Alicia Frankovich
Dr Alicia Frankovich
Alicia Frankovich (Pākehā and Samoan), was born in Tauranga, Aotearoa New Zealand and has recently been based in Naarm, Melbourne and Berlin Germany.
She holds a PhD from Monash University Melbourne and a BVA in sculpture from AUT Auckland.
Frankovich is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in the potential for imaging and experiencing new modes of imagining bodies, their behaviours, atmospheres and environments, both human and non-human. Her work queers nature in seeking to find new ways of imaging the Anthropocene.
Frankovich has presented numerous solo exhibitions and performance commissions including 2024: Spaces of Life, 1301SW, 2023: Rich in World, Poor in World, NGV Australia, 2022: The Eye, Brunswick Baths, Open House Melbourne, Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2020: AQI2020, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 2019: The Work, Kaldor Projects, AGNSW, Gadigal/Sydney, 2018: After Blue Marble, KUB Billboards, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2017: Exoplanets, MUMA, Naarm/Melbourne, Atlas of the Living World, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND, Kunstverein für die Reinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2016: The Female has Undergone Several Manifestations, Starkwhite, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, 2011: Gestures, Splits and Annulations, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2009: A Plane for Behavers, Artspace Aotearoa, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Super Segue, Artspace Gadigal/Sydney. Group shows include 2025: Deep Time Real Time, RMIT Design Hub Naarm/Melbourne, These Entanglements, UQ Art Museum, Meanjin/Brisbane, 2024: The Charge that Binds, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Naarm/Melbourne 2024: And This Time the Well is Alive, Gertrude, Naarm/Melbourne 2023: My Body a Coral Reef, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, The Sentiment of Flowers, Gus Fisher, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, 2016: Endless Circulation, TarraWarra Biennial, 2015: Complex Bodies, Alte Fabrik, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil, The 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition: Le Mouvement: Performing the City, Biel/Bienne, 2013: Nouvelles Vagues: The Real Thing? Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2010: The 4th Auckland Triennial, 2006: The Busan Biennial. Frankovich has undertaken numerous residencies including the ISCP New York where she presented ‘Brooklyn Commons’ with Tehching Hsieh, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin and Gertrude Contemporary Melbourne. A monographic catalogue OUTSIDE BEFORE BEYOND was published in 2020 by Koenig Books with Kunstverein für die Reinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf and MUMA, Naarm/Melbourne.
