IVANA DE VIVANCO
1989 Chilean-Peruvian artist born in Lisbon
Lives and works in Berlin
2024 – now Professorship, Art Academy of Leipzig (DE)
2021 – 2023 Teaching position, second year of painting, Art Academy of Leipzig (DE)
2013 – 2016 Meisterschülerin, Art Academy of Leipzig (DE)
2012 – 2013 Diploma in Painting, University of Chile, Santiago (CL)
2008 – 2011 BA Fine Arts, University of Chile, Santiago (CL)
Solo and double exhibitions
2024 On falling men and singing feathers, Solo with The RYDER Projects at Liste Art Basel (CH)
2023 La Yegua de Santiago, The RYDER Projects, Madrid (ES)
2023 Colita de Rana, with Cristina Camacho, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (COL)
2022 The Midas Syndrome, Solo at New Positions - Art Cologne, Cologne (DE)
2022 Temple of Inversion, 68 Projects, Berlin (DE)
2022 SPLITS AND SLIPS: The disobedient Banana, Breach, Miami (USA)
2021 Two pennies for myself and tea, SCAN Projects, London (GB)
2021 Blind Eye, Casa de Indias and The RYDER Projects, Cádiz (ES)
2021 How I Feel, with Yan Copelli, MamaLike, New York (US)
2021 The Partial Object House, Beadvisors and The RYDER Projects, curated by Rafael Barber Cortell, London (GB)
2021 Pink Maneuver, Josef Filipp Galerie, Spinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
2020 Analogies, with Jana Kurashvili, Plain Gallery, Milano (IT)
2020 Break a Leg!, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (DE)
2020 GOOD LOOK, Archiv Massiv, Spinnerei, Leipzig (DE)
2019 THE BIG NOSE: A Matter of Perspective or Perspective Matters, Weserhalle, Berlin (DE)
2018 D Minor Mint, with María Sainz Rueda, Galerie Potemka, Leipzig (DE)
2016 Kammgarnspinnerei: La hilandería de estambre, curated by Gonzalo Díaz Cuevas, Galería Departamento 21, Santiago (CL)
2016 The Last Judgment at School, Galerie HGB, Leipzig (DE)
2015 Recomposición, Galería Isabel Hurley, Málaga (ES)
2013 Autorretrato de una artista siendo devorada por un cuadro, Galería Juan Egenau, Santiago (CL)
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024 ONGOING: Naming Natures, curated by Tomás Bartoletti and Denise Bertschi, Natural History Museum
(MHNN), Neuchâtel (CH)
2024 DISSONANCE, curated by Christoph Tannert, National Museum of Art of Romania (MNAR) , Bucharest (ROU)
2024 Art Cologne with Anita Beckers (DE)
2024 DISSONANCE, curated by Christoph Tannert, Stadtgalerie Kiel (DE)
2024 ARCO Madrid with The RYDER Projects, Madrid (ES)
2024 CRISIS DE NOCHE: Ciclo de Cine y Video, Screening La Yegua de Santiago, Galería Crisis, Lima (PE)
2024 Material with Instituto de Visión, Ciudad de México (MX)
2023 Punctum, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin (DE)
2023 Immaculate Heart of Margaritaville, curated by Devendra Banhart, Nicodim, Los Angeles (US)
2023 OSTRALE Biennale O23, Dresden (DE)
2023 Poetry of the Evident, Galerie Droste, Düsseldorf (DE)
2023 Cherries on the Top, curated by Katja Andreae, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn (DE)
2023 ARCO Madrid with The RYDER Projects, Madrid (ES)
2023 ARCO Madrid with 68 Projects & Anita Beckers, Madrid (ES)
2022 Magical Realism Revisited, Bank Mab Society, Shanghai (CN)
2022 NanJing Art Fair International with Bank Mab Society, NanJing (CN)
2022 A rather be A-line, Persona Curada, París (FR)
2022 Artbo with Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (COL)
2022 DISSONANCE: PLATFORM GERMANY, curated by Mark Gisbourne and Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (DE)
2022 Chronicles 5, Galerie Droste, Berlin (DE)
