about:

Franko B’s CV:

selected solo exhibitions:

2024

• No Gatekeepers of my Heart - Associazione Barriera, Turin

2021

• Franko B - New Art Projects, London;

• Franko B, Stitched Heart - Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje;

Things That Make Me Cry - Globe Gallery, Newcastle

2020

• The Body is not Here - University of Bristol Theatre Collection

2019

• Unloved - Rua Red, Dublin

2018

• Lost Boys and Other Stories - NonostanteMarras, Milan;

• The House on the Lake - Italian Cultural Institute, London;

• Franko B: A Monument - Eugster, Belgrade

2017

• Sleeping Beauty - Freud Museum, London;

• Love Letters - Palazzo Sant’Elia, Pelermo, Sicily

2016

• Death & Romance in the XXI Century - Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi (Perugia);

• Stitched Heart - NonostanteMarras, Milan;

• Insignificant - East Street Arts, Leeds

2015

• Woof Woof I’m Back!! - The Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, London

2013

• Fil Rouge - Nonostante Marras, Milan;

• Reading Franko B: Moments in Love - University of Bristol Theatre Collection

2011

• I Still Love: Part 2 - The Nunnery Gallery, London

• Someone to Love - Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster

2010

• I Still Love - PAC Padiglione d’Arte Conemporanea, Milan, Italy

• Black + Blood - Galleria Pack, Milan;

• Love In Times Of Pain - Globe Gallery at Monument Mall, Newcastle

2009

• Love in Times of Pain - Globe gallery, Newcastle;

2008

• I’m Thinking of You - Galleria changing role, Naples;

• The Golden Age - Lipanjepuntin artecontemporanea, Rome;

• Franko B/Zhang Huan: Position and Deposition

- Galleria Pack, Milan

2007

• Love in Times of Fear - RuArts, Moscow;

• Full of love - Marena Rooms Gallery, Turin

2006

• The Black Period - Galleria Pack, Milan

2005

• Long Live Romance - Galleria LipanjePuntin, Trieste

2004

• Volume 2: Franko B - Galleria Pack, Milan

2003

• E-FEST - Great Eastern Hotel, London;

• This Is For You (selected works: 1997/2003) - Luke & A Gallery, London;

• Poverty Is Not A Crime - Neon Gallery, London

2001

• Oh Lover Boy: The Exhibition - Home, London;

• Now You Know Me - Klaus Engelhorn 20, Wien

2000

• Franko B, I miss you - Icon Gallery, London;

• Oh Lover Boy (Collages) - Chamber Of Pop Culture, London;

• Franko B: Paintings - The Centre Of Attention, London

1999

• I Miss You - Toynbee Studios, London;

• I Miss You - Walter Van Beirendonck’s Window Gallery, Antwerpen

1998

• Who’s Going to Lick My Wound? - Galleria Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan



selected performances:

2023

• Reflecting Wounds - Premio Stromboli, Stromboli, Italy

• Reflecting Wounds - Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy

2022

• I’m Thinking of You [+ DJ set] - Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Carrara

• I’m Thinking of You - Fondazione H.E.A.R.T., BIG Bari Gender Festival, Bari

• Mirroring the Wounds - Migrazioni Stagionali, Casa walser (Gressoney-Saint-Jean),.Italy

2021

• I’m Here - Arnolfini, Bristol;

• I’m Here - Colchester Arts Centre;

• I’mHere - Globe Gallery, Newcastle

• I’m Here - Ugly Duck, London;

• I’mHere - Norwich Arts Centre

2019

• Unloved - Rua Red, Dublin;

2018

• I’m Thinking of You - Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot;

• I’m Thinking of You - Tanzquartier Wien Centre for Contemporary Choreography and Performance, Vienna;

• Milk & Blood - Toynbee Studios, London

2017

• Milk & Blood - Colchester Arts Centre;

• Milk & Blood - Backlit Gallery, Nottingham

2016

• I’m Thinking of You: Version 2 - Venice International Performance Art Week;

• Milk & Blood - East Street Arts, Leeds;

• Milk & Blood - Teatro Massimo, Cagliari;

• Milk & Blood - MAC, Birmingham;

• Milk & Blood - The Bluecoat, Liverpool;

• Milk & Blood - Rich Mix, London

2015

• Milk & Blood - Norwich Arts Centre;

• Milk & Blood - Toynbee Studios, London;

• Milk & Blood -
a/political, London

2014

• Because of Love: Volume 1 - Theater in Pumpenhaus, Munster;

• MFOTWU Against Oppression - Norwich Arts Centre

2013

• Because of Love: Volume 1 - The Place Theatre, London;

• Because of Love: Volume 1 - Norwich Arts Centre;

