Ivan Liovik Ebel

About
'Interspace’ is probably the term that best summarises Ivan Liovik Ebel’s work. For him, the confrontation with the relativity of perception, forms of non-distinguishability and the relationship between time and space stand behind this term. It is always about the attempt to stage a condition beyond strict opposites such as the visible and the non-visible, the past and the future, to abolish or capture transitions between them.
"Individual works and series based on repeated gestures and regulating principles question the idea of the original and the copy, temporality, change, chronology and the relationship between time and space in the process of creating an image", states Ivan Liovik Ebel on his Loop series.
„All of my works are distinguished by an attempt to freeze a non freezable moment. A moment that marks the edge of antagonistic categories such as: the past and the future, the visible and the non-visible, the inner and the outer, the surface and the volume. I am fascinated and always looking for this relativity of perception switch.“
Ivan Liovik Ebel (born 1983 in Neuchatel / CH) lives and works in Berlin. He received his Masters in Contemporary Arts Practice from the Bern University of the Arts. In 2017 the artist was on the short list of the Aeschlimann Corti-Stipend and in 2015 he was nominated for the Berlin Art Prize.
His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions: at Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH), Kunsthalle Bern (CH), Kunstmuseum Bern (CH), Nanjo Art Museum, Okinawa (Jpn), CACN Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (F), Neue Galerie, London (GB) and Bern (CH), Marks Blond Project, Bern (CH), ZQM Projektraum, Berlin (DE), Lage Egal Projektraum, Berlin (DE), Galerie Widmer Theodoridis, Zürich (CH), Annka Kultys Gallery, London (GB), Galerie Valérie Delaunay / Paris (F), Galerie 3000, Bern (CH), Espace Art & Essai, Rennes (F), Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE), among many others and as well at art fairs such as Art Karlsruhe 2017 (booth Galerie Gilla Lörcher).
'Interspace’ is probably the term that best summarises Ivan Liovik Ebel’s work. For him, the confrontation with the relativity of perception, forms of non-distinguishability and the relationship between time and space stand behind this term. It is always about the attempt to stage a condition beyond strict opposites such as the visible and the non-visible, the past and the future, to abolish or capture transitions between them.
"Individual works and series based on repeated gestures and regulating principles question the idea of the original and the copy, temporality, change, chronology and the relationship between time and space in the process of creating an image", states Ivan Liovik Ebel on his Loop series.
„All of my works are distinguished by an attempt to freeze a non freezable moment. A moment that marks the edge of antagonistic categories such as: the past and the future, the visible and the non-visible, the inner and the outer, the surface and the volume. I am fascinated and always looking for this relativity of perception switch.“
Ivan Liovik Ebel (born 1983 in Neuchatel / CH) lives and works in Berlin. He received his Masters in Contemporary Arts Practice from the Bern University of the Arts. In 2017 the artist was on the short list of the Aeschlimann Corti-Stipend and in 2015 he was nominated for the Berlin Art Prize.
His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions: at Kunsthaus Langenthal (CH), Kunsthalle Bern (CH), Kunstmuseum Bern (CH), Nanjo Art Museum, Okinawa (Jpn), CACN Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (F), Neue Galerie, London (GB) and Bern (CH), Marks Blond Project, Bern (CH), ZQM Projektraum, Berlin (DE), Lage Egal Projektraum, Berlin (DE), Galerie Widmer Theodoridis, Zürich (CH), Annka Kultys Gallery, London (GB), Galerie Valérie Delaunay / Paris (F), Galerie 3000, Bern (CH), Espace Art & Essai, Rennes (F), Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE), among many others and as well at art fairs such as Art Karlsruhe 2017 (booth Galerie Gilla Lörcher).
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Works

One-single-artwork-show#12 | Ivan Liovik Ebel
at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2022
Photo: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Ivan Liovik Ebel, Zwischenräume, 2011, ink on paper. 202 x 151 cm (framed)
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch. Courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Rebound Painting 18-05.1, 2018
Oil on canvas
130 x 100 cm
Photo: the artist

Rebound Painting 18-04.1, 2018
Oil on canvas
140 x 185 cm
Photo: the artist
Photo: the artist

Untitled, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm
Photo: the artist

Rebound Painting 17-18-0, 2017
Oil on canvas
38 x 32 cm
Photo: the artist
Photo: the artist

Rebound Painting, 2017
Oil on canvas
190 x 120 cm
Photo: the artist

Rebound Painting, 2017
Oil on canvas
190 x 120 cm
Photo: the artist

Untitled, 2012
Oil on canvas
150 x 90 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel

Saaampling, 2016 und Loop, 2016
Concrete, wood, paint
Dimensions variable
Photo: André Kirchner, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher and the artist

Saaampling, 2016 und Loop, 2016
Concrete, wood, paint
Dimensions variable
Acrylic on canvas
2 parts, each 46 x 31 cm
Photo: André Kirchner, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher and the artist

Ivan Liovik Ebel, Loop, 2014
Oil on canvas, 2 parts,
each 33 x 28 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher

Ivan Liovik Ebel, Loop, 2014
Oil on canvas, 2 parts
each 38 x 30 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch

Ivan Liovik Ebel, Makulatur, 2014

Ivan Liovik Ebel, Ohne Titel, 2013. Galerie Gilla Loercher
Ink and gel on canvas
61 x 36 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel

Ivan Liovik Ebel. 45 windows and 2 vanishing points, 2013.
Sublimationsdruck auf Stoff
172,3 x 106,2 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel

Some Good Organized Stars, 2013
Oil and acrylic on canvas
48 ×38 cm
Photo: the artist

