Biography
Born in 1972, lives and works in Tallinn.
Hanna studied Visual Art at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Lebanese University of Beirut from1991 to 1995. After taking part in collective exhibitions organized by several of the most prestigious galleries and museums in the capital, he moved to Rome, Italy, to pursue an MA in Directing at the Faculty of Social Communication Science at the Salesian Pontifical University from 1999 to 2005. His thesis, titled “Videoart: The Electronic Body,” explored the relationship between the human form and electronic media.
In addition to collective and personal exhibitions he executed commissions in public venues with different medium, like relief sculpture, mural painting, mosaics, and set design in both Lebanon and Italy. He also published a novel in Italian, “The Collapse,” an autobiographical fantasy set between Lebanon and Italy.
He worked for Seven years as art history and film history teacher at Tallinn University, and for the last ten years, he has been teaching art and organizing workshops in art, video, cinema, and animation at the European School of Tallinn, while dedicating his life to art-making across the full range of techniques and skills he has acquired throughout his journey.
During this period, he continued to show his artwork in Tallinn. Paintings and mixed media at Art Depoo gallery, video art at Tallinn University, Rahvaraamat, and Kirjanike Maja. In 2022, he collaborated with the local band “Horror Dance Squad,” for whom he created an animated music video for the song “Into the Wild”. For the last five years he researched and developed a body of work titled “Metamophosis” that represent the drastic transformation in his artistic process as in his life.