Alicia Frankovich - Kaldor Art Projects

John Kaldor has commissioned a new performance by Alicia Frankovich as part of the exhibition Making Art Public: 50 Years of Kaldor Art Projects at the Art Gallery of New South Wales that runs from 7 September 2019 - 16 February 2020. Titled The Work, Frankovich's performance is scheduled for 14 and 28 September at 1pm. Read more... 

Coming up at Starkwhite

Alicia Frankovich opens at Starkwhite on Friday 8 February, 2019. Read more...
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Microchimerism, 2018, gold and pink adhesive vinyl, dimensions variable, installation view, Can Tame Anything, curated by Melanie Oliver, The Dowse Art Museum (2018). Photo: John Lake

Stedelijk commissions new work from Alicia Frankovich

The Stedelijk Museum has commissioned a new performance work from Alicia Frankovich. Titled Atlas of the Living World the perfornmances take place at the Stedelijk on 1 and 2 September 2017. Read more...

Nature at its Queerest

Contemporary HUM has published Nature at its Queerest, Ulrike Gerhardt's essay in response to Alicia Frankovich's solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND, curated by Eva Birkenstock. HUM is a new online publication dedicated to documenting New Zealand projects abroad.
Image: Installation view of OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf

Alicia Frankovich at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf

Curated by Eva Birkenstock, Alicia Frankovich's solo exhibition outside before beyond opens at the Kunstverein Dusseldorf on 17 February. Read more...
Image: Alicia Frankovich, outside before beyond (2017), video still.

Upstairs at Starkwhite

Upstairs at Starkwhite: works by Billy Apple, Whitney Bedford, Alicia Frankovich and David Scanavino.

Alicia Franlovich at Liste's 2016 Performance Project

Alicia Frankovich presents World is home plant (2016) in Trans-Coprporeal Metabolism - 12th edition of the Performance Project, Liste 2016 on 18 June. Read more...
Image: Liste press image

Alicia Frankovich at the ISCP, New York

Alicia Frankovich has taken up Creative New Zealand's 2016 residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) in New York. Her four-month residency runs to 31 August. Read more...
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Soft Water (detail) 2015, Olympic swimming pool steps and polished shells

Alicia Frankovich in LISTE Performance Project

Alicia Frankovich has been selected for Trans Corporeal Metabolisms, the 12th Performance Project of LISTE Art Fair Basel (14-19 June), curated by Eva Birkenstock. Read more...

Alicia Frankovich in Les Limbes, Paris

Alicia Frankovich is in the exhibition Le Limbes at La Galerie, Centre for Contemporary Art, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris. Curated by Caterina Riva (former director of Artspace, NZ), the exhibition run from 20 May to 16 July. Read more...
Images: The Ghost and the Comrade (top) and Soft Water (2015), Olympic pool stairs, polished shells (below)

Alicia Frankovich to take up NY residency

Alicia Frankovich has been awarded the CNZ-funded 2016 International Studio and Curatorial Programme (ISCP) residency in New York.
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Becoming Public: Actor, 2015, C-type print, 75.2 x 50.3cm, and The Female has Undergone Recent Manifestations, 2015, curtain, ribbon, wood, cable and cord, dimensions variable.

Alicia Frankovich: The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations

Starkwhite is delighted to present The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations by Berlin-based artist Alicia Frankovich, from 6 February to 5 March 2016. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. She will be present at the opening preview on Friday 5 February from 5.30 – 8pm.

Alicia Frankovich has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Internationally. She works at the intersection of performance and sculpture, where she builds successions of varying images, embodiments and movements.

She is well-known for her live performances and sculptural and video presentations, such as the memorable Floor Resistance in the 2012 Walters Prize exhibition; Free Time/The Opportune Spectator in the Anne Landa Award exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 2013; Free Time at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2013; her major sculptural, video and performance work Defending Plural Experiences at ACCA in 2014; and her recent large-scale exhibition of sculptures in Complex Bodies, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Switzerland in 2015.

Alicia Frankovich’s exhibition at Starkwhite is produced in a parallel discussion process with Artspace’s THE BILL, s programme of research-based exhibitions and events curated by Artsapce director  Misal Adnan Yıldız marking the 30th anniversary of the Homosexual Law Reform Act in Aotearoa 1986. He will be in conversation with Alicia Frankovich on the occasion of The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations at Starkwhite. (6 pm Monday, February 8, 2016 at Starkwhite).

