Croatian / Dutch (Born 1983)
Contemporary Textile Art, Conceptual Fashion, and Wearable Sculpture
Operating from the avant-garde hub of Amsterdam, Iva Supic has carved out a unique space where the boundaries of fashion, sculpture, and theological philosophy completely dissolve.
Her artistic philosophy is centered on the human body as a site of historical trauma, religious memory, and existential vulnerability.
Through her complex wearable sculptures, she explores the delicate friction between external societal armor and internal emotional fragility, frequently addressing how spiritual dogma and cultural identity are physically woven into the very fabrics that protect or restrict the human form.
Supic utilizes a highly experimental material palette that merges classical haute couture techniques with raw industrial and organic matter, including lambskin, treated felt, heavy canvas, and metallic threads.
Her technical process involves deconstructing traditional garment patterns and reassembling them into non-functional, heavy architectural shapes that wrap around or restrict human movement.
She often subjects her materials to weathering processes, distressing, and staining to imbue each piece with a haunting sense of historical weight, loss, and physical memory.
She achieved widespread international critical acclaim as the visionary founder of Fashion of Christ, a highly conceptual, transdisciplinary art project that shook up the contemporary textile scene by cross-examining religious iconography through a modern lens.
Her landmark multimedia installations and performance-based exhibitions, most notably her celebrated series Fire and Lambskin, have been featured prominently in elite European design weeks and contemporary art spaces.
Her work continues to attract intense study from critics fascinated by the intersection of performance art, material manipulation, and identity politics.
Solo exhibitions
2026 — Hafnia Foundation, Aarhus
2024 — Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2022 — Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2020 — National Gallery, Reykjavík
Group exhibitions
2025 — 60th Venice Biennale
2023 — Sharjah Biennial 15
2021 — Yokohama Triennale
Public collections
MoMA · Tate Modern · Centre Pompidou ·
M+ Hong Kong · Astrup Fearnley