Ivana Franke was born in 1973 in Zagreb where she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts.
Ivana Franke often works with transparent materials and light to create situations that convey a sense of the ephemeral. Her installations probe the relations between appearance and materiality, questioning our sense of spatial dimensions. By introducing unstable forms at the margins of perception, they open up moments of inaccuracy in human perception.
She represented Croatia at the Venice Biennale twice - at the Biennale of Architecture in 2004 with the collaborative work Frameworks with architects Petar Mišković, Toma Plejić and Lea Pelivan and with her solo exhibition Latency at the Art Biennale in 2007. Her works have been shown at numerous exhibitions, including: Full empty space, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, 2001, Passage d'Europe, Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, Saint Etienne, 2004, Avoid (with D. Očko and S. Vujičić), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2005, Levity, The Drawing Center, New York, 2007, Reykjavik Experiment Marathon, 2008, Manifesta 7, Bolzano, 2008.
