8.1.20
Woodcut on paper by Hanna Sass. The print measures 50 x 70 cm and dates from 2020. "8.1.20" has already been sold.
6.1.18
Woodcut on paper by Hanna Sass. The print measures 120 x 160 cm and dates from 2018.
Vandercook III
Woodcut on paper by Hanna Sass. The print measures 70 x 90 cm and dates from 2021. Vandercook III has already been sold.
curriculum vitae
Hanna Sass
Lives and works in Halle (Saale)
Since 2024, workshop manager of the graphic printing workshops at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy Halle (Saale)
2023-24
Spokesperson for the IG–Kunst Halle
2022
Master student with Prof. Paul McDevitt
2019
Co-founder and later board member of the association “Raum für Kunst Halle eV”
2011-2017
Studied at the Burg Giebichenstein KHS Halle (S), graduating with a diploma from Prof. Thomas Rug,
2015
Stay in St. Petersburg at the Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design
2010-2011
self-employed carpenter in Berlin
2009-2010
Carpenter and sailor on the tall ship "Sea Cloud"
2006-2009
Training as a carpenter
2005-2006
Working and traveling in New Zealand, America, Singapore
2002-2003
one-year stay abroad in New Zealand, Wellington
1998-2005
Abitur in Berlin
1985
Born in Berlin
Exhibitions
2024
Filter time Lausitz Art Collection, Senftenberg
/that's why Galerie Nord, Halle/Saale
2023
PARALLEL UNIVERSE Porte Leipzig
Claudia & Peter, BLECH art space, Halle/Saale
INSEL, ZFK Leipzig in Wirkbau Chemnitz
Old Bank Mural Street Arts Festival Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Summer Exhibition 23, Galerie Nord, Halle/Saale
2022
Selection by Energy, Galerie Paul Scherzer
Picture in Picture, collaboration with Ingo Albrecht-Hauser (Galaxy of New Arts), partition walls of BLECH. Raum für Kunst Halle e. V.
Dictions and Substrates, Printmaking Positions of Künstlerhaus 188 e. V. Halle at the BBK Künstlerhaus Karlsruhe
Exhibition Rausch, Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill
2021
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, Galerie Paul Scherzer
MATCHES at the Reinbeckhallen Foundation - Collection for Contemporary Art, Berlin
trip and tease, the HO Gallery Magdeburg
2020
Gopea funding year 2019, Villa de Bank, Enschede/NL
MATCHES, a&o Kunsthalle Leipzig
Solo exhibition CROSSEN, Galerie Paul Scherzer, Halle (Saale)
2019
I think you walk a small delta., NYG West Galerie Leipzig
The Future is the New Thing, Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation, Halle (Saale)
Master students, Blech. Art Space, Halle (Saale)
aquamediale 2019, Plain-Air Painting with Lasse Pook, Pop-up Studio in Lieberose / Brandenburg
Creatures and Powers, Blech. Kunstraum, Halle/Saale
2018
Parcours 2018, Diplomas of Art, Burg Gaerie in the Volkspark, Halle (Saale)
The Floating Floors, Diploma Exhibition, Burg Galerie im Volkspark, Halle (Saale)
2016
Linocut today X. Graphic Arts Prize of the City of Bietigheim-Bissingen
Nothing but the Truth, 50 paintings. Class of Ute Pleuger, Burg Galerie im Volkspark, Halle (Saale)
Anarchy and Care, Hoch + Partner Gallery for Woodcuts and Relief Printing, Leipzig
2014
Spektra 6, Luckau/Spreewald
Scholarships/Awards
2024
Working scholarship from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and the Bergeschen Monastery Foundation
2023
Nominated for the Merck Prize
2022
Art Fund scholarship
2021
Basel Edition Printmaking Symposium, Basel
2020
Represented in the art collection of the state of Saxony-Anhalt
2019
Represented in the graphic collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig
Central Swabian Art Prize, sponsored by the Grünzburg district
Art Prize of the Otto City of Magdeburg
2018
Nomination for Franz Hecker Scholarship/2nd place
Graduate scholarship of the state of Saxony-Anhalt
2017
Nomination for the Kahnweiler Art Prize
2013
Nomination for the Media Art Prize of the Evangelical Church District of Halle-Saalkreis
Public Collections
Represented in the art collection of the state of Saxony-Anhalt
Represented in the graphic collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig
Texts/Press
Art historian Dr. Ehlers on the work of Hanna Sass:
In woodcuts, as in etchings, one would like to interpret the image content as a sign, as an allegory, or symbol. But the meaning of the line, the stroke, the sign remains open to the recognizable. The lines themselves, from which Sass composes the legible or illegible writing, are an exploration of the work. The power she puts into this very exploration is great, the
is only just beginning.
Her work is characterized by discovery and improvisation, and in this context, it plays with the possibilities of a non-linguistic visual intelligence. In her work, Sass values nuances of gesture over its association with a thematic complex. The rationale of her work is conveyed through associations with the forms and the handling of the material. Its expression is specific through the gesture. The artist's execution, her own discovery of this specific expression, is natural and meaningful.
