Amela Frankl
Born in Zagreb in 1963
BFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1988
Lives and works in Zagreb
„Keeeping then to first person speech, the artist in a sense spares the other. At the same time, precisely in this way it leaves us to determine our own stance, to occupy a position.“
(Ružica Šimunović: The Face, catalogue This too shall pass, ISU Zagreb, 2017)
Productions (a selection since 2010)
All I Can, Ligatura, Sisters of Charity Hospital, Zagreb, 2023
Black Glass on the Way, Museum of Fine Arts Osijek, Salon Galić, Split, 2023
A Stone on a Branch, Josip Račić Gallery-National Museum of Modern Art Zagreb, 2023
Something Like a Blackout, LexArt Depo, Zagreb, 2023
Hadidja and Harmattan, AŽ Gallery, Zagreb, 2023
One by One/Uno per uno/ Jedan po jedan, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy, 2022
A Large Parcel, performance in public space, Zagreb, 2022
PK 22, Varaždin Municipal Museum, Program Something Else Gallery, Varaždin, 2021
Diary From the Edge of the Desert, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, 2021
This Too Shall Pass, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, 2017
What I Bear, editorial project, Edition Meandar Media, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Amela Frankl, Zagreb, 2016
A Ballad of Two Grave Blocks, Zrinjevac Park, Zagreb, 2015
For a Beginning, Koprivnica Old Synagogue, 2013
What I Bear, project with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Zagreb – Paris, 2011-2013.
At the Fountain of Life, Meštrović Studio, Zagreb, 2011
The Name of My Father, Picture of Sound broadcast on the Third Programme of Croatian Radio, 2011
With and Without Them, Extravagant Bodies: Extravagant Minds Festival, Zagreb, 2010
To the Bone, Labin Municipal Gallery, Labin, 2010