Vera Frenkel

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Vera Frenkel

born 1938 in Bratislava, lives and works in Toronto

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014
Ways of Telling, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
2010     
Beyond the Archive (working title), SBC Gallery, Montréal
2008   
Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive, video installation and related works, Akau Inc. Project Space, Toronto
2005     
The Institute™, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
The Institute™: Or, What We Do for Love, Art Gallery of Sudbury
2003          
The Institute™: Or, What We Do for Love, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) - University of Toronto, Toronto
Body Missing, Sigmund Freud Museum, London
2002   
Body Missing, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Body Missing, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Videoculture 2000, Wayne State University Video 2000 Festival, Detroit
2000   
Body Missing, Goethe-Institut, Toronto
1999   
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Hérouville-St. Clair
Messiahs, Migration and Loss, Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film and Video, New York
»…from the Transit Bar« and Body Missing, Göteborg Konstmuseum, Gothenburg
1996   
Body Missing, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Body Missing, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz
1995   
Body Missing, I.S.E.A. Inter-Society for Electronic Arts, Montréal
1993   
Raincoats, Suitcases, Palms, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
1990   
Messiah Speaking, Piccadilly Circus Spectacolor Board animation, London
Metro-Centre Messiah, Squires Foyer, Newcastle Polytechnic, Newcastle
1989   
Mad for Bliss, Multidisciplinary performance, Music Gallery, Toronto
1987          
Trust Me, It’s Bliss, The Hugh Hefner/Richard Wagner Connection, Playboy Mansion [Hefner Hall], Chicago
1985   
Les bandes vidéo/The Videotapes, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1983          
The Screening Room, Main Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis; Artculture Resource Centre, Toronto
1982          
In Search of the True-Blue Romance, Exiles/Images of Woman, Artculture Resource Centre, Toronto
Likely Stories: Text/Image/Sound, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021         
Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai 
2020        
PRESS RECORD: Prints from the Open Studio Archive, Contemporary Printmaking Studio, Toronto
2019
Dunkle Energie, xE Ausstellungsraum der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna
2018
Hearing a Video, Vtape, Toronto
2016
"Chéer à rebours vers l'exposition": The cas of Aurora Borealis, VOX, Montreal
2015
MemoryLab - Photography challenges history, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
2014
MemoryLab: The Sentimental Turn, Gropius Bau, Berlin
2013
Continental Drift - Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s, Badischer Kunstverein, Kalsruhe
Continental Drift - Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s Part 1, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto
2012
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980 - Part 1, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2011   
Archival Dialogues, Ryerson University Gallery and Research Centre, Toronto
2010    
Contributor to Screen 2010 Exhibition 12: Consumerism – I shop therefore I am? Cultural Olympiad Project, Vancouver    
Analogue: Pioneering Artist´s Video from the U.K. Canada and Poland, (final three venues of tour of Canadian museums)
2009   
Once Near Water: Notes from the Scaffolding Archive, Candian premiére of performance version of high-definition video with musicians from Continuum Contemporary Music, Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto
2008   
Recollecting: Raub und Restitution, MAK, Vienna
Messiah Speaking, Two-channel video installation, Elevator 10, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
Shift: movement and meaning between The Netherlands and Canada, Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam
City Poem/Poem City, Penex-Metropolis Video Wall, Yonge/Dundas Square, Toronto
Tiefenrausch, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
2006   
Telling Stories, Secret Lives, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston
2005          
Blow Out, Prefix Gallery, Toronto 
Wer Visionen hat soll zum Arzt gehen, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
2004   
Vera Frenkel/Ho Tam, Archive Gallery, Toronto
2002   
MY GENERATION: Video art from the 70’s to the present day, Atlantis Gallery, London
2001   
Head Start, Campo Santa Marina, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice
1999          
Not On Any Map: Travel and Identities of Displacement, The Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Fragile Electrons, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Track Records, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
LAB VII, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
1998          
Track Records, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Centre Culturel de Sherbrooke, Mackenzie Gallery, Regina
Second Skin: Looking at the Garden Again, The Gallery, Stratford, Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Ontario
1997   
Lab VI, Centre of Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Video Art Plastique, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville
Virtualität des Verschwindens, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
The Destabilized Landscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
1996   
In the Realm of Freedom, YYZ artists’ Outlet, Toronto
Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen, (contri-bution to Joerg Geismar’s project), Galerie Gabrielle Rivet, Cologne
1995          
Beyond National Identities, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, National Modern Art Museum, Kyoto, Hokaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
1994          
Body Missing, in Andere Körper, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz 
4th International Film/Video Festival, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warschau
1993   
The Grief Journey, Toronto Cybercity Project, Toronto, Aperto, Venice Bienniale, Venice
Empowering the Word, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
The Other Revolution, John Spotton Theatre, NFB National Film Board, Ottawa, Goethe-Institut, Toronto
1992   
documenta IX, Kassel
1991   
War, Media & The New World Order, Centre international d’art contemporain, Montréal
Video Positive Festival, Liverpool
1990   
Issues in Contemporary Video, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Technologies et imaginaires, Vidéothèque de Paris, Paris
1988   
The Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui
Censored, or The Making of a Pornographer, A.I.R. Gallery, London
Aurora Borealis, The Showroom, London
1987   
Toronto: A Play of History, The Power Plant, Toronto
The Lunatic of One Idea, Public Pixelboard project, Square One Mall, Mississauga
1986   
Attention: Lost Canadians, Canada Pavilion, Expo ’86, Vancouver
Video as a Social Tool, Video Inn, Vancouver
1985   
Visual Facts, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Aurora Borealis, Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal, Cité du Parc, Montréal
1984   
Vestiges of Empire, Camden Arts Centre, London
1982   
Projected Parts, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Lump in the throat or the Adam’s Apple: A True Story of Eve, Koffman Union, Minneapolis
1981   
Women’s Film and Video Festival, Amsterdam
Works