Ivana Basic

Yesterday was the last day of my show Metempsychosis: Passion of Pneumatics 🌬️🫀🌌 at @schinkelpavillon Thank you to everyone who came out to see it and who supported the work. I am so deeply humbled by all the love this show has received.🤍🙏 Six years in the making, the journey of pulling these pieces, these beings, out of the void has been beyond anything that I could describe and only those who were with me along the way, know what it took. Thank you to all who touched the work throughout its slow birth, and who put their energy, thought, love, care and patience, to help bring these beings into the light - from what I fully believe is a world beyond this one. 🌬️🌌 Thank you 💜🙏💐: Sarah @sarakhonda3000 Nell @nell.clover Alice @alice_gong_xiaowen Ekaterina @sokolovskaya.kate Yvonne @yvoyang Tookie @tookie0tookie Fharid @fharidlatorre 
Alyssa @alyssadavisgallery Johny @johnnyillescas Enrique @xnriqu Noel @noelhdzvdz @matter_workshop April @apetartistry David @_day___worl Agnes @agnesgryczkowska Jason @jasonkrugman Harris @harris.rosenblum Filip @flipkostic Doug @oblik_studio_design Valley Bronze City Casting @citycasting_corp Paige @paigetooker_newyorkartfoundry Chris & Celeste @crater.works Caitlin @caitlinvitalo Annie @shepann Susan and Adam @keepbrooklyn William @furthurdesign Romina & Jason @ribcagemassage @jasonrobertbauer Dorie & Matthew @shiny_sparkle_studio 
James @james_corporan @urbanglass_nyc Bill Mulkins 🤍 Thank you to my beloved father ❤️❤️❤️ for an ocean of love and support, who made it possible for me to pursue my dreams. And thank you to my love @mrosengaard 💚 without whom I would have not made it. Who carried me throughout it all. I am forever humbled by your love and so blessed I get to share this life with you. 🤲✨ Thank you to @albionjeune , @francesca_minini , @balkanprojects , Yvan Vanmol @cusson.cheng and @foundationforcontemporaryarts for generously supporting the show. 💜💐💐✨ Thank you 🤍🙏 #ivanabasic

Thank you @jesperdlund for the 💅📸 show opening at @schinkelpavillon 06.06 🖤

Passion of Pneumatics, 2020-2024 @schinkelpavillon Centerpiece: Metabole Custom cast & slumped glass, stainless steel, pink alabaster, blown glass, breath, pneumatic hammers, custom race-car exhaust manifolds, pressure, custom circuit, microphones, mixer, speakers, air compressor Sides: Blossoming Being #1,#2 Wax, blown glass, breath, white alabaster, breath, bronze, stainless steel, oil paint - The exhibition title, Passion of Pneumatics, refers to the exhibition’s altar-like centerpiece, inspired by Italian 17th century depictions of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In Bašić’s sculpture, the heart is substituted by an alabaster stone at the sculpture’s core, while sun-like rays emanating from the heart are replaced with pneumatic hammers that gradually pound the stone to dust. Using the force of compressed air, the hammers’ repetitive movements are timed to the cadence of the artist’s breath, evoking the Gnostic idea of the Pneuma, “breath” and “spirit” in Greek. In the teachings of Gnosticism, the Pneumatics were the highest order of beings—those powered by the spirit, “the breath of life”, who are able to transcend the material realm. The sculpture’s core is encased by four panels of pink-hued custom cast and slumped glass—representing the breath in Basic’s symbolic material language. The body of the altarpiece is constructed from exhaust manifolds, used in racing cars to funnel gases away from the engine. The Passion of Pneumatics evokes a breathing machine that is gradually reducing the stone at its core, turning solid matter into ephemeral dust. On either side of the altarpiece, biomechanical figures titled Blossoming Being #1 and #2 emerge from each end of the stainless steel rods. The sculptures’ flesh-coloured folds of skin are surrounded by shiny plates of armor—seemingly to protect the soft bodies as they emerge and dissolve their human shells. The installation soundscape is composed of the live sound of the pneumatic hammers layered with Eliane Radigue’s sonic mediation Kuome from Trilogie de la Mort, 1985 - 1993. Photo @stefan_korte

New Humans: Memories of the Future opens this Friday at the @newmuseum . Grateful to be a part of the show with so many incredible artists. Thank you @cultured_mag 💐✨ for the feature @luisa_opalesky for the most beautiful photos and 🌹🤍 @missclairesullivan for these perfects skins. 🤲✨🎀 Link to the article in bio.

