About / CV
Visual artist Eva Frapiccini lives and works in the United Kingdom and Italy. Her practice experiments a variety of media and methodologies: slide projections, video & sound installations, film, photography, narrative fictions staged, performance. Her works are included in a number of institutional collections such as the Castello di Rivoli, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation; MAMbo, Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Fondazione Fotografia di Modena, the Monza Civic Collections. From 2011, she is Associate Lecturer at the Fine Art Academy of Bologna, Fine Art Academy of Ravenna. From October 2015, she is attending to the practice-based Ph.D. in Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
(upcoming) Il pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l’Anima, curated by A. Detheridge and C. Meli, Palermo city Archive, Palermo, Italy (June 2018) / IIC, Brussels, Belgium (September 2018) / Modern Museum of Photography, Senigallia, Italy (November 2018)
(upcoming) Scratched Surfaces, text by Anna Musini, IIC London, The United Kingdom, 9th February – 2nd March 2018
2017
Dancing in the Memory Palace, MA*GA Gallarate, 3rd December 2017 – 22nd April 2018
2016
Contemporary Locus XI. Eva Frapiccini, curated by Paola Tognon, Carmine Monastery, Bergamo, Italy
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Damon Waldock, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, The United Kingdom
Eva Frapiccini, Golden Jail | Discovering Subjection / Pasqua Vorgia, Traces, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (double solo show)
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Alexandra Helen MacGilp, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Alexandra Helen MacGilp, Al Qasbah, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
2015
Eva Frapiccini. Selective Memory | Selective Amnesia, Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino, Italy, text by C. Baldacci
2013
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Dr. Catalina Quijano, University of Art & Design, Bogotà, Colombia
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Zane Onckule, Kim? Contemporary Art Space, Riga, Latvia
2012
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by E. Tosoni, M. Ericson, Arktekturmuseet, Stoccolma, Stockholm, Sweden
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Alexandra Stock, Ania Szremski, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Essere deboli è umano e perciò deve cessare, Goethe Institute, Torino, Italy (double solo show)
2011
Museum Caneira | the physics of the possible, curated by E. Tosoni, Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino
Thank you for coming!, curated by Teresa Iannotta, Nac Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Muri di Piombo (Walls of Lead), curated by Walter Guadagnini, Unicredit project room, Milano (IT) [cat.]
Muri di Piombo (Walls of Lead), The diffused Museum of resistance, war, rights and Freedom, Torino, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2017
Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, curated by I. Bonacossa and V. Martini, Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy (upcoming)
2016
L’ altro Sguardo. Fotografe Italiane 1965-2015, curated by Raffaella Perna, Triennale di Milano, Italy [cat]
A Trilogy, curated by Francesca Comisso, Alberto Peola Gallery
2015
Talent Prize – Inside Art, Museo Canonica (Villa Borghese), Roma, Italy
Com’è viva la città. Art & the City 1913-2014, curated by G. di Pietrantonio, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy [cat.]
2014
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
Altro dalle immagini, curated by Filippo Maggia, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Torino, Italy [cat.]
Alwan 338. Foundation, curated by Alexandra Stock, Al Riwaq Contemporary Art Space, Bahrain
Science & Fiction: New Death, FACT, Liverpool, The United Kingdom
2013
La Grande Magia. Opere scelte dalla collezione UniCredit, curated by G. Maraniello and Walter Guadagnini, in collaboration with Bärbel Kopplin , MAMbo Modern Art Museum of Bologna, Italy
Biennal of Young artists, Palazzo Reale, Monza, Italy
2012
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
2011
ON. Luci di Pubblica Piazza, curated by M. Angelotti e A. De Manincor, public project, Bologna, Italy
Angry, Young and Radical, curated by I. Sikking / Paradox, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Holland
2010
The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice (IT), Italian Pavillion, curated by L. Molinari [cat.]
Tre, curated by F. Maggia, Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy
2009
GE09, Da Guarene all’ Etna, 1999-2009, curated by F. Maggia, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy [cat.]
