Franke Ivana, F.C.A.
Franke Ivana, F.C.A.
Membership in Academy:
- associate member – Department of Fine Arts (05/16/2024 – …)
Curriculum Vitae
Ivana Franke is a Croatian visual artist (born 21 December 1973 in Zagreb). Franke graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Graphic Art Department in 1997. She participated in a postgraduate research programme at the Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu (CCA Kitakyushu), Japan in 2001/2002. She has held several artist residencies, including at the P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art (MoMa P.S.1) in New York in 2001 and at the Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art (NIFCA) in Helsinki in 2004. In 2009/2010 she was a fellow at the Institute for Spatial Research at the University of the Arts, Berlin (Institut für Raumexperimente, UdK).
In her practice, Franke systematically explores the relationships between external reality and perceptual and cognitive processes, drawing on knowledge from a range of disciplines including neuroscience, perceptual psychology, mathematics, optics and architecture. Her spatial installations, sculptures and drawings often employ complex geometric structures, transparent materials and reflected light to produce apparently ephemeral phenomena that draw attention to the empty and the invisible. Her work poses a profound challenge to the viewer’s experience and interaction with the environment, revealing that expansions of sensibilities allow for transformations of realities.
She represented Croatia at the 52nd Venice Biennale with the exhibition Latency in Area Scarpa, Palazzo Querini Stampalia. Other major solo exhibitions include Twilight. Neither perception nor non-perception, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; Perceptual Drift (Galaxies in Mind), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; and the special project Full Empty Space, MoMA PS1, New York. As part of the exhibition Limits of Perception Lab. Your Country of Two Dimensions is Not Spacious Enough at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin; Retreat into Darkness. Towards a Phenomenology of the Unknown at the Schering Foundation Project Space, Berlin; and Seeing with Eyes Closed at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, she has initiated and participated in interdisciplinary symposia and collaborated with scientists in the fields of cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
Franke participated in over 200 group exhibitions, including the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale; Manifesta 7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art; the 11th Shanghai Biennale; the Yokohama Triennale 2020; the 4th Hangzhou Triennial; and institutions such as Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; MACBA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona; Palazzo Esposizioni, Rome; Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Deichtorhallen, Samlung Falckenberg, Hamburg; Muzeum Współczesne Wrocław; Halle 14, Centre for Contemporary Art, Leipzig; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi; Sharjah Art Foundation; Museum of Old and New Art, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania; Art Museum Reykjavik and many others.
Her public installation Rezonanca nepredviđenog was temporarily installed around the Music Pavilion on Zrinjevac in Zagreb. The first iteration of the work – Resonance of the Unforeseen – covered the long facade of the Yokohama Museum of Art. The kinetic installation Frameworks, a collaborative work with the group of authors, with which they represented Croatia at the Venice Architecture Biennale, is installed in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. She is the author of several permanent installations, including the sculpture Room for Running Ghosts in the Lone Hotel in Rovinj, Echoes of the Light Second, and Traces of Elsewhere at the Nansha Garden Resort in Nansha, Guaghzhou. She is the author of several permanent installations, including the sculpture Room for Running Ghosts at the Lone Hotel in Rovinj, Echoes of the Light Second and Traces of Elsewhere at the Nansha Garden Resort in Nansha, Guaghzhou, and the Light Carpet in the office building of the Spectator Group in Zagreb. She collaborated on the design concept for the building which was awarded the Bernardo Bernardi Prize.
She received a number of awards, including the Josip Račić Award for the exhibition Lability at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb, two HAZU Awards and an award by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia at Triennials of Graphic Arts, as well as the HDLU Award for Young Artists.
She gave a number of lectures, workshops and seminars, including at IAK, TU Braunschweig, Uniarts Helsinki, ENSAPC, Paris, CIM, Apuri, UNIRI and Ambedkar University, Delhi. She participated in interdisciplinary conferences and symposia such as The Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, Arizona and Borderlands, Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin.