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Regina Frank is a German artist mainly working with text and textile installation and performance. Since 1989,Cosmopolitan, "Berlin + Kunst", Thea Herold, Germany, April, pp. 134–135 she has been one of the pioneers of combining performance art with technology, integrating the Internet and interactive social software installations. Her performances and installations deal with social and political-social issues and link digital media with traditional text transformed into textiles. Regina Frank has been exhibiting her installations under the title "The Artist is Present" internationally in windows, museums and public spaces. Her first book "The Artist is Present"Regina Frank: The Artist is Present (English and German Edition) Hardcover – January 1999 by Cathy Byrd (Author), Richard Vine (Author, Editor) was published in 1999. Inspired by the adaptation of Regina Frank's title at Marina Abramović's MOMA exhibition ''The Artist Is Present'' after 21 yearsMarina Abramović: Student Body : Workshops, 1979–2003 : Performances, 1993–2003 pp. 204,501,502 in 2010, Frank changed to "The Art is Present"The Art Is Present Regina Frank On Paper in 2015, introducing the focus on the Art: going deeper into the present and the artist's gift. Later 2017 she advanced to the motto and overall title “The HeArT is Present”.The HeArt Is Present Regina Frank – In Space Using the dress to address, her work is a creative information processing, data visualization, bridging handiwork and technology, tangible and virtual, creating incentives for communication, discussion and dialogues. Regina Frank has lectured at M.I.T. Boston, Saint Martin's School of Art London,
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, the MET, the
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and School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She was artist in resident at Wacoal Art Center, in Tokamachi and S-AIR Sapporo in Japan, Kio-A-Thau Residency Taiwan, Guangzhou-Live-4 China, Montalvo Arts Center, USA,
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, Spain and Chienkuo Technology University Taiwan. Her works have been displayed at the
New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-name ...
Cover of Newsletter The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992–1994, New York, USA, pp. 9 in New York,
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1998 Loose Threads, "The Glass Bead Game", Serpentine Gallery, London (Catalog) in London, the Bronx Museum in New York, Kunsthalle in Berlin, Reina Sofia in Madrid, MOCADivisions of Labor, "Hermes’ Mistress", MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, CA, Catalog in Los Angeles, Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, ARCO in Madrid, 2001 Expo HannoverEXPO 2000, "Performance & Performance", IFU - Pavillon, Hannover (Catalog) and 2003
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.San Diego Museum of Art "Tracking and Tracing: Contemporary New Acquisitions” San Diego, USA, Catalog iLAND launched in 2011 and in 2013 during the Venice Biennale (Infr’action) and 2017 at London Artfair. Since 2013 iLAND was shown in the US, Portugal, Finland, France, Holland and China and 2018 at the MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) in Lisbon. Franks work has been featured in many publications including: Sculpture Magazine,Sculpture Magazine “Art and Life, Sculpture and Process”, Cathy Byrd USA, Vol.20, No.2, March, pp.16–23, 2001 Studio Art Magazine,Studio Art Magazine, “Let the Artist Live at Exit Art”, Tami Katz-Freiman, Israel, No. 59, December, pp. 61–62, 1994 Asahi Evening News, Studio Voice, Screen Multimedia, Parade Magazine, Harper's, The New York Times, in Time Out Rethinking Marxism, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Frankfurter Rundschau, FAZ, Japan Times, Contemporary Art, Art Papers, Art Examiner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Art Press, Being on Line,Being On Line, Lusitania Press, Regina Frank, , USA, Cover, Text: pp. 150–152, pp.153–156, 1996 Arte y Parte,Arte y Parte, “De Arte y Moda”, Regina Frank, Spain, Nr.14, April/May, pp. 18–23 Public Art and Ecology On the Issues Magazine and Allgemeine Zeitung.


