waves and winds – Grundarfjörður, Iceland | ||
* 2019 - solo exhibition, The Infinite Convergence, Project Space -‐ Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany | * 2019 - solo exhibition, The Infinite Convergence, Project Space -‐ Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany | ||
* 2018 - solo exhibition, To Restore, Anca | * 2018 - solo exhibition, To Restore, [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://www.facebook.com/events/anca-poterasu-gallery/adelina-ivan-solo-show/126833414729622/</ref> | ||
* 2017 - solo exhibition, The color of geometry, Jean-‐Claude Maier, Frankfurt, Germany | * 2017 - solo exhibition, The color of geometry, Jean-‐Claude Maier, Frankfurt, Germany | ||
* 2017 - solo exhibition, Frugalitas Severitas Fidelis / | * 2017 - solo exhibition, Frugalitas Severitas Fidelis / [[Tranzit.ro]], Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2016 - solo exhibition, Time Delusion, Kube Musette, Bucharest, Romania | * 2016 - solo exhibition, Time Delusion, Kube Musette, Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2016 - solo exhibition, Atena adjusting her sandal, ODD/Atelier35, Bucharest, Romania | * 2016 - solo exhibition, Atena adjusting her sandal, ODD/[[Atelier35]], Bucharest, Romania | ||
===== 2.Selected group exhibitions ===== | ===== 2.Selected group exhibitions ===== | ||
* 2025 - group exhibition, Listening to the Earth Beyond Silence, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland | * 2025 - group exhibition, Listening to the Earth Beyond Silence, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland<ref>https://ro.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2025-05-10/listening-to-the-earth-beyond-silence</ref> | ||
* 2025 - group exhibition, Skin Territories, Scânteia Project, Atelierele Scânteia, Bucharest | * 2025 - group exhibition, Skin Territories, Scânteia Project, [[Atelierele Scânteia]], Bucharest<ref>https://skinterritories.com/about/</ref> | ||
* 2024 - group exhibition, Soils – Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands | * 2024 - group exhibition, Soils – Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands | ||
* 2024 - group exhibition, In our immediate environment, Plastic Contemporary, Cluj, Romania | * 2024 - group exhibition, In our immediate environment, Plastic Contemporary, Cluj, Romania | ||
* 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 22 – Textile Layers, | * 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 22 – Textile Layers, Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art]] Collection, Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2022 - group exhibition, The Real Line, E-‐WERK Luckenwalde, Berlin, Germany | * 2022 - group exhibition, The Real Line, E-‐WERK Luckenwalde, Berlin, Germany<ref>https://www.kunststrom.com/the-real-line-en.html</ref> | ||
* 2022 - group exhibition, L'année dernière à Malmaison, SAC/Bucharest, Romania | * 2022 - group exhibition, L'année dernière à Malmaison, SAC/Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2021 - group exhibition, Salon Video, Sandwich, Bucharest, Romania | * 2021 - group exhibition, Salon Video, [[Sandwich Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2021 - group exhibition, Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain, tranzit.ro, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://ro.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-10-18/exhibition-adelina-ivan</ref> | * 2021 - group exhibition, Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain, tranzit.ro, Bucharest, Romania<ref>https://ro.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-10-18/exhibition-adelina-ivan</ref> | ||
* 2021 - group exhibition, Arts Sports Club, MARE Museum, Bucharest, Romania | * 2021 - group exhibition, Arts Sports Club, MARE Museum, Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2020 - group exhibition, Seeing History – 1947-‐2007, | * 2020 - group exhibition, Seeing History – 1947-‐2007, Romanian [[National Museum of Contemporary Art]] Collection, Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2020 - group exhibition, In the midst of the worst, the best of times, SUMO 2020, Litost Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic | * 2020 - group exhibition, In the midst of the worst, the best of times, SUMO 2020, Litost Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic | ||