Some Good Organized Stars, 2013
Oil and acrylic on canvas
45 ×32 cm
Photo: the artist

Basic Grid, 2013
Öl und Acryl auf Leinwand
35 x 32 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel

Untitled, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm
Photo: the artist

Untitled, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm
Photo: the artist

Untitled, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm
Photo: the artist

Untitled, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 90 cm
Photo: the artist

Five Figures, 2011
Acrylic and acrylic firnis on canvas
5 parts, each 35 × 27 cm
Exhibitions
Biography
Born in Neuchatel (CH) in 1983.
Lives and works in Berlin.
2009 - 2011
MFA Contemporary Arts Practice, Universität der Künste, Bern (CH)
2006 - 2009
BFA Universität der Künste, Bern (CH)
Publications
2022
ART & ESSAIS 2014-2020, catalogue, Université Rennes 2, Rennes
2021
TOPOGRAPHIE DISCRÈTE, SCÉNARIO POUR UN TEXTE SANS DIMENSIONS, essay co- written with Anne-Françoise Schmid, Éditions du Griffon, Neuchâtel
2020
5/5, Interview series conducted by John Cornu, Cultureclub – Studio
2018
Le réel at son double, interview, Revue Redux, Paris
2015
Berlin Art Prize, Hrsg. Berlin Art Prize e.V.
2013
Exhibition catalog. Shape the Scape: Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Eine Erkundung. Berlin (Text: Agnes Hoffmann). Hrgs. Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Widmer + Theodoridis contemporary, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art, Galerie Ulrich Müller. ISBN: 978-3-033-03918-6
2012
Exhibition catalog. wieder Schein, Edition Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art
2011
Summer lab Hyperactivité 2010, Hrsg. CAN und Marks Blond Project R.f.z.K.
Awards and Honors
2017
Aeschlimann Corti-Stipendium, shortlist
2015
Berlin Art Prize, nominiert
Losito Kunstpreis, shortlist
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2022
One-single-artwork-show #12 | Ivan Liovik Ebel, | Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2019
Rebound Paintings, Galerie du Griffon, Neuchatel (CH)
Female Rebounds, Ivan Liovik Ebel / Stella Geppert, Projektraum Lage egal, Berlin (D)
Der hohle Zahn, Galerie 3000, Bern (CH)
Rebounds, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2017
De temps en temps, Espace Art & Essai, Rennes (F)
One-Single-Artwork-Show #6, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2016
Every Now and Then, solo show, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
Double Standard, Ivan Liovik Ebel / Ties Ten Bosch, Projektraum Lage egal, Berlin (D)
2015
Im Nebel, Performance, Project space festival Berlin - Projektraum Lage egal, Berlin (D)
2014
x’ = x + a ; y’ = y + b, solo show, ZQM, Berlin (D)
hier und da, Ivan Liovik Ebel / John Cornu, co-show, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2014, booth Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2013
Im Nebel, Performance, Galerie Gilla Loercher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
The Lines Between, Ivan Liovik Ebel / Massimiliano Baldassarri, co-show, Projektraum Lage egal, Berlin (D)
2012
wieder Schein, Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2010
Sans titre, Marks Blond Project, Bern (CH)
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2025
Accrochage, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2023
Seasonal. Digital, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
In Praise of the Shadows, Nanjo Museum, Okinawa (JPN)
2022
Seasonal. Digital, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
John Cornu, Ivan Liovik Ebel, Jérôme Guitton, Muriel Leray, ZQM, Berlin, D
2021
Seasonal. Digital, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
Enfant de, Smallville, Neuchâtel (CH)
Huit clos, DBKA project, Bruxelles (BE)
Regards croisés autour de l'oeuvre d' André Ramseyer, Galerie du Griffon, Neuchâtel (CH)
2020
SMALL WONDERS, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2019
Ex.PDF, CACN – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (F)
Triplan, Grande Surface, Brüssel (B)
2018
018 geometric, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2017
EX.PDF, Les Brasseurs, Liège (BE)
Aeschlimann Corti-Stipendium 2017 / Kunstmuseum Bern (CH)
Garder le cap / Galerie Valérie Delaunay / Paris (F)
Art Karlsruhe | booth Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art (D)
2016
EX.PDF, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes (F)
ZERO ZERO, group show, Gallery Annka Kultys, London (UK)
FABRIC, group show curated by John Cornu, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
2015
INTRO, group show, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
Macrocosmi (Bologna – Berlin), group show, Altes Postfuhramt West, Berlin (D)
Berlin Art Prize 2015, group show nominated artists, District, Berlin (D)
If this then that, Frontviews temporary, Berlin (D)
2013
Atmosphären. Shape the Scape: Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Group show, curated by
Agnes Hoffmann. Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
Eingriffe: Konstruktion/Dekonstruktion Shape the Scape: Landschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Group show, curated by Agnes Hoffmann. Galerie Widmer Theodoridis, Zürich (CH)
Gegenwart, group show, curated by Milorad Prentovic and Gilla Loercher, Projektraum Berger Straße 6, Frankfurt /M (D)
2011
Ein Kuss in Brüssel, Performance, OLM artspace, Neuenburg (CH)
Uns Alle, Kunsthalle, grooup show, Bern (CH)
Der Markt als Kunstrichter, Galerie Milieu, Bern (CH)
2010
Hyperactivité, CAN summerlab, Kunsthalle, Neuenburg (CH)
Delikatessen, PROGR – Zentrum für Kulturproduktion, Bern (CH)
2009
Carte blanche, Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier (CH)
Mit Aussicht, Kunsthaus, Langenthal (CH)
Keep the Secret, Neue Galerie, London (UK)
2008
Young and Stupid, Neue Galerie. Bern (CH)