My interest lies in perception and communication by experimenting within the field of Semiotics. On this artistic journey, I revolve around the question: When does a visual information perceives meaning and why?
Ivo Zibulla’s works span painting, sculpture, installation and participatory performance. Despite their formal diversity, they are united by a common interest: the question of how people find their bearings in a complex world.
Signs, maps, found objects, natural forms, memories and communal rituals appear in his works as cultural tools for creating meaning. Zibulla does not examine the world as a given reality, but rather the processes through which reality becomes tangible and meaningful to people.
His works create spaces between personal memory and collective experience, between material presence and symbolic significance. In doing so, they give rise to systems of images and actions that offer not so much answers as opportunities for self-positioning. Orientation is presented here not as fixed knowledge, but as an ongoing process of perception, connection and meaning-making.
milestones
2023 – starting regular Butoh practice
2019 – Masters degree in Wuqigong by Master Chen, Miaoli (Taiwan)
2012-17 – extensive travels South and South-East Asia
2008 – co-founder of design studio ungestalt, Leipzig
2007– University of Applied Sciences Leipzig, Diploma in Publishing & Printing Engineering
2001 – 2012 professional drummer
performance
2026 – Versuch einen Drachen zu gebären IV, Sachsenbrücke, Leipzig (D)
2025 – Versuch einen Drachen zu gebären III, Volkspark, Leipzig (D)
2024 – Ich bin, was du willst, Rubikon, Leipzig (D)
2024 – Ich präsentatiere: Nichts., Rubikon, Leipzig (D)
2024 – Versuch einen Drachen zu gebären II, Rubikon, Leipzig (D)
2024 – Heitere Wolkenstudie, Rubikon, Leipzig (D)
2023 – Versuch, einen Drachen zu gebären, Phillipus, Leipzig (D)
shows, fairs
2026 – Consciousness (Rituals), Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice (Italy)
2025 – Geflecht, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig
2025 – Einblicke, Hier+Jetzt, Leipzig (Solo)
2024 – Analysis of Anger, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig
2023 – Insel, Wirkbau, Chemnitz
2023 – Kunst/Mitte, Magdeburg
2023 – Duality of the Whole, Medina Art Gallery, Rome (Italy)
2022 – Digital exhibition Brain cake, La Pedrera, Barcelona (Spain)
2022 – ADRENOCROMO for dinner, Fuerteventura (Spain)
2022 – Leberwurstlila/Klebebandgelb, URBN Jungle, Leipzig
2022 – Unfolding Stories, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan (Italy)
2022 – Consciousness (Rituals), Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice (Italy)
2022 – Plasticity, Galeria Azur, Madrid (Spain)
2021 – A glipse of digital nature, Zwischenfisch gallery, Leipzig (Solo)
2019 – pixelethics, LOFFT, Leipzig (Solo)
2019 – Retrographics, Gamescom, Köln
2019 – Feminist Pixel Pioneers, Akko Hummus Bar, Leipzig (Solo)
2018 – Chaos Computer Club, Designers Open 2018, Leipzig
2018 – pixelethics, Lindenow Kunstfestival, Leipzig
2018 – Art Cologne, Cologne
2017 – Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg
2017 – Nacht der Kunst, Leipzig
2013 – Pac Man Mania, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
collabs, festivals
2025 – Gemeinsam Beflügeln, Chemnitz, with Lucian Patermann (D)
2023 – Voices of the deep, with Juli Zöllner, Willy Frederking, Leipzig (D)
2023 – Leuchte mal hier her, Phillipus, Leipzig, with Ronny Valdorf, Lucian Patermann (D)
2022 – Rubug Urban Art Festival, Gelsenkirchen (D)
2021 – Ancient Trance Festival, Landart Project, Taucha (D)
2020 – g.flow Laptop Stand Art Edition, with grapelab (South Korea)
2019 – Ancient Trance Festival, Landart Project, Taucha (D)
2018 – Darkroom, Delet(h)e, Galerie Hier + Jetzt, Leipzig (D)
2017 – Klang(t)raum, Gotteskinderzimmer, Galerie Hier + Jetzt, Leipzig (D)
2016 – Herzenswege, Galerie Hier + Jetzt, Leipzig (D)
2016 – Cat God Parking Lot, Wuwu Gallery, Tainan City, Taiwan, with CC Lin (Taiwan),
2015 – Teestube, Ibug 2015, Alte Schlosserei, Plauen, Germany, with AIM (D)
2014 – Näherin, Ibug 2014, Alte Farbenfabrik, Crimmitschau, with AIM (D)
residencies
2016 – Art House, Tainan City, Taiwan