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until 20.02. | #4902ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Friday, 16. January 2026 the exhibition “Mapping the concrete” by the artist Ivan Liovik Ebel.
The exhibition Mapping the Concrete presents a body of work created between 2021 and 2025, in which Ebel explores the relationship between artistic practice and philosophical operation. The works mark zones in which “concreteness” is understood not as tangible materiality, but as a form of relationship: a mode that allows visual, conceptual, and spatial elements to coexist without hierarchy. The numerous references, which appear in a discreet or more obvious manner, do not serve as illustrations, but rather as operative traces that subtly shift the visitors’ perception.
The central element of the exhibition is an A2-format plan that functions as a methodological map. It does not represent a classic overview, but opens up a space for thought in which the concrete itself is mapped: as a network of relations, overlaps, and possible paths through the exhibition, as a network of relationships between works and thoughts. The plan allows visitors to navigate and understand the conceptual architecture of the concrete. It serves both as a navigation tool and as a visual hypothesis—as a physical and metaphorical map of a shared space for thought in which art and thinking meet on equal terms.
Ivan Liovik Ebel, Studio view. Atelier Ivan Liovik Ebel. 2025
For several years, Berlin-based Swiss-German artist Ivan Liovik Ebel has been working closely with philosopher Anne-Françoise Schmid, co-founder of the international initiative known as “Non-Philosophy.” In 2021, they jointly published the book Topographie discrète, a “scenario for a text without dimensions” that attempts to bring art and philosophy together in a common field beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
About Ivan Liovik Ebel
Ivan Liovik Ebel (born in 1983 in Neuchatel, Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin. He completed his studies with a Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts Practice at the Bern University of the Arts. His works have been presented in numerous exhibitions: Kunsthaus Langenthal (Switzerland), Kunsthalle Bern (Switzerland), Kunstmuseum Bern (Switzerland), CACN Centre d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes (France), Neue Galerie, London (UK) and Bern (Switzerland), Marks Blond Project, Bern (Switzerland), ZQM Projektraum, Berlin (Germany), Galerie Widmer Theodoridis, Zurich (CH), Annka Kultys Gallery, London (GB), Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris (F), Galerie 3000, Bern (CH), Espace Art & Essai, Rennes (F), Galerie du Griffon, Neuchatel (CH), Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE).
Opening: Friday, 16. January 2026, 7 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 16. January until Friday, 20. February 2026
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Title image caption: Ivan Liovik Ebel, Ghost of Resistance, acryl and dirt on canvas, 55 x 40 cm
Exhibition Ivan Liovik Ebel – Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
