Zhana Ivanova: Ongoing Retrospective (Chapter 2)

This is the second chapter of an ongoing project that reverses the typical nature of the retrospective, since not only is the Bulgarian performance artist Zhana Ivanova (b. 1977) at the beginning of her career, but, for the exhibition, we are looking forward instead of backward: exhibitions will be staged chapter by chapter, for years to come (as long as Kunsthalle Basel’s current director remains in place), creating a retrospective that takes form over time. For this chapter, Ivanova will restage her very first performance piece, Borrowed Splendour,from 2007.