Early life and education

Regina Frank, born in 1965, is the daughter of Elisabeth Frank and Franz Josef Frank, and grew up in a small town in Germany, in
Meßkirch Meßkirch (; Swabian: ''Mässkirch'') is a town in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The town was the residence of the counts of Zimmern, widely known through Count Froben Christoph's '' Zimmern Chronicle'' (1559 ...
, where she kept a base until the death of her mother 2016. Due to the families’ and her home-towns close connection to
Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...
, she devoted much of her youth to art and philosophy, later ventured into Zen Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. She studied Sinology and Sanskrit, Old Oriental Studies at
Freie Universität Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...
Arnd Weseman, Deutschland, 17. Februar S.41 Screen Multimedia, "Datenfaden im Seidenkleid", Arnd Weseman, Deutschland, February 1996, pp. 131–133 until she got accepted at the costume design department and later at the Visual Arts Department at
Universität der Künste Berlin The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...
. Here she did her Masters with
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. As a tutor she taught photography and printing and organized many artist talks between 1990 and 1992, among others with
John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...
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Alfredo Jaar Alfredo Jaar (; ; born 1956) is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war—th ...
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Christina Kubisch Christina Kubisch (born 31 January 1948) is a German composer, sound artist, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. She gained recognition in the mid-1970s from he ...
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Hans Haacke Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York City. Haacke is considered a "leading exponent" of institutional critique, and is considered to be the most harsh and consistent critic of museums among t ...
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and
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. She was a founding member of the student organization Interflugs, which represented the students interests to the administration and to professors, and gave access to at the time advanced technological equipment, such as computers, video projectors, editing equipment and video cameras. Together with her fellow students, she advocated equal rights and demanded a higher share of women as female professors at the still predominantly male college of arts. Consequently, she was very active in the student strike. In addition to a number of subtle performances and photographic works dealing with political themes, such as golf war, AIDS,Get Better Soon, Frank Wagner, Aids Project, NGBK (New Society for Fine Arts), Berlin, 1993 she held her studio first in a squat and later above a homeless asylum in Berlin. She supported various forms of demonstrations in public space for equality, integration of foreigners and acceptance of homosexuals and collected funds for various social purposes. (ShoeshineWoman, Condom and Toy- vending machines in Clubs, See you do not look, The Artist Is Present). "The Artist Is Present" was seen in the political-social sense as presence and response-ability of the artist. For more than a decade she was accompanied by Fernando Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet", introducing him as her soulmate, many times reserving a space next to her for him.Observador: Rita Cipriano on Regina Frank: “Ser artista é ter um lado político” (To be an artist is in itself political) 18 December 2016 Together with a group of friends she was crashing opening parties in painters protection suits and masks made from photocopies of self-portraits of famous painters such as
Max Ernst Max Ernst (; 2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic trai ...
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Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, Ceramic art, ceramicist, and Scenic ...
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Vincent van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks ...
demonstrating for artists rights.Avant Art Magazine: Interview Regina Frank (part one): The Artist is Present Within All of Us, June 2013 She lived various times as Frank going out with a mustache and side-burns. She actively danced Tango from 1986 onwards and did many public performances with one female or one male partner, on a private occasion she danced with/for
Astor Piazzolla Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed '' nuevo tango'', incorporating elements fr ...
, while he was improvising on his
Bandoneon The bandoneon () or bandonion is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It is a typical instrument in most tango ensembles. As with other members of the concertina family, it is held between the hands, and played ...
. Most times when asked for her contact she gave her card which was deprived of all information except "The Artist is Present" or Regina Frank "The Artist is Present" in the early 90s. As this was long before search engines the card was useless to get in touch with her. Though her whole appearance delivered material for performances, it was not until she personally met John Cage in 1990 and organized a workshop for him at the University of Art that she discovered the power and potential of performance to integrate in her own artwork. She played chess with him and documented the game as a "photographic artpiece". Shortly after she organized another workshop for Marina Abramović and later an exhibition with her classmates during Marina's guest professorship at the University of Art, Berlin. Consequently, she was invited to participate in many museum exhibitions with her performance installations, which kept her collages, drawings and paintings largely unknown.


