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Ivana Cholakova

Ivana Cholakova is a writer and editorial assistant at frieze. She lives in London, UK.

Considering this year’s title, ‘Foreigners Everywhere', we look back at how artists have addressed entrenched ideas of nationhood with bold, and at times comical, interventions

BY Ivana Cholakova AND Angel Lambo |

In her debut novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey, the writer experiments with form whilst interrogating literary theory and the politics of language 

BY Ivana Cholakova |

We met with the artist in her exhibition at London's Pictorum Gallery to discuss how the body shapes her perception of the world

BY Ivana Cholakova AND Alicia Radage |

The artist’s survey at the Courtauld Gallery in London skillfully challenges tradition to establish a complex depiction of Black subjects

BY Ivana Cholakova |

From Dorothy Sze’s dystopian romance to M. John Harrison's future classic 'anti-memoir', here are our favourite books of the year

In a new series of postpartum nudes at Tiwani Contemporary, London, the artist paints a realistic picture of intimate moments

BY Ivana Cholakova AND Miranda Forrester |

The artist discusses his found-image collection and the mutating, collaborative motifs it inspires within his practice

BY Ivana Cholakova AND Anthony Cudahy |

In the wide-ranging exhibition in Timișoara, Romania, the voices and experiences of Balkan artists resist Western reductionism

BY Ivana Cholakova |