Framis, Alicia

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Alicia Framis was born in 1967 in Barcelona, Spain. She studied Fine Arts at the Barcelona University and at Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. She also completed her masters at the Institut d\'Hautes Etudes, Paris and at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Alicia has lived and worked in Barcelona (1985-1990), Paris (1990-1993), and Amsterdam (1995-2005). Alicia Framis currently lives and works in Amsterdam.

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

  • “Es personal”. Alicia Framis y Teresa Margolles. Sala de Cristal del Cabildo de Gran Canaria.
  • “Is my body public?”. Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. Amsterdam

2018

  • “Lenguajes Invisibles”. Juana de Aizpuru gallery. Madrid
  • “Pabellón de Género”. Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid

2017

  • Fundación Blueproject. Barcelona
  • Forbidden Rooms, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
  • Statements, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Land Project, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2016

  • Everyday Sunshine, Horrach Moya Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2015

  • I’m in the wrong place to be real, 3bisf, Aix-en-Provence, France

2014

  • Framis in Progress, Centre Contemporary Art Brugge, Belgium. curator: Michel Dewilde.
  • Framis in Progress. MUSAC, León.

2013

  • Framis in Progress, Galerie im TaxisPalais, Innsbruck Austria (upcoming 14 December 2013 to February 2014)
  • Framis in Progress, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands (upcoming)
  • Habitaciones Prohibidas. Galería Juana de Aizpuru. Madrid

2012

  • Cinema Solo, La Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen, FR
  • Daily Future, Kunstzone Rabobank Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Barbara Gross Galerie; Munich, Germany

2011

  • Apuntes sobre el cielo, Sala de Exposiciones de la Diputación de Huesca, Huesca, Spain

2009

  • Barbara Gross Galerie; Munich, Germany
  • GMG Gallery Moscow
  • New Buildings for China Institute Cervantes, Beijing, China

2008

  • Guantánamo Museum, curator: Montse Badía. Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona Not for Sale (performance) Madrid Abierto, Madrid

2007

  • CHINA WITH LOVE, Annet gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

2006

  • Alicia Framis, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
  • Acciones secretas, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  • Alicia Framis. Secret Strike, Mireille Mosler, Ltd, New York, USA
  • Secret Strike: Archivo momentos, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Partages, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux CACP, Bordeaux, France.
  • Secret Strike- Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York City, NY
  • Alicia Framis – CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux

2004

  • Anti_dog, curator Gloria Picazo, Center of Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain

2003

  • Muebles de tiempo, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  • Anti_dog, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
  • Anti_dog, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsinborg, Sweden
  • Anti_dog, performance, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  • Anti_dog, performance, Metronom, Barcelona, Spain

2002

  • Anti_dog, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Anti_dog, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2001

  • Minibar, Arco, Madrid, Spain

2000

  • Remix Buildings- Proposals, Pand Paulus, Schiedam, The Netherlands
  • Remix Buildings, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium

1999

  • Architectura Integrada, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain

1998

  • Hijas sin hijas / daughters without daughters, Alicia Framis, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • Dreamkeeper, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

  • Buddha´s life path to the present, De Nieuwe Kerk, Dam Square, Amsterdam

2017

  • Cuando la musa ataca. Supertangibles. Palacio Quintanar.Segovia

2016

  • Tecnologías de la Violencia. Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona

2014

  • Nonumento. Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

2013

  • Shift, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Full Printed – Printing Objects, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Switzerland

2012

  • Somnio Film Festival, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
  • Anti_dog (Palma de Mallorca), Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • L’amour à mort, FRAC Corse, Corte, France
  • Cartas al Cielo, Amstelpark Amsterdam, supported by Stadsdeel Zuid
  • Through an open window, Institute Neerlandais, Paris, France
  • Genealogías feministas en el arte español: 1960-2010, MUSAC, Léon Spain
  • The Ideal Place, NEST Den Haag
  • Screening of Lost Astronaut (the project re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive) at Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Screening of Lost Astronaut (the project re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive) at Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland
  • Screening of Lost Astronaut (the project re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive) at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
  • Screening of Lost Astronaut (the project re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive) at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2011

  • Imagine Being There, Kunstzone Rabobank Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Moonlife Concept store, Amsterdam
  • Medianoche en la ciudad, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
  • Screening of Lost Astronaut (the project re.act.feminism #2- a performing archive) at Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2010

  • Aware: Art Fashion Identity Exhibition, Royal Academy of the Arts, GSK Contemporary, London
  • Drafts Establishing Future, Flux/S Eindhoven NL
  • De Nederlandse identiteit? Museum De Paviljoens, Almere NL
  • C.O.N.T.R.A.V.I.O.L.E.N.C.I.A.S. Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian
  • Secret Strikes,Sprengel Museum Hannover
  • Double infinity, Dutch cultural Center Shanghai
  • Performance Video, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2009

