Ivana Bašić

Ivana Bašić, Passion of Pneumatics, 2020-2024, custom cast & slumped glass, stainless steel, pink alabaster, blown glass, breath, pneumatic hammers, custom race-car exhaust manifolds, custom circuit, microphones, mixer, speakers, air compressor, white alabaster, bronze, oil paint, 700 x 350 x 150 cm (275.6 x 137.8 x 59.1 in). Courtesy of the artist, Albion Jeune, Francesca Minini and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei. 
Ivana Bašić, Metanoia, 2025, produced in collaboration with Saba Mahdavi and bespoke. Sur-Mesure Engineering Studio, concrete, blown glass, race cars exhaust manifolds, breath, copper, pneumatic circuits, dust, grounding rods, pressure, 350 x 350 x 250 cm (137.8 x 137.8 x 98.4 in). Courtesy of the artist, Albion Jeune, Francesca Minini and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei. 
Ivana Bašić, I had seen the centuries, and the vast dry lands; I had reached the nothing and the nothing was living and moist, 2018-2024, stainless steel, pink alabaster, wax, blown glass, breath, pressure, 300 x 109 x 228 cm (120 x 43 x 90 in). Courtesy of the artist, Albion Jeune, Francesca Minini and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei. 
Ivana Bašić, I had seen the centuries, and the vast dry lands; I had reached the nothing and the nothing was living and moist (detail), 2018-2024, stainless steel, pink alabaster, wax, blown glass, breath, pressure, 300 x 109 x 228 cm (120 x 43 x 90 in). Courtesy of the artist and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. 
Ivana Bašić, I had seen the centuries, and the vast dry lands; I had reached the nothing and the nothing was living and moist (detail), 2018-2024, stainless steel, pink alabaster, wax, blown glass, breath, pressure, 300 x 109 x 228 cm (120 x 43 x 90 in). Courtesy of the artist and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. 
Installation view of Ivana Bašić’s first institutional solo ’Metempsychosis: The Passion of Pneumatics’ at Schinkel Pavillon, 06 June— 01 September 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. 
Ivana Bašić, I sense that all of this is ancient and vast. I had touched the nothing, and nothing was living and moist. #2, 2022, white alabaster, wax, copper, pressure, grounding rods, stainless steel, 66 × 47 × 19.5 cm (26 x 18.5 x 7.7 in). Courtesy of the artist.
Ivana Bašić, I too had thousands of blinking cilla, while my belly, new and made for the ground was being reborn - Position III #3, 2020, wax, bronze, breath, blown glass, oil paint, stainless steel, pressure, 127 x 30.5 x 40.6 cm (50 x 12 x 16 in). Courtesy of the artist.
Installation view of ‘Aftershock’ at PODIUM, Hong Kong, 22 March—24 May 2025. Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of PODIUM, Hong Kong.
Installation view of ‘Aftershock’ at PODIUM, Hong Kong, 22 March—24 May 2025. Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of PODIUM, Hong Kong.
Ivana Bašić, Breath seeps through her tightly closed mouth #8 (detail), 2018, breath, glass, stainless steel torque, 80 x 17.8 x 15.9 cm (31.5 x 7 x 6.25 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.
Ivana Bašić, Breath seeps through her tightly closed mouth (Black #1) (detail), 2024, breath, glass, stainless steel torque, 68.9 x 19.1 x 18.4 cm (27.5 x 7.5 x 7.25 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.
Ivana Bašić. Courtesy of the artist.

Biography
Ivana Bašić (b. 1986 in Belgrade, lives and works in New York) investigates the transformation of subjectivities into otherness, taking shapes in metamorphic forms with shifting bodily and metaphysical identities. Charged by her early vantage point of violence and brutality brought on by the collapse of Yugoslavia, her enigmatic sculptures, which consist of wax, glass, steel, alabaster, oil paint, and immaterial matter such as breath and pressure, prompt the viewers to reimagine ontological fixations through a posthuman and post-subject lens radically. Her solo institutional exhibitions include Belgrade National Museum of Art, Belgrade (upcoming 2025); MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier, (2025); and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2024). She participated in group exhibitions such as ArtScience Museum, Singapore (2025); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2023); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2023); National Gallery, Prague (2021); Museum of Art+Design, Miami (2020); Het HEM, Amsterdam (2020); Contemporary Art Museum Estonia, Tallinn (2019); Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn (2019); NRW Forum, Düsseldorf (2019); Athens Biennial (2018); Belgrade Biennial (2018); Künstlerhaus, Graz (2018); MO.CO. Panacée, Montpellier (2018); Hessel Museum of Art (2017); Kunstverein Freiburg (2017); and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2016), among others. Bašić's works are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum.

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Aftershock
Artists: Ivana Bašić, Ittah Yoda, Sihan Guo, Yein Lee, Diane Severin Nguyen
Hong Kong
22 March—24 May 2025

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VOGUE: 2025 Taipei Biennial｜Ivana Bašić: Crafting Sculptures That Breathe

10 December 2025

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14 November 2025

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01 November 2025

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Ivana Bašić’s and Fran Chang at Taipei Biennial 2025

01 November 2025

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Ivana Bašić is featured in STIRworld

3 October 2025

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Ivana Bašić is featured in Spike Art Magazine

14 May 2025

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Ivana Bašić’s Southeast Asia Debut at ArtScience Museum, Singapore 

13 March 2025

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Ivana Bašić's first institutional solo exhibition in France - 'Metempsychosis' will open at MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain on 14 February

04 February 2025

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Artist Ivana Bašić debuting her first institutional solo ‘METEMPSYCHOSIS: The Passion of Pneumatics’ at Schinkel Pavillon

23 May 2024

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