Luca Frei  |  Biografia


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Luca Frei, born 1976 in Lugano, Switzerland, lives and works in Lund, Sweden.

Studi / Education

1992-1997
CSIA, Lugano, Switzerland

1997-2000
Edinburgh College of Art (BAHons), Edinburgh

1999
Yale University Summer School of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

2000-2002
Malmö Art Academy (MFA), Malmö

Selezione di esposizioni e progetti (personali con *) /
Selected exhibitions and projects (solo marked with *)

2000
– Fragments of the Everyday, Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh *
– Showroom, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh*
– George IV Bridge, with protoacademy, Edinburgh

2001
– Reading Lounge, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm
– Silver Tags, Yellow House, Reykjavik*
– Greetings from Liverpool, with protoacademy, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
– Fria Aktiviteter/Free Activities, in coll. with Anna Ling, Wight Biennale, UCLA, Los Angeles (cat., text by S. Jordeno)
– Alternative Strategies, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

Index Office Space
2002
Plywood, adhesive vinyl tape
Gallery Index, Stockholm

2002
– Proposal for a New Office Space + Lounge, Index, Stockholm*
– A Laboratory for Proposals/Proposals for a Laboratory, Peep, Malmö
– New Office Space + Lounge, (permanent installation) Index, Stockholm *
– P-A-U-S-E, IV Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (cat.)
– Critical Studies Classroom, (permanent installation) Malmö Art Academy, Malmö*
– Eleven Titles, in coll. with Anna Ling, Cargobar, Basel
– Suggestions for Empty Spaces, Rooseum Lobby at Radisson SAS Hotel, Malmö*
– Space Jockeys, Arbetsrum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö*

Space Jockeys
2002
Overhead projector, various materials
Dimensions variable
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö

2003
– Everything was to be done. All the adventures are still there, Arbetsrum, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö*
– Total Motiviert, Kunstverein München, Munich
– Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö (cat.)
– Definitively Provisional, Whitechapel Project Space, London
– Cosa c’e di nuovo? La scena artistica ermergente in Ticino, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano (cat.)
– Re-public, Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga (cat.)
– Institution 2, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Everything Was To Be Done. All The Adventures Are Still There
2003
Magnetic paint, acrylic paint, magnets, metal ladder, foamboard, poster A2 1000 ex.
Dimensions variable
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö

Munich Readings
2003
Mdf, plexiglas, acrylic paint, Xerox copies
Dimensions variable
Kunstverein Munchen, Munich

Untitled/Tangram
2003
Magnetic sheet,magnetic paint, adhesive vinyl tape
Dimensions variable
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

2004
– TO IMAGINE ACTION, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
– Balancing Acts, Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris
– Delayed On Time, Gateway to Swedish Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
– Fonda “Gruppo Parole e Immagini” e partecipa all’esposizione Normalizacija, Galerija Nova, Zagreb.
“A low budget activity without lucrative intentions, Gruppo Parole e Immagini is held together solely by the passion of its contributors. Initiated during summer 2004 by Luca Frei, the intention behind Gruppo Parole e Immagini is the free appropriation, elaboration and distribution of textual and visual materials which the contributors feel an urgency to share with others.”

Balancing Acts,
Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris

Untitled (What is Our Goal?) 2004
Mirror, MDF, black laminated chip-board, Acrylic paint, aluminium frame, colored fabrics
cm 428 x 210 x 210

Installation view from the exhibition “Delayed On Time”

2005
– The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds, in collaboration with Xabier Salaberria, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, 10 of March to the 5th of June 2005
– Collective Creativity, with Gruppo Parole e Immagini, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
– Whatever Happened to Social Democracy?, with Gruppo Parole e Immagini, Rooseum, Malmö
– 9th Istanbul Biennale, 16 September - 30 October 2005
– Cubitus, Casco Office for Contemporary Art, Utrecht
- Words & Works & Worlds, Marabouparken Annex, Stockholm *

The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds
2005
in collaboration with Xabier Salaberria
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao

2006
– IASPIS Open Studios, Stockholm
– Luca Frei / Gruppo Parole e Immagini, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz *
– Cosa c’e di nuovo? La Scena Artistica Ermergente in Ticino, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
– Jump Into Cold Water, Shedhalle Zürich
– Group exhibition, Elastic, Malmö
– Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz

Luca Frei / Gruppo Parole e Immagini
2006
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

Jump Into Cold Water
2006
Shedhalle Zürich

2007
– “Come in, friends, the house is yours!”, NABA, Milan *
– Modelle für Morgen, Köln, EU Kunsthalle, Köln
– 3rd Prague Biennial, Prague
– Cities from Below, Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte, Pisa
– Interstices, Elastic Gallery, Malmö (*)
– Imagine Action, Summer Show, Lisson Gallery, London
– Talk Show, Tranzit, Bratislava (**)

Imagine Action
2007
Lisson Gallery, London

2008
– Lunds Konsthall (*)
– Museum as a Medium, Marco, Vigo
– Glasgow International 08, Glasgow
– Luca Frei, Marine Hugonnier und Sean Snyder, Grazer Kunstverein
– Art cannot be untaught, La Rada, Locarno
– Urban pedestals, Helsinki
– A town (Not a City), Neue Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen
– Disenchantment, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
– Phone Box - Back to the social subject!, Center for Visual Introspection, Bucharest

