Biography

Biography/General:
Anita Fricek was born in Vienna in 1967, where she lives and works. She studied art at Studio Hamilton in Florence, at the City University of New York, Queens College, and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, a recipient of the Austrian State Stipend for Fine Arts, and had residencies in London and Sydney. She has exhibited widely over the last 25 years in both solo and group exhibitions, including Turner Contemporary, Margate; MUSA, Vienna; Künstlerhaus, Vienna; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Artspace, Sydney; and CAC, Vilnius. For 15 years she has developed an extensive painting project investigating pedagogical models, and is currently working on the theme of gardening.

Education:
1994- 1996 Visiting Scholar, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Art School, Sydney, Australia.
1989-1994 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, M.F.A.
1987-1989 City University of New York, Queens College Art Department, New York, NY, USA.
1985-1987 Istituto Dante Alighieri / Studio Hamilton, Florence, Italy.

Exhibitions:
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2021 Body Languages of Care, Boutwell Schabrowsky Gallery, Munich.
2019 In den Gemeinschaftsgärten, Austrian Horticultural Museum, Vienna.
2018 In the Community Gardens, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2016 From Flowers to Gardens, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, West- Lafayette, US, in conjunction with the international conference Art and Philosophy, supported by Purdue University and Université de Paris Quest Nanterre La Défense (curator: Catherine Dossin).
2014 Kinderporträts, Sternstudio Gallery, Vienna.
2012 An approach to an institutional cartography. Scenes from Emmi Pikler's Lóczy Orphanage, Peloton Gallery, Sydney.
2007 Anita Fricek. The Sound of Your Eyes - Neue Malerei von Anita Fricek, Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Vienna (curator: Ursula Maria Probst).
2003 passagen 2: exercises in becoming a citizen, Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Vienna (curator: Ursula Maria Probst).
2002 fluctuated images: Girl Talk, Fluc, Vienna (curator: Ursula Maria Probst)
2000 London Biennale 2000, Stuff Gallery, London (initiated by David Medalla).
1999 A Perfect Movement, Austrian Cultural Institute, London, (collaboration with Barbara Sturm).
Just wait and see what happens, SOUTH Gallery, Sydney.
1998 European (Union) Women, T 19 Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna.
With Mother & Crown (European Women), SOUTH Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
1997 swivel, mingle, loop, Pendulum Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Snakeskin, CBD Gallery, Sydney.
Herpetology, Performance Space Gallery, Sydney.
1996 The Kings New Dress, Watch This Space Gallery, Alice Springs, (collaboration with Chris Fortescue).
Untitled, Mailing Gallery, Casula Power House Arts Centre, Sydney.
Strip Tease, YZ Gallery, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Sydney.
1993 Zeichen, Werte und Systeme, Institute for Contemporary Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2020 Paper Matters, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich
2019 Anita Fricek, Gavin Hurley, Sam Mitchell, Susan Boutwell Gallery, Munich.
2011 Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, (curator: Lauren A Wright), catalogue.
2009 Schönheit des Hässlichen, Forum Frohner, Krems, (curators: Dieter Ronte, Andrea Winklbauer).
Common History and its Private Stories, Museum on Demand (MUSA), Vienna, (curators: Iara Boubovna, Roland Fink), catalogue.
2008 The Lóczy Orphanage, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Lithuania, Viennafair.
2007 Critical and Clinical Documentation, Multitudes/Paris / Documenta 12 Magazines, http://multitudes-icones.samizdat.net/ and Multitudes 30, Fall 2007 (organisation, editors: Eric Alliez, Giovanna Zapperi).
ARTmART, Künstlerhaus, Wien (curator: Peter Bogner).
2006 Blick-Wechsel 2015. 8 Künstler. 8 Filme. 8 Ziele., UN-Millenniumkampagne, Paulskirche, Frankfurt (curator: Marjorie Jongbloed).
THE SOUND OF YOUR EYES, Opening Kunstplatz Karlsplatz,
Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Wien (curator: Ursula Maria Probst).
play: special edition volume 25: Local - Recent video art from Australia, TV channel Okto (curator: Justene Williams).