2022 Frieze Seoul with Bank Mab Society, Seoul (KOR)
2022 Im Namen der Hose, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
2022 Felices para siempre, curated by Rafael Barber Cortell, with Teresa Lanceta, Ana Prvački and Shana Moulton,
The RYDER Projects, Madrid (ES)
2022 Art Busan with 68 Projects, Busan, Korea (KOR)
2022 Expo Chicago, with 68 Projects and Galerie Kornfeld, Chicago (USA)
2022 Desire, curated by Valeria Schäfer, Tube Culture Hall, Milano (IT)
2022 Human, curated by Henrik Godsk, Piermarq, Sydney (AUS)
2022 ARCO Madrid with The RYDER Projects, Madrid (ES)
2021 ART021 Shanghai, 68 Projects, Shanghai (CN)
2021 Universes 4, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Galerie Droste, Paris (FR)
2021 Hollywood Road, Aishonanzuka, Hong Kong (CN)
2021 Eve Presents #1, Eve Leibe Gallery, London (GB)
2021 Now Now, Breach, Miami (US)
2021 Paper Positions with 68 Projects, Berlin (DE)
2021 >1000 Worte, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt (DE)
2021 Qui resistit, vincit, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Vélez (CAC), Málaga (ES)
2021 Error Explanation, 68 projects, Berlin (DE)
2021 Trace Evidence, Badr El Jundi Gallery, Marbella (ES)
2021 Domesticity, curated by Sasha Bogojev, Volery Gallery, Dubai (UAE)
2020 FEED, curated by Rafael Barber Cortell, The RYDER Projects, Madrid (ES)
2020 SUPER!, Kunsthalle Darmstadt (DE)
2020 Twenties, Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt (DE)
2020 The Potsdam Selection, Palais am Stadthaus, with Weserhalle, Postdam (DE)
2020 Auction 6, Weserhalle, Berlin (DE)
2020 Orbit, Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt/M (DE)
2020 Still connected, Weserhalle, Berlin (DE)
2020 AVE magazine's release and exhibition, Kunstraum Super, Vienna (AT)
2020 The Museum of the Future, virtual exhibition curated by Sami Benhadj Djilali and Artetceteraetcetera
2019 The Female Gaze, Foundry / Artscape, Luxembourg (LU)
2018 Kampf der Gegensätze – Die Welt der Dualismen, Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden (DE)
2018 Certamen Unicaja de Artes Plásticas II, CUC (Centro Unicaja de Cultura), Almería (ES)
2018 Chilenische Grafik, Kunst am Elbufer, Dresden (DE)
2018 Nord Art 2018, Kunstwerk Carlshütte (DE)
2017 Certamen Unicaja de Artes Plásticas, Museo Joaquín Peinado, Ronda (ES)
2016 Schön hide - Beautiful verstecken II, Galerie Elten & Elten, Zürich (CH)
2016 error: x, Ostrale - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden (DE)
2016 OSTRALE_weht_ODER, Browar Mieszczański, Breslavia (PL)
2016 Schön hide - Beautiful verstecken I, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/M (DE)
2016 Klassentreffen, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig (DE)
2016 UNTER DRUCK: junge Grafik, Galerie Thaler, Leipzig (DE)
2015 MEP, curated by Holger Birkholz, Oktogon HfBK, Dresden (DE)
2015 Carmen Arozena II, Casa Salazar, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canarias (ES)
2015 Carmen Arozena I, Museo Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid (ES)
2015 Wunschlos Glücklich, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg (DE)
2015 A-Salto, Casa de la Provincia, Sala Romero Murube /Aula Latinoamericana de Pensamiento y Creación Contemporáneos,
Sevilla(ES)
2015 Premi de Pintura Internacional Guasch Coranty, Tecla Sala, Centre d’Art de L’Hospitalet, Barcelona (ES)
2015 2.5.0.- Object is Meditation and Poetry, curated by Olga Vostretsova and Alba D'Urbano, Grassimuseum, Leipzig (DE)