Eppur si muove, curated by I. Guerrero, J. Klaring, P. Vermootel, Palazzo Ducale, Genova / Palazzo Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
Il racconto di un luogo, Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano, Italy
2008
Focus on Contemporary Italian art, curated by G. Maraniello, W. Guadagnini, MAMbo Modern Museum of Bologna, Italy
2007
Mutation I, European Month of Photography, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Wien, Austria [cat.]
Mutation I, European Month of Photography, Museo Bilotti, Roma, Italy [cat.]
Mutation I, European Month of Photography, House of Photography, Moskva, Russia [cat.]
2006
Mutation I, European Month of Photography, MEP Maison de la Photographie, Paris, France [cat.]
Mutation I, European Month of Photography, Museu Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany [cat.]
Mutation I, European Month of Photography, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg [cat.]
Ge06 Da Guarene All’ Etna, curated by F. Maggia, Palazzo Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy [cat.]
Festival Internazionale di Fotografia di Roma, curated by Marco Delogu, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Roma, Italy [cat.]
2005
Nuovi Arrivi 11, curated by Olga Gambari, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Torino, Italy [cat.]
SCREENINGS
2014
Al Riwaq Contemporary Art Space, Manama, Bahrain, curated by Alexandra Stock
2013
[.Box] Video Art project Space, Milano, Italy, curated by Maria Cristina Ferraioli
Lys I Gamle Hus, Dale, organized by NKD, Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale (NO)
2012
Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, curated by Ljudmilla Socci
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, curated by Alexandra Stock
2011
kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, curated by Simone Menegoi
Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex, Yerevan, Armenia curated by Aria Spinelli
AWARDS / BURSARIES / RESIDENCIES
2017
Italian Council Bursary / upon invitation of Connecting Cultures, Milano and Isole Association, Palermo
2016
Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE, Sharjah, (UAE) – Artist in residence in collaboration with FARE, Milano
Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Premio Fotografia Italiana Under40 / Italian Photography Award Under40, finalist
2015
INSIDE ART – Talent Prize, finalist
2014
International Award of Public Art, Hong Kong, nominated
Al Riwaq contemporary art space, Manama, Bahrain – Artist in residence
2013
Moroso Award for Contemporary Art, nominated
Rottapharm Madaus Prize, Monza
2012
Reso’ program, by the Piedmont and CRT Foundation (IT)
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt – Artist in residence
2011
NAC Foundation, Rotterdam, Holland – Artist in residence
2010
Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena – Special Italia Prize
2009
FOAM – Paul Huf Award, nominated
2006
SI FEST, Savignano, Italy – Pesaresi / Contrasto Prize
2005
UniCredit & Art – Passport for Art Prize
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation
Monza Civic Collections
Fondazione Torino Musei GAM Galleria Civica d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin Museums Foundation)
Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena
SELECTED TALKS / TEACHING
2018
Associate Lecturer at the Fine Art Academy of Bologna, Itay (since 2011)
Associate Lecturer at the Fine Art Academy of Ravenna, Italy (since 2016)
Teacher assistant at the University of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, Leeds, UK
2017
Pricing the Priceless, University of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, Leeds, UK
Women in collection, organized by Contemporary Art Society, London, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
2016
Eva Frapiccini Artist Talk, Carmine Monastery, Bergamo, Italy
Visiting professor at the UAL Master of Fine Art Photography, London, UK
Public spaces as social glue, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Eva Frapiccini Artist Talk: Dreams’ and Systems of Memory, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2015
Collecting People | L’arte di pensare, Diogene Bivacco Urbano, Turin, Italy
Associate lecturer at the IED European Institute of Design (since 2012), Turin, Italy
2014
Al Riwaq Contemporary Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
2013
ADEPAC Association, Bogotà, Colombia
2012
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2011
Visiting Artist at the Workshop Palestra d’Arte Pubblica, Bologna, Italy
Fittja Open, upon invitation of Botkyrka Konsthall, Fittja, Sweden
2010
Italian Senate Library, Rome, Italy
2009
MAMbo, Museum of Modern Art Bologna
Eva Frapiccini Artist talk, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy
