Ivan Hanzha (b. 1999) is a Dnipro-born (UA) and Nürnberg-based (DE) autonomous artist, whose practice often takes form of installation, sculpture, print matter, publishing or its interplay. 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 - by using media like sculpture, print, writing, title-giving and publishing.
Sourced from my personal interest in research and my curiosity about vernacular culture, cultural nuances as well as themes of belonging, vulnerability and self-help, my practise aim to investigate phenomena of the multiplex modern socio- and geopolitical landscape - with recurrent, sometimes satirical references to literature, and both scientific 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 or history 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