Ivan Lupi
@ivanlupi.bsky.social
Performance artist
Author of:
🔺’Not as simple as it sounds’
✋🏻 ‘Salut’
❌ ‘X’
🩸 ‘An open wound’
💥’Immigrants welcome’
Author of:
🔺’Not as simple as it sounds’
✋🏻 ‘Salut’
❌ ‘X’
🩸 ‘An open wound’
💥’Immigrants welcome’
Pinned
In between facial hair, in between places, in between state of minds.
January 16, 2026 at 1:30 AM
In between facial hair, in between places, in between state of minds.
Another name has been placed.
The list keeps growing.
Tattoo artist: Mario Gregor.
The list keeps growing.
Tattoo artist: Mario Gregor.
January 13, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Another name has been placed.
The list keeps growing.
Tattoo artist: Mario Gregor.
The list keeps growing.
Tattoo artist: Mario Gregor.
From:
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Tattoo Artist: Mark Kevin Bayot
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Tattoo Artist: Mark Kevin Bayot
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 AM
From:
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Tattoo Artist: Mark Kevin Bayot
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Tattoo Artist: Mark Kevin Bayot
More from ‘Before and after George’ at the New Zealand Tattoo Festival.
Tattoo artist: Poli.Pokes
Tattoo artist: Poli.Pokes
December 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
More from ‘Before and after George’ at the New Zealand Tattoo Festival.
Tattoo artist: Poli.Pokes
Tattoo artist: Poli.Pokes
From:
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Artist: Gabrielle Cronje.
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Artist: Gabrielle Cronje.
December 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
From:
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Artist: Gabrielle Cronje.
‘Before and after George’
at the New Zealand Tattoo Convention 2025.
Artist: Gabrielle Cronje.
Just wrapped up a visit to the incredible City Art Depot to see three of my works in Showcase 2025! 🎨
Perfect way to close out the year’s exhibitions. I’m so grateful to the team at City Art Depot – their curatorial vision and meticulous care in handling the work really shows.
Perfect way to close out the year’s exhibitions. I’m so grateful to the team at City Art Depot – their curatorial vision and meticulous care in handling the work really shows.
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Just wrapped up a visit to the incredible City Art Depot to see three of my works in Showcase 2025! 🎨
Perfect way to close out the year’s exhibitions. I’m so grateful to the team at City Art Depot – their curatorial vision and meticulous care in handling the work really shows.
Perfect way to close out the year’s exhibitions. I’m so grateful to the team at City Art Depot – their curatorial vision and meticulous care in handling the work really shows.
Throw back to some cute behind the scenes shots of ‘IMMIGRANTS WELCOME’, performed at the Performance Arcade a long ago.
December 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Throw back to some cute behind the scenes shots of ‘IMMIGRANTS WELCOME’, performed at the Performance Arcade a long ago.
Introduction thread.
Name: Ivan Lupi
Gender: Ivan Lupi
Pronoun: Ivan Lupi
Country of birth: Italy
Living in: Aotearoa/New Zealand
Date of birth: 1972
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Profession: Artist
Favourite hobby: Urban walking
Cat person
Name: Ivan Lupi
Gender: Ivan Lupi
Pronoun: Ivan Lupi
Country of birth: Italy
Living in: Aotearoa/New Zealand
Date of birth: 1972
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Profession: Artist
Favourite hobby: Urban walking
Cat person
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Introduction thread.
Name: Ivan Lupi
Gender: Ivan Lupi
Pronoun: Ivan Lupi
Country of birth: Italy
Living in: Aotearoa/New Zealand
Date of birth: 1972
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Profession: Artist
Favourite hobby: Urban walking
Cat person
Name: Ivan Lupi
Gender: Ivan Lupi
Pronoun: Ivan Lupi
Country of birth: Italy
Living in: Aotearoa/New Zealand
Date of birth: 1972
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Profession: Artist
Favourite hobby: Urban walking
Cat person
Last hotel room coffee and shower in Melbourne.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Last hotel room coffee and shower in Melbourne.
Westwood’s Punk Vs. Kawakubo’s Conceptualism: where my philosophical and conceptual side is literally kicked away in favour of raw political anger.
Sorry #CommedesGarçons but #VivienneWestwood is the winner here.
Sorry #CommedesGarçons but #VivienneWestwood is the winner here.
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Westwood’s Punk Vs. Kawakubo’s Conceptualism: where my philosophical and conceptual side is literally kicked away in favour of raw political anger.
Sorry #CommedesGarçons but #VivienneWestwood is the winner here.
Sorry #CommedesGarçons but #VivienneWestwood is the winner here.
From:
‘Not as simple as it sounds’
6 days durational performance.
Christchurch, 2024.
Credits: Heather Joy Milne.
‘Not as simple as it sounds’
6 days durational performance.
Christchurch, 2024.
Credits: Heather Joy Milne.
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
From:
‘Not as simple as it sounds’
6 days durational performance.
Christchurch, 2024.
Credits: Heather Joy Milne.
‘Not as simple as it sounds’
6 days durational performance.
Christchurch, 2024.
Credits: Heather Joy Milne.
The gym, a cathedral of inadequacy, where mirrors reinforce my failures and chrome equipment feels like monuments to what I am not.
#gymroutine
#gymroutine
December 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The gym, a cathedral of inadequacy, where mirrors reinforce my failures and chrome equipment feels like monuments to what I am not.
#gymroutine
#gymroutine
My days in New Plymouth during the New Zealand Tattoo Festival 2025.
#notatattooartist
#notatattooartist
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
My days in New Plymouth during the New Zealand Tattoo Festival 2025.
#notatattooartist
#notatattooartist
‘SALUT’ acknowledges all people in the world living with HIV.
The Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2025.
Credits: Andy Barker
The Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2025.
Credits: Andy Barker
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
‘SALUT’ acknowledges all people in the world living with HIV.
The Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2025.
Credits: Andy Barker
The Performance Arcade, Wellington, 2025.
Credits: Andy Barker
53 years and counting.
November 30, 2025 at 7:13 AM
53 years and counting.
‘Before and after George’
In this action my skin Is marked by tattoo artists who are accepting to donate a stencil-free tattoo representing the names of Black Americans killed by the Police.
Ink: Massi Elle
Image: M. Campazzi
#performanceart #art #ivanlupiperformanceartist
In this action my skin Is marked by tattoo artists who are accepting to donate a stencil-free tattoo representing the names of Black Americans killed by the Police.
Ink: Massi Elle
Image: M. Campazzi
#performanceart #art #ivanlupiperformanceartist
February 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
‘Before and after George’
In this action my skin Is marked by tattoo artists who are accepting to donate a stencil-free tattoo representing the names of Black Americans killed by the Police.
Ink: Massi Elle
Image: M. Campazzi
#performanceart #art #ivanlupiperformanceartist
In this action my skin Is marked by tattoo artists who are accepting to donate a stencil-free tattoo representing the names of Black Americans killed by the Police.
Ink: Massi Elle
Image: M. Campazzi
#performanceart #art #ivanlupiperformanceartist
‘SALUT’
is coming soon in its longest format ever attempted.
is coming soon in its longest format ever attempted.
January 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
‘SALUT’
is coming soon in its longest format ever attempted.
is coming soon in its longest format ever attempted.
Performance artist. Italy, 1972.
January 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Performance artist. Italy, 1972.