Robert Frankle

Extract from pages 25-26

3.4. Example from contemporary art

Currently, artists still make use of everyday and fetish objects to express themselves.

In his photo series Teddy, Fantasy (first part) and Reality (second part), from 2010, ...

Launch of the Corona Film Collection including 191 individual audiovisual works and additionally 2 curated contributions.

All videos will be screened in special compilations at the new ALPHABET cinema

The Corona crisis is demanding from people around the globe to reduce their social contacts in order to avoid a rapid spread of the virus. The Wake-Up! Memorial was inviting audio-visual artists to submit one work – video and/or soundart...

From July 18 - September 5, 2020* TAM's Dark Room will present a new video each week from NewMediaFest2020's Seven Memorials for Humanity. NewMediaFest 2020 is a retrospective of video art curated from around the world during the past 20 years, taking place between 26 December 2019 and 31 December 2020 – as an event structure in an exchange between virtual and physical space in collaboration with networking partners all over the world, like the Torrance Art Museum....

Due to the Corona crisis, long-standing habits no longer have value. The shut down has reduced social contacts to a minimum. How do people, how do artists deal with this unfamiliar life situation? But the Coronavirus isn't the plague, and not all infected people will be die. Probably, the crisis is a wake-up call - an opportunity to rethink and change!? As an integral part of the festival, the videos released as apart of Corona! Shutdown? are artistic contributions to these and other fundamental questions - about social coexistence, solidarity, etc....

⁄ ’fu:bar ⁄ is an annual festival focused on electronic error-themed reinterpretative multimedia art. The week long festival starts on the first Saturday of October and hosts an artist residency program, showcases diverse talks, workshops, performances, and an inclusive group exhibition. ⁄ ’fu:bar ⁄ is an open and free glitch art event, aimed at local communities in a physical space, and accessible to transnational communities in networked space, while including diverse local, regional and international authors and their collaborations....

with a presentation from my work First Gaze...

Dadada was published in the context of Luxembourg Art Week 2018...

The Schwartz Haus opens with the art exhibition Colourful Black, in which more than 50 artists of different genres present their works to the public. Completely black from the outside, the house hides its colourful inner life and allows visitors to rediscover art in an unconventional ...

a presentation of my work Parallel for ABCBA

ABCBA is a collaborative video project developed on the Vimeo platform by Crudostudio. Minute long videos are successfully uploaded by different artists for a one week duration. The videos are not intended to be heavily edited, but rather should record and document. ...

Le narcissisme, le soi-même de l'artiste, cohabite immédiatement avec l'intimité du spectateur et l'impression de partager une émotion authentique commune prend alors toute son ampleur. ...

From 2011, the Food for Your Senses festival has evolved into a key event of the alternative music and arts scene in Luxembourg. The Sensibition showcases local and international artists and fosters communication between visitors and artists.

2 artists, one mission: giving life once again to an old shipping container. A well-known artist meets a newcomer and together they elaborate an art...

Public commentary concerning three works Scars, Teddy, and Exurbia. ...

Opening: Saturday, 24 September 2016 from 11:30

The theme of the exhibition Divieto di Abbandono is abandonment. The works in the exhibition reflect particularly the abandonment / adoption of children and its effects, but also abandonment in a more broadly political and social sense....

with a presentation of an image from my work First Gaze

Opening: Thursday, 12 May 2016...

Press Room returns to Venice as an Auxiliary Project during the 7th Creative Time Summit, presenting three breakfast briefings on the mornings of 11, 12 and 13 August 2015 8.45am - 9.45 am at the Cymru yn Fenis Wales in Venice collateral exhibition venue, Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Castello 450, Fondamenta San Gioacchino.

The Summit is the New York-based non-profit Creative Time's annual platform for the intersections of art and politics. This year it is being staged as part of Okwui Enwezor's curated exhibition for the 56th Venice Biennale, All The World's Futures...

Vernissage le 12 juin 2015 à 19:00
Programme du 12 juin
Performance: Eliane Biltgen
Catering: Food Porn Sessions

Exposition ouverte les 13, 14, 20, 21 juin de 14:00 - 19:00
Ainsi que sur rendez-vous en dehors des horaires d'ouverture.

Curated by Robert Frankle, Jade Montserrat, Maurice Carlin, and Pippa Koszerek, Press Room is a temporary community that will come together for an intensive period of dialogue and creative investigation over the period of the Venice Biennale preview week. Inspired by the stage-like qualities and meditative aura of the official press room at...

You are here concludes a three month residency at Islington Mill. The works presented in the show have all been conceived and elaborated during the period of the residency. They are reflections on the Salford and Manchester area and various encounters that the artist had during the residency. Aspects of the artist's relationship with place, experience, or...

Teddy is an opportunity to view an existing work by Luxembourg and Venice-based artist, Robert Frankle, during his three month residency at Islington Mill. The installation presents portraits and biographies of circa 40-year old teddy bears. Composed of two parts, Fantasy and Reality, in dialogue with each other, the texts relate to childhood fantasies and experiences...