Franko B

LONDRA - 12/06/1974

Born in Milan in 1960, he moved to London when he was 19. Franko B graduated at Chelsea College of Art and Design and he has been creating works across video, photography, performance, painting, installations, sculpture and mixed media since 1990. An undisputed protagonist of the ICA, the epicenter of London's more radical and avant-garde artistic projects, Franko B’s background is the romantic punk of the British capital of the '90s. Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata since 2009, he has taught courses and lessons in some of the most important international art schools.

He performed in some of the most prestigious international contemporary art insitutions, like Tate Modern, London, 2003; ICA, London, 2008; South London Gallery, London, 2004; Palais des Beaux-Arts / Palais voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, 2005; Beaconsfield, London 2001; Galleria Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan, 1998 and again in Mexico City, Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid and Vienna. His most recent performance was held at the Royal College of Art in London in 2010. He also exhibited at: RuArts, Moscow, 2007; Victoria And Albert Museum, London, 2006; Tate Liverpool, 2003; Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, 2002.

In 2010 the PAC of Milano curated his first solo exhibition in an Italian public space. For the opening of the exhibition entitled I Still Love, he created the performance called Love in times of pain.

Among the monographs to him dedicated we remember: Franko B, Costa Nolan / Virus & Mutation, United Kingdom, 1997; Franko B The Performance Work, Black Dog Publishing Ltd, London, 1997; Oh lover boy, photography by Manuel Vason, Black Dog Publishing Ltd, London, 2001; Blinded by Love, Damiani, Italy, 2007; I Still Love PAC exhibition catalog 2010, Italy, curated by FAM, Published by 24 Ore Cultura, Italy. In 2003 he published a photographic project entitled 'Still Life'.

His works are present in the collections of the Tate Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the South London Gallery, Modern Art Museum in Tel Aviv and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Milan.

www.franko-b.com

photo by Henry Ruggeri

Artworks

Franko B, "Kiss nr.1"