Artist, publisher, art director from Venice, Italy Lives and works in Padua, Berlin Link to the Curatorial projects: EDIZIONI INAUDITE FUSION ART GALLERY/ INAUDITA ASSOCIAZIONE INAUDITA ALONE SINEDIE |
CONTACTs: E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +39 349 3644 287 STUDIO Inauditaland, Via L. Ghiberti, 3 35134 - PD 
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Photo by Petrov Ahner
Barbara Fragogna, Venice 1975, is a multidisciplinary artist, art director and publisher.
Currently based in Padua Italy.
"My artistic research investigates the themes of productive failure such as irony, anxiety, the sense of ridicule, nausea, individualism, non-democratic confrontation, obsession, patriarchy, the defeat of memory, the re-dimension of the ego, the absurd and the paradox through the artistic and curatorial practice as a useless but necessary action."
She has exhibited in galleries and institutions in Italy and abroad, she worked as art director of KH Tacheles from 2008 to 2012, in 2013 she founded the Independent publishing house Edizioni Inaudite. From 2015 to 2019 she has been the director of the Fusion Art Gallery / Inaudita project in Turin. In 2020 she moved part of her projects to Inauditaland, Padova.
Nata a Venezia nel 1975, Barbara Fragogna è un’artista multidisciplinare, curatrice ed editrice.
Attualmente vive a Padova.
La mia ricerca artistica indaga principalmente i temi del fallimento produttivo quali l’ironia, l'ansia, il senso del ridicolo, la nausea, l’individualismo, il confronto non democratico, il patriarcato, l’ossessione, la disfatta della memoria, la ri-dimensione dell’ego, l’assurdo e il paradosso attraverso la pratica artistica e curatoriale come azione inutile, ma necessaria.
Ha esposto presso numerose gallerie e istituzioni in Italia e all’estero, è stata la direttrice artistica della KH Tacheles dal 2008 al 2012, nel 2013 ha fondato la casa editrice indipendente Edizioni Inaudite.
Dal 2015 al 2020 ha diretto il progetto Fusion/Inaudita a Torino.
Nel 2020 ha portato parte dei suoi progetti a Padova.
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS, ART FAIRS etc.
- Altomonte, Calabria - the body is Body a cura di Amalia De Bernardis - Luglio 2022.
- MINSK, Belarus - August 2019
- February 2019 _ Artist in residence - Manila –Filippine
- QUARTAIR, L'Aia, Olanda Sept. 2018
- Fellow Artist - University of Texas 21.3 - 4.4.2018
- NEsxT Independent Art Festival 2016 + 2017
- SET UP CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, BOLOGNA 2016
- SELECTED ARTIST at DRAWING TRIENNIAL, ESTONIA, 2015
- SALONE INTERNAZIONALE DEL LIBRO - SALONE OFF, 2015
- AIR ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - Treasure Hill Artist Village, TAIPEI, April 2015
- AIR ARTIST IN RESIDENCE + EXHIBITION - Soulangh Cultural Park, TAINAN, March 2015
- AIR . NOoSPHERE Arts, New York City, USA, August-September 2014
- ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - The Loft - Mander Organs, LONDON, May - June 2014
- SUPER MARKET INDEPENDENT ART FAIR- STOCKHOLM 2013
- LECTURE at Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, Poznàn 2013
- ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - Casa de Burros - Castelo Branco - Portugal 2013
- ART ULM 2012
- CAM Contemporary Art Museum, Napoli, Italy, 2012 - permanent collection
- DRAWING TRIENNIAL, ESTONIA, 2012
- DIPLOMA, DRAWING TRIENNIAL TALLIN, ESTONIA 2009
- GREEN STREET GRANT, NY, USA 2009
- STIPENDIUM at the KUNSTHAUS TACHELES BERLIN, GERMANY from 2008 to 2012
- ART RESIDENCY - ART HOTEL EUROPA. BRNO. CZECH REPUBLIC, 2010-2011
PUBLICATIONS
- Everyday Life As A Man (Patriarchy/Power) - Project Collection 2017 - 2021_ Edizioni Inaudite Collana Gli Irrilevanti
- aka Blehk Zih Dolm*n - LA RIVOLTA VOLGARE _ Edizioni Inaudite Collana POE
- aka Je-Suis Lamadon - 50 sfumature di figa _ Edizioni Inaudite Collana Gli Improponibili
- PATHOSlogico / GAM, Galleria Arte Moderna, Area Paolini
Fragogna AKA Semaforo Brown - PATHOSLOGICO - Riappropriarsi del desiderio e tagliare la testa al Quote. Un racconto Gam-specific.
