Ivana Franke: Latency (Atrio)

Friday 20/03/2009 at 8 pm, Kibela - the opening of the exhibition by the Croatian artist Ivana Franke.

In Kibela, Ivana Franke presented her spatial installation Latency (Atrio), part of the project that she presented at Venice Biennial 2007.
A great share of her works is made particularly for or adapted to the space where they are shown. As viewers enter one of the artist's ambients, they become active participants. Their willingness to move and observe defines the work in any given moment.
Common denominators of her work are exhibition space, light and movement of the visitor through space.
Ivana Franke integrates into her works emptiness as a motif based on visual/aesthetic priority. In the spirit of geometric abstraction she exhibits "bodiless items", spatial cages that on the verge of what is real and speculative certainly represent nonexistent volumes. They are often the so-called Platonic solids, such as tetrahedron (pyramid), hexahedron (cube), octahedron, icosahedron and dodecahedron, but they are hollow, their borders can only be imagined. The artist's work is based on multiplication of identical elements. Another constant in the work of Ivana Franke is her interest in the volume of space, where the gallery space is not only a passive environment surrounding the item, the elements of its structure and basic movement directions becoming a component part of the work of art. The objects made by the artist are always white or transparent, thus neutralising the borders of space. White is the colour of consciousness, integrating all other colours, the absolute non-colour created by mixing all the colours of the spectrum. The artist uses this colouristic "pleonasm" to problematise the limits of visual perception and minimise visual stimuli, thus wishing to encourage the viewer to "lose the sense" of space and establish a new questioning of it. This is often about optical - kinetic interventions in space, achieved through animation of light and shadows and through effects of levitation and glowing. The artist's starting point in graphic art also shows in her new-media projects. Thus graphism, i.e. creation of regular objects according to the geometrical matrix is always present in the interaction of 2D and 3D elements that often assume the shape of raster.
Harmonious integration of the material/immaterial, visible/invisible, tangible/intangible, constant/changing requires perfect implementation parallel to the industry of prefabricated elements, yet having its antipode in minute hand creation. Manual procedure remains the core of her artistic expression. Sensitive, minimalist, harmonious, geometrical, fragile, unattainable, graphical... are the adjectives that are best to describe the work of Ivana Franke.

Ivana Franke (1973) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, Department of Graphic design, mentored by Prof Miroslav Šutej. She lives and works in Zagreb.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2008
B.O.P Gallery, Zagreb
2007
Linienstrasse, Berlin
Rigo Gallery, Novigrad
Gradska galerija, Labin
Latency, Croatian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2006
Bežigrajska galerija 2, Ljubljana
Siemens_artLab, Vienna
Maerz Galerie, Linz
Croatian Academy of Science and Arts (CASA) Prints and Drawings Department, Zagreb
Projection, Mochvara, Zagreb
2005
Avoid (in collaboration with S. Vujičić and D. Očko), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
2004
2 – 3D, VN Gallery, Zagreb
Nifca, Helsinki
Frameworks, (in collaborationa with L. Pelivan, P. Mišković and T. Plejić), Croatian Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia – Architettura,
Venice
Art workshop Barutana, Slavonski Brod
2003
Marino Cettina Gallery, Umag
Museum of Contemporary Art, Project Room, Zagreb
2002
modeli, Križić – Roban Gallery, Zagreb
2001
full empty space, Special Project, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Nova Gallery, Zagreb
2000
Juraj Plančić Gallery, Stari Grad, Hvar
Inner space GF, Forum Gallery, Zagreb
1999
surface, Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica
1998
SC Gallery, Zagreb
1997
NOVA Gallery, Zagreb
1996
Miroslav Kraljević Gallery, Zagreb

Group exhibitions (selection)
2008
Mediascape, Museo Lapidarjum, Novigrad
U drugom filmu, Motovun film festival, Motovun
Manifesta 7, Ex-Alumix, Bolzano
Experiment Marathon Rejkjavik, Rejkyavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
On a clear day you can see forever, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna
3rd Beijing Biennial, National Art Museum, Beijing
4th Croatian triennial of drawings, Kabinet grafike HAZU, Zagreb
Genius Loci, SC Gallery, Zagreb
113 days, Linienstrasse 113, Berlin
Formal – Engaged, MMSU Rijeka, Rijeka
2007
Kinetizam – od početaka do danas, Umjetnički paviljon, Zagreb
Contemporary Croatian Art, Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi
Central Europe Revisited I, Schloss Esterházy, Eisenstadt
Artists, B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb
Levity, The Drawing Center, New York
2006
Sodobna hrvaška grafika, Galerija Meduza, Koper
Serijalnost, Galerija likovnih umjetnosti, Osijek
41st Zagreb Salon, Zagreb
Device art, Galerija Galženica, Velika Gorica / Ozone, Beograd / Rx Gallery, San Francisco
Momental, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
Central, Výstavná sieò SVÚ, Bratislava / Umjetnička galerija Bosne i
Hercegovine, Sarajevo / Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia / Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana
2005
Postskulptura, HDLU, Zagreb
Multimeridijan, Galerija Kazamat , Osijek
Materika, Castello di Gorizia, Gorizia
Plavi Salon, Gradska loža, Zadar
Za-Zen, Moria Gallery, Stari Grad, Hvar
Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean, Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples
Linear structures, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), Riga
2004
Zadar Live: Refresh!, Zadar
Multimeridijan 04, MMKC, Pula
Contemporary Croatian Sculpture, Galerija Kazamat, Osijek
Painting and Object, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik
Passage d’Europe, Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne
Zaboravljena mjesta, MKC, Dom mladih, Split
2003
Transparent, 38th Zagreb Salon – Architecture, Zagreb
Art Is Texture, Forum, Zadar
3rd Croatian Triennial of Graphic Art, CASA Prints and Drawings Department, Zagreb
Light, HDLU, Zagreb
2002
Here Tomorrow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Collection of Contemporary Croatian Art Filip trade, Galerie Manes, Prague
Links, Graphica Creativa, Jyväskylä Art Museum, Jyväskylä
Human/Nature, Trafo House for Contemporary Art, Budapest
Monochromes, Art Pavilion, Zagreb
The Void Archive, (in collaboration with P. Reed), CCA Project Gallery, Kitakyushu
Safty, CCA open studio, Kitakyushu
Walls and Space, Mali salon, Rijeka
2001
Microwave, CCA Maeda Studio, Kitakyushu
Confrontation and Continuity of New Tendencies, Istarska sabornica, Poreč
10. Miedzynarodowe Triennale Tkaniny, Centralne Muzeum Wlokiennictwa, Lodz
2000
Light, Break 21, Ljubljana
1999
Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka
Project Confrotation, CASA Prints and Drawings Department, Zagreb
Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranean, Rome
1998
Artists in Residence, Mino Washi Paper Museum, Mino
25th Salon of Young Artists, HDLU, Zagreb
Moja Altamira, MGLC, Galerija Tivoli, Ljubljana
Inter-Kontakt-Graphic, Prague
1997
22nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art, National Gallery, Ljubljana
1996
24th Salon of Young Artists, HDLU, Zagreb

Residencies
2004
Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA)
2001/2002
Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu (CCAK), Kitakyushu, Japan,
2001
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

The exhibition is on display until 04/04/2009.

"Special thanks go to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMSU) from Rijeka for lending us the works of Ivana Franke for this exhibition and to the company e art lights (Scenska i dekorativna led rasvjeta) from Zagreb for financial support of the project."