play: special edition volume 12: Suspense I - Cuttings,
TV channel Okto (curator: Andrea Winklbauer).
play: special edition volume 9: Voyagers, TV channelOkto (curator: Ursula Maria Probst).
2005 SIMULTAN. zwei sammlungen österreichischer fotografie, Museum der Moderne Salzburg (curator: Urs Stahel), catalogue.
Populism, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; National Museum of Art, Architectur and Design, Oslo; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (curators: Lars Bang Larsen, Christina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schaffhausen), catalogue.
The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, (curators: Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Guerra, Chus Martinez), catalogue.
Das Neue Europa. Kultur des Vermischens und Politik der Repräsentation,
with >a room of one´s own<, Generali Foundation, Vienna
(curators: Marius Babias, Dan Perjovschi).
2004 LIFE : CUT, KAPU (organisiert von den Vereinen FIFTITU, KAPU, MEDEA) Linz.
don’t stereotape me!, Feministische Videointervention, Viennale, Vienna, (organisation: Österreichische Hochschülerschaft).
born to be a star, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (curator: Ursula Maria Probst), catalogue.
3. Berlin Biennale, with >a room of one´s own<, Kunstwerke Berlin, (curator: Ute Meta Bauer), catalogue.
2003 Mothers of invention-where is performance coming from, with >a room of one´s own<,
Mumok Factory, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, (curators: Carola Dertnig, Stephanie Seibold).
21er, 20er Haus, Wien.
Künstlerinnen - Positionen 1945 bis heute, Kunst Halle Krems (curators: Christa Hauer-Fruhmann, Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Silvie Steiner, Elisabeth Voggeneder), catalogue.
passagen 4, Videoprogramm, Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie, Vienna, (curator: Ursula Maria Probst).
drinnen ist's anders, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (curator: Sascha Reichstein).
2002 Dud Slides, Briefcase, Sydney.
Das Experiment 2b: >a room of one's own<, Secession, Vienna, catalogue.
2001 Kollaborationen (Galerie 1:10), Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg.
nahtlos, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
(curators: Forum für Angewandte Kunst, Nuremberg), catalogue.
Self Service/Painting, Five Years Gallery, London.
New Releases, Art Gallery of New South Wales & Gallery 4A,
(curator: Emil Goh), Sydney.
2000 89,99,2000 Stipendien für bildende Kunst: die neue Künstlergeneration, Kunst Halle Krems (curators: Wolfgang Denk , Brigitte Huck, Hortensia Völckers),catalogue.
Stuffed, Stuff Gallery, London.
Drawing Show, Briefcase, Sydney.
Vienna All-Girl Show, Briefcase, Sydney.
1999 Ground Up, Artspace, Sydney (curator: Adam Boyd), catalogue.
Soho in Ottakring, Vienna.
Anita Fricek, Elisabeth Grübl, Manfred Grübl, Elisabeth Penker, Barbara Sturm, Kuvataideakatemian Galleria, Helsinki.
1998 Glovebox, SOUTH Gallery, Sydney.
airportraits und andere flugversuche, Airport Graz.
Garden, Desaran Gallery, Sydney.
Eröffnungsausstellung - opening a gallery, T19 Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna.
Be seeing you..., Mori Gallery, Sydney.
Projections, 151 Regent Street Gallery, Sydney.
The Origins of Ideas, SOUTH Project Space, Sydney.
Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst, Parlament, Vienna.
1997 Vier Meisterschulen, Parlament, Vienna, catalogue.
1995 Just a Memento, Casula Power House Arts Centre, Sydney, catalogue.
1994 M.F.A. Show, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, catalogue.
1993 Spiegelsprung, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, catalogue.
1992 Istropolitana Project, Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, catalogue.
Grafikedition der Datentechnik Ges.m.b.H, Palais Ferstl, Vienna, catalogue.
1991 Untitled, Alte Sargfabrik, Vienna.

Awards/Grants:
2001 London Stipend by the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Art Department.
2000 Austrian State Stipend.
1999 Artist in Residence Studio, Artspace, Sydney, Australia.
1997 Artist in Residence Studio, Gunnery Studios, Sydney, Australia
by the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts.
1994 Scholarship by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts.
1994 Meisterschule Prize.

