The Momental-Ivana Franke

eröffnung/opening: 5. Mai, 2006 | 19-23:00
6. Mai - 10. Juni, 2006

	Calendar Curator Text Austellung/Exhibition Larissa Fassler Ivana Franke Germaine Koh Stephan Kurr Jeff Preiss Åsa Ståhl Lectures Mark Paterson Christel Weiler + Barbara Gronau Johan Zetterquist mit Judith Manzoni Workshops Stephan Kurr + Jürgen Krusche Markus Miessen


		Franke \| Construction Site, Zadar, Croatia. 2003

Ivana Franke

“ Construction site" - Zadar, Croatia 2003.
Photography and text documentation work for The Momental. B/W photo 210cm X 35cm.

The installation site underwent several historical transitions: in Roman times it housed a Forum and in Christian times, three highly important churches and an episcopal complex. At the time of installation, it existed as an undefined space.

The Construction Site installation was built in the position of the former basilica, more precisely inside of it’s plan, as a temporary framework for construction of the object - without the object itself. Scaffolding was installed to form a cube and covered with a white screen (commonly used for construction work). The inner space of a cube was closed from entrance and from view. The absence of content and purpose of the site opened a space for the observer’s subjective projections resulting from mental processes of questioning the possibilities for the objects' actual employment.

Ivana Franke was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1973. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb 1997. Participated in P.S.1 special project program in 2001, Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) Kitakyushu (Japan) research program 2001/2002, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), Helsinki, residency program 2004.

Exhibitions include: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; La Biennale di Venezia – Metamorph, 9th International Architecture Exhibition, Croatian Pavilion, Venice (with L.Pelivan, P. Mickovic and T.Plejic), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA), Riga, Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne.

She works with temporary installations which probe the conditions of visibility/invisibility, materiality/non-materiality, presence/absence; questioning possibilities of our (visual) attention and sensibility, and awareness of the process of perception.

Franke currently lives and works in Zagreb.