Frapiccini's work is intimately concerned with imbalances in socio-political power, and the ways in which processes of remembering can support or even create these imbalances. Her work spans various periods from the 1970s onwards and multiple locations. She embraces different formats and disciplines, but principally uses photography, video, and installation to create spaces in which to approach the matter of memory from different angles. In doing so, she also highlights and questions the role of ‘spectatorship’ in the digital era: as we all become producers, curators and consumers of image and sound archives.Awarded as a Ph.D. practice-led at the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, she is actually Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy.
Frapiccini has been awarded for the first edition of the funding Italian Council by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Her projects had been exhibited in national and international art spaces and museums among which the BOZAR – Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Maison de la Photographie, Paris; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK; Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm and festivals such as the XII International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice. Her works are included in museum collections, such as the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Museum Castello di Rivoli, MAXXI Rome, as well as private collections.
— University of Leeds, UK PhD practice-led in Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies— IED – European Institute of Design in Turin Research course of Photography— University of Bologna MA in Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Heritage
— Postdoctoral Research Fellowship University of Genoa 2020-2021— I Edition Italian Council Funding Italian Ministry of Culture 2017— Maraya Art Centre Sharjah UAE Sharjah UAE – Artist in residence supported by FARE, Milano / 2016— Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena — Premio Fotografia Italiana Under40 Italian Photography Award Under40, finalist / 2016— INSIDE ART – Talent Prize, finalist / 2015— International Award of Public Art Hong Kong artist nominated / 2014— Al Riwaq contemporary art space Bahrain artist in residence / 2014— Moroso Award for Contemporary Art artist nominated / 2013— Rottapharm Madaus Prize Monza / 2013Reso’ program by the Piedmont and CRT Foundation (IT) / 2012— Townhouse Gallery Cairo Artist in residence / May – June 2012— NAC Foundation Rotterdam Artist in residence / January – June 2011— Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Special Italia Prize / 2010— FOAM – Paul Huf Award artist nominated / 2009— European Month of Photography Artist representing Italy 2007-2006— Premio Pesaresi / Contrasto SI FEST Savignano, Italy 2006— UniCredit & Art – Passport for Art Prize 2005
— REAL_Italy curated by E. Farina and M. Piccioni, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy | 19.02. – 26.07.2020— INSIDE Peola Simondi Gallery, Torino, Italy / 16-17.09.2020— Resistance and Sensibility. Collezione Donata Pizzi: Women Photographers in Italy — Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt, Germany / 01.02 – 26.04.2020— L’Altro Sguardo. Donne fotografe 1965 – 2018 curated by Raffaella Perna, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy / 08.06 – 02.09.2018— Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy / 2017— L’altro Sguardo. Fotografe Italiane 1965-2015 curated by R. Perna, Triennale di Milano, Italy / 05.10.2016 – 08.01.2017— A Trilogy curated by Francesca Comisso Peola Simondi Gallery, Torino, Italy / 05.02. – 26.03.2016— Talent Prize – Inside Art Museo Canonica (Villa Borghese), Roma, Italy / 2015— Com’è viva la città. Art & the City 1913-2014 curated by Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy / 2015— Ritratto dell’artista da giovane | Portrait of the artist as young (Wo)man curated by Marcella Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italia / 10.06. – 21.09.2014— Altro dalle immagini curated by Filippo Maggia, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Torino, Italy / 21.05.-07.09.2014— Alwan 338. Foundation curated by Alexandra Stock, Al Riwaq Contemporary Art Space, Bahrain / 2014— Science & Fiction: New Death FACT, Liverpool, The United Kingdom / 2014— La Grande Magia. Opere scelte dalla collezione UniCredit curated by G. Maraniello and W. Guadagnini, in collaboration with Bärbel Kopplin , MAMbo Modern Art Museum of Bologna, Italy/ 20.10.2013 – 16.02.2014— Meet Again Peola Simondi Gallery, Torino, Italy / 21.06 – 19.07.2013— Biennal of Young artists Palazzo Reale, Monza, Italy / 2013— La Storia che non ho vissuto. Testimone indiretto (The History I never lived through (indirect witness) curated by Marcella Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy / 16.09 – 18.11.2012— Angry, Young and Radical curated by Iris Sikking / Paradox, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Holland / 2011— The 12th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Italian Pavillion, curated by Luca Molinari / 2010— Tre curated by F. Maggia, Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy / 16.09 – 13.11.2010— GE09 Da Guarene all’ Etna 1999-2009 curated by F. Maggia, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy / 2009— Eppur si muove curated by I. Guerrero, J. Klaring, P. Vermootel, Palazzo Ducale, Genova / Palazzo Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy / 2009— Il racconto di un luogo Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano, Italy / 2009— Focus on Contemporary Italian art curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, Walter Guadagnini, MAMbo Modern Museum of Bologna, Italy / 06.12.2008 – 10.12.2009— Mutation I, European Month of Photography curated by Gunda Achleitner and Berthold Ecker, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Wien, Austria / 2007— Mutation I European Month of Photography Museo Bilotti, Roma, Italy / 2007— Mutation I European Month of Photography House of Photography, Moskva, Russia / 2007— Mutation I European Month of Photography curated by Jean-Luc Monterosso, MEP Maison de la Photographie, Paris, France / 02.11.- 31.12.2006— Mutation I European Month of Photography Museu Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany / 2006— Mutation I European Month of Photography Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg / 2006— Ge06 Da Guarene All’ Etna curated by F. Maggia, Palazzo Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy / 2006— Festival Internazionale di Fotografia di Roma curated by Marco Delogu, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Roma, Italy / 2006— Nuovi Arrivi 11 curated by Olga Gambari, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Torino, Italy / 2005
— Dreams’ Time Capsule curated by Damon Waldock, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, The United Kingdom / 21.07 – 31.07.2016— Eva Frapiccini, Golden Jail | Discovering Subjection / Pasqua Vorgia Traces, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (duo solo exhibition) / 2016— Dreams’ Time Capsule curated by Alexandra Helen MacGilp, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, United Arab Emirate, and Al Qasbah, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE / March 2016— Dreams’ Time Capsule curated by Catalina Quijano, University of Art & Design, Bogotà, Colombia / 2013— Dreams’ Time Capsule curated by Zane Onckule, Kim? Contemporary Art Space, Riga, Latvia / 2013— Dreams’ Time Capsule curated by E. Tosoni, M. Ericson, Arktekturmuseet, Stoccolma, Stockholm, Sweden / 2012— Dreams’ Time Capsule curated by Alexandra Stock, Ania Szremski, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt / 2012— ON. Luci di Pubblica Piazza curated by M. Angelotti e A. De Manincor, public project, Bologna, Italy / 2011
— Al Riwaq Contemporary Art Space Manama, Bahrain, curated by Alexandra Stock / 2014— [.Box] Video Art project Space Milano, Italy, curated by Maria Cristina Ferraioli / 2013— Kunsthaus Tacheles Berlin, Germany, curated by Ljudmilla Socci / 2012— Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Egypt, curated by Alexandra Stock / 2012— kim? Contemporary Art Centre Riga, Latvia, curated by Simone Menegoi / 2011— Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex Yerevan, Armenia curated by Aria Spinelli / 2011
— Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea— Fondazione Torino Musei GAM Galleria Civica d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin Museums Foundation)— Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena— MAXXI, Museum of Contemporary Art— Monza Civic Collections— Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation— UniCredit & Art Collection