Tamara Ivanova was born in Tbilissi, Georgia. She graduated and promoted from Moscow Institute of Graphic Arts in 1986, and later lectured at the same Institute.
From the early 90s she is active as an artist and designer. She moved to Berlin in 1992. Since that she took part in numerous exhibitions in Germany, France, Russia, United Kingdom, Austria. Italy and USA.
Solo exhibitions (chosen)
1997 Magnetic Brush, Gallery El Locco, Berlin.
1999 Synonimous Structures, Graphic and artist books, Paul Bianchini Gallery TONER, Sens, France
2001 Russian Center of culture and science, Berlin
2006 Az_ALpha_Alef, GAD Gallery, Berlin
2018 Outlines, Artgeschoss Gallery, Berlin
2022 stadtfaltenstadt, Vinogradov Gallery, Berlin
Group exhibitions (chosen)
1996 Le Dernier Souper, Gallery Espace Owane, Paris
1996 Last supper, Gallery Dünzendorfer, Linz, Austria
1997 Livres d´Artistes, Paul Bianchini Gallery TONER, Paris.
1998 Estampes Numeriques, Paul Bianchini Gallery TONER, Sens
2000 Christmas show, Art-Concept Gallery, Berlin
2004 Performance at FAB TV Gala, house „Berliner Festspiele“
2008 RE-Exhibition, Northampton University Gallery
2008 Mental Cost, Prasentation at TYPO-BERLIN-13, House of World cultures, Berlin
2009 Art of book, Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow
2010 Hand-made, Zarizino palace, Moscow, Russia
2010 Sky in art, Russian museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2010 Russian handmade book, Marceille, France
2011 Forum, Arsenal museum, Kiew (Ukraine)
2011 Museum of modern arts ERARTA, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 Biennale WATER, Bad Breisig, Germany
2011 8th International Fair and Competition of the Artists books in Albi, France
Artist Book, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2012 Central Booking in Berlin, K-Salon, Berlin
2011 Russian contemporary art, Fondi, Italy
2011 Toner!Toner! 20 Years of BIANCHINI Gallery Paris - Sens, Museum Orangerie, Sens, France.
2013 The First Sign, Zarizino Palace, Moscow
2013 ARTGESCHOSS, city-hall of Wolfenbüttel, Deutschland
2013 5th nternational artistbook exhibition, King-Stephan-Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
2014 Sub Rosa, Darwin Museum, Moscow
2014 ARTGESCHOSS, Gallery Rowland & Kutschera, Berlin
2015 CODEX Artist Book Fair and Symposium. Berkeley, California, USA
2015 Wild life, Artgeschoss Gallery, Berlin
2015 Sights into the time, collection Reinhard Grüner, arthouse Fürstenfeldbruck, München
2015 Still life, Artgeschoss Gallery, Berlin
2015 Central booking Gallery at NY Print week, New York
2016 ARTGESCHOSS. Academy of arts, Braunschweig
2017 Livret Toner. Museum Orangerie, Sens, France
2017 172 Neu Bookobjects. Museum of applied arts, Frankfurt am Main,
2018 BookPrintArt. Hamburg Museum of Work
2018 Modern bookart in Lyrik Kabinett, Munich
2019 Reconstruction of the Universe, KMB Ludwig Museum, Cologne
2019 !?Arrived?! Centrum Judaikum, Berlin
2020 1. Editionale, Univercity of applied art Wienna
International Festival for art und science, Moscow
2021 III International Graphic Arts Triennal, Art museum Novosibirsk, Russia
Architekture and Nature, BAS Creative Space, Berlin
2022 Le Dernier Souper, Maison d'Abraham, Sens, France
Editionale, Ludwig Museum Kologne
STABI Kulturwerk, Berlin
2023 Artbook Wien, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien
Collections i.a.:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, D
Deutsches Buch- und Schriftmuseum, Leipzig, D
TATE modern library, London, UK
Kunstbibliothek Berlin, D
Kunstbibliothek Ludwig Museum(KMB), Köln, D
Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, L
Collection of Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Rus
Orangerie Museum, Sens, F
Museum für Fotokopie, Mülheim an der Ruhr, D
Moscow State library of foreign literature, Rus
Art library of the University of Miami, USA
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
Bauhaus Museum, Weimar
and numerous private collections in Germany, Russia, France and Holland.