Jb Hanak, a French artist of Kabyle and Czechoslovakian descent, lives and works in Paris. His visual work bears many similarities to his musical universe: highly saturated, it features a multitude of disparate influences coexisting through intense compression. From his earliest exhibitions starting in 2014, he has received encouragement from various artists such as Oscar Tuazon, Jean-Luc Verna, and David Lynch. His works quickly garnered recognition from several prominent figures in the art world, including Agnès b, Institut Français, Maison du Papier, Hey!, and Mitsubishi Pencil in Japan. Jb Hanak was represented by Galerie Anne de Villepoix from 2015 to 2023.
Jb Hanak’s music career officially began in 2000 with the electronic music duo dDamage, which he led with his brother Frédéric Hanak until Frédéric’s death in 2018. Over twenty years, they performed more than 800 concerts in Europe, the USA, and Asia.
Jb Hanak has also composed several solo albums, performed as a musician in the French hard rock band Cobra, and played under the direction of composer Kasper Toeplitz (GRM) in the contemporary music ensemble Sleaze Art. Additionally, Jean-Baptiste Hanak is a composer for the project “Nuit à Jour,” performed by French actor Pierre Richard.In the realm of cinema, he has composed scores for several feature films, the most recent being “Une Dernière Fois” by director Olympe de G, where actress Brigitte Lahaie returns to pornographic cinema. In 2021, he collaborated with Mike Patton (Faith No More) to create the music for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game, produced by the French company Dotemu for global distribution via Nickelodeon.
Jb Hanak’s first novel was published in 2022 by Editions Léo Scheer: “Sales Chiens,” a book that received both public and critical acclaim and earned him the Barbès Prize in 2023.