Career

L’Adieu Pearls before Gods (1993) dealt with human rights issues and global labor division. With a 28-day performance in the window of the
New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-name ...
she drew attention to the global underpayment in the textile industry. While she embroidered pearls on a white silk dress, she received a different hourly wage every day, calculated by the average wage of 28 different countries, paid by Westminster Bank. On her first day she earned $17.10 an hour for
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, decreasing to 20 cents (the average cost for a worker in
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
in 1992 according to apparel data). Her decreasing wages were published in the Dow Jones stock index. She bought flowers and bread, symbolically as food for body and soul, and to reveal the purchasing power of her wages. The installation, which was produced during this performance, was sold to Robert J. Shiffler's collection through auction at Christies. A part of the proceeds went to a foundation that worked for the rights of illegally entrenched textile workers, who were held, like slaves, in small factories in New York 's sweatshops around the corner of the museum. The work was extensively discussed. In addition to some TV portraits, articles in
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,
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and
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appeared. Hermes' Mistress" From 1993 onwards, she dealt with the Internet as a steadily growing source of information. "Hermes' Mistress" investigated the meaning of this flood of information, by sitting 777 hours in different museums, “harvesting" information that touched her from the Internet and spelling it out stitching letter for letter on an island-like red dress. (26,226 letter beads). Hermes Mistress was shown first at
Exit Art Exit Art was a non-profit cultural center that ran from 1982 to 2012 that exhibited contemporary visual art, installation, video, theater, and performance in New York City, United States. In its last location in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, it was ...
, New York, and after travelled to Kunsthalle, Berlin /
Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to: Africa * Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi Asia East Asia * Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai ...
(MOCA), Los Angeles /
Bronx Museum of the Arts The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum, is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by ...
, New York / Spiral Wacoal Art Center Tokyo,
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, Madrid /
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, Hamburg /
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, Paris / Fondapol, Paris /
Shih Chien University Shih Chien University (USC; ) is a private university in Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It has two campuses: one in Dazhi, Zhongshan District, Taipei and the other in Neimen District, Kaohsiung. History It was established in 1958 by Hsieh Tun ...
(Taiwan). In the GlassBeadGame, 1996(named after
Hermann Hesse Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Eastern philosophy, Eastern religious, spiritual, and philosophic ...
's novel), during the
1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in Atlanta, she dealt with art as a source of international exchange and a contribution to peace. (See MIT-Press "Conversations at the Castle"). For this interactive performance installation, she wove a "magic mantle" (kimono) from favorite books and quotes. Visitors were able to contribute to the installation via the Internet: with virtual pearls from texts and poems, generated by a computer program. Frank in her own video: “There was a space where there was no winner and no loser, an Olympic game for everyone – a possibility to be present, regardless of space and time.” With the Glass Bead Game, Frank succeeded in gaining acceptance in the Japanese market, which later extended to Taiwan and China. She worked with Pixelpark creating software and later with Media Service Group, with whom she worked as well on Inner Networks in 2000, creating a large calendar and a series of prints. Between 1995 and 1999 Regina Frank worked with the Internet and developed works like A-dress. Similar to the later "blogging", she wrote a letter to her own dress every day for 97 days, acting as an address. The letter was available daily on a website, but at the exhibition at the
Winnipeg Art Gallery The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) is an art museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Its permanent collection includes over 24,000 works from Canadian, Indigenous Canadian, and international artists. The museum also holds the world's largest collect ...
in Canada, the texts were printed on white sheets, and filled the inside of her dress, linked to withered and ink-dyed leaves on the outer surface. The work was used as a cover for the book "Negotiating Domesticity" by Hilde Heynen and Gülsum Baydar, published by
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. In 1999, she developed a Mushroom Dress for the Philippseich Castle Park literally growing a dress from mushrooms which she consumed with visitors. During the
Expo 2000 Expo 2000 was a World Expo held in Hanover, Germany from 1 June to 31 October 2000. It was located on the Hanover Fairground (Messegelände Hannover), which is the largest exhibition ground in the world. Initially, some 40 million people were ...
in
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, she sat under the title Performance&Performance in the shop window of the International Women's University pavilion and was literally linked to the stock market by a real-time connection. For seven hours, she sat still and with very slow movements she reflected the rising and falling of stocks, thematizing the manipulative involvement of the stock-market with human everyday life. In 2001 for the Intermediale Mainz she created Food for Soul feeding people with quotes and fresh fruit and vegetables in a white enormous dress celebrating abundance. In 2002 What is Black? What is White? She built a camera into an ink brush, thus showing the process of writing of the answers from above and from the perspective of the camera, and eliminating the perspective of the artist. In the white installation space the form of the dress gradually became visible as the black text spiraled outward. In 2003 Whiteness in Decay at the San Diego Museum of Art, she asked: What feeds your soul? More than 3000 responses were projected on a canvas behind her plaster cast. She was covered in plaster for this performance and slowly freed herself from the hard white shell, peeling the fruits and vegetables from her crust and share them with the audience. A process from a white fragile doll into a colorful human painting and being. She taught masterclasses for Bauhaus Dessau in 2003, directed a group performance at Bauhaus Dessau with young performers and curated an exhibition in 2004 in an abandoned shopping center right next to Bauhaus. In 2004 she started Sharing Silence with the Museum of Modern Art and SAIR residency in Sapporo which she continued in Taiwan, Germany, France, UK and Portugal until 2011 for seven years, spending 7 minutes to 7 hours in silence with complete strangers. From 2005 to 2007 she developed Dreamweaving a game for children and adults encoding text into images, turning poetry into pictures and again text into textile. The game was available in English, German and Portuguese, due to a grant by the
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. In 2005 she worked on the social software and performance project Constellations for FEA (Federal Environmental Agency, Germany) where she photographed more than 400 employees and up to three chosen items per person, connecting and introducing them to each other. Late 2007 Regina Frank, as she turned 6x7 years old, she committed to go on a seven-year sabbatical from established art institutions. She and continued working on Sharing Silence as an ongoing performance and developed several unpublished performances investigating the ready made of
Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...
within. It was supposed to lead into the culminating phase of "The Artist is Present," a 28-year project, conceived in 1989, but when
Marina Abramović Marina Abramović ( sr-Cyrl, Марина Абрамовић, ; born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limit ...
used her title at MOMA, she realized that the artist could be confused with the body mind organism and changed. "The HeArt is Present" was dropping the "ist" of the Artist in favor of a greater self and a less personal identity and a reminder for the inspiring entity within all of us. It is also during this time that she returns to her painting and drawing, culminating in an exhibition at her home town at
Meßkirch Castle Meßkirch Castle or Meßkirch Palace (also spelt "Messkirch", , ''Schloss der House of Zimmern, Grafen von Zimmern'' or ''Zimmernschloss'') is located in the town centre of Meßkirch in the county of Landkreis Sigmaringen, Sigmaringen in the Germ ...
entitled "The Art is Present" in 2017 after her Seven-Year-Sabbatical. iLAND 2011–2018, is a series of performances in public space, (streets, beaches, landings etc.), dealing with environmental issues. iLAND shows the imbalanced zones of our planet in a textile collage together with intact landscapes, which have not yet been haunted by disasters in the last 500 years. Aerial photographs and topographical images were changed, painted, printed and combined in photomontages. The dress and the sculpture became an island of discussion, a vehicle for communication and a field for common reflections. In her performance, she moves so slowly that the movement can only be perceived in time-lapse, almost like the growth of a plant, as we see the effect of our actions often only after when we fast forward. Regina Frank's work is inspired by Sufism (
Rumi Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (), or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century poet, Hanafi '' faqih'' (jurist), Maturidi theologian (''mutakallim''), and Sufi mystic born during the Khwarazmian Empire ...
),
Zen Zen (; from Chinese: ''Chán''; in Korean: ''Sŏn'', and Vietnamese: ''Thiền'') is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that developed in China during the Tang dynasty by blending Indian Mahayana Buddhism, particularly Yogacara and Madhyamaka phil ...
meditation, and Advaita Vedanta. Poets such as
Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (; ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th c ...
and various Philosophers such as
Ludwig Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929 to 1947, Witt ...
,
Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to Phenomenology (philosophy), phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art ...
.
Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...
could be seen as an important influence, as well as
Johannes Vermeer Johannes Vermeer ( , ; see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch ...
,
Henri Michaux Henri Michaux (; 24 May 1899 – 19 October 1984) was a Belgian-born French poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenhei ...
,
Joseph Beuys Joseph Heinrich Beuys ( ; ; 12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German artist, teacher, performance artist, and Aesthetics, art theorist whose work reflected concepts of humanism and sociology. With Heinrich Böll, , Caroline Tisdall, Rober ...
, as well as the German
Fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers, and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental performance art, art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finishe ...
movement.


