Ivana de Vivanco (b. 1989) is a Lisbon-born painter of Chilean-Peruvian descent who lives and works in Germany. She studied at the University of Chile and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, won the Marion Ermer Prize in 2015 and was featured in “100 Painters of Tomorrow”. Using classical painting techniques, she builds theatrical, surreal figurative scenes from a wide range of visual sources, and also works in installation and sculpture.
Ivana de Vivanco (b. 1989, Lisbon, Portugal) is a painter of Chilean-Peruvian descent who lives and works in Germany. She received her BFA from the University of Chile in 2011 and continued studying painting there with Gonzalo Díaz Cuevas in 2012. She then moved to Leipzig, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts with Oliver Kossack in 2013 and with Annette Schröter from 2014 to 2016. De Vivanco creates surreal paintings assembled from a wide range of visual sources, using classical painting techniques, and also works with installation and sculpture. Her solo exhibitions include “THE BIG NOSE: A Matter of Perspective or Perspective Matters” (Berlin, 2019), “Break a Leg!” (Berlin, 2020) and “Pink Maneuver” (Leipzig, 2021). She has taken part in group exhibitions at institutions such as the Kunsthalle Darmstadt and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile. Her work was included in Thames & Hudson’s book “100 Painters of Tomorrow”. She has received grants from the DAAD, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Cultural Foundation of Saxony, and in 2015 was awarded the Marion Ermer Prize for young artists. The painting “Holy Isabella” (2021), acrylic and oil on canvas, offered by TUMO Gallery, reflects her theatrical, surreal figurative language.
