Iva Ivanova: HOLYPOP
Iva Ivanova: HOLYPOP
acb BAK
Opening: 19 November, 2026, 6 pm
On view: 20 November - 18 December, 2026
Schedule
Iva Ivanova (b. 1989, Sofia, Bulgaria) is a visual artist and costume designer. She studied scenography and graduated with a master’s degree from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2016. Her artistic practice unfolds at the intersections of visual art, performance, theatre, and socially engaged artistic practices.
The HOLYPOP series reflects an ongoing exploration of identity as it takes shape at the intersection of inner experiences and the surrounding world. The works evoke and challenge the iconographic compositions of Eastern Orthodox aesthetics, while
reinterpreting them through the visual language of contemporary Pop, the critical perspectives of feminist artistic practices, and subversive approaches to female body poetics.
acb Gallery
Founded in Budapest in 2003, acb Gallery has consistently grown in the past two decades establishing itself as one of the leading actors in the Hungarian and Eastern European art market. Initially, the gallery’s focus was on Hungarian and international emerging and mid-generation neo-conceptual artists, who became active after the political changes in the former Eastern Bloc in 1990. Since then, the gallery has expanded its focus, and now represents numerous Hungarian neo-avant-garde artists who have left their mark on art history since the 1960s and 1970s, as well as members of the youngest generations beside the already established ones.
Since the autumn of 2022, acb runs three exhibition spaces: the main gallery space, acb Attachment, which serves as a project space, and acb Plus, dedicated to large-scale solo and group presentations.
acb’s research and publishing department, acb ResearchLab was founded in 2015. This platform within the gallery aims to fill the gaps in the reception and publication of Hungarian neo-avant-garde and post-avant-garde oeuvres by studying bodies of works and art phenomena previously treated as peripheral.
The gallery holds significant importance within the global art market, actively promoting its artists nationally as well as internationally and engaging in art fairs, such as the Art Basel in Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, the Frieze Masters London or the ARCO Madrid.