• Because of Love: Volume 1 - Warwick Arts Centre;

• Because of Love: Volume 1 - Toynbee Studios, London

2012

• Because of Love - Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts;

• Because of Love - Colchester Arts Centre;

• Because of Love - Laban Theatre, London;

• I’m Thinking of You - Short Theatre, Rome

2011

• I’m Thinking of You - GRU, Geneva;

• I’m Thinking of You - Beaconsfied, London;

• I’m Thinking of You - il Mercato delle Erbe, Macerata;

• I’m Thinking of You - Globe gallery, Newcastle;

• I’m Thinking of You - Montpellier Danse Festival

2010

• I’m Thinking of You - Nunnery gallery, London;

• Love in Times of Pain - PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan;

• I’m Thinking of You - Colchester Art Centre;

• Me, You, Nothing - Battersea Art Centre, London;

• I’m Thinking of You - Trouble Festival, Brussels;

• I’m Thinking of You - Royal College of Art, London

2009

• I’m Thinking of You - Chelsea Theatre, London;

• I’m Thinking of You - Thessaloniki;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Incubate festival, Tiburg;

• I’m Thinking of You - centre international of the arts and action, Madrid;

• I’m Thinking of You - Centro Contemperaneo L. PECI, Prato;

• I’m Thinking of You - Visions of Excess - SPILL festival, London;

• I’m Thinking of You - National Review of Live Art, Glasgow

2008

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Green Room, Manchester;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Hebel Theatre, Berlin;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Teatr Dramatyczny, Warsaw

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - ICA, London;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - The Bluecoat, Liverpool;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Globe Gallery, Newcastle;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Colchester Arts Centre;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - SITE Gallery, Sheffield

2007

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Arnolfini, Bristol;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - CENDEAC, Murcia;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Salamanca;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Fierce festival, Birmingham

2006

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Teatro dei Contrari, Rome;

• Don’t Leave Me This Way - Certosa di Padula, Salerno;

• Still Life - Colchester Arts Centre

2005

• Oh Lover Boy - The Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork;

• I Miss You - Kunsten festival des arts, Palais des Beaux - Arts, Brussels;

• Aktion 893 (Why Are You Here?) - National Review of Live Art, Glasgow;

• Still Life - National Review of Live Art, Glasgow

2004

• Still Life - South London Gallery

2003

• I Miss You - Tate Modern, London;

• Still Life - Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry

2002

• I Miss You - Circolo de Bellas Artes, Madrid;

• Aktion 398 - Casa de America, Madrid;

• I Miss You - Cenpi, Beograd, Serbia;

• Aktion 398 - Fierce!, Warwick Arts Center, Coventry;

• I Miss You - Break 21, Galleria Kapelica, Ljubljana

2001

• Oh Lover Boy - Live Art at Kanonhallen, Copenaghen;

• Oh Lover Boy - Beaconsfield, London;

Oh Lover Boy - Fierce! - Custard Factory, Birmigham;

• You Make My Heart Go Boom Boom - Kit, Copenaghen;

• Oh Lover Boy - Arsenic, Losanna, Switzerland;

• Aktion 398 - Klaus Engelhorn 20, Vienna;

• Aktion 398 - Toynbee Studios, London;

• Aktion 398 - National Review of Live Art, Glasgow

2000

• Aktion 398 - Zurich, Switzerland;

• I Miss You - Art Live, Turin;

• I Miss You - Malmo, Sweden;

• I Miss You - Fierce! in association with Ikon Gallery, Birmingham;

• I Miss You - Beaconsfield Gallery, London;

• Mama I Can’t Sing - Malmo, Sweden

1999

• Aktion 398 - South London Gallery;

• I Miss You - Antwerp, Belgium

1998

• Aktion 398 - Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan;

• Aktion 398 - Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City

1997

• I’m Not Your Babe, Part 3 - Festival: Il Corpo Sterminato, Florence;

• I’m Not Your Babe, Part 1 - Eurokraz Festival, Zagreb;

• Mama I Can’t Sing - Voltaira, Italy;

• I’m Not Your Babe, Part 4 - Teatro Scandici, Florence

1996

• Mama, I Can’t Sing, Part 3 - Totally Wired, ICA, London;

• I’m Not Your Babe, Part 3 - Totally Wired, ICA, London;

• I’m Not Your Babe, Parts 1 and 2 - ICA, London

1995

• I’m Not Your Babe, Part 2 - Rapture, ICA, London



selected group exhibitions:

2023

• A Hard Man is Good to Find - Photographers Gallery, London

• AMAMI - Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio, Todi (PG), Italy

2022

• Moving Bodies, Moving Images - Whitechapel Gallery, London

• Lake Como Design Festival - Como, Italy

2021

• Corpus Domini - Palazzo Reale, Milan

2019

• Passione Bi-Polare - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice;