Membership


Publications

* ''Regina Frank. The Artist Is Present. Performances 1992–1999, Berlin, 1999, '' * ''Regina Frank. The Art Is Present – On Paper, Freier Berliner Verlag, Berlin, 2015, '' * ''Regina Frank. The HeArt Is Present Regina Frank – In Space, Freier Berliner Verlag, Berlin, 2015, '' * Conversations at The Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art, by Mary Jane Jacob and Michael Brenson, Homi K. Bhabha, MIT Press, USA, 1998, pp. 20–25, * Divisions of Labor, Lydia Yee, catalogue, Bronx Museum of the Arts / MOCA, Los Angeles, USA, 1995


Performances, Installations and Exhibitions (selection)


The Art Is Present – Regina Frank, Meßkirch, 2015

Das Netz, der Stoff und das Dazwischen, 2013


* ttp://www.suedkurier.de/region/linzgau-zollern-alb/messkirch/Aesthetik-mit-Energiekonzept-vereint;art372566,342707 Ästhetik mit Energiekonzept vereint, 2008
Konstellationen, Umweltbundesamt, PDF, 2005

L'Adieu Pearls before Gods, Rethinking Marxism

L'Adieu Pearls before Gods, New Museum Archive


References


External links


Website der Künstlerin, The Art Is Present




* ttp://www.suedkurier.de/region/linzgau-zollern-alb/kreis-sigmaringen/Regina-Frank;art372548,3182796 Regina Frank
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Yale University

Avant Art, Part I

Avant Art, Part II

Sculpture Magazine

On The Issues

Montalvo Silicon Valley





Rutledge Titel

Arte y Parte, „De Arte y Moda“, Regina Frank, Spanien, Nr.14, April/Mai 1998, S. 18–23
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