Ivan Liovik Ebel
Mapping the Concrete
Installation Views
Installation view 2026. Ivan Liovik Ebel, mapping the concrete at Galerie Gilla Loercher
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Ivan Liovik Ebel, Ghost of resistance, mapping the concrete at Galerie Gilla Loercher. CHR_8723 web
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installation view. Ivan Liovik Ebel. Ghost of Resistance 2021. Dirt on canvas. 105 x 80 cm. GOR-1
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Installation view Reading corner_2026-mappingtheconcrete. Galerie Gilla Loercher
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Installation view. Mapping the Concrete. Ivan Liovik Ebel at Galerie Gilla Loercher.CHR_8751 web
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Installation view Ivan Liovik Ebel, Mapping the Concrete at Galerie Gilla Loercher 2026. CHR_8745 web
Photo: CHROMA, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher and the artist
Installation view Ivan Liovik Ebel, Mapping the Concrete 2026. CHR_8741 web
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Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Exhibition view from outside the gallery Gilla Loercher. CHR_8777 web
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Mapping the Concrete. Ivan Liovik Ebel. CHR_8771 web
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Works
Untitled, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 210 x 160 cm. Framed.
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Ivan Liovik Ebel. Ghost of Resistance 2021. Dirt on canvas. 190 x 150 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Ivan Liovik Ebel. Ghost of Resistance 2021. Dirt on canvas. 105 x 80 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Pink Palimpsest, Acrylic on canvas, 185 x 135 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Blackuniverse 2025, (Poem by Francois Laruelle) printed on MDF, 185 x 37 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Ivan Liovik Ebel. Ghost of Resistance 2021. Dirt on canvas. 36 x 32 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Ivan Liovik Ebel, cavalier perspective I, ink on transparent paper, 100 x 70 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Ivan Liovik Ebel, Ghost of Resistance, acryl and dirt on canvas, 48 x 36 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Ivan Liovik Ebel. Ghost of Resistance 2021. Dirt on canvas. 105 x 80 cm. GOR-1
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
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Moses I, 2025. Oil and acryl on canvas, 60 x 45 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Moses II, 2025. Oil and acryl on canvas, 60 x 45 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Untitled, Acrly on canvas, 60 x 45 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Ivan Liovik Ebel, Ghost of Resistance, acryl and dirt on canvas, 60 x 45 cm. (GOR 4)
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
Ivan Liovik Ebel, Ghost of Resistance, 2024. Acryl and dirt on canvas, 55 x 40 cm
Photo: Ivan Liovik Ebel
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!
Please note as well that artist talk on 14 February 15:00 with Ivan Liovik Ebel and art historian Dr. Birgit Möckel. You are welcome to join this event.
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!
Please note as well that artist talk on 14 February 15:00 with Ivan Liovik Ebel and art historian Dr. Birgit Möckel. You are welcome to join this event.
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.
