z a n a f o n t a n n a z

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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.