Ivânia Ponte is a Portuguese freelance contemporary artist living in, Germany.

She studied graphic design and fine arts in Stuttgart. The artist avoids suggestive subtitles and cyclic marathons.

Every piece of art created by this German artist with Portuguese roots speaks for itself and is unique with regard to motives and colours.

Nevertheless, they have many things in common: at first, it’s the irony with which Ponte interprets the life. Then, her perception of women comes next that she splits up mysteriously and gracefully in order to caricature this image on decisive points along the way. Her strong visual imagery that does not focus on beauty, but on flaws. The term neo realism barely grasps her artistic portfolio.

Ponte confuses the artistic tradition of accuracy with a cryptical fragmentation that reminds the observer of daydreams. She portrays women in such a tangibility which dissipates posthumously in the creation process and opposes the promise of female beauty.

This happens for leaving the observer behind with increased mindfulness for her equation of fragility and fury which even includes stylistic considerations. The form is the result of her variable tools: the use of brush strokes with thick, oil-based colours. Those “thrive” during an ongoing transformation for several days. Sketchily placed pigments – or in its best form – naive ornaments consisting of multi-layered wax crayon techniques. They are vital for the expression of a femininity without boundaries.

Moreover, at the same time, those techniques confront the observer with an incompleteness which represents a continuously imaginable change. 

Her works are in private collections, in various cities in Germany, Portugal, France, Spain and the United States.