Hannaka is a French artist born in Monaco in 1966
from a French mother and a Italian-Croatian father. In 1983, already
very passionate about art, Hannaka gets in the Villa Thiole, a
drawing school in Nice, in order to prepare for the admission of the
ENSBA (National School of Fine Arts) in Paris.
In 1986, she gets
in the ENSBA and works in the studio of Jean Michel Alberola. 1992 :
Hannaka graduates in painting at the ENSBA with the congratulations
of the jury and with the support of Jean Michel Alberola. She exposes
a part of her diploma’s work during the exhibition of students who
passed with distinction organize by the ENSBA.
In 1993, Hannaka
leaves for Berlin via the Erasmus exchange and starts a series of
installations in the German capital that she stages and photography.
Back in France, she exposes her work realized in Berlin at the CROUS
of Paris under the supervision of the ENSBA. Hannaka establish
herself in Paris and works on paintings and installations. During
that period of time, photography takes a larger place in her artistic
creation. She participates to many collective expositions : La jeune
peinture de Paris, Le Salon de Montrouge.
It is during a trip to
New York in 2008 that photography really imposed itself to Hannaka.
It will lead to the birth of two contrasted but complementary series
of work : one is devoted to the street – the crowd, the noise, the
mouvement – and the other one to the skyscrapers pointing towards
the sky . Hannaka only remembers their geometrical forms undoing all
notion of perspective.
In 2009, Hannaka presents her work on New
York during a personal exhibition in Paris. One of her photographies
of New York will be used as an initiator for the rest of her creative
work : « The Walk » – men and women passing in front of
a garage made of corrugated sheet metal – in this environnement
carefully orchestrated, Hannaka allows the unpredictable mouvement of
passing by people to be capture by her camera which creates
composition and stages the mixing of materials by the mouvement. It
can only be perceived by the camera and not the human eye.
New
series deepening that concept will appear : Cluster, Molien, Jardin
des Tuileries and more recently Fight. In 2012, Hannaka collaborates
with the Depardieu Gallery located in Nice and the Rigassi Gallery in
Berne. Many personal and collective exhibitions as well as
contemporary art fairs will be organized by these gallerists in order
to present the work of the artist. In November 2014, she participates
to Fotofover with the Depardieu Gallery.