2008
Lunds Konsthall

2008 (cont.)
– Democracy in America, Creative Time, New York
– Museum as a Medium, Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian
– After October, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
– Studio Dabbeni, “Watch Out”, Lugano (*)
– A town (Not a City), Neue Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen
– Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (*)

Art cannot be untaught
2008
La Rada, Locarno

Museum as a medium
2008
Marco, Vigo

A town (Not a City)
Brilliant Corners
2008
Legno, colore, cm 240 x 500 x 500
Neue Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen

2009 (cont.)
– Audio, Video, Disco, Kunsthalle Zürich
– Search for the Spirit, MuHKA, Antwerp
– Come in, friends, the house is yours!, Badischer Kunstverein
– In May (After October), Gallery TPW, Toronto
– En Oväntad Tanke, Funktionen i samtidskonsten, Göteborg Konsthall
– Art 40 Statements, Galerie Balice Hertling
– It’s not for reading. It’s for making, FormContent project space, London
– Generosity is the new political, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, 2009
– Il benessere viene meno mentre il ballo delle marionette continua, ISR, Milano (*)

Il benessere viene meno mentre il ballo delle marionette continua
ISR, Milano, 2009
m H.4 x 4 x 7
Neon bianco, 170 catenelle dorate
Courtesy ISR, Milano

Bibliografia/Bibliography

2000
– ‘Between History and Legend’, in Backwards Translation, Metronome 4-5-6, ed. by Clementine Deliss (Edinburgh, Vienna, Biella, Stuttgart)

2001
– Sara Jordenö, ‘Institutionalised freedom - Notes on art, education and social change’, in Wight Biennial 2001, Exhibition Catalogue, UCLA - University of California Los Angeles, (Los Angeles)

2002
– Åsa Nacking, ‘Luca Frei- Twisting, turning models for language, mediation and architecture’, in Rooseum Provisorium, 3:2002 (Malmö)
– Charley Magazine 01, ed. by M. Cattelan, B. Funcke, M. Gioni, A. Subotnik (New York)
– P-A-U-S-E Project 1, Gwangju Biennial, Exhibition Catalogue (Gwangju)
– ‘Proposal for a New Office Space + Lounge, An interview between Mats Stjernstedt and Luca Frei’, in PA System- on urbanism and the activation of space (Edinburgh)

2003
– Drucksache, Kunstverein München, Spring 03 (Munich)
– NIFCA Info, 1/03 (Helsinki)
–‘Luca Frei. Project’, in Temporale, n.56/57, Edizioni Dabbeni, (Lugano)
–‘Interview between Luca Frei and Enrico Spada’, in Drucksache, Kunstverein München, Fall 03 (Munich)

2004
– Maria Lind, ‘Soft and strict strands’, in 00tal, #17/18 (Stockholm)
– Nada Beros, ‘Delayed on Time’, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb)
– ‘A conversation between Luca frei and Marianna Garin’, in “Temporale” n. 58-59, Edizioni Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
– Charles Esche, ‘Review-city distribution network, Sorting Office 5, 23748 Scritto. Issue Number 641346 “The Invisible Fog” by Vladimir Liberra’, in “Temporale” n. 58-59, Edizioni Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
– Charles Esche, ‘Luca Frei’, in CREAM 3, Phaidon, (London)

2005
– Milou Allerholm, ‘Ett fall för konsten’, Dagens Nyheter, 2005.12.10, (Stockholm)
– XXI Architecture Design Space Magazine (Istanbul)
– Pontus Kyander, ‘Pontus Kyander ser biennalen i Istanbul’, Sydsvenskan, 2005.10.03 (Malmö)
– Istanbul, 9 th Istanbul Biennial, Exhibition Catalogue (Istanbul)
– Lars Bang Larsen, ‘ Art, empathy and opposition’, in The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds, Exhibition Catalogue, Sala Rekalde (Bilbao)
– Collective Creativity, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Fridericianum (Kassel)

2006
– Lars Bang Larsen, ‘ Making room for learning and un-learning; jugglers and public space ’, Frieze, Issue 101, (London)

2007
– The So-called Utopia Of The Centre Beaubourg: An Interpretation by Luca Frei (September 2007)
Co-published by Book Works and CASCO, Utrecht. Printed offset, 208 pages with a colour soft cover. Designed by Luca Frei.
» Link to the bookshop

The So-called Utopia Of The Centre Beaubourg: An Interpretation by Luca Frei (2007)
An interpretive translation of Albert Meister's fictional account of a libertarian space under the Centre Beaubourg, originally published in 1976 under the pseudonym Gustave Affeulpin.

2007 (cont.)
– Elizabeth Schambelan, ‘The view from below’, Artforum, October 2007
– Mark Crinson, ‘In the bowels of the fun palace’, Mute magazine, October 2007
– Dan Fox, ‘Imagine Action’, Frieze, October 2007
– Prague Biennale 3, Exhibition Catalogue (Milan)

Conferenze/Talks

2006
– Shedhalle, Zürich
– Iaspis Open Studios, Stockholm

2005
– Galeria Nova, Zagreb

2004
– Artist presentation, Galeria Otok, Dubrovnik
– Normalizacjia, public talk with Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun, Galeria Nova, Zagreb