- A CONCRETE BABEL / How to create e So-Very-Cool Contemporary ArtWork in 3 Steps_Edizioni Inaudite (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- aka Je-Suis Craist - DIOMAN_Edizioni Inaudite Collana Gli Improponibili
- ROMANTIC LOVE DOESN'T EXIST (...)_Edizioni Inaudite
- EVERYDAY RENAISSANCE (After All...)_Edizioni Inaudite
- NEST OF DUST_Edizioni Inaudite
- CONTRO_ZONA_ Zel Edizioni
- EDITION COLLECTION_ Emerson Gallery
- CONTAMINAZIONI_Grafiche Turato
- METAMORFEICA_Supernova Edizioni
- DANTE e il Purgatorio_Ianieri Edizioni
- NO TEAR Magazine on line
- WERKSCHAU08_Tacheles Ed
- ITALIAN RESTYLE_ Tacheles Ed
- WERKSCHAU 2010_Tacheles Ed
- WERKSCHAU 2011_Tacheles Ed
- ART HOTEL EUROPA_Confine ED_cura di Penzo+Fiore
- A Nord Est di che... _ED LA Torre_ cura di Luca Barbieri
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2020-today
Curator at Discovery Art Fair, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt
2015-today
Director and Chief Curator at Fusion Art Gallery/INAUDITA, Turin - www.fusionartgallery.net
Pesident and founder of A.C. INAUDITA
2013-today
Founder and director of Edizioni Inaudite - www.edizioniinaudite.weebly.com
and Inaudita (associazione culturale) - www.inaudita.weebly.com
2008-2012
Chief Curator at KunstHas Tacheles and SineDie ProjectRoom and independent curator, Berlin
1998-2008
Pesident and art director of A.C. Nana Gigante, Padova
1994-2008
Graphic Designer, Illustrator c|o Raptus (creativi) and AD Agencies
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SOLO SHOW
2024 Exoplanets / Portrait of a Pupil 9 - 27 .5.2024 Gallery70 - Tirana 2022 OUTARCHICA Barbara Fragogna + Martina Antonioni a cura di Petra Cason Olivares NUMA contemporary, Vicenza 07.05 – 12.06.2022 2021 Happy Ending Silvia Giambrone + Barbara Fragogna Casa Musumeci Greco, Roma 17.12.2021 2020 bipersonale Barbara Fragogna - Elena Tortia 21.9 - 14.11.2020 Galleria Alessio Moitre Torino In tempi perfetti Doppia Personale Barbara Fragogna + Stefania Migliorati a cura di Silvia Giambrone 06.02-30.06.2020 Galleria Marcolini, Forlì 2017 Don't Step On Your Inner Dwarf Galleria Alessio Moitre, Torino 2015 27.3 - 24.5 ARBITRIUM "ANYWAY" Gallery #14 - Soulangh Artist Village, Tainan, Taiwan 30.1 - 26.2. a Collective Solo Show Fusion Art Gallery, Torino 2014 NEST | RENAISSANCE cccTo Ex Birrificio Metzger Torino EVERYDAY RENAISSANCE (After All) GALLERY 52 BERLIN 22.3 - 5.4.2014 2013 “Romantic Love Doesn’t Exist. I’m A Very Romantic Creature. Married Women Are Easier” @ Metamorfosi Gallery Vi, Italy 2012 + New Works 2012 @Nova 12 Ag, POTSDAM Berlin, Germany + 22.9 - 22.10 “Romantic Love Doesn’t Exist. I’m A Very Romantic Creature. Married Women Are Easier” @ Galerie Sui Generis Bonn + 1-11.8 - My Cage Is Your Palace, Solo show at EMERSON GALLERY BERLIN, Germany 2011 + 9.12.2011- 4.1.2012 - Fade SineDieProjectRoom Berlin, Germany + 24.6 - 5.8 - Enough is ENOUGH KH Tacheles NewGallery Pavillion,Berlin, Germany 2010 + 5.9 - 5.11- The Mixed Match SineDieProjectRoom Berlin, Germany 2009 + 1.12 - 31.12 - Paintings Galleria 3D - Venice, Italy + 1.11- 20.12 - Drawings Iam Gallery - S. Francisco, USA 2008 + oct 2008 - The Blooming Body Project, Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany + 2007 - the Inside Body MIROIR DE LA MUSIQUE. Padova, Italy curated by Giorgio Segato |
MAIN GROUP SHOW
