Regina Frank, The Artist is Present
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Regina Frank's Resume

Regina Frank is based in Berlin, Germany. Her continuous working title is "The Artist is Present" ("Die KünstlerIn ist anwesend")

Education
  • 1984 -1986
    Apprenticeship in Sewing, culminating in degree as professional tailor
  • 1987 -1989
    Departments of Asian and Ancient Oriental Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin (Chinese Opera Costumes & Language)
  • 1988 -1989
    Department of Costume and Set Design, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
  • 1989 -1994
    Department of Visual Arts, (Multimedia & Performance) MFA Performance, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

    Group Exhibitions (Selection)
  • 1996
    "Join Me - Preview" Spiral, Wocoal Art Center , Tokyo, Japan
    "Mirades Vi(ver)sions" Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain (Catalog)
    "Once Upon a Time" Carta de Ajuste, Sevilla, Spain
  • 1995
    "Cherchez la Femme" Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
    "A-Dress" Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada (catalogue)
    "The Outer Layer" Center for Contemporary Art, New Jersey, USA (catalogue)
    "Still-Live" Black Box, Ground Level, Miami, USA
    "Divisions of Labor" Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, Los Angeles, USA (catalogue)
    "Performance Index" Performance Index, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
    "Women on the verge" Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, USA
    "Vogelfrei" Gallery Garten and Ritschel Gallery, Darmstadt, Germany (catalogue)
    "Courting the Consumer" Akademie der Künste, Berlin Germany
    "Die rote Königin" (The Red Queen) Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
    "Divisions of Labor" Bronx Museum, New York, USA (catalogue)
    "Blast 4 - Bioinformatik" Köllnischer Kunstverein, Köln Germany (edition)
  • 1994
    "Blast 4 - Bioinformatik" Gallery Sandra Gerring, New York, USA
    "Eigen+Art" in London IAS, London, GB
    "Fenster im Netz" (Window in the Net), Art+Com, Berlin, (online and printed catalogue)
    "Let the Artist Live" Exit Art, New York, USA
    "Who chooses who" Auctions exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
    "X-Positions" Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
    "Positionen" (Positions) Gallery Wewerka, Berlin
  • 1993
    "Trade Routes," Window of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (brochure)
    "Get better soon," Curator: Frank Wagner, NGBK- Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, (catalogue)
  • 1992
    "Paravision," Curator: Valie Export, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
    "Häute" (Skins), Gallery Wilfriede Maass, Berlin (with Romen Banerjee)
    "37 Räume," Scheunenviertel (Jewish Quarter), Berlin
    "Intervall," Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
    "...erst mal was aufs Maul!" ("...first time on the mouth!"), Neue Galerie, Berlin (catalogue)
  • 1991
    "Provinz" Dissipative Strukturen vor Ort (Province), Curator: Thomas Wulffen, Quergalerie, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
    "Bundesrat Bonn, Bundesratufer Berlin," Bundesrat, Bonn (Federal Council of Germany)
    "Bundesratufer," Curator: Marina Abramoviç, (catalogue)
    Street Bundesratufer, Berlin and Quergalerie, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
    "Everything is perfectly right", Botschaft e.V., Berlin (catalogue)
  • 1990
    "Die KünstlerIn ist anwesend," (The Artist is Present) Leuschnerdamm 37b, Berlin
    "Offene Zweier" (Open Relationship) Theaterset and Exhibition, Wallgrabentheater, Freiburg
    "Strichfassung", Rathaus, Freiburg

