Ivan Liovik Ebel
Mapping the Concrete
Works
Ivan Liovik Ebel. Ghost of Resistance 2021. Dirt on canvas.36 x 32 cm
Ivan Liovik Ebel. Ghost of Resistance Acryl und Schmutz auf Leinwand 2024 55 x 40 cm
Press Release
/Galerie Gilla Loercher is pleased to announce the solo exhibition "Mapping the Concrete" by artist Ivan Liovik Ebel.
The opening will take place on January 16, 2026, starting at 7 p.m.
You and your friends are cordially invited!
The exhibition Mapping the Concrete presents a body of work created between 2021 and 2025, in which Ebel explores the relationship between artistic practice and philosophical operation. The works mark zones in which “concreteness” is understood not as tangible materiality, but as a form of relationship: a mode that allows visual, conceptual, and spatial elements to coexist without hierarchy. The numerous references, which appear in a discreet or more obvious manner, do not serve as illustrations, but rather as operative traces that subtly shift the visitors' perception.
The central element of the exhibition is an A2-format plan that functions as a methodological map. It does not represent a classic overview, but opens up a space for thought in which the concrete itself is mapped: as a network of relations, overlaps, and possible paths through the exhibition, as a network of relationships between works and thoughts. The plan allows visitors to navigate and understand the conceptual architecture of the concrete. It serves both as a navigation tool and as a visual hypothesis—as a physical and metaphorical map of a shared space for thought in which art and thinking meet on equal terms.
For several years, Berlin-based Swiss-German artist Ivan Liovik Ebel has been working closely with philosopher Anne-Françoise Schmid, co-founder of the international initiative known as “Non-Philosophy.” In 2021, they jointly published the book Topographie discrète, a “scenario for a text without dimensions” that attempts to bring art and philosophy together in a common field beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The opening will take place on January 16, 2026, starting at 7 p.m.
You and your friends are cordially invited!
The exhibition Mapping the Concrete presents a body of work created between 2021 and 2025, in which Ebel explores the relationship between artistic practice and philosophical operation. The works mark zones in which “concreteness” is understood not as tangible materiality, but as a form of relationship: a mode that allows visual, conceptual, and spatial elements to coexist without hierarchy. The numerous references, which appear in a discreet or more obvious manner, do not serve as illustrations, but rather as operative traces that subtly shift the visitors' perception.
The central element of the exhibition is an A2-format plan that functions as a methodological map. It does not represent a classic overview, but opens up a space for thought in which the concrete itself is mapped: as a network of relations, overlaps, and possible paths through the exhibition, as a network of relationships between works and thoughts. The plan allows visitors to navigate and understand the conceptual architecture of the concrete. It serves both as a navigation tool and as a visual hypothesis—as a physical and metaphorical map of a shared space for thought in which art and thinking meet on equal terms.
For several years, Berlin-based Swiss-German artist Ivan Liovik Ebel has been working closely with philosopher Anne-Françoise Schmid, co-founder of the international initiative known as “Non-Philosophy.” In 2021, they jointly published the book Topographie discrète, a “scenario for a text without dimensions” that attempts to bring art and philosophy together in a common field beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
