Sustainable growth: Regina Frank's big island dress "iLand in Sickness in Health" is on display at the MAAT (Museum of Art Architecture and Technology) in Lisbon, and is in augmented form in Hannover. In this performative version of the work, the artist deals with questions of sustainability and ironically through today's vanity of selfie culture. While her body radiates a meditative silence, her virtual robe grows steadily like a garden of organic plants. The viewer is constantly tempted to focus on either the real or the image of the real along with its augmented environment.
Ueber die Kuenstlerin / About the Artist
Regina Frank (DEU) stellt seit 1989 ihre Installationen unter dem Titel "The Artist is Present" international in Fenstern, Museen und öffentlichen Räumen aus. "The Artist is Present" wurde 2015 zu "The Art is Present" und 2017 begrüßt The HeArt is Present die Idee, dass das Leben immer weniger persönlich ist und den Fokus auf die HeArt legt: weiter und tiefer in die Gegenwart von Präsenz und Gegenwart in das Künstlergeschenk. Die visuelle Sprache des Performers, die hauptsächlich durch Text und Textilien gesprochen wird, offenbart einen meditativen Prozess der Erforschung innerer und äußerer Netzwerke sowie kultureller und spiritueller Themen der Politik. Ihre Arbeiten umfassen ein Spannungsfeld zwischen virtuell und real analog und digital. Ihre Arbeiten wurden im New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, in der Serpentine Gallery in London, der Kunsthalle Berlin, der Reina Sofia in Madrid, dem MOCA in Los Angeles, dem Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokio und den Olympischen Spielen 1996 im Atlanta Museum gezeigt für Kommunikation Berlin, ARCO in Madrid in der Projektabteilung des Art Institute in Chicago, des San Diego Kunstmuseums, des Museums für Moderne Kunst Sapporo, der Chienku Technology Universität China Expo 2000, der UNESCO in Paris. Im Jahr 2017 zeigte sie mit Brian Eno und Beezy Baily in der Projektabteilung von London Artfair.
Regina Frank (DEU) has been exhibiting her installations under the title “The Artist is Present” internationally since 1989 in windows, museums and public spaces. "The Artist is Present" became "The Art is Present" in 2015 and in 2017 The HeArt is Present welcoming the idea that life is less and less personal and introducing the focus on the HeArt: going further and deeper into the present of presence and into the artists gift. The performer’s visual language is articutlated mainly through text and textiles and reveals a meditative process of exploring inner and outer networks as well as politica cultural and spiritual issues. Her works encompass a field of tension between virtual and real and between the analog and digital. Her works have been displayed at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, Serpentine Gallery in London, Kunsthalle in Berlin, Reina Sofia in Madrid, MOCA in Los Angeles, Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo and at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta Museum for Communication Berlin, ARCO in Madrid, the Art Institute in Chicago, San Diego Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art Sapporo, Chienku Technology University China Expo 2000, UNESCO in Paris. In 2017 she showed with Brian Eno and Beezy Baily in the project section of London Artfair.