These links take you to more on The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations and THE BILL.
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Portrait of a Lady, 2016, inkjet print

Coming up at Starkwhite

Starkwhite reopens in February with an exhibition by Berlin-based artist Alicia Frankovich. Her exhibition opens on Friday 5 February, 5.30 to 8pm. Jim Speers' exhibition Hold 'til Wednesday continues upstairs.
Image: studio shot by Alicia Frankovich

Alicia Frankovich in Complex Bodies, Switzerland

Alicia Frankovich is represented in the exhibition Complex Bodies at Stiftung fur Kultur, Rapperswill, Switzerland. Curated by Christina Lehnart, the exhibition runs to 8 November. Read more...
Image: Works by Alicia Frankovich in Complex Bodies 

Alicia Frankovich at DAZ, Berlin

Alicia Frankovich is in the lineup of artists for A SPACE IS A SPACE IS A SPACE, an exhibition, lecture and performance program at Deutsches Architect Centrum DAZ, Berlin from 11 September - 8 November 2015. Read more...

In Motion continues at Starkwhite

Our exhibition In Motion continues this week and through to 8 August. You can read an insightful review of the show here.

Image: Installation videos of In Motion - Alicia Frankovich (upstairs), Rebecca Baumann & Brendan Van Hek (downstairs)

In Motion at Starkwhite

In Motion runs at Starkwhite this week and through to 8 August. The show includes work by Rebecca Baumann and Brendan Van Hek (AUS), Alicia Frankovich (DE), Len Lye (NZ) Laszlo Moholoy-Nagy (US) and Grant Stevens (AUS). Read more here...
Images (top to bottom): Rebecca Bauman & Brendan Van Hek, Untitled (2015), acrylic and aluminum; Alicia Frankovich, Becoming Public: Actor (2015), C-print & The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations (2015), curtain, ribbon, fan, cord, plug; Len Lye, A COLOUR BOX (1935), Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,  Ein Lichtspiel: schwarz weiss grau (A Lightplay: Black White Grey), (1930), film still; Grant Stevens, Particle Wave (2013), six lenticular panels. A COLOUR BOX (1935) is presented in In Motion courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation and the British Postal Museum and Archive, from material preserved by the BFI National Archive and made available by Nga Taonga Sound and Vision. The Len Lye Foundation also acknowledges the support of Technix Group Ltd. Ein Lichtspiel: schwartz weiss grau (A Lightplay: Black White Grey) is presented in In Motion courtesy of the Moholy-Nagy Foundation.

Art as a Verb at Artspace, Sydney

Billy Apple and Alicia Frankovich are represented in Art as a Verb, which opened last night at Artspace, Sydney. Curated by Charlotte Day, Francis E Parker and Patrice Sharkey for Monash University of Art, the exhibition takes as its departure point the concept of art as action, presenting projects from the 1990s to the present challenge the traditional role of the artist and the site of the museum. What constitutes the work of an artists? How do the varying roles of artist (an instigator, facilitator, teacher, performer, consumer or visionary) for within broader society? And how does the museum support art forms that function beyond the art object?
Image: Alicia Frankovich, Not Yet Titled, 2014, stainless steel, Thera bands, drink bottle, shoe lace, 80 x 90 x 45 cm. Exhibition view, Kunstverein Hildeheim

Putting the Chartwell Collection to work

The Chartwell Collection is under the spotlight at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. A Work Undone opened last week and is showing alongside Seung Yul Oh's Soom and a photography exhibition titled The Social Life of Things. Most of the artists in the photography show are represented by works drawn from Chartwell's holdings and a few (like Gavin Hipkins) by works from both Chartwell and the collections of the Auckland Art Gallery.

Images (from the top): Gavin Hipkins, Homely: Wellington (Path), 1999; Alicia Frankovich, Pugiliese Suspension/post-performance object, 2007; Layla Rudneva-Mackay, Black Vase and White Flowers, 2011; Richard Maloy, Silver Rock #6, 2001

Art as a verb

Art as a Verb opens today at Monash University of Art. Curated by Charlotte Day, Francis E Parker and Patrice Sharkey, the exhibition takes as it's departure point the concept of art as action, presenting projects form the 1990s to the present challenge the traditional role of the artist and the site of the museum. What constitutes the work of an artists? How do the varying roles of artist (an instigator, facilitator, teacher, performer, consumer or visionary)for within broader society? And how does the museum support art forms that function beyond the art object?

Artists in the show include Marina Abramovic, Francis Alys, Billy Apple, John Baldessari, Martin Creed, Peter Fischili & David Weiss, Alicia Frankovich, Paul McCarthy, Rose Nolan, Claus Oldenburg, Ariel Orozco, Mike Parr and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Image: Billy Apple, PAID: The Artists Has to Live Like Everybody Else, 1987, Herbert Fabrication and Engineering 2003, invoice mounted on PAID offset lithograph, 42 x 29.7cm