Ivana Bašić

Ivana Bašić. 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.

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 #24 (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, Breath seeps through her tightly closed mouth #25 (detail), 2024, breath, glass, stainless steel torque, 74.9 x 15.9 x 17.8 cm (29.5 x 6.25 x 7 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

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, Metabole, 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, 700 x 350 x 140 cm (275.6 x 137.8 x 55.1 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, 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.

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 sense that all of this is ancient and vast. I had touched the nothing, and nothing was living and moist. #5, 2022, steatite, wax, white bronze, pressure, copper, grounding rods, stainless steel, 152.4 × 50.8 × 22.9 cm (60 x 20 x 9 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.

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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Works

Ivana Bašić
Breath seeps through her tightly closed mouth #8
2018
Breath, glass, stainless steel torque
80 x 17.8 x 15.9 cm | 31.5 x 7 x 6.25 in

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Ivana Bašić
Breath seeps through her tightly closed mouth #24
2024
Breath, glass, stainless steel torque
68.9 x 19.1 x 18.4 cm | 27.5 x 7.5 x 7.25 in

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Ivana Bašić
Breath seeps through her tightly closed mouth #25
2024
Breath, glass, stainless steel torque
74.9 x 15.9 x 17.8 cm | 29.5 x 6.25 x 7 in

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Exhibitions

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

News

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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