2024 8 secondi Galleria Alessio Moitre - Torino 19.09 - 12.10 Aesthetic Dialogues Manuel Zoia Gallery - Milano 23.05 - 29.06.2024 Artonly Gallery Marbella Maggio 2024 Ante Litteram VAM Gallery a cura di Penzo+Fiore Aprile - Maggio 2024 2023 Carta su Carta Galleria Alessio Moitre 10 giugno – 21 luglio 2023 2022 the body is Body a cura di Amalia De Bernardis Altomonte, Torre Pallotta, Largo Luigi Rende - Calabria 2.7 al 16.10 2022. 2021 - Galleria Alessio Moitre, Torino International Men's Day - Inventario Varoli - della copia e dell'ombra a cura di Massimiliano Fabbri, Museo Civico Luigi Varoli, Cotignola 2019 - The Party Exhibition c|o Studio Chérie, Berlino - il tempo invecchia in fretta - 10 anni di associazione 22:37 a cura di Zara Audiello, Fusion Art Gallery/Inaudita, Torino - SELVATICO 14 a cura di Massimiliano Fabbri, Museo Civico Luigi Varoli, Cotignola - TACHELES, Minsk, Belarus - FLUIDO, Artinformal Gallery, Manila 2018-19 - LACERTO, Galleria Alessio Moitre, Torino 2018 - Talking with hands, at Quartair, L'Aia, Olanda - INTERIORS, Mastio della Cittadella di Torino a cura di Domenico Maria Papa - DAF, Design Art Food, Fuorisalone, Biblioteca Umanistica dell'Incoronata, Milan 2016-17 - 3rd International Art Exhibition, Xian, China - San Felice, curated by 22:37, Città Solidale, Cooperativa Sociale di Vicenza, Araceli, Vicenza, Italy. - OUT OF PLACE - Associazione 22:37 Peninsula Dotland - P67 Gallery, Berlin 2015 - Studio Sharing - ACT II con Rebecca Agnes, Caterina Aicardi, Stefania Migliorati, Barbara Fragogna, Spazio C8 projectroom, Milan, Italy - Drawing Triennial, Tallin, Estonia 2014 - DECEMBER - CAM Contemporary Art Museum Napoli "I AM WOMAN" Curata da Antonio Manfredi - NUOVI YORKERS, NOoSPHERE art. New York, September - EAT ME - The Invisible Line Gallery London. June 2014 - NOoSPHERE 3 years + 3 days - February 2013 - Corpo Contesto, Venice, Italy - Evanescenze @ Vainart, Venice, Italy - @ SANSVOIXmodernArt - Leipzig, D 2012 - 23.8 - Whisper Game | Group Show Galleri Rotor Valand Academy, Göteborg - Sweden - Drawing Triennial in TALLIN, Estonia - 1.8 - 22.9 - BUONGIORNO e ARRIVEDERCI | EMERSON GALLERY BERLIN, Germany - August, Group show, Sunne, Sweden - Königswinter/Germany - “Endstation” “Intensivstation” Gallery 5 may - 10 june, Germany 2011 + 11.11.11 - abnormals gallery berlin - Banana Republic Project - group show, Germany + 27 aug. 2011 - Mocta (museum of contemporary trash art) - Lange nacht der Museen Berlin - group show, Germany + april 2011 - Tacheles NewGallery Berlin - Nuclear UNfair - group show + march 2011 - FORTE MARGHERA - Welcome - group show - Venice, Italy + febr 2011 - Tacheles Werkshau - Berlin - group show + febr 2011 - abnormals gallery berlin - Fashion Weak - group show + dec2010-jan2011 2011 - Art Hotel Europa - Brno - Welcome - Art Residence, Czech Republic 2010 + november 2010 - Galleria 3D Mestre (Ve) - group show + september 2010 - abnormals gallery - group show - Poznan, Poland + july 2010 - art or pornography? - Das Molekular Studio - group show, Berlin, Germany + july 2010 - Dach 11 - Museum of modern art - Minsk, Belarus 2009 + nov-dec 2009 - Italian ReStyle Berlin - Germany KH Tacheles New Gallery - collective show + cat. + ago 2009 - Minsk - Museum of modern art _ Collective show + mag 2009 - Tallin Drawing Triennial + feb-mar 2009 – Werkschau08 – KH Tacheles – Collective show. Catalogue. 2008 + sep-nov 2008 - Contaminazioni=Kontaminaktionen – collective exposition in Berlin and Padua. Catalogue. + 7.