Adelina Ivan (b.1971 Bucharest, Romania) is a visual artist with a conceptual approach to textile art, recorded performance, video and installation with a growing interest in drawing. The basis of her artistic practice is a social and cultural critique of the conventions that have distorted an otherwise infinite realm of possibilities of enacting femininity. The fictional stories, personal memories and historical facts retrieve the social and political scrutiny over the female body and take on the role of preserving memory. Force and frailty are put into balance, exposure and protection, transiency and permanence, illustrating the idea of rhythm and repetitive movement discovered behind the purely abstract lines, grids, hidden content and patterns.

1992 - 1996 National University of Arts, Bucharest, Design department

1996 - 1998 MA in Design at National University of Arts, Bucharest

 Solo Shows

2019    The Infinite Convergence, Project Space - Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany

2018    To restore or how the stable structures need frail gestures, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest
2017    The color of geometry, Jean-Claude Maier, Frankfurt, Germany
2016    Time Delusion, Kube Musette, Bucharest, Romania
2016    Atena adjusting her sandal, ODD Bucharest, Romania

 Group exhibitions

2020    In the midst of the worst, the best of times, SUMO 2020 - Litost Gallery, Prague

2020    Atena Installation, Social Distancing Art Festival, Arrival Room - Saarbrucken

2020    Wounded Identity, Anca Poterasu Gallery

2020    A Room of One’s Own, NADA NY Gallery Open, CTG Harlem, NY

2020    Filmmaking, Jean-Claude Maier Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

2019    not everything means something, honey (vol.2) Anca Poterasu  /Eigen+Art Leipzig

2019    Cuts, CineBear, video exhibition at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France

2019    Art screening Festival, Musashino Palace, Tokio

2019    Lay me down across the lines, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, Romania
2019    In the Eye of the Storm, Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
2019    Points of Departure, Jean-Claude Maier Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

2019    50 Design UNArte / FADD – MNAR Bucharest, Romania
2018    At different angles, The National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
2018    De Rerum Natura, Media Art Festival Arad / Museum Complex Arad, Romania

2018    Milky Naylon, Artissima Torino
2017    Black and White Biennial, Satu Mare Museum of Art, Romania
2017    Portaluri, Anca Poterasu Gallery Bucharest, Romania
2017    Salzburg Residency / ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
2017    Frugalitas Severitas Fidelis / Video installation, tranzit.ro, Bucharest, Romania
2016    Are we human?, Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2016    ReRe. Overriding Design with Art and Vice-Versa / Installation, ICR Vienna, Austria
2015    Light on Light / window installation – Orizont Gallery Bucharest, Romania

2014    Separated Objects / Installation – Nicodim Gallery Bucharest, Romania

2012    In love with design / Installation – Orizont Gallery Bucharest