LUCA FREI
( biography ) ( works )
Born 1976, Lugano, Switzerland
Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 They stared back at him with an expression of vicious, acrid boredom that trembled on the edge of violence, Balice Hertling, Paris
1012 KD, IF I CAN’T DANCE I WON’T BE PART OF YOUR REVOLUTION, Frascati Theater, Amsterdam
The End of Summer, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
2009 Swiss Cultural Institute, Milan, Italy
Statements (with Galerie Balice Hertling), Art 40 Basel, Basel
2008 Watch Out, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland
Studies/Play, Lunds Konsthalle, Lund, Sweden
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2007 Elastic Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
Come in Friends! The House is Yours!, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
2005 Words & Works & Worlds, Marabouparken Annex, Stockholm
Published and be Damned, Casco, Utrecht, Netherlands
Luca Frei – Tobacco Warehouse, Dabbeni Studio d’Arte Contemporanea, Lugano, Switzerland
2004 To Imagine Action, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
2003 ‘Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there’, Arbestrum, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Aufruf zur Alternative, Schmela Haus, Düsseldorf, Germany
Performing the Curatorial, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
2010 Exodus, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
Fun Palace, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
The Incidental Person, Apexart, New York
Berlin-Paris, Un Échange de Galeries, Galerie, Galerie Neu /MD72, Berlin
Solar Prominances, Ancient & Modern, London
The Moderna Exhibition 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Exhibitions, Projects Art Centre, Dublin
Kunst und Architektur – Zwei Wettbewerbe, Kunst-Raum des Deutschen Bundestages, Berlin
Wysing Arts Contemporary Partnering, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge
The Secret Confession, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
12th Cairo Biennial, Cairo
Edstrandska Stiftelsens Stipendium, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
Les Interlocuteurs, La Vitrine, Paris
Learning Machines, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy
Display 2, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland
From dusk till dawn, van abbe museum, Eindhoven
2009 Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today, The Drawing Room, London
Textiles, Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Generosity is the New Political, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
Swiss Art Awards 2009, Basel
An Unexpected Thought, Function in Contemporary Art, Göteborg Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
In May (After October), Gallery TPW, Toronto
It’s Not for Reading, It’s for Making, FormContent, London
Gennariello, Balice Hertling, Paris
Come in Friends! The House is Yours!, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Search for the Spirit, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Audio, Video, Disco, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich
2008 After October, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Democracy in America: The National Campaign, Creative Time, New York
Archaeology of Longing, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Three Interventions by Luca Frei, Marine Hugonnier and Sean Snyder, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Museum as a Medium, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo, Spain
Object, The Undeniable Success Of Operations, SMBA, Amsterdam
Disobedience, Nottingham Contemporay, Nottingham, UK
Art Cannot be Untaught, La Rada, Locarno, Switzerland
Studies/Play, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
2007 Modelle für Morgen, EU Kunsthalle, Köln, Germany
Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London
Der Prozess, 3rd Prague Biennial, Prague
Cities from Below, Fondazione Teseco per l’Arte, Pisa, Italy
Come in Friends! The House Is Yours, NABA, Milan, Italy
2006 Open Studios, IASPIS, Stockholm
Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Jump Into Cold Water, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2005 Cubitus, Casco Office for Contemporary Art and Theory, Utrecht, Netherlands
9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
2004 Normalizacija, Galerija Nova, Zagreb
Balancing Acts, Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris
2003 Total Motiviert, Kunstverein München, Munich