2015 In Search of Imaginary World, NUNC Contemporary, Antwerp (BE)
2014 Sub 30, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santiago (CL)
2013 Drawing Protest (in collaboration with Dan Perjovschi), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK),
Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (DE)
2013 Independence day, HGB, Leipzig (DE)
2013 Blood on Hermann’s beard, HGB, Leipzig (DE)
2013 PROTEST ZEICHNEN!, curated by Olga Vostretsova, HGB, Leipzig (DE)
2012 Ciclo de arte joven, Galería Trece, Santiago (CL)
2011 XXXIII Concurso nacional de arte joven, Galería El Farol, Valparaíso (CL)
2011 Espacios itinerantes, University of Chile, Santiago (CL)
2010 Proyecto N.N., Isidora Zegers Hall, Santiago (CL)
2009 Espacio Contenido, Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santiago (CL)
2009 Exposición Interuniversitaria 2009, Isidora Zegers Hall, Santiago (CL)
Awards, scholarships and residencies
2024 Honorable Mention, Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, NY
2023 Shortlisted, Kunstpreis des Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2022 The Fores Project, London
2021 Centro de Arte Casa de Indias, Cádiz
2020 Denkzeit Grant - Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2015 – 2016 Heinrich Böll Foundation's Grant
2015 Marion-Ermer-Prize
2013 – 2015 DAAD Grant
Works in collections
Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art Rizhao (CN)
Jorge Pérez Collection (El Espacio 23 / Pérez Art Museum Miami) (USA)
Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig (DE)
Fondazione Imago Mundi Treviso (IT)
MAP Marquez Art Projects Miami (USA)
Fundació Lluís Coromina Girona (ES)
Publications
Selection of books and catalogues about the artist:
2022 Mark Gisbourne , Christoph Tannert, "Dissonance Platform Germany“. DCV, 2022.
(ISBN: 9783969120606)
2021 Jörk Rothamel, ">1000 Worte", Catalogue. Frankfurt am Main: Kerber Verlag, 2021.
(ISBN: 9783735607812)
2020 Annekathrin Kohout, León Krempel. “SUPER!”, Catalogue. Kunsthalle Darmstadt, 2020.
(ISBN: 9783000648762)
2018 Ivana de Vivanco, Sarah Alberti. „Toi Toi Toi“, Catalogue. Leipzig: Club Koraal, 2018.
(ISBN: 9783000597787)
2017 Alba D’Urbano, Olga Vostretsova. “2.5.0.-Object is Meditation and Poetry”, Catalogue. Leipzig, 2017.
(ISBN: 9783947139002)
2016 Gonzalo Díaz, Ivana de Vivanco. “La Hilandería de Estambre”, Catalogue. Santiago: D21 Proyectos de Arte, 2016.
2016 Sarah Alberti, Annette Schröter. “Klassentreffen”, Catalogue. Leipzig: Kunsthalle der Sparkasse,2016.
(ISBN: 9783981584073)
2015 Holger Birkholz. “Ivana de Vivanco”. Dresden: Marion Ermer Stiftung, 2015. Download text by Holger Birkholz - Im
Zwischenraum der Beziehung: Dimensionen historischen Erzählens und innerer Befindlichkeit in der Malerei Ivana de
Vivancos / In the Eye of the Moment: Dimensions of Historical Telling and Subjective Being in the Painting of Ivana de Vivanco)
2014 Gregor Muir, Kurt Beers. “100 Painters of Tomorrow”. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014.
(ISBN: 9780500239230)
2014 Jorge Gonzáles Lohse, Ana Jorquiera Stagno, Victor Hugo Bravo, Aljandro Quiroga, Nadinne Canto, Vivtor Díaz Sarret, Carolina
Castro. “SUB30, Pintura Joven en Chile”, Santiago, Ediciones C, 2014.
(ISBN: 9789563536645)
2011 David Carrillo: XXXIII. Concurso Nacional de Arte Joven, Catalogue. Valparaíso: Universidad de Valparaíso, 2011.
2010 Viviana García, Mariela Gatica, Marjorie Marcelain, Carla Silva, Milencka Vidal: “Espacio Contenido”, Catalogue.
Santiago: MAC, 2010.
