Ivana Franke is an artist based in Berlin. In her work, largely installations, Franke investigates edgy, often immeasurable spatial, visual and imaginary phenomena in relation to the affective mental and bodily states they produce. She orchestrates arresting spatial structures, to expose disjunctions and offer unexpected connections within the spatiotemporal matrix we inhabit – where what is close appears distant, where dimensions flip, where thing...read more
Ivana Franke is an artist based in Berlin. In her work, largely installations, Franke investigates edgy, often immeasurable spatial, visual and imaginary phenomena in relation to the affective mental and bodily states they produce. She orchestrates arresting spatial structures, to expose disjunctions and offer unexpected connections within the spatiotemporal matrix we inhabit – where what is close appears distant, where dimensions flip, where things appear where they are not. By providing a rupture in the aesthetic hegemony of the everyday those works speak to unbounded and uncertain background areas of our minds.
She represented Croatia at the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale (2004) with a collaborative work called Frameworks, with architects P. Mišković, Toma Plejić, and Lea Pelivan, and with the solo show Latency at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Franke’s work was exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including P.S. 1, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Manifesta 7; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka; Musée de la Chasse and de la Nature, Paris; New Art Space Amsterdam; Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania; and Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah.
She has produced a number of public projects, including Room for Running Ghosts in 2011 and Light Carpet in 2010. She has been collaborating on the research project Seeing with Eyes Closed with the neuroscientist Ida Momennejad. The project was presented at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 2011, at Lauba in Zagreb, at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in 2012 and in the Max Planck Science Gallery, Berlin, which included a series of discussions with the leading neuroscientists, neurologists, theorists of science, curators and artists exploring the topic.
Franke studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and participated in research programs at the Kitakyushu Center for Contemporary Art and Institut für Raumexperimente, UdK, Berlin, as well as residency programs at PS1, New York and NIFCA, Helsinki.
