Ivan Hanzha
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a.k.a. @vinouuus
Ivan Hanzha (b. 1999) is a Dnipro-born (UA) and Nürnberg-based (DE) graphic designer and yet another visual artist currently studying at Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.
Artist statement
Visual storytelling in my artistic practise serves as a medium to perform my main graphic designers task, structuring of the information, in a way that allows to design potentially novel contexts.
Sourced from my personal interest in literature and my curiosity about semiotics, cultural nuances and themes of belonging and vulnerability, my practise aim to investigate phenomena of the multiplex modern socio- and geopolitical landscape - with recurrent, sometimes satirical references to literature, political, ethnographic and naive motifs.
In my works I often use ceramics and self-made mineral glazes, which I see as a durable alternative for the delicate paper and as a physical manifestation of both clear thinking processes and vague suspense/unpredictability of the final result. I see the interaction of individual sculptures or their characteristics as an important part of broadening of my practise.
Education:
2016 - 2020 - BA Digital Management - Warsaw University of Technology (PL)
2021 - now - Diploma Fine Arts/Graphic and Communication Design - Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (DE)
Exhibitions:
April 2024 - Thinking Wires - Städtische Galerie Schwabach, Germany (Group)
Press:
April 2024 - Thinking Wires - publication to the exhibition in Schwabach
February 2022 - FREIHEIT - Mini-magazine in Nürnberger Nachrichten Newspaper
Contact:
+48 577 277 108
ivanhanzhaa@gmail.com
a.k.a. @vinouuus
is a Dnipro-born (UA) and Nürnberg-based (DE) graphic designer and yet another visual artist.
Driven by exploration of symbolic forms, I seek to question and play with meanings given to these forms, objects, concepts and contexts.
Visual storytelling in my artistic practise serves as a medium to perform my main designers task, structuring the information, in a way that allows to evoke potentially novel experiences. Recurrent, sometimes satirical references to political, ethnographic and naive motifs are evoked by my personal experience and nearness to themes of self-identification and belonging.
Education:
2016-2020 - BA Digital Management - Warsaw University of Technology (PL)
2021-now - Diploma Fine Arts/Graphic and Communication Design - Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (DE)
Contact:
+48 577 277 108
ivanhanzhaa@gmail.com