Adelina Ivan (b. Bucharest, Romania) is a visual artist who works with light and memory through textiles, photography, installation and video.

Her personal discourse explores the overlap of time, space and memory, their winding and intimate interactions. Just like the fabrics used in her works, time space and memory fold and unfold into sleek silky surfaces and solid depths. 

Scanning between fictional stories, personal memories and historical fact, Adelina Ivan weaves disparate narratives into a complex relationship. Her practice examines the reflection of light on different textures, structures and geometries in an artistic strife to disclose the making and unmaking of matter, the flow and immobility of time and the deconstructing potentiality of matter. A self-reflexive architectural language is used in a neutral series of mixed techniques that involve textiles, printing and reproduction techniques, scanned images, and rehearsal deviant geometries. Images of the unconscious are intuitively discovered behind the purely abstract lines, grids, hidden content, patterns and archetypes.

Education
1992 - 1996 National University of Arts, Bucharest, Design department
1996 - 1998 MA in Design at National University of Arts, Bucharest

Solo shows
2018
To restore or how the stable structures need frail gestures - Anca Poterasu Gallery Bucharest
2017
The color of geometry – PrivateOffSpace Frankfurt
2016
Time Delusion - Kube Musette Bucharest
Atena adjusting her sandal – ODD Bucharest

Group shows
2017
Black and White Biennial - Satu Mare Art Museum
Portals – Anca Poterasu Gallery Bucharest
2016
Frugalitas Severitas Fidelis - Tranzit Bucharest
Are we human - Istanbul Design Biennial
ReRe. Overriding Design with Art and Vice-Versa - Vienna Design Week
2015
The light and the reflexion on the surfaces - Orizont Gallery Bucharest