Krobath Wien curated by Rike Frank
„Shimmering“

3.10 - 8.11.2014 Press release

Krobath Wien, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Vienna
www.galeriekrobath.at

Curator(s):

Rike Frank is a curator for contemporary art and film and teaches as Associated Professor of Exhibition Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo. In 2012 / 2013 she co-curated the exhibition and research project “Textiles: Open Letter”, and, among others “Abstractions, Textiles, Art” (Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach), and 2012 the solo exhibition of works by Friedl vom Gröller (HGB Leipzig). She was project director of documenta 12 (Kassel), co-curated (together with Anders Kreuger and Astrid Wege) the European Kunsthalle (Cologne), and the program at Ludlow 38, New York, in 2009–10. 2001–2005 she was a curator at the Secession (Vienna), where she realized solo exhibitions and monographs with Henrik Olesen, Silvia Kolbowski, Henrik Hakansson, Ines Doujak, Josephine Pryde, Mary Heilman, Michael Beutler, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Christopher Williams, Carola Dertnig, Michael Krebber, and Minvera Cuevas. She edited several books, among others “Constanze Ruhm. Coming Attractions” (2012), “Sketches of Universal History. Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce“ (2013) and “Timing—On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting“ (in collaboration with Cultures of Curating, Leipzig, 2014).

Artist(s):

Born 1970 in Offenbach am Main, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Born 1948 in Bad Oldesloe, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Born 1966 in Berlin, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Born 1968 in Connecticut, USA. Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.
Born 1977 in Melbourne (AUS), lives and works in Berlin.
Born 1952 in Hall, Austria. Lives and works in New York, Frankfurt and Vienna.
Born 1953 in Prague, Czech Republic. Lives and works in Prague. Seit 1995 Professor an der Akademie für Bildende Kunst in Prag
Artist duo. Both born 1985 in Canada. Live and work in Berlin.