* 2020 - group exhibition, Wounded Identity, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania | * 2020 - group exhibition, Wounded Identity, [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]], Bucharest, Romania | ||
* 2020 - group exhibition, A Room of One’s Own, NADA NY Gallery Open, CTG Harlem, NY | * 2020 - group exhibition, A Room of One’s Own, NADA NY Gallery Open, CTG Harlem, NY | ||
* 2019 - group exhibition, not everything means something, honey (vol.2), Anca Poterașu Gallery / Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany | * 2019 - group exhibition, not everything means something, honey (vol.2), [[Anca Poterașu Gallery]] / Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany | ||
===== 3. | ===== 3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs ===== | ||
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==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ==== | ==== Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects ==== | ||
* 2022 - Contextile Residency, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal | * 2022 - Contextile Residency, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal | ||
* 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Artak350 Grundarfjörður Residency / SEE Grant, Grundarfjörður, Iceland<ref>https://www.aracartandresidency.com/ro/adelina-ivan-artak350-residency/</ref> | * 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Artak350 Grundarfjörður Residency / SEE Grant, Grundarfjörður, Iceland<ref>https://www.aracartandresidency.com/ro/adelina-ivan-artak350-residency/</ref> | ||
* 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Salzburg Residency, ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria | * 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Salzburg Residency, ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria | ||
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==== Selected works ==== | ==== Selected works ==== | ||
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Art1-AdelinaIvan.jpg| | Art1-AdelinaIvan.jpg|Adelina Ivan, Aegis 3, 2025, acrylic, textile on canvas, 42x52 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025 | ||
Art2-AdelinaIvan.jpg|Adelina Ivan, Aegis 5, 2026, acrylic, textile on canvas, 42x52 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2026 | |||
Art3-AdelinaIvan.JPG|Adelina Ivan, Untitled_25, 2021-2025, acrylic, interfacing fabric, polyester and plaster wrap on canvas, 70 x 50 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025 | |||
Art4-AdelinaIvan.jpg|Adelina Ivan, Black light, 2025, dimensions variable, acrylic, plastic film, cotton wire - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025 | |||
Art5-AdelinaIvan.JPG|Adelina Ivan, Aegis, 2025, ribbons, cotton, polyester, metal bar, PVC, 70 x 140 cm - (c) Adelina Ivan 2025 | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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==== Exhibition views ==== | ==== Exhibition views ==== | ||
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Exb1-AdelinaIvan.jpg| | Exb1-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show, The Real Line, 2022, E-WERK Luckenwalde, Adelina Ivan - (c) Stefan Korte, 2022 | ||
Exb2-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show L'annee derniere a Malmaison, 2022, SAC, Atelierele Malmaison Bucharest, Adelina Ivan, photo by New Folder Studio - (c) SAC Bucharest 2022 | |||
Exb3-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show Different items, 2024, Cabinet44 Bucharest, Adelina Ivan - (c) Adelina Ivan, 2024 | |||
Exb4-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show Salt Pile, 2021, Grundarfjordur, Iceland, Adelina Ivan - (c) Adelina Ivan, 2021 | |||
Exb5-AdelinaIvan.jpg|View from show Pale Geometries, 2025, Schugar Rotariu Gallery Frankfurt, Adelina Ivan - (c) Günzel Rademacher, 2025 | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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==== Press ==== | ==== Press ==== | ||
* https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/YcdJqhEAACEA5H0p/under-ordinate | * Idea Magazine, essay<ref>https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/YcdJqhEAACEA5H0p/under-ordinate</ref> | ||
* https://revistaarta.ro/ro/virusarea-identitatii-in-era-corpului-docil-carantinat-fara-organe/ | * Arta Magazine, essay<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/ro/virusarea-identitatii-in-era-corpului-docil-carantinat-fara-organe/</ref> | ||
