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. Her projects have been shown in a series of international institutions such as the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom; the Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm; MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, and festivals such as the XII International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice. Frapiccini’s works are included in a number of institutional collections in Italy, such as the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, MAXXI collections, Museum Castello di Rivoli, as well as private collections.
In 2017, she won the first edition of the Italian Ministry Bursary “Italian Council”. In 2019, she concluded her practice-led Ph.D. at the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.
SOLO SHOWS
2019 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
2019 Inciampo 01 – Eva Frapiccini, curated by Paola Tognon, City Museum of Livorno, Livorno, Italy / 14.03 – 20.07.2019
2018 Il Pensiero che non diventa Azione avvelena l’Anima / Words without Action poison the Soul, curated by Connecting Cultures and Isole Palermo, IIC, Cultural Italian Institute, Brussels, Belgium / 08.11.2018 – 24.11.2018
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
2018 Scratched Surfaces, text by Anna Musini, IIC Cultural Italian Institute, London, The United Kingdom / 09.02. – 02.03.2018
2017 Dancing in the Memory Palace, MA*GA Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallarate, Italy / 03.12.2017 – 22.04.2018
2016 Contemporary Locus XI. Eva Frapiccini, curated by Paola Tognon, Carmine Monastery, Bergamo, Italy
2016 Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Damon Waldock, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, The United Kingdom
2016 Eva Frapiccini, Golden Jail | Discovering Subjection / Pasqua Vorgia, Traces, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (duo solo show)
2016 Dreams’ Time Capsule, curated by Alexandra Helen MacGilp, Sikka Art Fair, Dubai, United Arab Emirate, and Al Qasbah, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE
2015 Eva Frapiccini. Selective Memory | Selective Amnesia, text by Cristina Baldacci, Alberto Peola Gallery, Torino, Italy
2013 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
2012 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)
2011 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
2008 Muri di Piombo (Walls of Lead), curated by Walter Guadagnini, UniCredit project room, Milano (IT) [cat.]
2008 Muri di Piombo (Walls of Lead), The diffused Museum of resistance, war, rights and Freedom, Torino, Italy
GROUP SHOWS (selected)
2020 REAL_Italy, curated by E. Farina and M. Piccioni, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy | 19.02. – 26.07.2020 [cat.]
2020 Resistance and Sensibility. Collezione Donata Pizzi: Women Photographers in Italy, Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt | 01.02 – 26.04.2020
2018 L’ Altro Sguardo. Donne fotografe 1965 – 2018, curated by R. Perna, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma [cat]
2017 Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima Art Fair, Torino, Italy
2016 L’ altro Sguardo. Fotografe Italiane 1965-2015, curated by Raffaella Perna, Triennale di Milano, Italy [cat]
2016 A Trilogy, curated by Francesca Comisso, Alberto Peola Gallery
2015 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 [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
2014 Altro dalle immagini, curated by Filippo Maggia, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Torino, Italy [cat.]
2014 Alwan 338. Foundation, curated by Alexandra Stock, Al Riwaq Contemporary Art Space, Bahrain
2014 Science & Fiction: New Death, FACT, Liverpool, The United Kingdom
2013 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
2013 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
2011 Angry, Young and Radical, curated by Iris Sikking / Paradox, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Holland
2010 The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice (IT), Italian Pavillion, curated by Luca Molinari [cat.]
2010 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.]
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
2008 Focus on Contemporary Italian art, curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, Walter Guadagnini, MAMbo Modern Museum of Bologna, Italy
2007 Mutation I, European Month of Photography, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Wien, Austria [cat.]
2007 Mutation I, European Month of Photography, Museo Bilotti, Roma, Italy [cat.]
2007 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.]
2006 Mutation I, European Month of Photography, Museu Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany [cat.]
2006 Mutation I, European Month of Photography, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg [cat.]
2006 Ge06 Da Guarene All’ Etna, curated by F. Maggia, Palazzo Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy [cat.]
2006 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
2012 Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, curated by Ljudmilla Socci
2012 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, curated by Alexandra Stock
2011 kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, curated by Simone Menegoi
2011 Mkhitar Sebastatsi Educational Complex, Yerevan, Armenia curated by Aria Spinelli
AWARDS / BURSARIES / RESIDENCIES
2017 Italian Council Bursary / Mibact 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
2016 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
2014 Al Riwaq contemporary art space, Manama, Bahrain – Artist in residence
2013 Moroso Award for Contemporary Art, nominated
2013 Rottapharm Madaus Prize, Monza
2012 Reso’ program, by the Piedmont and CRT Foundation (IT)
2012 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
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
