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
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