  • Ball Park, Galería Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
  • Looking from the Outside, ArtAids, Barcelona, Spain
  • Minimal Histories, Galleri Box and Institute Cervantes, Göteborg, Sweden
  • Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
  • def drafts establishing future, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlín, Germany
  • Is this Spain? Saint Pancras Crypt Gallery, London, UK
  • Utopía? –Art and Human Rights, Addaya Centre d’Art Contemporani, Mallorca, Spain
  • Auto, Sueño y Materia, Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijón, Spain
  • Estuary biennale, Nantes, France
  • Contraseñas, Montehermoso Cultural Centre of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
  • The Show must go on, GMG Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell. Life experiences in art from Musac Collection, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
  • Una fábrica, una máquina, un cuerpo… Arqueología …espacios industriales, La Panera, Lleida, Spain
  • URBANEA, Fundació Es Convent, Mallorca, Spain
  • 200 years Prix de Rome, Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Performance 09, New York City, NY
  • Auto. Sueño y materia, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles ES
  • 25 OBRAS, 17 ARTISTAS, 4 RELATOS, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida ES
  • Holland Experience!, Art Center Nabi, Seoul
  • Inventari, Galería Estrany, De La Mota, Barcelona
  • Nuevas Historias. A New View of Spanish Photography, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo

2008

  • Zonas de Riesgo, curator: Ninfa Bisbe. Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
  • Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  • “Wouldn’t it be nice… wishful thinking in art and design”, Somerset House, London
  • Risque d’attente, Galerija Karas, Zagreb
  • Extraordinary rendition, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  • Imágenes a pie de calle, curator: Neus Miró, Festival Loop, Barcelona, Spain
  • “Wouldn’t it be nice…wishful thinking in art and design”, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
  • Locked-In, Images of Humanity in the Age of Intrusion, Casino de Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, Luxemburg
  • Everywhere is War(and rumours of War), Boudhi Art ga
  • Mondo e Terra, La collezione del Frac Corsica, Museum d’Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro

2007

  • Pensa-Piensa-Think, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain
  • Artist Pention Trust , Curator: Dan Cameron, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
  • Montevideo program: Acciona, Observatori-festival. Valencia, Spain
  • After the News, BankART1929. Yokohama, Japan
  • MOCA Museum, Shanghai, China
  • Entreprise du lieu (curator Daniel Buren), POMMERY, Reims, France
  • Would be so nice, Centre of Art Contemporaine, Genève
  • Rightfully Yours, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  • Existencias, Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
  • Background IV, Galería Horrach Moyà, Palma de Mallorca
  • Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, IN
  • Colección de Arte Contemporáneo 3 del Ayuntamiento de Lleida, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida

2006

  • Big City Lab, Art Forum Berlin, Curator: Friederike Nymphius. Berlin, Germany
  • On Mobility, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania.
  • 59, Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno, Locarno, Swiss
  • Dresscode, Historisches und Voelkerkundemuseum (Borrower), St. Gallen, Swiss
  • Femmes d’Europe, Saint-Tropez, France
  • Alicia Framis. 8 de junio, las modelos libran. A Life in a Bag, Loewe 160 Years Anniversary, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid,
  • Fusión, MUSAC, León, Spain
  • INVIDEO, Milan, Italy
  • FASHION VICTIM, CRAC, Alsace, France
  • FASHIONS; Center of Contemporary Art in Leipzig, Germany
  • Secret Strike Tate Modern, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel, Swiss
  • Architecture au Corps, Galerie Anton Weller, Paris
  • Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
  • Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
  • Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
  • Dormir, rêver… et autres nuits, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
  • Paisaje del arte latinoamericano actual, Instituto Cervantes Milan, Milan

2005

  • Actions Tour, Cala San Vicente, Pollença, Palma de Mallorca. curator: Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes
  • Museo Universitario Contemporáneo de Arte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  • Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos from the Collection Helga de Alvear Oulu City Art Museum, Oulu, Finland (Cat.)
  • Carrera de Fondo, Santa Inés exposition gallery, Curator: Margarita Aizpuru. (Cat.) Sevilla, Spain
  • Bodytalk, Museum Beelden aan Zee, El Cheveningen, The Netherlands
  • Pattern Language; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, University of California; Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • Dreaming Bodies, Asahi Art Square, Tokio, Japan
  • Express yourself, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresde, Germany
  • Super, Bienal of Belgium, Hasselt, Belgium
  • On Mobility, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Fascination, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; Sweden; Museum of Modern Art of Bradford
  • Express yourself, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
  • Pattern Language, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
  • Pattern Language, Tufts Univeristy Art Gallery, Medford, MA, USA
  • Super, Bienal of Belgium, Hasselt, Belgium
  • Fascination, Museum Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Fascination, Museum in Bradford, Germany

