Hallucinatory, decadently colourful, and utterly compelling, Ivana de Vivanco’s characteristically whimsical canvases depict a host of unseemly players in order to reflect the absurdities (and artificialities) of the human-made world. De Vivanco makes countless references to art history: the black despair of Goya, the frightening contortions of Bacon, religious iconography, Renaissance drama, ancient myth.
1989 Chilean-Peruvian artist born in Lisbon, lives and works in Germany
Education
2014 – 2016 Meisterschülerin under Annette Schröter, Art Academy of Leipzig (DE)
2013 Guest student under Oliver Kossack, Art Academy of Leipzig (DE)
2012 Diploma in Painting under Gonzalo Díaz Cuevas, University of Chile, Santiago (CL)
2008 – 2011 BA Fine Arts, University of Chile, Santiago (CL)
Distinctions
2015 – 2016 Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Grant
2015 Marion-Ermer-Prize
2013 – 2015 DAAD Grant
Solo and double exhibitions
2020 COMING SOON / May: How I Feel, with Yan Copelli – MamaLike, New York (US)
2020 COMING SOON / April: Break a Leg!, Raum für drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin (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)
2018 Estampa – 26th Contemporary Art Fair, with Lois Patino, Madrid (ES)
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)
2020 COMING SOON / March: AVE magazine’s release and exhibition, Kunstraum Super, Vienna (AT)
2020 SUPER!, Kunsthalle Darmstadt (DE)
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 and 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 Pensamientoy 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, Grassimuseum, Leipzig(DE)
2015 In Search of Imaginary World, NUNC Contemporary, Antwerp(BE)
2014 100 Painters of Tomorrow, Beers Contemporary, London(GB)
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!, 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)
Weserhalle is pleased to present the first Berlin exhibition of Chilean-Peruvian artist, Ivana de Vivanco, ‘THE BIG NOSE: A Matter of Perspective or Perspective Matters’. Like much of her previous work, this collection transforms the gallery into a deliriously experimental theatre, where all actors take the stage. Hallucinatory, dark, decadently colourful, and utterly compelling, de … Read more