“New York is for hardcore dreamers.” For a series of conversations between artists and designers with deep ties to the downtown community the @newmuseum is rooted in, ahead of the institution’s re-opening March 21, Claire Sullivan welcomed Ivana Bašić into her studio for a fitting and candid conversation about making work in New York’s shrinking creative economy. Since leaving Vaquera, Sullivan has made a name for herself with designs favored by pop stars (Addison Rae, Lady Gaga, Rosalía) and artists alike. Bašić’s works mingle human abjection, material transcendence, and alien futures. Her ‘Blossoming Being #2,’ which depicts a figure in the midst of leaving its bodily form behind, will be on view in “New Human,” the choral exhibition inaugurating the expanded New Museum. Link in bio to read their full conversation now. Words: Ella Martin-Gachot Photography: @luisa_opalesky

40 years on this planet today. 💫 Grateful for this incredible life and everyone in it. 🙏❤️For all the love, light, beauty, mystery, weight of it all, and endless transformation.🪲 Proud of the wild journey that took to get here. And humbled each day to be able to wander through the womb of the Universe, and pull these pieces into the light. 🤲✨🌌

Metanoia: Fallen Seed #1, #2 2025 Concrete, copper, stainless steel. On view as a part of Taipei Biennial at @tfam_museum 🤍

Thank you @voguetaiwan 🤍 for the feature 📸 Hedy Chang @holy_shit_hedy 💫 - Link to online article in the stories.

Metanoia, 2025 Concrete, blown glass, race cars exhaust manifolds, breath, copper, pneumatic circuits, dust, grounding rods, pressure Produced in collaboration with @sabamahdavi___ & @bespoke_creative.engineering - Commissioned by the Taipei Biennial and TFAM, the pneumatic installation Metanoia draws inspiration from the Spomeniks—otherworldly concrete monuments built across former Yugoslavia (1945–1990). These monuments had the purpose to unify a nation fractured by wars, through utopian structures that defied gravity and ascended upwards – embodying a kind of yearning. The Stone Flower Spomenik in Jasenovac concentration camp - a remnant of both the trauma of World War II and of the collapse of the Yugoslav utopia is given a second life in Bašić’s installation. In Metanoia the flower is reimagined as the kind of breathing machine – animating the glass vessels that rhythmically inhale and exhale through race-car manifolds. At the structure’s center, a copper heart blooms, revealing a delicate glass core filled with breath and dust while its surrounding rods invoke the rays of passion and transformation in mystical depictions of the Sacred Heart. Charged by the artist’s childhood experiences of violence and brutality during the collapse of her native Yugoslavia, Metanoia meditates on the yearning for unity that lies deep within the human condition — reflecting on both its world-building power as well as its shadow. - Thank you @sbardaouil & @till.fellrath for your trust and support 🤍 The work was made possible with the generous support of @tfam_museum and @marc_mueller_1 and @leoniechelsea 💐💐 Deepest gratitude to all who helped bring this piece to life: @sabamahdavi___ @bespoke_creative.engineering @gloriousgoldenart @lin_kuowei @yungjenchan @red_orchid_99 @jasonkrugman @broakes @harris.rosenblum @derkroelofsen @oblik_studio_design @crater.works @pavlos.liaretidis @annabelauger 📽️ @art__seek Thank you @albionjeune @francesca_minini @cusson.cheng for all the support. 💐 #ivanabasic

Last days of Fantasy Vanishes in Flesh @francesca_minini in Milan. 🤍

Taipei Biennial lingering in my mind. ✨ One of the most intense, inspiring and humbling experiences of my professional life. Grateful for all the weeks in Taipei, for being part of this incredible show, and for all the amazing people I met along the way. 💐✨ Thank you @sbardaouil and @till.fellrath for your extraordinary vision and care which you guided us all toward this vast horizon. Honored to be a part of this cohort of stellar artists & dreamers. Thank you @tfam_museum , @marc_mueller_1 and @leoniechelsea for the generous help and support in bringing the new work to life. Thank you @bespoke_creative.engineering , @sabamahdavi___ , @red_orchid_99 @pavlos.liaretidis @jasonkrugman @harris.rosenblum for all the help with the creative process and production. And thank you to @albionjeune @francesca_minini @cusson.cheng for the support.

My interview conducted by Dr. Beth Williamson in current issue of @sculpture_magazine September/ October 2025. 🤍 “Ivana Bašic, who grew up in war-torn Yugoslavia, uses the experience of violence and trauma as an entry point for making work. Based in ideas of transformation and dissolution, her sculptures and drawings have shifted increasingly toward the other-worldly, combining wax, glass, metal, stone, and dust with immaterial elements such as breath, force, torque and pressure. Ivana Bašić’s preoccupation with dust, and what she calls “a language of becoming,” permeates a forward-looking sculptural practice that also maintains ties to traditional approaches, particularly truth to materials. Whether wall- or floor-based, Bašić’s works hover between human and non-human, material and immaterial, creation and destruction. Through the ancient ideas of Gnosticism and pneumatics, she finds ways to breathe new life into wax, stainless steel, and the pervasive presence of dust. Finding parallels between stone and the post-mortem body, Bašić also gestures toward alternative ways of being beyond the body, so that material metamorphosis brings the possibility of new metaphysical identity.” - Thank you Dr. Beth Williamson @bethwilliamson_art for a luminous conversation and @albionjeune for all the support. Images: Installation views of ‘Metempsychosis: The Passion of Pneumatics’ at the Schnikel Pavillion, Berlin, Germany, 2024. Installation views of ‘Temptation of Being’ at Albion Jeune, London, UK, 2025. Installation views of ‘Metempsychosis’, MO.CO Montpellier, France, 2025. #ivanabasic #albionjeune #sculpturemag