    Performances/ Installations (selection)
  • 1996
    "Hermes' Mistress" Spiral, Wocoal Art Center , Tokyo, Japan
    "Lange Haare Kurzer Sinn - Long on Hair short on Sense" Elga Wimmer Gallery - New York
  • 1995
    "Hermes' Mistress" Bronx Museum - New York, MOCA - Los Angeles, Frauenmuseum - Bonn
    "Searching for Babata" Artist Museum - Mizpe Ramon, CCA - New Jersey, Elga Wimmer Gallery - New York "Shoe Shine Woman" Performance Index, Basel, Switzerland
    "Natura Viva" Akademie der Künste - Berlin, Gallery Garten - Darmstadt
  • 1994
    "Hermes'Mistress,"
    Exit Art/The First World - New York, Art+Com/Kunsthalle - Berlin, IAS/Galerie Eigen + Art - London, Bronx Museum - New York (1995)
  • 1993
    "Umzug" Interpretation on Siegfrieds Death, with Alexej Sagerer, ProT Theater - Munich
    "L' Adieu - Pearls before Gods" 28 Days in the Window of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
  • 1992
    "The Shoe Shine Woman" Bahnhof Zoo, Breitscheidplatz,
    "Regina Frank, The Artist is Present" Traces in "37 Rooms", with Stephan Wiesner and Peter Herbstreuth, Scheunenviertel, Berlin
  • 1991
    "Zwischen Tür und Angel" (Between Door and Hinge), Bahnhof Zoo, Berlin (video)
    "Province bag" April 19th in the exhibition "Metropolis", Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
    "Sieh zu, dass du nicht hinschaust!" (See that you don't look), Performance+Slideshow during the Gulf War February 4th, HdK, Berlin
  • 1990
    "The Artist is Present" Performance in cube for 28 days, Leuschnerdamm 37b, (edition 1)
    Aktion "Baumschutz" (Tree Protection), Basel (edition 3)

    Photografic series / Performances (selection)
  • 1994
    "Hermes' Mistress" photographs + drawings
    "Witch Examination" photographs + drawings
  • 1992
    "Zur Virtualität der Koexistenz oder: Wie finde ich meinen Typ?" (To the Virtuality of Coexistence- How do I find my type)
    Performance within photographic projection, Thermen am Europa-Center, Berlin, (with Eva Grubinger) (edition of 1)
    "Wie finde ich meinen Typ?" (How do I find my type) video (edition of 3)
    "Fountains from Basel to Berlin" 35 Fountains in Basel, Berlin (edition of 2)
    "Verkleidungen und Musterungen" (Changings and Patterns) Russisches Lazarett (Russian Hospital), Dessau, (edition of 1)
    "Dokumenta Marathon" Part 2, Dokumenta Kassel (edition of 5)
    "Regina Frank, The Artist is Present" Traces in "37 Rooms", with Stephan Wiesner and Peter Herbstreuth, Scheunenviertel, Berlin (edition of 3)
  • 1991
    "Chess Pieces" with John Cage, New York (edition of 3)
    "Bundesrat Bonn - Bundesratufer Berlin" Bundesrat (Federal Council), Bonn, Bundesratufer, Berlin (edition of 2)
    Documenta Marathon" Part 1, Dokumenta Marathon Weimar (edition of 3)
    "Sieh zu, dass Du nicht hinschaust!" (See that you don't look!), Slideshow during the Gulf War February 4th, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (edition of 1)
  • 1990
    "What you should have seen on Broadway" (edition of 5)
    From New Museum of Contemporary Art to N.Y.U. Film Department, New York
    "From Rothko to N.Y. Penn Station" (edition of 5) Washington National Gallery to N.Y. Penn Station
    "What you should have done in one week" Oct. 7. - Oct. 13., (edition of 5)
    Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan & Whitney Museums, World Trade Center
    "What you should have kept from MACY'S" Macy's New York (edition of 5)

