Ivanna Nejelski (2003) is an artist and writer based in Ghent, Belgium. Her interdisciplinary practice navigates the space between the performative acts of ‘showing’ and ‘telling,’ resulting in conceptual installations that explore the dynamic relationships between the artwork, the artist, the institution, and the viewer. Her work continuously shifts between the seen and the unseen, the spoken and the unspoken.
Through nomadic and research-driven experiences, she collects personal, political and fictional stories. Her installations balances between the real and the fictional, examining the mechanisms by which narratives are framed, owned or kept secret over time and overseas.
In 2025 she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at LUCA School of Arts in Ghent and was a participant at LungA School in Seydisfjordur in the fall of 2025. From October 2026 she will be studying at Stadeschüle in Frankfurt in the class of Dora Budor.