Zhana Ivanova
- Functies
- Tutor
- Opleiding
- DAS Theatre
Zhana Ivanova has a cross-disciplinary artistic practice - she makes performances, installations, videos, public space commissions, sound and text-based pieces. A live performance component is almost always present in her work, with other forms often preceding, being the result of, or in some other way relating to performative gestures. She is keen on rearranging and reconfiguring patterns and structures to which we have grown accustomed. Using script-based approaches, she frequently induces live situations, where interpersonal relations are brought forward, unravelled and made to fluctuate. Language plays a key role, and power relations are of central interest. Her constructions are initially formal and rule-governed; yet within them she insistently exposes the ambiguity of her own rules.
Zhana was educated at Queen Mary University College, London and DasArts, Amsterdam. She was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam and an artistic research fellow at THIRD, DasGraduate School, Amsterdam.
Presentations of Zhana's work include a.o. Kunsthalle Basel, Astrup Fearnley Museet Oslo, Fondation D’Enterprise Ricard Paris, ARCO Madrid, Elevation1049 Gstaad, Municipal Gallery Coloredo-Mansfeld Prague, De Appel Amsterdam, Playground Festival Leuven, FIAC Paris, Mendes Wood DM Sao Paulo, Ellen de Bruijne Projects Amsterdam, Framer Framed Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou Paris, Roberts Art Foundation London, Lafayette Anticipations Paris, Oude Kerk Amsterdam, Performatik Biennalle Brussels, Museum Contemporary Art Rijeka, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.
Since 2015, Zhana is involved in education, as both core and visiting tutor at a.o. BEAR Fine Art and Master of Performance Practices at ArtEZ (Arnhem), Sandberg Institute, Rietveld Academie, SNDO (Amsterdam).