    Bibliography (selection)
  • 1996
    "Cosmopolitan" Germany, April, "Berlin + Kunst," p. 134-135, Thea Herold
    "Frankfurter Rundschau" Germany, February 17, "Nomadin auf elektronischen Traumpfaden," Arnd Weseman
    "Screen Multimedia" Germany, Bd 2/96, Portrait, "Datenfaden im Seidenkleid", p.131-133, Arnd Weseman
  • 1995
    "Uptown" Canada, November 95, p.17, Dynamic exhibit redefines "A-Dress"Laurence Mardon
    "Kunstforum" Germany, Bd 132 Nov-Jan, Wolfgang Träger
    "Darmstädter Echo" Germany, 2. Oct. 95, "Weisse Dame in der Dämmerung", res
    "Kabinett Art" Germany, 3/95 "Die Rote Königin" Petra Rapp Neumann
    "Bonner Illustrierte" Germany, 8/95, "Frau sieht rot"
    "Express" Germany, 7.7.95 "Kleid wie Spinnengewebe", Rühemekorf
    "Max" Germany, 8/95, p.76, "Art at Work", Uwe Killing
    "Studio Art Magazine" Israel (hebrew), Nr.59, 12/94, p. 61-62, "Let the Artist Live at Exit Art", Tami Katz-Freiman
    "New York Times" 3/17/95, Feminist Art, 1962 until Tomorrow Morning, Holland Cotter
    "Divisions of Labor" catalogue, Bronx Museum of the Arts
    "CT" Germany, Computermagazine, February
    "Online ISDN" Germany, February, Bernd Hendricks
    "Vogue" Germany, February, Claudia Steinberg
  • 1994
    "Blast 4" USA, Bioinformatik, art-edition, USA, Jordon Crandall
    "Time Out" UK, Dec.14-21, Sarah Kent
    "Rethinking Marxism" USA, 4/94, Susan Janopa
    "FAZ" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) Germany, Dec 7, 1994, JGJ
    "Deutsche Kunst in New York" International, November,1994, interwiev + article by Kathrina Velder
    "New York Newsday" USA, Oct.19, 1994, "Gallery or Madhouse?" Karin Lipson
    "The Village Voice" USA, Oct. 11,1994, No.41, contents, p.103, "No Exit Art", Elisabeth Hess
    "New Yorker" USA, Oct.10, 1994, Art section, p.22, photograph
    "The Village Voice" USA, Sept. 27, 1994 "Choices"
    "Piece-Work" USA, August,1994, Bobbie Irwin
    "Art press" France, June 1994, Dorothea Malpass
    "FAZ, (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)" Germany, May 2, 1994, Jens Jessen
    "Zitty" Germany, 5/94, Claudia Wajhudi
    "Tip" Germany 5/94, Katrin Bettina Müller
    "STERN" magazine, Germany, 11/94,Christine Claussen
    "die tageszeitung" Germany, Feuilleton, March 26, 1994, Brigitte Werneburg
    "Tagesspiegel" Germany, Feuilleton, # 14864, March 23, 1994, Peter Herbstreuth
    "Kulturspiegel, ORB" Germany, radio review, March 22, 1994, Margarete Groschupf
    "The New Museum of Contemporary Art" USA, 1992-1994, page 9
    "X-Position" Germany, catalalogue, page 124-131 (8 photos), text:Deborah Cullen
    "Aspekte" Germany, ARD, March 4, 1994, Michael Stephanovski, Wolfram Cornelius, Moderation Lucia Braun
    "Harper's" USA, Sean McLaughlin, January 1994
    "Art press" USA, January 1994, Robert Morgan
    "Cornell University" USA, The Institute for Women and Work, Jan. 18, 1994, Laura Trippi
  • 1993
    "Get better soon" Germany, NGBK Berlin, Aids Project, Frank Wagner
    "Newsletter" USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Cover
    "Intervall" Germany, catalogue, page 123-135, ISBN 3-89462-027-7 Hanne Loreck
    "Trade Routes" USA, Brochure, Laura Trippi
    "City Sun" USA, Sept. 1, 1993
    "New York Times" USA, "Spoken Word", Sept. 1993, Sasskia Sassen
    "The Village Voice" USA, "Voice Choices", Sept. 21, 1993, Kim Levin
    "New York Observer" USA, "Art Diary", Sept. 27, 1993, J. Napack
    "Augenblick" USA, Deutsche Kunst in New York, Oct. 1993, cover article, Jay Ottaway
    "Abendzeitung" Germany, Munich, Oct. 29, 1993, Ingrid Seidenfaden
    "Süddeutsche Zeitung" Germany, Munique, Oct. 29, 1993, Eva Elisabeth Fischer
    "Parade Magazine" USA, "Intelligence Report", Nov. 7 1993, Jane Ciabattari
    "Hybrid" The International Cross Artform, London GB, Dec. 1993, Martin Brady
    "Applaus" Germany, Munich, Dec. 1993, Silvia Stammen
  • 1992
    "Erst Mal was auf's Maul" Germany, catalogue
    "Intervall" Germany, catalogue, page 123-135, ISBN 3-89462-017-X, "L'Adieu" Jens Pepper
    "Intervall" Germany, catalogue, page 123-135, ISBN 3-89462-017-X, "Bundesratufer"
    "Tip" Germany, Sept. 1992, "Frauen ohne Grenzen" Hanna Lenz
    "Tagesspiegel", Germany, Oct.5th 1992, "Kühl" Hanna Lenz
    "die tageszeitung" Germany,Oct. 1992 "Nachschlag" Harald Fricke
    "Aktuell" German Aids Help, Nov. 1992, "Bild und Wort" Söncke Müllet
  • 1991
    "Tagesspiegel" Germany, July 23 1991, "Feinripp als Weg zum Glück" Carsten Herz
    "die tageszeitung" Germany, Aug. 2-4, 1991, LaVie, cover article, Harald Fricke
    "Berliner Zeitung" Germany, Aug. 12, 1991, Elke Melkus