(ISBN: 9789563325638)
Selection of publications as an author and artist:
2023 “Ojo al Charqui: escritos de pintores contemporáneos chilenos”. Editorial del Departamento de Artes Visuales de la
Universidad de Chile, Santiago.
(ISBN: 9789561912625)
2022 "Transferencias: Escritos de Artistas. Producciones Textuales en las Artes Visuales Chilenas".
Publicación a cargo de Florencia Loewenthal. Editores Ana María Risco y Matías Rivas. Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago.
(ISBN 9789563523980)
2020 “I got it!: The Coronavirus Colouring Book”, With Steffen Elsner, Berlin. More info here
(ISBN: 9783000656118)
2020 "Esos grandes detalles: 92 relatos escritos durante la pandemia", Proyecto de Enrique Matthey. Download here
2020 “AVE Magazin #6”, Vienna.
2019 “Steinwerk_Lithographie_Kalender_Zweitausendzwanzig”, Leipzig.
2017 “Steinwerk_Lithographie_Kalender_Zweitausendsiebzehn”, Leipzig.
2016 “Chaos, Ordnung, Anarchie: hopefully it is irony”. With Artist's Proof and Oliver Kossack, Hochschule für Grafik und
Buchkunst Leipzig.
2015 “Publish and/or perish or/and”. With Artist's Proof and Oliver Kossack, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.
2014 “The Protest Colouring Book”. With Artist's Proof and Oliver Kossack, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.
2013 Article "Arte en Chile: una pregunta en torno a la violencia", Magazin Nierika, Universidad Iberoamericana de México.
2012 "En busca de la obra perdida: una reflexión en torno a 'Muros' de Daniela Rivera", Magazin Letras en Línea, Universidad
Alberto Hurtado, Santiago de Chile.
Talks, conferences and workshops
2025 Conference "(Re-)Naming Natures: Knowing and Collecting Otherwise", panel "Aesthetics and decolonial narratives", ETH, Zurich (CH)
2023 Artist Talk at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (DE)
2023 Artist Talk with Isabella Lenzi at The RYDER Projects, Madrid (ES)
2023 Artist Talk with Julián Serna at Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (COL)
2023 Podcast Extrem gute Künstler*innen with Sebastian Späth (DE)
2022 Artist Talk with Wolfgang Ullrich at 68 Projects, Berlin (DE)
2022 Podcast V de Victoria with Victoria Rivers (ES)
2021 Artist Talk with Vanessa Vanessa Murrell (on line) at Badr El Jundi, Marbella (ES)
2020 Artist Talk with Ana María Risco (on line) at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago (CL)
2020 Workshop at Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (DE)
2015 Conference "Text versus a piece of art", Uniwersytet Łódzki / University of Lodz (PL)
2015 Workshop at Centro Cultural Pedro Aguirre Cerda, CCPAC, Santiago (CL)
2014 Artist Talk at Facultad de Artes, Universidad de Chile, Santiago (CL)
2011 Conference "Simposio internacional: Representaciones de la violencia política en la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea", Museo de la Memoria, Santiago (CL)
Press (selection):
2024 La Yegua de Santiago - Paul’s Fairs Art Cologne: Never Mind the Doom by Paul Carey-Kent - Fad Magazine
2024 Die Farben der Malerei by Thomas Eisenkrätzer - Kieler Nachrichten
2023 Pintoras latinoamericanas: arte que nace del encuentro de culturas by Maricel Drazer - Deutsche Welle DW
2023 Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend 2023 by Ana Grebler - Umbigo Magazine
2023 Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend roundup by ArtReview
2022 "Artists to watch" Art Cologne - immer neu, immer schön by Juliane Rohr - ntv