- 27.jul.08 - Museum der Modernen Kunst Minsk – collective exposition + jan-dec 2008 - KUNSTHAUS TACHELES - berlin - “studio programme” of international artists exchange + 2008 - NUOVI SEGNALI - padova – collective exposition - catalogue 1996 - 2007 + 2007 - FONDAZIONE CASA DI DANTE IN ABRUZZO – collective exposition – catalogue curated by Giorgio Segato + 2004 - LEGRENZI LIVE ART - venice – art installations, performances, happening + 1998 - BEVILACQUA LA MASA - padova ex macello – collective exposition, Italy + 1998 - INTERNAZIONALI POSTALI - udine - collective exposition + 1997 - PREMIO BELLE LETTERE - cittadella (pd) - collective exposition + 1996 - ABANO ARTE_CONTAGIO - GALLERIA MONTIRONE, abano terme (pd) – collective exposition |
CURATED EXHIBITIONs:
2020 > Valeria Dardano | ECHOES | Fusion Art Gallery / Inaudita. Torino, Febbraio - Maggio > Heli Barck - ITALIAN TRAVEL JOURNAL | Fusion Art Gallery / Inaudita. Torino, 2020 > Giordana Citti - Hier, mais aussi aujourd’hui | Fusion Art Gallery / Inaudita. Torino, 2020 > Renzo Marasca | O Mar Silente | Fusion Art Gallery / Inaudita. Torino, 2019-2020 2019 > The TUTTO! jingle bell’s rock miniFAIR | Fusion Art Gallery / Inaudita. Torino, 2019 > Nancy Hart | Hidden Worlds #2 | 25 luglio > Alessandro Fara | Electri-City an infinite circle | 22 giugno - settembre 2019 > Lisa Di Donato | Voice Outside the Field | 25 maggio ore 19 > Miriam Wuttke | Introspective Cluster :: HapticDiVision_44 | 9 maggio - 8 giugno 2019 > Gli Irrilevati / Fotografia Inaudita (THE PHEAR) | Fo.To - Fotografi a Torino | 3 - 5 maggio 2019 > Fusion AIR::: Alexandra Carter | SUPERFRUTTA! sabato 27 aprile 2019 > Rebecca Agnes | benvenut* nel futuro / WELCOME TO THE FUTURE | 9.3 - 20.4. 2019 > FLUIDO | International Group Show | at ARTINFORMAL GALLERY MANILA | 31.01 - 28.2.2019 2018 > TARTARE | Group Show | 13.12.2018 - 18.1.2019 > Stefania Migliorati | Climax Change | 2 - 5.11.2018 // NEsxT - Independent Art Festival > Zuhra Hilal e Anietie Ekanem | Exhibition 28.10.2018 h. 18 - 20 > ArtVerona #backtoitaly 12 - 15 Ottobre presenting Ettore Pinelli // MONO >Ria Green + Yoonjung Kim | Exhibition/ WONDER WONDER | 24.7.2018 h. 18 - 21 > Nancy Hart + Thomas Hammer | Exhibition/Open studio | 24.7.2018 h. 18 - 21 - FLUIDO, Artinformal Gallery, Manila 2018 > TALKING WITH HANDS INTERNATIONAL PROJECT The Hague >< Torino Curated by Wieteke Heldens & Barbara Fragogna > Valeria Dardano / Mindscapes / one night only / 12 luglio h. 19-21 > Davies Zambotti | Scomodi Dialoghi | 5.6 - 28.7.2018 // Fo.To - Fotografi a Torino > Hu.Be Party / One Night Only / 22 maggio > Alessandro Fara | PAY ATTENTION OR GO AWAY | ONE-DAY EVENT // 10.5.2018 > Andrea Rosset + Marina Fornasier | Still Life | 5.5 - 2.6.2018 // Fo.To - Fotografi a Torino >FUSION AIR | Charlotte Clermont + Rexy Tseng | Exhibition/Open studio | 28.4.2018 h. 18 - 21 > Ettore Pinelli | MONO | 10.03 - 28.04.2018 >FUSION AIR | Lui Medina | Exhibition/Open studio | 3.3.2018 h. 18 - 20 > Valeria Dardano | Delivery status notification _failure | 13-29.01.2018 > Alessandro Fara | SCREENING VIDEO | ONE-DAY EVENT // 20.1.2018 2017 > Sebastiano Mortellaro | SIEGE (ASSEDIO) | 9.12.2017 - 6.1.2018 >FUSION AIR | Liisa Ahlfors | Solitary Vireo and Other Stories | 25 - 29.11.2017 > Cristiana de Marchi | LA SINDROME DI PENELOPE | 31.10 - 30.11.2017 > FUSION AIR | Rebekka Kraft + Danica Olders + Silvi Kadillari | ARBITRIUM /free will | 7 - 26.10.2017 > COLLA collective| Visioni d'interno (Ettore Pinelli per Fusion Art Gallery)| c|o Burning Giraffe Art Gallery | 21.9 - 14.10.2017 > FUSION AIR | Nancy Hart + Shan Shan | One shot event | 28.6.2017 > Miriam Wuttke | Summit Fever | 22.4 - 26.6.2017 > Manuela Macco | black bag notes / 2010-2017 | 4.3 - 1.4.2017 > Enrico Tealdi + Davies Zambotti + Ettore Pinelli | CONDENSA | 21.1 - 25.2.2017 > Special event::: ISOIPSE, 5 gallerie per COLLA c|o Galleria Alesso Moitre > Guido Salvini | BACTERIA | 10.12.2016 - 14.1.2017 2016 > FUSION AIR | Wieteke Heldens | With Colored Content (never apologize and never explain) | 25-30.11 > Laurina Paperina | FROM OUTER SPACE | curated by Alfredo Sigolo and B. Fragogna 5.11 - 2.12.2016 > FUSION AIR | Leslee Broersma | Academia: Interior Landscapes. | 27 - 30.10 > Panem Et Circenses | IL CIBO UCCIDE | 8.10 - 31.10.2016 > Alain Ledezma | UN TRIÁNGULO TIENE SUS TRES ÁNGULOS IGUALES A DOS RECTOS SIN EL PRINCIPIO DE LA INMORTALIDAD DEL ALMA | 10.9 - 1.10.2016 > Penzo+Fiore | VETRO. Disordine Rigido | 23.6 - 23.7.2016 > Renzo Marasca | EUTOPIA. L'Europa come corpo complesso | 14.5 - 11.6.2016 > Andrea Rosset | INTRA | 9.4 - 7.5. 2016 > Annaclara Di Biase | THE MARKET IS THE REAL CREATOR OF THE ARTWORK | ONE-DAY EVENT // 2.4.2016 > Greta Bisandola | TERZA PERSONA | 5.3 - 1.4.2016 > FUSION AIR _ Xanthe Somers / Lisa Allegretta | DOUBLE SHOW 28.7 - 1.8.2016 > FUSION AIR _ Henriikka Kontimo e Genese Grill | WHAT REMAINS | 20.2 > FUSION AIR _ Jessica B Anderson + Nina Gilbert | Double Personal | 26.1. - 27.2.2016 > FUSION AIR _ Edward J. Cooper | C. 200 AD > Rebecca Agnes + Stefania Migliorati | COORDINATE | Bipersonal show | 12.12.2015 - 24.01.2016 2015 > tpa torinoPERFORMANCEART | ONE-DAY EVENT // 08.12.2015 > Miriam Wuttke | My Hidden Nature / In Side Out | Performance | ONE-DAY EVENT // 05.12.2015 > Jennifer rosa | ALTER LOGOS | Solo show - Edizioni Inaudite, Il Salottino Irrilevante, Salone Off, Fusion Art Gallery, Torino, 2015 2014 - Renzo marasca | Sabato 20 Dicembre, cccTo, Torino, 2014 - Rebecca Agnes, The Italian Alphabet Has 21 Letters, Medionauta, Milano - Miriam Wuttke - Secret Garden, Emerson Gallery Berlin, 2014 - MIRIAM WUTTKE, Heimat - Land - Luxus, Pfalzmuseum Forchheim, Germany, 2013 - Florence Obrecht, OPERA SERIA, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2012 - Eva Frapiccini, Aleksander Prus Caneira,Quantum Physics and the Portals of the Unconscious.SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2012 - EXILENTIA EXIFF In the little white house, white.fish.tank., Ancona, Italy, 2012 - DELLFINA, Perfect Lover, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany - THOMAS MAGNUSSON, Illuminations and other Signs, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany - PENZO+FIORE, REBECCA AGNES & ELISABETTA DI MAGGIO, >BUONGIORNO E ARRIVEDERCI<, Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany, 2012 - MIRIAM WUTTKE, Dress to kill- Remains, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2012 - JENNIFER ROSA + GRETA BISANDOLA, >BUONGIORNO E ARRIVEDERCI<, Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany, 2012 - GRETA BISANDOLA, The Beauty In The Beast, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2011 - Rebecca Agnes - Geschwister_ Tacheles New Gallery - Berlin, 2011 - ANDREA ROSSET | MARINA FORNASIER, Still life, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2011 - KAREN HAASE, “soul-mate”, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2011 - CAM | Casoria Contemporary Art Museum Casoria, MAY BE | They Could Live in Germany” | CAM in Berlin, 2011 - Max Papeschi In the Sky with Diamonds, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2011 - Kim Yaged, World Watching, SineDie ProjectRoom. Berlin, Germany, 2011 - Alessandro Rinaldi PORTRAIT, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2011 - NUCLEAR UNFAIR, Tacheles New Gallery, Group show, 2011 - JOACHIM LAPOTRE, FLASH TREE CHAPEL, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - EXILENTIA EXIFF, Femininity, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - JENNIFER ROSA, MADRI E FIGLIE, Abnormls Gllery, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - FORZE CONSERVATIVE by, Andrea Penzo, Cristina Fiore, Elisa Dal Corso, Fiorenzo Zancan, Andrea Rosset, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - ORVAR + PETROV *1984, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - WU ZHI, Future Fighters, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - JOHANNA POHLAND, SERVICE SELF WUNDERURLAUB LEBEN, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - ABNORMAL NUDES PREVIEW with, Abnormals Gallery at, Tacheles New Gallery, Group show, 2010 - Haase & Plankk, GOLD & SILVER, KH Tacheles NEWgallery, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - PENZO+FIORE, TRANSFERT, WORKS BY ANDREA PENZO, INSTALLATION BY CRISTINA FIORE, SineDie ProjectRoom, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - PETROV AHNER, Burned Condition, New Gallery, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, 2010 - PERSONALLY POLITICAL- CONTEMPORARY SENSATION | DRAWING, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, Group show, 2009 - PERSONALLY POLITICAL-CONTEMPORARY SENSATION PHOTOGRAPHY, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, Group show, 2009 - HEINZ B. FOTOGRAFIEN 1914.1939, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, Retrospective show, 2009 - RINALDI + TANZOLA, ...ERGO..., Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, Double show, 2009 - ITALIAN RESTYLE PROJECT _ FESTIVAL, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, Group show, 2009 - SOL KJOK, Entre sol et ciel., Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany, 2009 - FUMIKO KOBAYASHI Homing, PERUGI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Padova, Italy, 2009 - contaminazioni=kontaminaktionen, padova-berlin, Padova EX MACELLO via Cornaro, 1, Dal 13 | 09 al 03 | 10 | 2008 Berlin KH TACHELES New Gallery – Oranienburgerstr.54-56a, 18 | 10 bis 7 | 11 | 2008 |
-EDIZIONI INAUDITE, CURATED EDITIONs:
- Francesca Di Paola / A Positivo - Silvia Vendramel / Corpo a Corpo - Nancy Hart / Hidden Worlds - TARTARE Synthétique / collective edition - Valeria Dardano / Mindscapes - Andrea Rosset / Marina Fornasier STILL LIFE - CRISTIANA DE MARCHI / 7 artist's books - KADILLARI, FRAFT, OLDERS / ARBITRIUM /notebook - MAYA QUATTROPANI & ERNESTO LEVEQUE / La città narrante - PENZO+FIORE / Il senso del Vetro - DIO -MAN / Je-Suis Craist - REBECCA AGNES / The Italian Alphabet Has 21 Letters - GIOSETTA FIORONI a cura di Cristina Fiore e Andrea Penzo / Grata Di Linguaggi - STEFANIA MIGLIORATI / In 4 Steps - JENNIFER ROSA / Here You Are - AURORA DI MAURO / Settima Onda Appartamento relazionale per la libertà delle arti - RENZO MARASCA / Senza Titolo - DAVIES ZAMBOTTI / Vuoti A Perdere - MARTIN REITER / KRITIKdesign Band 1 - PETROV AHNER / Paris 26th Floor - GRETA BISANDOLA / Terza Persona |
Viscerally Yours,
TEXT BY ELISA GANIVET
Do not believe that any god can examine hearts and kidneys, and limit what has its origin in nature and what has its origin in freedom.
M. Merleau-Ponty
