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LINA FRANKO was born in Zagreb, graduated in 2004 as a master student of Rissa at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Started at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1996, she studied free art/painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the classes of Rissa and Albert Oehlen from 1998 to 2004. In 2007 and 2011 she was nominated for the Förderpreis for emerging artists in Düsseldorf.
In her work Lina Franko explores the idea of timelessness, simultaneity, the temporal and spatial continuum permeating all artistic genres without hierarchies.
Lina Franko has exhibited in various museums in Croatia and internationally, including the Vll and XI Triennials of Croatian Sculpture in Zagreb, the Museum Lazareti in Dubrovnik, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen and other galleries and project spaces in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Zagreb and Dubrovnik. She presented Croatia at "The Beijing International Art Biennale" in Beijing.
In 2018, Lina Franko founded the RIZOM [ K ] Art Association, based in Frankopan Castle in Kraljevica. Together with the Dusseldorf-based art association RHIZOM [ D ] & Andi Slawinski she is leading the European art project
3RD-SPC./RP.
The German-Croatian long-term art project with exhibitions, theatre, film, music and literature events, as well as residency programmes, is currently the focus of her artistic-curatorial work and is her own contribution to the substantive and cultural debates in EU/ropa.
Lina Franko lives and works as a freelance artist in Düsseldorf, Zagreb and Kraljevica.
Fundings & Grants | curator & artist
2024 KOOP-Förderung des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaften des Landes NRW
2024 Allgemeines Vorhaben / Visuelle Kunst-Förderung der Kunststiftung NRW
2024 Förderung für internationale Projekte des Ministeriums für Kultur und Medien der Republik Kroatien
2024 Förderung des Kulturamts der Stadt Rijeka
2024 Förderung des Kulturamts der Stadt Kraljevica
2024 Project Funding from the Cultural Office from the City of Kraljevica
2023 Funding for Allgemeine Vorhaben/Visual Arts from the Kunststiftung NRW, Germany
2023 KOOP-Funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2023 Funding of international projects from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
2023 Project Funding from the Cultural Office from the City of Kraljevica
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR-Grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2022 KOOP-Funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2022 Funding of international projects from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
2022 Project funding from the Cultural Office from the City of Kraljevica
2022 Project funding from the Foundation „Kultura Nova“, Kroatien
2021 Grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2021 Export-funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2020 Grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2020 Project funding from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Croatia
2020 KOOP-Funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2020 Project funding from the Cultural Office of the City of Kraljevica
2019 Grant for an Exhibition in NMMU from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Exhibitions / Selection
2025
3RD-SPC./RP - no.5 „Tišina vjetra – The Poetry of Multilingualism“, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2024
3RD-SPC./RP - no.5 „Tišina vjetra – The Poetry of Multilingualism“, MMSU - Museum for Contemporary and Modern Art, Rijeka (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2024
3RD-SPC./RP - no.5 „Tišina vjetra – The Poetry of Multilingualism“, Kunstverein RIZOM [ K ], Schloss Frankopan, Kraljevica (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2023
3RD-SPC./RP – NO. 4, „Time Dilitation and EU/ropa – a Matter of Perspective?“, Areal Breuer Höfe, Wuppertal (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2023
3RD-SPC./RP – NO. 4, „Time Dilitation and EU/ropa – a Matter of Perspective?“, Art Association RIZOM [ K ], Frankopan Castle, Kraljevica (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2023
DIE GROßE 2023, Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, NRW Forum, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2022
Das kleine Format, Malkasten, Düsseldorf (G)
2022
Jump into another World – Sequence of Transition, Kaiserstrand, Kraljevica (S)
2022
3rd-SPACE.EU/rope - p r o j e c t n o . 3, "Parallelaktion [ D ]", Art and Exhibition Space - THE POOL , Düsseldorf (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2022
"Parallelaktion [ K ]", Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2022
3rd-SPACE.EU/rope p r o j e c t n o. 3 "l.D.entität und EU/ropa – wer ist das ICH das spricht", Art Association RIZOM [ K ], Frankopan Castle, Kraljevica (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2021
"EU/rope", Project Space "WANDt", Düsseldorf (G)
2021
"EUROPA - Consonance as an answer to a dissonant world", Projektraum "das odradek", Düsseldorf (with Andi Slawinski) (S)
2021
3rd-SPACE.EU/rope p r o j e c t n o. 2 "E U/ rope - Consonance in Response to a Dissonant World", RIZOM [ K ] Art Association, Frankopan Castle, Kraljevica (G)
2020
"Europe", Malkasten Artists' Association, Düsseldorf (with Susanne Ristow and Andi Slawinski) (G)
2020
3rd-SPACE.EU/rope p r o j e c t n o. 1 "An opening without events - A European artifice in corona times", National Museum of Modern Art, Zagreb (with Andi Slawinski) (G)
2019
"Rhizome", RIZOM [ K ] Art Association, Frankopan Castle, Kraljevica (S)
2019
"Synthesis", Studio Jägerhof Castle, Düsseldorf (with Bahar Batvand) (G)
2019
"House Ethiopia", PARKHAUS, Düsseldorf (G)
2018
"Halftone", Greta Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (S)
2018
"House Ethiopia", PARKHAUS, Düsseldorf (G)
2016
„Abstract", Dubrovnik Contemporary, Dubrovnik, Croatia (S)
2016
"Erinnyen" Studio Let 777, Dubrovnik, Croatia (S)
2015
"Mental War", Bomb Gallery, Berlin in Otok Gallery, Museum Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik (G)
2013
"The Quarantine", Gallery Otok, Museum Art radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik (S)
2012
"The Sleeper", Xl Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb (G), (C)
2011
"Dialogue", Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia (with Izvor Pende) (C)
2010
"Joachim Blank, Franko Zeitz", dok 25a, Düsseldorf (G)
2009
"Relief, Painting", Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop, Hamburg (with Izvor Pende) (S)
2008
"MC Birdy", Hengevoss-Dürkop Gallery, Hamburg (S) 2008 "Rochade", Biennale of International Art, Beijing (C)
2007
"Artists", B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (C)
2007
"Rochade", B.O.P. Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia (S), (C)
2006
"Interim", Hengevoss-Dürkop Gallery, Hamburg (G)
2006
"The Mini Bar goes Datscha", Minibar, Düsseldorf (G)
2005
"Neue Bilder aus Düsseldorfer Ateliers", Museum for Contemporary Art, Eupen (G)
2005
"Neue Positionen in der figurativen Malerei", Gallery Acht P, Pravatto, Bonn (G)
2005
"Gang-Bang", T40 Gallery, Düsseldorf (S)
2004
Ruwitt and Weiss Gallery, Düsseldorf (G)
2004
"Junge Figurative Malerei", Kultur Bahnhof Eller (G)
2004
"Nero", Theatermuseum Düsseldorf (sculptures for the play "Nero lässt grüßen", directed by Philipp Zeitz)
2004
"Szenenwechsel", Dorotheum, Düsseldorf (S)
2004
"public.private.intimate.", Kunstraum plan b, Hamburg (G)
2003
"Show of the Master Classes", Hengevoss Dürkop Gallery, Hamburg (C)
2003
"40 Daughters", University of Bonn Glyptothek, installation (G), (C)
1999
"Miss Lolly", The Seventh Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Zagreb (G), (C)
(S) solo exhibition, (G) group exhibition, (C) catalogue
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