2022 Interview with Ivana de Vivanco by Daniel Lichterwaldt - Les Nouveaux Riches Magazin
2022 Templo de la Inversión by María Muñoz - Neo2 Magazine
2022 Energie, Intimität, Malerei: Die Expo Chicago ist zurück by Hanno Hauenstein - Berliner Zeitung
2022 Ihr Adam heißt Charles by Christoph Schütte - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
2022 Video Interview: SPLITS AND SLIPS: The disobedient Banana, Breach, Miami
2021 Chilean-Peruvian Artist Ivana de Vivanco Gives Voice To The Overlooked Stories Of Nonconforming Women by Vanessa Murrell -
Something Curated
2021 Landing in places you didn’t even imagine you could land - Interview with Horst und Edeltraut
2021 Teasing Out New Meanings in the Familiar by Nina Mdivani - White Hot Magazine
2021 Ivana de Vivanco at Casa de Indias - The RYDER by Art Viewer
2021 Ivana de Vivanco: El color puede funcionar en la pintura como trampa y consuelo al mismo tiempo by María von Touceda -
Elemmental
2021 5 Artists on Our Radar This June by Leah Gallant - Artsy Curatorial and Artsy Editorial
2021 An Interview with Ivana de Vivanco by María Gracia de Pedro - Daily Lazy
2021 Ivana de Vivanco's "Pink Maneuver" by Sasha Bogojev - Juxtapoz Magazine
2021 Meeting Ivana de Vivanco by Navel Art
2021 Emerging Artists To Have On Your Radar In 2021 by The Art Gorgeous Magazine
2020 Berliner Kunstgriff 29.09. - 05.10.20 - by Gallerytalk.net
2020 Good Look by Relieve Contemporáneo
2020 Good Look by KubaParis
2020 Video Interview: Kunsthalle Darmstadt by Annekathrin Kohout
2020 360°-Rundgang: Kunsthalle Darmstadt by Simon Rauh - Echo
2020 Venus und Würstchen by Kai Scharffenberger - Leo
2020 Gemeinsam gegen die digitale Bilderflut by Katharina Cichosch - Schirn Mag
2019 Ivana de Vivanco: Month’s MAI Wonder of the World by Clare Davies - Mai Magazine Berlin
2019 Ivana de Vivanco: The Big Nose - Image of the Day by Elephant Magazine
2019 Ivana de Vivanco, la militante by Julie Chaizemartin - Le Quotidien de l'Art
2019 Ivana de Vivanco: Venus and Adonis - Story Behind The Artwork by Yannis Kostarias - Art Verge
2019 Ivana de Vivanco: sus mitos y los nuestros by masdearte.com
2018 Spring Issue 7 - ArtMaze Mag curated selection by Benjamin Sutton
2018 Ivana de Vivanco: the cosmopolitan artist with an astonishing style by Daniele Felicetti
2018 [female!]: Leipziger Malerei auf Instagram by Anna Flora Schade - Leipziger Volkszeitung
2017 Tapa de la novela El grito de Florencia Abbate La Pollera
2016 Ivana de Vivanco: Figurativismo Feroz by Francisca Gabler
2016 Ivana de Vivanco: La Hilandería de Estambre Artishock - Revista de Arte Contemporáneo
2016 Desorientierte Helden Sächsische Zeitung
2015 100 Painters of Tomorrow A Book Relevant To The Contemporary Art Discourse by Sofia Touzan
2015 Ivana de Vivanco: pintar las palabras by Antonio Javier López - Diario Sur
2015 Alegoría de la Pintura by Juan Francisco Rueda - Diario Sur
2015 Recomponiendo a Filóstrato - Lo importante no es lo que esperamos del arte, sino lo que el arte espera de nosotros by Isabel
Guerrero - Málaga hoy
2015 Ivana de Vivanco. Recomposición by Isabel Garnelo - M Arte y Cultura Visual
2015 Ivana de Vivanco: Recomposición Arte por Excelencias
2014 Ivana de Vivanco - Emergent Art Space by Liz Janoff
2014 La nueva generación de pintores by Catalina Mena
2013 Exposición de Ivana de Vivanco da inicio a ciclo Tesis 13 by Isis Díaz López
2012 Pintoras Sub 30 by Catalina Mena
