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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