* https://curatorial.ro/arta/lucrarile-realizate-de-adelina-ivan-in-rezidenta-din-islanda-vor-fi-prezentate-publicului-din-bucuresti-saptamana-viitoare/ | * Curatorial Online Magazine, essay<ref>https://curatorial.ro/arta/lucrarile-realizate-de-adelina-ivan-in-rezidenta-din-islanda-vor-fi-prezentate-publicului-din-bucuresti-saptamana-viitoare/</ref> | ||
* Scena 9 Magazine, essay<ref>https://www.scena9.ro/article/the-real-line-un-proiect-cu-mai-multe-vieti</ref> | |||
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==== Social Media Links ==== | ==== Social Media Links ==== | ||
* Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/adelina__ivan/ https://www.instagram.com/adelina__ivan] | * Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/adelina__ivan/ https://www.instagram.com/adelina__ivan] | ||
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* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Trockel Rosemarie Trockel]''' | * '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Trockel Rosemarie Trockel]''' | ||
* '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tuttle Richard Tuttle]''' | * '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tuttle Richard Tuttle]''' | ||
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[[Category:Video art artists]] | [[Category:Video art artists]] | ||
[[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]] | [[Category:Eastern European and Balkan artists]] | ||
[[Category:Romania]] | |||
[[Category:Romanian artists]] | [[Category:Romanian artists]] | ||
[[Category:Women | [[Category:Women]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Women artists]] | ||
Latest revision as of 20:17, 4 April 2026
Adelina Ivan
Biography
Adelina Ivan, (she/her) visual artist, (b. 1971, Bucharest) of Romanian ethnical background, lives in Romania. She works at the crossroads of textile art and painting, using an abstract visual language with open and fluid geometries, where textile forms merge with the painted background, treating textile structures as both visual and metaphorical representations of contemporary complexity, where textile form is no longer a vehicle of representation but a tool of construction – one that privileges interconnection, repetition, and transformation over depiction. BA and MA in Art & Design within the National University of Arts Bucharest and a PhD in Visual Arts at the same University, with the thesis: Fluid Structures and Spaces of Resistance in Soft Sculpture.
Artistic disciplines:
Process
Based on experimenting and intuition, she follows a process of research and a series of observations including abstract incomplete or unfinished forms, associated with the capacity of textile to adapt and transform the object and space, as well as to absorb the painted surface as an adherent medium. Through reduction and layering, folding and repetition, the textile fragments – ubiquitous objects in intimate proximity to bodies and domestic spaces – function as carriers of both personal and collective narrative. She works with a wide variety of fabrics and textiles, investigating their ability to change: depending on its structure, textile material behaves differently and can be shaped in very different ways; light and shadow also become visible on the surface, determined by the permeability and fragility of the material. She incorporates pieces of textile into painting, using the painted surface as an adherent medium for textile. The superimposed layers give rise to new, unique shapes and textures, expanding the classical concept of painting or the materiality of sculpture.
Notable themes
Recurring themes in Adelina Ivan's practice include gender, identity, contemporary complexity and conventionalism, investigating the tension between the inherent qualities of geometry and the fluid nature of textiles, and how this tension can be used to challenge hierarchies, normativity and stability.
Works in collections and public recognition
- exhibited nationally and internationally, at biennales, museums, art galleries.
- works in public institutions collections, art museums collections and private collections.
A selection of works are included in the Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection.
Works in private collections in Romania, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, UK.