• Logos Mundi - Presso Ipogeo Matera Sum, Matera;

• Fuck Love - Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana, Torino;

• Touch: Perspectives from the Medical Humanities - Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol

2018

• Us or Chaos - Musee d’Art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi;

• Black - Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Trento;

• Geographie Umane - EXMA, Consorzio Camu’ Cagliari

• Time / Process - 139 Artspace, London

2017

• How to Say it the Way it is - Rua Red, Dublin;

• Cortesie Per Gli Ospiti - Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto

2016

• Sacrosanctum - Oratorio di San Mercurio, Palermo;

• Medium Media Mediocritas - Galleria Six, Milan;

• Opera Scelte Dalla Collezione do Lino Baldini - Studio Baldini Art Gallery, Piacenza;

• Dipingere il Presente - Silk Road Cultural Expo, Dunhuang, China;

• Dipingere il Presente - Peninsular Art Museum, Weihai;

• Dittico - Franko B & Michele Carbonari - Piu Bello Quality Store, Montegranaro

2015

• Dipingere il Presente - Certosa di San Giacomo, Capri;

• Deep East Winter - The Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, London;

• What Was I Thinking? - Work Gallery, London

2014

• BLOOD - Science Gallery, Dublin;

• Me is You - [artworks displayed on bill-boards on the streets of Milan and London] - Tender To Art;

• Creating a Scene - National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford;

• Mercury & Electric Shocks - Hopkinson Gallery, Nottingham

2013

• Serial Killer - Galleria Porta Latina, Rome;

• Freeze ‘13 - The Mayor’s Parlour, London;

• Corps en Oeuvre - Coullaud & Koulinsky, Paris;

• Performance / Audience / Film - John Hansard Gallery, Southampton;

• Fuck Simile - Medioarea Gallery, Terni

• Untouchable - The Flying Dutchman, London;

• In The Light of the Overhead - Postbox Gallery, London;

• Plus Art at the Mayor’s Parlour - London;

• La Pelle che Abito - Galleria Pack, Milan;

• The Flash of Nature - Salone degli Incanti, Trieste;

• In Your Face - Show Studio, London

2011

• Neon + Vinyl - Londonewcastle Project Space, London;

• Fraternize Salon - Beaconsfied gallery- London;

• Banking on Your Support - Globe Gallery , Newcastle;

• Spill Tarot exhibition - Barbican Centre, London;

• Drawing 2011 - Drawing Room, London;

• Achtung! Achtung! - Ex Gil, Rome

2010

• Plus Art - Britannia House, London;

• The Wall - FAC ROOM, Milan;

• Kate Brandt Pink - Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee

2009

• All That is Solid Melts into Air - Muhka, Mechelen, Belgium;

• Darkrooms - Homme Made - Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York

2008

• Gothic - Fieldgate Gallery, London;

• Still Life - T1+2 Gallery, London

2007

• Paranoia - Freud Museum, London

2006

• Paranoia - Leeds City Art Gallery;

• Paranoia - Focal Point Gallery, Southend;

• Print Now - Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2005

• Corpo-Moda-Mente - Galleria Lipanjepuntin, Trieste;

• Faltering Flame - Graves Gallery, Sheffield;

• Resonance - Netherlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam

2003

• Urban Networks - Courtauld Institute of Art, London;

• Art, Lies and Videotape - Tate Liverpool;

• Independence - South London Gallery;

• Open 2003 - arts & cinema, Venice;

• Flesh for fantasy - Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena

2002

• The Centre of Attention at Shoreditch Church - St Leonard’s Church, London;

• Jesus_C_Odd_Size, Nikolaj - Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen

2001

• I Feel Lonely Please Call Me... (part of Please disturb me) - The Great Eastern Hotel, London;

• The Antwerp Open, Antwerp

1999

• Rosso Vivo - PAC (Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea), Milan



curating:

2022

• Cream - villa REY, Associazione Bastione, Torino

2019

• The Future is Never Too Far - Riccardo Costantini Contemporary, Torino

2018

• Young at Heart Old on the Skin - Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi (PG), Italy

2017

• How to Say it the Way it is - Rua Red, Dublin

2016

• Forms & Objects - Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi (PG), Italy

2015

• Fuori Posto - Piu Bello Quality Store, Montegranaro, Italy

2013

• Untouchable - The Flying Dutchman, London;

• Arte e Aperitivo - Roxy, Macerata, Italy

2012

• Untouchable - The Flying Dutchman, London

2010

• Can You Hear it? - The Nunnery Gallery, London

2005

• Long Live Romance - Galleria Pack, Milan;

• Long Live Romance - Lipanje Puntin, Rome