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Zana Fontannaz, born in 1976, is a painter and engraver. After studying dramatic arts at the Théâtre National de Bretagne, she worked several years as an actress and then decided to turn to plastic arts. As a self taught artist, she learned drawing and painting. In 2009, she aquired engraving techniques at Raymond Meyer's Studio .
Now, Zana lives, paints and engraves in Berlin.
She doesn't follow the beaten path, the various stages of her training – artistic – being driven by her search for answers – not unambiguous – to the issues she deals with. This is what brings together her works which use various techniques – engravings, paintings, drawings, small and very large formats. The questions are not so much those she raises but are those which come before the need to create ways of expressing them.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2019 « Strata » paintings, etchings, monotypes, Skalit22er, Berlin.
- 2016 « La guérison est éphémère ne t'inquiète pas »(Don't worry Healing is temporary) paintings, etchings, Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin /Les Ateliers Artelle, Paris.
- 2015 « Accrochage » paintings, etchings, IchOrya, Berlin.
- 2012 « mulT*itude » paintings, etchings, Morgenrot, Berlin.
- 2011 « Shame, Shame, Shame on you! » paintings, SilverFuture, Berlin.
- 2009 « Singulier Pluriel-le-s » drawings, etchings, Galerie de la Comédie, Genève.
Collectives exhibitions, various collaborations
- 2019 « schwarze Kunst - auch bunt » etching, Druckwerkstatt des bbk, Bethanien, Berlin.
- 2018 « Ventilator: vom Winde verweht » etching, Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin. « Aufgekratzt & Tiefgedruckt 2 » etching, Druckwerkstatt des bbk, Bethanien, Berlin. « Ljiljanas Atelier » drawings, etchings, Charivari Biennale, Berlin.
- 2017 « SPWS N°2 » etchings, Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin. « Rundgang der Spinnerei » C.Germès Open Studio, etchings, Leipzig.
- 2016 « Super Power Woman Show N°1 » etching, Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin.
- 2014 « Variation baroque » Monumental Painting for La Maison Baroque, Studio Disorder, Curator/ Choreographer: Rodrigo Garcia Alvès, SODA – Uferstudios, Berlin. « Autour de la presse » Atelier Raymond Meyer, etchings, Musée-Galerie E.Vallet, Vercorin. « What is Queer today is not Queer tomorrow » etchings, nGbK, Berlin.
- 2013 « Gruppenausstellung Trans*Inter*Queerer Künstler_innen » drawings, TrIQ, Berlin.
- 2012 « Uprising » Monumental Painting for Le Peuple d'Icare, Conception/ Direction: Dan Artus, Dijon.
- 2011 « Nous sommes restéEs marquéEs et nous n’aurons plus jamais de rémission » Monumental Painting for La Zone, Conception/ Direction: Dan Artus, Lausanne.
- 2010 « Accessoires » drawings for the Book Mode de Vie – Une Bibliothèque, Edition Art&Fiction, Galerie Halle Nord, Genève. « Ikarus » Monumental Painting for Le Peuple d'Icare, Conception/ Direction: Dan Artus, Paris. « Au bord du lac », Book of etchings, text Robert Walser, Editions Raymond Meyer, Lutry. « Encres & Papiers » etchings, Biennale de l'Estampe de Saint-Mandé, Paris.
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