‘Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there’, Arbetsrum, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
EDUCATION
2002 Malmö Art Academy (MFA), Malmö, Sweden
2000 Edinburgh College of Art (BA Hons), Edinburgh, UK
1999 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA
1997 Centro Scolastico Industrie Artistiche, Lugano, Switzerland
GRANTS
2009 Swiss Art Awards, Switzerland
2006 Konstnärsnämnden Arbetstipendium
Konstnärsnämnden Internationellt Kulturutbyte, Grazer Kunstverein, Granz, Austria
2005 IASPIS Ateljestipendium (October 2005-March 2006)
Konstnärsnämnden Internationellt kulturutbyte, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Konstnärsnämnden Internationellt kulturutbyte, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2003 Konstnärsnämnden Arbetstipendium
Konstnärsnämnden Internationellt kulturutbyte, Kunstverein München, Munich
Konstnärsnämnden Internationellt kulturutbyte, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Latvia
2002 Hänels Donationsfond, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
1999 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, USA
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2010 Deutscher Bundestag (competition), Berlin
2009 Malmö City Hall (in progress), Malmö, Sweden
2008 Primary School, Stångby, Sweden
2006 Apartment Buildings, Bällstaviken, Stockholm
READINGS (from The So-Called Utopia of the Centre Beaubourg: An Interpretation)
2008 Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
2007 Lisson Gallery, London; Casco, Utrecht (Netherlands)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 “Be Nice, Share Everything, Have Fun”, Walter König, Köln, Germany
“Why did you become an artist?”, Marabouparken, Stockholm
“Modernautställningen”, Exhibition Catalogue Moderna Museet, Stockholm
“12th Cairo Biennale”, Exhibition Catalogue, Cairo
“The Secret Confession”, Exhibition Catalogue Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
“Luca Frei: The End of Summer”, Exhibition Catalogue Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerlnad
Santiago García Navarro, “Sin Referentes”, Exit Express, Madrid, May
Jonathan Griffin, “The sun is the tongue”, Frieze, London, May
“Isabelle Cornaro, Luca Frei, Falke Pisano, Mark Prince”, Frieze, London, January
“Isabelle Cornaro, Luca Frei, Falke Pisano, Anna Altman”, Art in America, New York
2009 “Museum as a Medium”, Exhibition Catalogue MARCO, Vigo/ Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, Spain
Michael Hampton, “Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today”, Frieze, London, November
Laura Mclean-Ferris, “Generosity is the New Political”, Art Monthly, London, September
Andrew Hunt, “Generosity is the New Political”, Frieze, London, September
Vincenzo de Bellis, “Ouverture”, Flash Art, Milan, August/September
Esperanza Rosales, “Search for the Spirit”, Frieze, London, May
“Search for the Spirit”, Exhibition Catalogue Muhka, Antwerp, Netherlands
Domeniek Ruyters, “All that is solid melts into air”, Metropolis M, Utrecht, June
“CUrated”, Metropolis M, Utrecht, June
2008 “Cross Section”, Glasgow International Festival Of Contemporary Visual Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Glasgow, UK
Lucy Steeds, Art Monthly, London, July/August
“Dr. Satan's Echo Chamber”, Chimurenga Vol. 12/13, Cape Town, March
Martin Herbert, “Disobedience”, Frieze, London, September
Michael Bracewell, “Editions of You”, Frieze, London, June
“An interview between Luca Frei and Santiago García Navarro”, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
Isac Nordgren, “Lunds Konsthall: Luca Frei”, Kristianstad Dagblad, Kristianstad
2007 Elizabeth Schambelan, “The View from Below”, Artforum, New York, October
Carolina Söderholm, “Mellan Utopi och Dystopi”, Sydsvenskan Dagbladet, Malmö
Mark Crinson, “In the bowels of the fun palace”, Mute Magazine, London, October
Dan Fox, “Imagine Action”, Frieze, London, October
Caroline Menezes, “Artists imagine action to stimulate change”, Studio International, October 2
2006 Lars Bang Larsen, “Making room for learning and un-learning; jugglers and public space”, Frieze, London, September
2005 “Istanbul”, 9th Istanbul Biennial, Exhibition Catalogue, Istanbul
Alex Farquharson, “Invisible Insurrection”, Frieze, London, September
“Collective Creativity”, Exhibition Catalogue Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2004 Maria Lind, “Soft and strict strands”, 00tal, #17/18, Stockholm
Charles Esche, “Luca Frei”, in CREAM 3, Phaidon, London
2003 “Drucksache”, Kunstverein München, Munich, Spring 2003 |