Selected exhibitions
1.Selected solo exhibitions
- 2025 - solo exhibition, Pale Geometries – Schugar Rotariu Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany[1]
- 2024 - solo exhibition, Different items – Cabinet44, Bucharest, Romania
- 2022 - solo exhibition, Exercises of arranging and rearranging– ICR Venice, Italy
- 2022 - solo exhibition, Stretched / Relaxed – Cabinet44, Bucharest, Romania
- 2020 - solo exhibition, A line that waves and winds – Grundarfjörður, Iceland
- 2019 - solo exhibition, The Infinite Convergence, Project Space -‐ Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany
- 2018 - solo exhibition, To Restore, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania[2]
- 2017 - solo exhibition, The color of geometry, Jean-‐Claude Maier, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2017 - solo exhibition, Frugalitas Severitas Fidelis / Tranzit.ro, Bucharest, Romania
- 2016 - solo exhibition, Time Delusion, Kube Musette, Bucharest, Romania
- 2016 - solo exhibition, Atena adjusting her sandal, ODD/Atelier35, Bucharest, Romania
2.Selected group exhibitions
- 2025 - group exhibition, Listening to the Earth Beyond Silence, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Finland[3]
- 2025 - group exhibition, Skin Territories, Scânteia Project, Atelierele Scânteia, Bucharest[4]
- 2024 - group exhibition, Soils – Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 2024 - group exhibition, In our immediate environment, Plastic Contemporary, Cluj, Romania
- 2023 - group exhibition, Puls 22 – Textile Layers, Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Bucharest, Romania
- 2022 - group exhibition, The Real Line, E-‐WERK Luckenwalde, Berlin, Germany[5]
- 2022 - group exhibition, L'année dernière à Malmaison, SAC/Bucharest, Romania
- 2021 - group exhibition, Salon Video, Sandwich Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 2021 - group exhibition, Crimes are abolished. Only passions remain, tranzit.ro, Bucharest, Romania[6]
- 2021 - group exhibition, Arts Sports Club, MARE Museum, Bucharest, Romania
- 2020 - group exhibition, Seeing History – 1947-‐2007, Romanian National Museum of Contemporary Art Collection, Bucharest, Romania
- 2020 - group exhibition, In the midst of the worst, the best of times, SUMO 2020, Litost Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
- 2020 - group exhibition, Wounded Identity, Anca Poterașu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
- 2020 - group exhibition, A Room of One’s Own, NADA NY Gallery Open, CTG Harlem, NY
- 2019 - group exhibition, not everything means something, honey (vol.2), Anca Poterașu Gallery / Eigen+Art, Leipzig, Germany
3.Art biennales, museum retrospectives, comprehensive retrospective exhibitions, art fairs
NA
Artistic Residencies, Art Researches, Collaborations, Art Projects
- 2022 - Contextile Residency, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal
- 2020 - Artistic Research Residency: Artak350 Grundarfjörður Residency / SEE Grant, Grundarfjörður, Iceland[7]
- 2018 - Artistic Research Residency: Salzburg Residency, ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
Selected works
Exhibition views
Publications
1.Published books
NA
2.Published articles in journals & magazines
NA
Curating activity (Artist as curator)
NA
Catalogues
NA
Press
- Idea Magazine, essay[8]
- Arta Magazine, essay[9]
- Curatorial Online Magazine, essay[10]
- Scena 9 Magazine, essay[11]
Gallery Representation
None.
For further commercial and non-commercial inquiries, feel free to contact NPK
Social Media Links
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adelina__ivan
Hashtags
(artistic practices, currents, techniques, themes - applicable hashtags for this artist)
abstract art, artist studio
conceptual art
dematerialization
geometric abstraction
identity critique, installation
neo-concrete art
painting, patriarchy, performative practices, poetry, [[processuality]
sculpture, site-specific installation, social criticism, structural feminism
textile art
video art
women
Compatible and inspirational artists:
(artist-mentioned reference list)
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/DK9eCnpIjbx/?__d=1%3F%2F
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/events/anca-poterasu-gallery/adelina-ivan-solo-show/126833414729622/
- ↑ https://ro.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2025-05-10/listening-to-the-earth-beyond-silence
- ↑ https://skinterritories.com/about/
- ↑ https://www.kunststrom.com/the-real-line-en.html
- ↑ https://ro.tranzit.org/en/exhibition/0/2021-10-18/exhibition-adelina-ivan
- ↑ https://www.aracartandresidency.com/ro/adelina-ivan-artak350-residency/
- ↑ https://www.idea.ro/revista/en/article/YcdJqhEAACEA5H0p/under-ordinate
- ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/ro/virusarea-identitatii-in-era-corpului-docil-carantinat-fara-organe/
- ↑ https://curatorial.ro/arta/lucrarile-realizate-de-adelina-ivan-in-rezidenta-din-islanda-vor-fi-prezentate-publicului-din-bucuresti-saptamana-viitoare/
- ↑ https://www.scena9.ro/article/the-real-line-un-proiect-cu-mai-multe-vieti