Léa Perraudin and Iva Rešetar, Tracing paraffin accumulations with UV light on the coastline of the Curonian Spit, 2024. Photo: Iva Rešetar
  • Residency period: Winter 2025
  • Latent Accumulations: Walking Along Paraffin Pollution at Nida Coastline

Iva Rešetar is an architect and interdisciplinary researcher in the field of environmental design at the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her interests focus on fluid and marginalised materialities in architecture, methods and aesthetic practices of energy and climate adaptation, and their implications for the regeneration and repair of the built environment. She studied architecture at the Belgrade University and the Städelschule in Frankfurt and received her doctorate from the Berlin University of the Arts. Iva has been a practicing architect in Belgrade and Germany, and has taught and researched among others at Akademie Schloss Solitude, ArcInTexETN, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, and CCA Montreal.

Recent publications include Breath: Morphological, Ecological and Social Dimensions (De Gruyter, 2022), co-edited with Linn Burchert, and Thermodynamic Structures: Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture (forthcoming, UdK Verlag).

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Iva Rešetar, Constructing Microclimates, installation at the group exhibition Speculate, Collaborate, Define at Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2016. Photo: Iva Rešetar
Iva Rešetar, Modulating Heat with Phase Change Materials in Architecture, 2019. Photo: Jens Ziehe
Linn Burchert and Iva Rešetar, Atem / Breath: Gestalterische, ökologische und soziale
Dimensionen / Morphological, ecological and social dimensions, 2022. Publisher: De Gruyter 
Iva Rešetar, Human-Plant Encounters, workshop and experiments at the
Experimental Surgery Charité, 2023. Photo: Michelle Mantel
Iva Rešetar and Léa Perraudin, My ABC is Active, exhibition at the Material Archive,
Stifting Sitterwerk, St. Gallen. 2023. Photo: Katalin Deér