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Eva Frapiccini’s works revolve largely around language and its invisible ways of expression. Directly informed by historic events, material significance, her subject matter deals with sociopolitical circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. She has been awarded for her practice-led Ph.D. at the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. During 2021, she is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy.
In 2017, she has been awarded for the first edition of the funding Italian Council by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Frapiccini’s projects have been shown at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK; Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm; BOZAR – Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Maison de la Photographie, Paris; 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.
AWARDS / BURSARIES / RESIDENCIES
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship / University of Genoa / 2020-21
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, Manama, 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
Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt – Artist in residence / May – June 2012
NAC Foundation, Rotterdam, Holland – Artist in residence / January – June 2011
Fondazione Fotografia Cassa di Risparmio di Modena – Special Italia Prize / 2010
FOAM – Paul Huf Award, artist nominated / 2009
Month of Photography / 2007-2006
SI FEST, Savignano, Italy – Pesaresi / Contrasto Prize / 2006
UniCredit & Art – Passport for Art Prize / 2005
SOLO SHOWS
Eva Frapiccini | The Art of Memory, Project Space, Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, The United Kingdom / 5.09 – 18.09.2019
Inciampo 01 – Eva Frapiccini, curated by Paola Tognon, City Museum of Livorno, Livorno, Italy / 14.03 – 20.07.2019
Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l’Anima / Words without Action poison the Soul, curated by Connecting Cultures and Isole Palermo, ICI – Italian Cultural Institute, Brussels, Belgium / 08.11.2018 – 24.11.2018
Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l’Anima / Words without Action poison the Soul, curated by Connecting Cultures and Isole Palermo, Municipal Historical Archive, Palermo / 15.06 – 30.08.2018
Scratched Surfaces, text by Anna Musini, ICI – Italian Cultural Institute, London, UK / 09.02. – 02.03.2018
Dancing in the Memory Palace, MA*GA Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallarate, Italy / 03.12.2017 – 22.04.2018
Contemporary Locus XI. Eva Frapiccini, curated by Paola Tognon, Carmine Monastery, Bergamo, Italy / 09.09 – 18.09.2016
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
Eva Frapiccini. Selective Memory | Selective Amnesia, text by Cristina Baldacci, Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino, Italy / 17.04 – 20.06.2015
Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Dr. 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
Essere deboli è umano e perciò deve cessare, Goethe Institute, Torino, Italy (duo solo show) / 2012
Museum Caneira | the physics of the possible, curated by E. Tosoni, Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino / 2011
Thank you for coming!, curated by Teresa Iannotta, Nac Foundation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands / 2011
Muri di Piombo (Walls of Lead), curated by Walter Guadagnini, UniCredit project room, Milano (IT) / 2008
Muri di Piombo (Walls of Lead), The diffused Museum of Resistance, Torino, Italy / 2008
GROUP SHOWS (selected)
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
Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy / 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
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
ON. Luci di Pubblica Piazza, curated by M. Angelotti e A. De Manincor, public project, Bologna, Italy / 2011
Angry, Young and Radical, curated by Iris Sikking / Paradox, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Holland / 2011
The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice (IT), 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, 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
SCREENINGS
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
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
MAXXI, Museum of Contemporary Art
Monza Civic Collections
