Karin Hannak Explained

Karin Hannak
Birth Date:8 July 1940
Birth Place:Wels, Nazi Germany (now Austria)
Nationality:Austrian

Karin Hannak (born 1940), is an Austrian artist.[1] Her work includes capillographic, photographic, installation, video and conceptual art.

Life

Karin Hannak received her artistic education with Prof. Anton Lehmden in Salzburg, Austria and Prof. Rudolf Kortokraks in Rome, Italy.

With a crucifixion depiction, painted by Karin Hannak in 1989, transience, time, eternity and, above all, love become themes that the artist deals with personally as well as repeatedly in her work. In 1990, there is a change in the means of expression from painting to CapilloArt (art with human hair). As of 1993, installations follow. After 9/11, human suffering, as well as the concern for the future of our world, become central topics for which the artist found even more possibilities of expression. Karin Hannak's work is a contribution against the violence and brutality of our time. She also often combines her artistic activities with calls to humanity and interpersonal solidarity.

The artist showed projects for peaceful community at festivals and exhibitions in museums, galleries and public spaces. Hannak's multi-part project European Landscape, which was carried out on the occasion of Austria's EU Presidency in 2006 and is an indication of the great responsibility for the future of our children that lies in our decisions, was attended by town halls, museums, galleries, universities and schools in all countries of the European Union. From 2008, the artist began to encompass the world with Embracing Time and Space (ETAS), a symbol of love and peace in the form of a transparent foil banner with a quotation from Thérèse by Lisieux.

Karin Hannak is married and has two children. She is a member of the Austrian Artists' Society, Vienna Künstlerhaus, INTAKT - International Action Group of Fine Artists Vienna

Exhibitions and presentations (partial)

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Notes and References

  1. News: "Alle fünf Sekunden" - Künstlerinnen - dieStandard.at " Kultur. 11 November 2005. Der Standard. German. 22 June 2011.

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