  • Lectures / Art Talks
    "Ad-dressing Infomania," CAA- Meeting, College Art Association, USA, Boston, Session: Fashion versus Art "Ad-dressing mental homelessness," lecture investigating human territories at Universtity of Manitoba Nov. 28, 1995
    "Ad-dressing information," lecture investigating the gap between High-Tech and Low-Tech at FIU (Florida International Universtity) Nov. 7, 1995
    "Ad-dressing history," The Politics of Gender in the work of Regina Frank, lecture and panel with Professors Thomas Pepper and Lilian Manzor at University of Miami Nov. 5, 1995
    "Natura Viva," a talk about la natura morta and the still live in today's nature Nov. 5, 1995
    "Close to my Skin," Costume Institute, Metropolitain Museum of Art and New York Universtity, Oct. 27, 1995
    "Journeys with A(d)dress," MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, Oct.22, 1995
    "Die Kunst des Werbens," Akademie der Künste, Berlin, July 14, 1995
    Cornell University USA, The Institute for Women and Work, Jan. 18, 1994, Laura Trippi

  • Projects in the very near Future (selection)
    "Conversations," Atlanta Arts Festival, Cultural Olympiad, Atlanta, USA, June-October 1996
    "Join Me Spiral," Wocoal Art Center , Tokyo, Japan, September -October 1996
    "22 Jahre Wewerka Galerie Berlin," Kunstbrauerei, Berlin, Mai-July 1996

  • Sites and Homes in the World Wide Web (published writings)
    www.infobahn.mb.ca/wag/a-dress/welcome.html (with Edward Stein) January,1996 until March 17th, 1996
    www.infobahn.mb.ca/wag/a-dress/ (with Edward Stein) until November,1995 until March 17th, 1996
    www.netville.de/artware/projects/a-dress/a-dress.html (with Edward Stein) until February 2nd, 1996
    www.artcom.de/hermes (with Edward Stein) until August, 1994 until September, 1995

  • Videos
    1996 "Natura Viva," Camera: Ivonne Mohr, Marcel Stoll, Matthias Waller, Editor: Matthias Waller
    1995 "Hermes' Mistress," Camera: Edward Stein, Editor: Matthias Waller, Producer: ART+COM
    1994 "L'Adieu- Pearls Before Gods," Camera: Edward Stein, Editor: Peter van Riper