A human being is only composed of the liquid and raw net of his organism. The passion s/he feels is conceived only by the entity of idea. However it is the fleshy and the bony corpora themselves which collide in the outburst of erotic-romantic feelings. Barbara Fragogna plays her « gentlewomaneria » with extraordinary sensual and organic perfection.
We perceive the taste of the organs with all our senses. The artist takes us deep into a romantic fairytale the irony of which we cannot escape from. And what would be passion without irony? We are all free to chose our own suffering and interpersonal relations. Our actions in all their craze are foreseeable. Consciously, we dive into them, since human being is an animal- how political, how ironic. Or is it even absurd? An absurd process is being inflamed if the desire is not satisfied. Because it is in the rage of his/her desire that a human being is capable of anything. The artistic process of writing letters in the form of a poem which is then transformed into an email reflects the kafkaesque confusion in a tangible way. Barbara reveals it publicly without pudency and remorse. And what is supposed to be an artist if not someone who shows us their own perceptions of things.
Actually the entity of love can be described in phases: Hesitation, excitement, disappointment and persistence.- isn't it? The emotional surrounding world is presented to us by the recomposition of the perception of the environment via our senses.
One should choose ones` second spinal column very thoughtful. Because obviously it is this framework which braces our future and claims our experiences. A succession of past coincidences always bounces back to itself. This is the characteristic lecture which determines our presence. In this sense the doubled up spinal column branches like the fantastic figures of the significant other which are readable in the continuous ways back and around each other. But this movement close to symbiosis can only exist in the presence because it becomes constituent for ourselves- Or not. Because, again and again we decide over the equilibrium of our instincts.
Consecutive to joy and indulgence there is ecstasy. Our ability to understand would position this last step beyond the borders of physical awareness. When we reach this border, ecstasy is a mere deception to our mind. Our consciousness and the certainty of our mortality allow us to be aware of the borders of our own sensory surrounding in the moment of ecstasy. The consolidation and the intensifying of our abilities could help us to overcome the borders of the space given to us. When we overstep everything imaginable, transgression is almost tangible. Inside of it there is no negative entity since the only goal is to overcome the entity of self. But what lays behind the border of physical and mental perception? Inside of these characteristics of the „outside“- Would ecstasy mean nothing else but death? At least, the evidence of death instinct would be emphasized by it. The artistic oeuvre can reveal the balance between ecstasy and the two opposing instincts which make us what we are. We play with our death as if we wanted to affirm that we are alive. We touch transgression as if we wanted to have an evidence of our existence. It is the equilibrium more than the contradiction which allows us to finally float towards our own pacification. The contradiction of our instincts makes us to who we are and it is the circulation of these streams which characterizes us.