Bibliography:
2018 Lynch Cindy, Community gardens in showcase stunner, Inner West Times, 17.01.2018
2010 Zepke Stephen, Anita Fricek: Contemporary Painting as Institutional Critique, in:
Deleuze and Contemporary Art, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 63-81.
2009 Zepke Stephen, Anita Fricek: la pintura contemporanea como mecanismo de critica institucional, Nomadas, No 30, Columbia.
2007 Benzer Christa, Null in Betragen!, Der Standard, 29.03.2007.
Seidl Walter, Kontrolle der Körper, artmagazine.cc, 26.03.2007.
Scheyerer Nicole, Betragen ungenügend, Falter, 13/07.
Zepke Stephen, The Sound of Your Eyes - Recent Paintings by Anita Fricek;
The Sound of Your Eyes - Neue Malerei von Anita Fricek, exhibition text,
Künstlerhaus Passagegalerie.
2006 Feuerstein Johanna, WÖ Galerie: Anita Fricek,
Willkommen Österreich, ORF 2, 16.03.2006.
2005 Rees Simon, A Test of Faith, NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 10, N.9/10.
Wullschlager Jackie, High meets low in Amsterdam, Financial Times, 16.8.2005.
Penafiel Javier, dossier: pintura, b-guided, n°23 (Primavera 2005), p.26.
Cuesta Mary, Arte y realidad, Una pareja sin sexo, La Vanguardia, 25.5.2005, p.20.
Martinez Chus, in: The True Believer, Katalogessay, The Invisible Insurrection of a
Million Minds, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst.
2004 Herzog Samuel, Schwitzen im Oberseminar, Die dritte Berliner Kunst-Biennale,
Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 38, 16. 2. 2004.
Rauterberg Hanno, Reichlich Potenzial, Die Zeit Nr. 9, 19. 2. 2004.
2002 Scheyerer Nicole, Kunst Kurz, Falter, 21/03.
Schedlmayer Nina, Rückkoppelungseffekte, artmagazine.cc, 12.5.2003.
drinnen ist's anders, Kulturtipp, ORF 2, 4.5.2003.
Scheyerer Nicole, Kunst Kurz, Falter, 15/03.
Krumpl Doris, Watchlist, Der Standard, 3.4.2003.
Probst Ursula Maria, Passagen 1-3, exhibition text,
Künstlerhaus, Passagegalerie.
2002 a room of one's own, Ö1 Kulturjournal, 9.2.2002.
a room of one's own, FM4 Homebase, 9.2.2002.
Scheyerer Nicole, Kunst Kurz, Falter, 03/02.
2001 bub, Nadel und Faden statt Pinsel und Farbe, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 7/8.07.2001.
Liedtke Gerd Dieter, nahtlos, Bayrischer Rundfunk BR 2, Kultur aktuell, 5.07.2001.
Verghis Sharon, Spotlight, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27.3.2001.
Todorovic Jaqueline, Der andere Sonnenbrand- Austria kuratiert Australien,
Szene Hamburg, No.3 März 2001, p.103
International-Hamburg: New Art from Sydney, Der Standard, 15.2.2001, p.37
Julia Mummenhof, Ausstellungseröffnung SUNBURN New Art from Sydney,
Szene Hamburg, Nr.2 Februar 2001, p.135
2000 Scheyerer Nicole, Kunst Kurz, Falter, 10.-16.3.2000.
Scheyerer Nicole, Kunstkalender. Falter, 18.2.-14.3.2000.
Freie Szene, Der Standard, Watchlist, 3.3.2000.
Sydney artists pesent ‘found objects’, Wiener Zeitung, 29.2.2000.
Frank Dorothee, Sydney!Vienna!, ORF-Ö1, Kulturbeitrag, 25.2.2000.
Sydney!Vienna!, Australian Art Collector, Issue 11, 01.-03.2000.
1999 Weber Ina, KunstWien 99: Ein offener Blick über die Grenzen,
Der Standard, 22.10.1999, Vienna, Austria.
Boyd Adam, in catalogue Ground Up, Artspace, Sydney, Australia.
Reininghaus Alexandra, ‘SoHo in Ottakring’ bekämpft das Ladensterben,
Art -Das Kunstmagazin, # 7/99, p.126.
1998 Zepke Stephen, The Skin of the Rhythm – Recent video work by Anita Fricek,
Catalogue essay for European(Union)Women,
T19-Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna, Austria.
James Bruce, Around Galleries, The Sydney Morning Herald, 24.3.1998.
1997 Ihlein Lucas, Teasing Out the Nature of Participation,
Postwest # 13, p.29, 30, Sydney, Australia.