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 Full Professor at the Fine Art Academy of Palermo.
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• Premio Fotografia Italiana Under40 Italian Photography Award Under40, Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, 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 / 2013•Reso’ program by the Piedmont and CRT Foundation (IT) / 2012• 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
• 2019-2020. NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan MA in Photography and Visual Design (English course)• 2012 - 2019. Documentary Photography / Digital Photography, Fine Art Academy of Bologna, Bologna, Italy• 2017. Seminar Assistant School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom• 2015-2020. Course of Photography, the Fine Art Academy of Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy• 10.04.-20.04.2016. Visiting Lecturer at the MA in Documentary Photography, UAL University of the Arts, London, The United Kingdom• 2013-2015. Tutor at the MA in Art Imaging, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy• 2012-2015. Associate Lecturer BA (Hons) in Photography, IED – European Institute of Design,Turin, Italy
CONFERENCES (organized) / WORKSHOPS (lead)• 2021 October, Workshop with the students of the EDHEA Valais, Sierre• 2020 May, Organiser of the seminar dedicated to the theme of “Economic Strategies to support Cultural Industry at the time of the Sanitary Emergency Covid-19.” at the Forum dell’Arte Contemporanea (Chiamata alle Arti - online)• 2019, 15th September. Organiser of the symposium Words without Action poison the Soul for the Sadler Seminar Series in collaboration with the School of Law (Dr. Camilo Gonzalez, Dr. Roberto Musotto), Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, Italian Studies (Prof. Gigliola Sulis), University of Leeds, United Kingdom.• 2018, 10th November, MAMbo, Modern Museum of Art: Annual Seminar Forum dell’Arte Contemporanea. Promoter and organizer with Cesare Pietroiusti of the round table on “Practice as Reasearch” Guest Speakers: Sergia Avveduti (Lecturer at the Fine Art Academy of Bologna);Dr. Cristina Baldacci (Ca' Foscari, Venezia); Dr. Giovanna Cassese (Fine Art Academy of Napoli, President of the ISIA Faenza); Elena El Asmar (artist, Made in Filanda); Enrico Fornaroli (Director of the Fine Art Academy Bologna); Dr. Federica Martini (Responsable de la Filière HEA); Marinella Paderni (Director of the ISIA Faenza); Dr. Aria Spinelli (Loughborough University); Chiara Vecchiarelli (curator); Angela Vettese (Director IUAV, Venezia). Contributors: Dr. Rosa Barba (artist, researcher at the Malmo Art Academy, Lund University); Dr. Fiamma Montezemolo (Senior Lecturer, UC Davis, California) / 10.11.2018• 2017, 27th-30th January. Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna FRUIT Festival of Independent Publishing, Bologna, Italy: lead convenor and organizer of panels about 'Photography and contemporary image in relationship with the art market".• 2013. Workshop in collaboration with the Educational Department of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin• 2011, January. Workshop “Palestra di Arte Pubblica”, organized by ON.Luci di PubblicaPiazza, Bologna, ItalyCONFERENCES | SYMPOSIUMS (upon invitation)• 2021. To Research or Not to Research in the Post-disciplinary Academy, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, Lithuania• 2021. Sound Symposium Etre à l’écoute, EDHEA, Sierre, Switzerland• 2021. Artistic Research and the 'New Normal', Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka• 2019. Who’s Art for? Organized by R-set organization, Museum Castello di Rivoli, 6.12.2019 / Presentation of the collected volume Who’s Art For? Art workers against exploitation• 2019. Presentation of the book Eva Frapiccini. Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l'Anima (Words without Action poison the Soul), Museum of Contemporary Art, Livorno, Italy (12th March 2019)• 2018. Presentation of the book Eva Frapiccini. Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l'Anima (Words without Action poison the Soul) Artissima Art Fair, Turin, Italy (4th November 2018)• 2018. Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l’Anima (Words without Action poison the Soul), Public Library ofPalermo, Italy. Guest Speaker with Carlo Bugatti, Director Museum of Photography, Senigallia; Anna Detheridge, Director Connecting Cultures; Federica Galloni, Mibact Ministry of Culture; Costanza Meli, curator (15th June 2018)• 2017. Pricing the Priceless, University of Leeds, School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, TheUnited Kingdom, Guest speaker with Dr Marta Herrero, University of Sheffield; Dr Emma Waring,University of York; Professor David Jackson, University of Leeds; Dr Mark Westgarth, University ofLeeds (25th October 2017)• 2017. Women in collection, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK, Guest speaker with Anne Hardy, visual artist; RomniSmith, University of Leeds; Nigel Walsh, Leeds Art Gallery (19th October 2017)• 2016. Public spaces as social glue, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium. Guest Speaker with DavidBravo (European Prize for Urban Public Space & editor of publicspace.org), Tobias Zielony, photographer, and Els Vervloesem, Architecture Workroom Brussels (16th June 2016)• 2016. Presentation at the MA course in Documentary and Fine Art Photography, UAL University of Arts, London. (22th April 2016)• 2015. Collecting People | L’arte di pensare, Diogene Bivacco Urbano,Turin, Italy, Guest Speaker with AlfredoPaternoster (University of Turin), Clara Madaro (University of Turin), (23rd April 2015)• 2014. Eva Frapiccini talk, Al Riwaq Contemporary Art Space, Manama, Bahrain. Guest Speaker with with Alexandra Stock, chief curator of the space (12th March 2014)• 2013. El Sueno y la Memoria, ADEPAC Association, Bogotà, Colombia, Guest Speaker, (20th August 2013)• 2011. Art & Public Realm, Festival Fittja Open, upon invitation of Botkyrka Konsthall, Fittja, SwedenGuest Speaker, with Magnus Ericsson (Konstfack, Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm), Marjetica Potrc(University of Fine Art/HFBK, Hamburg), Elisa Tosoni (curator) (22nd September 2011)• 2009. Presentation of the book Eva Frapiccini. Muri di Piombo (Walls of Lead), Italian Senate Library, Rome, Italy. Guest speaker with Carlo Bugatti (Director of the Museum of Photography, Senigallia); Gianfranco Maraniello, (Director of MAMbo Museum of Modern Art, Bologna)• 2009. Focus on Contemporary Italian Art, MAMbo, Museum of Modern Art Bologna, Italy. Guest speaker with Nico Vascellari (artist), Silvia Evangelisti (curator), Gianfranco Maraniello (Director of the MAMbo Museum of Modern Art, Bologna).
• 2016. Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, (UAE) – Artist in residence, in collaboration with the organization FARE, Milan.• 2014. Al Riwaq contemporary art space, Manama, Bahrain, curated by Alexandra Stock• 2012. Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt –Artist in residence (awarded for the Resò residency program)• 2011. NAC Foundation, Residency program in Charlois, Rotterdam, January - June.
• Dust of Dreams, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, 2022• The Art of Memory, CAVE Project Space, Faculty of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom, 2019• Scratching Surfaces, ICI London, Italian Institute of Culture, London, The United Kingdom, 2018• Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l’Anima (Words without Action poison the Soul), ICI Brussels, Italian Institute of Culture, Brussels, Belgium, 2018• Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l’Anima (Words without Action poison the Soul), Palermo city Archive, Italy, 2018• Dancing in the Memory Palace, MAGA Modern Museum of Gallarate, Milano, Italy, 2017• Contemporary Locus. Eva Frapiccini, Monastery of Carmine, Bergamo, Italy, 2016• Eva Frapiccini, Golden Jail | Discovering Subjection, BOZAR Palais des Beaux Art, Bruxelles, Belgium, 2016• Eva Frapiccini. Selective Memory | Selective Amnesia, Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy, 2015• Essere deboli è umano e perciò deve cessare (Being weak is human and therefore it mustcease), Goethe Institute, Turin, Italy, 2012• Museum Caneira | the physics of the possible, Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy, 2011• Thank you for Coming!, Nac Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2010• Muri di piombo (Walls of lead), UniCredit Project Room, Milan, Italy, 2008• Muri di piombo (Walls of lead), Museo Diffuso e della Resistenza, Turin, Italy, 2008
• REAL_Italy, curated by E. Farina and M. Piccioni, MAXXI 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, curated by Celina Lunsford, 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• Biennale dei Giovani Artisti, 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 Radicals, 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 / 2006• New Landscapes - Italienische Fotokunst Sammlung der UniCredit Group, HVB Kunst Palais, Munich / 2006• Mutation IEuropean Month of Photography, Museum Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany / 2006• Mutation I,European Month of Photography, curated by Paul di Felice and Pierre Stiwer, 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, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy, 2022• Dreams' Time Capsule, Localize Festival, Potsdam, Germany, 2021• Dreams’ Time Capsule curated by Damon Waldock, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, The United Kingdom / 21.07 – 31.07.2016• 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 Art 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 Rome• Monza Civic Collections• Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation• UniCredit & Art Collection