History interacts with metamorphosis like metamorphosis interacts with history. This interaction which can be painterly, linear, sculptural or photographical is being told to us in the dialectic of the lust for life.
It is the immanent and constant progression which makes the language of Barbara Fragogna so extraordinary.
Elisa Ganivet
Doctor of Philosophy, Art Historian, Documentary and Cultural Engineer.
Translation/ English: Miriam Wuttke
TEXT BY ELISA GANIVET
Do not believe that any god can examine hearts and kidneys, and limit what has its origin in nature and what has its origin in freedom.
M. Merleau-Ponty
A human being is only composed of the liquid and raw net of his organism. The passion s/he feels is conceived only by the entity of idea. However it is the fleshy and the bony corpora themselves which collide in the outburst of erotic-romantic feelings. Barbara Fragogna plays her « gentlewomaneria » with extraordinary sensual and organic perfection.
We perceive the taste of the organs with all our senses. The artist takes us deep into a romantic fairytale the irony of which we cannot escape from. And what would be passion without irony? We are all free to chose our own suffering and interpersonal relations. Our actions in all their craze are foreseeable. Consciously, we dive into them, since human being is an animal- how political, how ironic. Or is it even absurd? An absurd process is being inflamed if the desire is not satisfied. Because it is in the rage of his/her desire that a human being is capable of anything. The artistic process of writing letters in the form of a poem which is then transformed into an email reflects the kafkaesque confusion in a tangible way. Barbara reveals it publicly without pudency and remorse. And what is supposed to be an artist if not someone who shows us their own perceptions of things.
Actually the entity of love can be described in phases: Hesitation, excitement, disappointment and persistence.- isn't it? The emotional surrounding world is presented to us by the recomposition of the perception of the environment via our senses.
One should choose ones` second spinal column very thoughtful. Because obviously it is this framework which braces our future and claims our experiences. A succession of past coincidences always bounces back to itself. This is the characteristic lecture which determines our presence. In this sense the doubled up spinal column branches like the fantastic figures of the significant other which are readable in the continuous ways back and around each other. But this movement close to symbiosis can only exist in the presence because it becomes constituent for ourselves- Or not. Because, again and again we decide over the equilibrium of our instincts.
Consecutive to joy and indulgence there is ecstasy. Our ability to understand would position this last step beyond the borders of physical awareness. When we reach this border, ecstasy is a mere deception to our mind. Our consciousness and the certainty of our mortality allow us to be aware of the borders of our own sensory surrounding in the moment of ecstasy. The consolidation and the intensifying of our abilities could help us to overcome the borders of the space given to us. When we overstep everything imaginable, transgression is almost tangible. Inside of it there is no negative entity since the only goal is to overcome the entity of self. But what lays behind the border of physical and mental perception? Inside of these characteristics of the „outside“- Would ecstasy mean nothing else but death? At least, the evidence of death instinct would be emphasized by it. The artistic oeuvre can reveal the balance between ecstasy and the two opposing instincts which make us what we are. We play with our death as if we wanted to affirm that we are alive. We touch transgression as if we wanted to have an evidence of our existence. It is the equilibrium more than the contradiction which allows us to finally float towards our own pacification. The contradiction of our instincts makes us to who we are and it is the circulation of these streams which characterizes us.
History interacts with metamorphosis like metamorphosis interacts with history. This interaction which can be painterly, linear, sculptural or photographical is being told to us in the dialectic of the lust for life.
It is the immanent and constant progression which makes the language of Barbara Fragogna so extraordinary.
Elisa Ganivet
Doctor of Philosophy, Art Historian, Documentary and Cultural Engineer.
Translation/ English: Miriam Wuttke