Irina Ojovan
Over the past years Irina Ojovan developed a formal language equally in painting and sculpture that has its own abstract quality.
The spectrum of her paintings can be described as an aesthetic field of tension that oscillates between monochrome hard edge and subtly shaded color field.
Her minimal sculptures look like sharp drawings, iconic sketches that interact with the surrounding space.
Selected Works
Exhibitions
A Complementary Story ‒ Erika Hock, Irina Ojovan
-Flex ‒ Irina Ojovan
-Inherited Profiles ‒ Irina Ojovan
-Curriculum Vitae (CV)
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1988 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, DE
EDUCATION
2018
Diploma, master student with Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt
2015-17
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE, Prof. Gregor Hildebrandt
2012-13
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE, Prof. Günther Förg and Prof. Matthias Dornfeld
2010-13
Academy of Fine Arts Rome, IT, Prof. Giuseppe Modica
2009 - 10
Academy of Fine Arts Turin, IT, Prof. Franco Fanelli
AWARDS
2020
Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis
2019
Winsor & Newton Residency in Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, DE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Flex, COSAR, Düsseldorf, DE
1 Profile, Loock Galerie, Berlin, DE
2021
Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis / Bildende Kunst 2020, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, DE
Inherited Profiles, Loock Galerie, Berlin, DE
2020
Inherited Profiles, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, DE
Leitmotiv, Sotheby’s Munich, DE
2019
Irina Ojovan & Pia Krajewski “COME CLOSE & STEP BACK” kuratiert von Jurriaan Benschop, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
DISSONANCE, Platform Germany, Stadtgalerie Kiel, DE and National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, RO
2023
A Complementary Story, Irina Ojovan & Erika Hock, COSAR, Düsseldorf, DE
TANDEM 2022, Irina Ojovan & Catalin Pislaru, Le Bureau, Düsseldorf, DE
392. Wahl, IV. Quartal, Griffelkunst, Hamburg, DE
2022
Wandgebunden, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, DE
Open House, FinalistInnen Karl Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium, Brücke Museum, Berlin, DE
Blanc de Blancs, Villa Schöningen, Berlin, DE
1RWW, Irinina Ojovan, 1 Profile, Loock, Berlin, DE
2021
Bayerische Kunstförderpreis Bildende Kunst 2020, Galerie der Künstler*innen BBK, Munich, DE
Cosmic Topologies, curated by Dr. Stefanie Staby, Knust Kunz, Munich, DE
2020
CUBED, The Hole, New York
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich, DE
2019
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich, DE
forms ain ́t formats, kuratiert von Miriam Jesske, Loock Galerie, Berlin, DE
Dust Till Dawn, Galerie The Flat-Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT
Grzegorzkis Seven, Kunstverein Heppenheim, DE
2018
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich, DE
salondergegenwart, Hamburg, DE
Black Mirror, MAM Galerie, Vienna, AT
Aufbruch, Wurlitzer Pied a Terre Collection, Berlin, DE
Black Mirror, MAM Galerie, Salzburg, AT
Tacker, BBK Munich, DE
Frühling [´fry:ling], der : weiblich, MAM Galerie, Vienna, AT
Wir schwimmen alle im gleichen Wasser, Klasse G. Hildebrandt, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, DE