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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 she explores the idea of timelessness, simultaneity, the temporal and spatial continuum permeating all artistic genres without hierarchies.
She 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, she 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-SPACE.EU/ rope.
The German-Croatian long-term 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.
Exhibitions / Selection
2022
3rd-SPACE.EU/rope - p r o j e c t n o . 3, "Parallelaktion [ D ]", Art and Exhibition Space - THE POOL , Düsseldorf (G)
2022
"Parallelaktion [ K ]", Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka (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 (S)
2022
"REFLECTWED SEQUENCES", Kaiserstrand, Kraljevica (S)
2022
"REFLECTIONS", THE POOL - Art and Exhibition Space Düsseldorf (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 (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