A D E L I N A I V A N
 
b i o g r a p h y
c o n t a c t
n e w s
  
w o r k s
landscape grids
textile layers
the real line
întinse.destinse
lines weavings fringes
white rows
a line that weaves and winds
white fold
deconstructed squares
self portrait
cuts
left square right square
geometric structures
journal of grids and signs
black on white
black squares
frames
frugalitas, severitas, fidelis
atena adjusting her sandal
circling
hello vera
alter object
to restore
time delusion
albedo
 
l i n k s
p u b l i c a t i o n s

 

 

Adelina Ivan works in a variety of media, from textile installations and painting to video, in search of new forms of more fluid relationship between domestic and public space, urban and natural or social space. Her artistic approach has geometry as a symbolic space of resistance against structures of power and dominant environments in relation to personal history and social abstraction. She uses geometric motifs, historically employed by women in techniques such as sewing, braiding, and weaving, as well as patterns from the textile industry. Through reduction and layering, Ivan translates these forms into a painterly visual vocabulary. Textile fragments are not simply integrated but participate in the pictorial process itself, the image and textile merge until distinctions between painting and material dissolve. Ivan ́s artistic approach deliberately interrogates and destabilizes the canonical hierarchy between 'high arts' and the historically marginalized 'decorative arts'. In her practice, textiles – ubiquitous objects in intimate proximity to bodies and domestic spaces – function as carriers of both personal and collective narratives. Their tactility and everyday presence permeate them with a communicative capacity that Ivan mobilizes to articulate lived experience and embodied memory.

She studied at the University of Arts in Bucharest and exhibited at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki (2025), Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven (2024), Plastic Contemporary Cluj (2024), EWERK Luckenwalde Berlin (2022), Contextile Biennial, Portugal (2022), /SAC (2022), Cabinet44 Bucharest (2022), MARe Museum of Recent Art Bucharest (2021), Sandwich Bucharest (2021), Cazul101 (2021), Litost Gallery Prague (2020), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature Paris (2019), Spinnerei Leipzig (2019), Kunsthalle Bega (2019), Tokio Art Screening Festival (2019), MNAR Bucharest (2019), MNAC Bucharest (2018), Media Art Festival Arad (2018), Artissima Torino (2018), Anca Poterașu Gallery Bucharest (2018), tranzit .ro / bucurești (2017), Jean-Claude Mayer Gallery Frankfurt (2017), Black and White Biennial Satu Mare Museum of Art (2017), ODD Bucharest (2016), Design Biennale Istanbul (2016). 

Salzburg Residency (2018) / ERSTE Foundation Grant – Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria, Grundarfjörður Residency (2021) / SEE Grant – Grundarfjörður Iceland, Contextile Residency (2022) / Creative Europe Platform “Magic Carpets” EU Grant, Guimarães Portugal.