2004

  • No lo llames performance, Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
  • Hors d’ooeuvre: ordres et desordres de la noriture, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
  • Hit and Run, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Dream Island, Riga, Leetonia
  • Video-shop, Zaragoza, Spain
  • Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Bodytalk, Beelden aan Zee, curator Anne Berk, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Brave New World, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece
  • ’Fuckin’ Trendy, Kunsthalle Nuernberg, curator Ellen Seiferman, Nuernberg, Germany
  • The violence of the tone, curator Anders Kreuger, W139, Amsterdam
  • Women video artists, UNESCO, Paris
  • We are the world, Museum Boijmas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Utopia Station, curator Hans Ubrist, Napoli, Italy
  • Utopia Station, curator Hans Ubrist, Munich, Germany
  • Revolving Doors, Fundacion Telefonica, curator Montse Badia, Madrid, Spain
  • No lo llames performances, Centro Andaluz Art Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain

2003

  • We are the world, Venice Biennale Dutch Pavilion, curator Rein Wolf, Venice, Italy
  • Fantastic, MassMoca, curator Nato Thompson, Massachusetts, USA
  • Anti_dog, Rituals, Berlin, Germany
  • Pequenas politicas, EAC, Castellon, Spain
  • Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, curators Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Molly Nesbitt, Italy
  • Kidea, Tuscia Electra, Florence, Italy
  • Armour, curator Lidewij Edelkoort, Fort Asperen, The Netherlands
  • No lo llames performances, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2002

  • Montevergini, Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea di Siracusa, Siracusa, Italy
  • Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, curator Ami Barak, Montpellier, France
  • Catalan International Artists Palau Sorajec, curator: Josep Miquel Garcia, Mallorca, Spain
  • Museum Dhondt – Dhaenens, curator: Edith Doove, Deurle, Belgium

2001

  • 2nd Berlin Biennale, curator Saskia Bos, Berlin, Germany
  • Sonsbeek 9: Locus/Focus, curator Jan Hoet, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  • Squatters, Fundacion Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • Triennale Yokohama, Curator Nabuo Nakamura, Japan
  • Artline 5: Interaktionen Natur & Architektur, curator Jan Hoet, Borken, Germany
  • Silhouettes and Shadow, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • Demonstration Room: Ideal House, The Big Show, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Vostestaqui, Palau de la Virreina, curator Chus Martinez, Barcelona, Spain
  • Parasites, Stork area, SKOR/AFK Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2000

  • Loneliness in the City/Einsamkeit in der Stad -Inventions against Loneliness, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Loneliness in the City/Yksinnaisyys Kaupungissa-World record of Contact, Helsinki, Finland
  • Loneliness in the City/Soledad en la cuidad- Remix, Macba, Barcelona, Spain
  • Over the Edges, SMAK, curator Jan Hoet, Ghent , Belgium
  • I made a list of things I’m going to do: … Plan B, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Etats des lieux # 1, Nicolas Bourriaud, Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Domestic Loneliness, a project by Alicia Framis with Stefan Banz, Otto Berchem, Fortuyn / O’Brien, Una Henry, Johannes Schwartz, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Zona F, EACC, Castellon, Spain
  • Miradas indiscretas, fundacion la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
  • Living Apart Together, Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
  • Ideas for living, ACHK-de Paviljoens, curator Janwillem Poels, Almere, The Netherlands

1999

  • Indoor, with a.o. Jimmie Durham, Musée art contemporain, Lyon, France
  • EXTRAetORDINAIRE Le printemps de Cahors, 9e édition, Cahors, France
  • Loneliness in the City/ Einsamkeit in der Stadt- Der Paradies so nah, Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany,
  • Loneliness in the City/Eenzaamheid in de stad- LOCO, CBK Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • 12e mois de l’Image de Dieppe, dualité, Hotel de Ville de Dieppe, France
  • Sympathikus, Einblicke in das vegetative Nervensystem der Kunst von heute, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
  • Go Away, Artists and Travel, curated by final year students on the Royal College of Art’s MA in Visual Arts Administration, Royal College of Art, London, Great Brittain
  • Private Room, Public Space, ACHK De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands

1998

  • Pictures for the Blue Room, Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway
  • Projetto indoor, work in progress, Zerynthia, Centro Civico per l’Arte Contemporanea, Spain
  • La Grancia, Serre di Rapolano, Italy
  • La terre est ronde, nouvelle narration, Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Haute Vienne, France
  • Manifesta II, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
  • Irony, Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Self – Portraits, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands and Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium