Short Bio

Cecilia Ivanchevich was born in 1977 in Buenos Aires. Her art studies were completed at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), followed by her curatorial studies, at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF).

As an interdisciplinary artist, she investigates the relationship between image, sound and space. In 2010, she carried out the visual-sound installation Una luz (A Light), developed jointly with US musician and mathematician Leon Gruenbaum, which was exhibited in the framework of the x200más (For 200 More) exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires. That same year, she founded the Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Arte (Interdisciplinary Art Laboratory), a space where sound and the visual arts were conjugated to enable various artists from both disciplines to work in collaboration in composing one shared work. The Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Arte was presented at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), Buenos Aires (2010), at the Université de Lyon, France (2012), at the Konservatorium der Stadt, Innsbruck, Austria, (2012), at the Colección Fortabat, Buenos Aires (2014), at the Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNNOBA) (2014), and at the Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires (2015). 

In 2014, Mozarteum Argentino awarded her an artist’s residency at the Cité Internationale des Artes Paris, where she developed the interdisciplinary project Los ritmos del triángulo: diálogos y variaciones visuales sonoras (Rhythms of the Triangle: Visual Sound Dialogs and Variations).     

In 2016, the Contrapuntos (Counterpoints) exhibition was held at the Cecilia Caballero gallery, a show that combined all the elements developed in the course of her prior research. There she presented two large site-specific installations in which the graphic elements from drawing entered into dialog with the space, creating a kind of visual pentagram. 

During 2018, she had three solo exhibitions: Transformaciones (Transformations), at the Centro Cultural Paco Urondo, Ritmos y variaciones sobre un tema (Rhytms and Variations on a Theme) at Fundación OSDE and Polaridades (Polarities) at the Cecilia Caballero gallery. 

In 2019, she participated in the second edition of BienalSur, with the piece Fluidez y contrapunto (Fluidity and Counterpoint), a large scale site-specific installation in the framework of the exhibition Entre sentidos (Between Senses), in which Italian curator Benedetta Casini brought various international artists together. 

In 2020, the Chinese curators Ying Xuan Du and Lin Wang invited her to represent Latin America in the Local-International exhibition, held in Dazhou, in the province of Sichuan, China. The show was held to inaugurate the art complex 515 Art Creative Village, which meant converting a place that had historically been the largest munitions storage site in eastern Sichuan into an art space. There, the artist carried out Resilencia (Resilience), a site-specific installation in a 65-meter long cave that established a dialog between the histories of China and Argentina, with their respective pictorial traditions. This piece now forms part of the museum’s permanent collection. 

 

As a curator, Cecilia Ivanchevich has been developing projects since 2004, with particularly outstanding research into the work of Argentinean artist Luis Felipe Noé. In 2012, she jointly curated with Diana Wechsler and Eduardo Stupía the Noé, visiones/revisiones (Noé, Visions/Revisions) exhibition, held at the Museo de la Universidad de Tres de Febrero (MUNTREF).

In 2014, she organized the Noé, siglo XXI (Noé, 21^st Century) exhibition, held at the Museo Nacional de la República de Brasilia, articulating the relevance of the artist’s 21^st century production. 

In 2015, she presented the Olfato en tiempo y lugar (The Sense of Smell in Time and Place) exhibition at the Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, centering the viewpoint of the artist in consonance with their era.

In 2017, she presented the curatorial project Noé: Mirada prospectiva (Noé: Prospective View) at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. It focused on the way the artist put his theory of chaos into practice in his work. Curating this important show brought together close to 120 works by the artist, including paintings, drawings, installations and texts, proposing to break away from the chronological order that prevails in the visual arts.

 

 

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions in Argentina (selection)

• 2010 Dos veces en el mismo río (In the Same River Twice), Proyecto La Línea Piensa, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.
• 2011 Proyecto La Línea Piensa, Museo de Artes Visuales Sor Josefa, Santa Fé
• 2011 Vis a Vis, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires
• 2012 Ivanchevich, Gomez, Fraticelli. Sasha D gallery, Córdoba
• 2013 Proyecto Translate light (Translate Light Project), Semana del Arte de Rosario, Rosario, Santa Fé 
• 2014 Sinergias (Synergies), Galería Rubbers Internacional, Buenos Aires
• 2016 Contrapuntos (Counterpoints), Cecilia Caballero gallery, Buenos Aires
• 2018 Ritmos y variaciones sobre un tema (Rhythms and Variations on a Theme), Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires  
• 2018 Transformación (Transformation), Centro Cultural Paco Urondo, Buenos Aires
• 2018 Polaridades (Polarities), Cecilia Caballero gallery, Buenos Aires

 

Group Exhibitions in Argentina (selection)

• 2010 Premio Revista Ñ, (Clarín newspaper), ArteBA, Buenos Aires. 
• 2010 Lindo lo tuyo (Grupal), Museo Lozza, Alberti, Buenos Aires.
• 2010 Proyecto Delivery, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires.
• 2010 Del techo al piso, Chez Vautier gallery, Buenos Aires.
• 2011 X200más, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
• 2012 Tres generaciones de dibujo contemporáneo. Galería Massota Torres, Buenos Aires.
• 2015 Luxia, (Grupal), Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires. 
• 2017 Del piso al techo, Cecilia Caballero gallery, Buenos Aires.
• 2019 Entre sentidos, BienalSur, Tucumán.

 

International (selection)

• 2011 UNIART, Università degli Studi di Roma, Foro Itálico, Rome, Italy.
• 2012 Arte & Diseño Argentino en Italia, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy.
• 2014 Los ritmos del triángulo: diálogos y variaciones visuales sonoras (Rhythms of the Triangle: Visual Sound Dialogs and Variations), interdisciplinary project in residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. 
• 2019 Beyond the borders, Mazi Bookstore, Beijing, China.
• 2019 Beyond the borders, Mil Gotas bookstore, Chongqing, China.
• 2020 Resiliencia (Resilience), 515 Art Village, China.

 

Laboratorio interdisciplinario de Arte (Interdisciplinary Art Laboratory)

• 2011 Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires.
• 2012 Università degli Studi di Roma, Foro Itálico, Italy.
• 2012 Université de Lyon, France.
• 2012 Konservatorium der Stadt, Innsbruck, Austria.
• 2014 Colección Fortabat, Buenos Aires.
• 2015 Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires.

 

Curatorial Work

• 2012 Noé, visiones/revisiones (Noé, Visions/Revisions), co-curated with Diana Wechsler and Eduardo Stupía, MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2013 Gran Chaco Gualamba: Arte, Cosmovisión y Soberanía (Gran Chaco Gualamba: Art, Worldview and Sovereignty) co-curated with Itatí Cabral, Casa de las Culturas, Chaco, Argentina.
• 2014 Noé, Siglo XXI (Noé, 21^st century), Museo Nacional de la República, Brasilia, Brazil. 
• 2015 Olfato en tiempo y lugar (The Sense of Smell in Time and Place), Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
• 2015 Noé, siglo XXI (Noé, 21^st century), Fundación Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• 2017 Noé: Mirada prospectiva (Noé: Prospective View), Pavilion, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2018 Ya no, aun no (Not any more, Not Yet), Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.
• 2020 Cosmovisiones (Worldviews), Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China.