Born:
1985
Residence:
Beijing, China
Nationality:
American, French
Trust:
APT Global One
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BIOGRAPHY
Garcia Frankowski is an artist collective founded by Puerto Rican
artist, architect, author and theorist Cruz Garcia (b.1983, San
Juan) and French-Scottish artist, architect, author and poet
Nathalie Frankowski (b.1985, Dundee).
Garcia and Frankowski are also co-founders of Beijing-based WAI
Architecture Think Tank and founding directors and curators of
Intelligentsia Gallery 智先 画廊.
The
work of Garcia and Frankowski includes installation, painting,
video, performance and publications. Recent exhibitions include the
1st Chicago Architecture Biennial, the inaugural Changjian
International Photography & Video Biennale, and the Venice
Architecture Biennale. Their works have been exhibited at the
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Storefront for Art and
Architecture in New York, the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein,
the Kunst-Werke KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the
Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester, and in
shows in Barcelona, Madrid, London, Paris, Dublin, Porto, Lisbon,
Moscow, Venice, Bergen, Milan, Helsinki, Brussels, Prague, Zurich,
Lausanne, Istanbul, San Juan, New York, Los Angeles, Columbus,
Houston, Chicago, Guadalajara, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile,
Montevideo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka, Sydney,
Melbourne and more.
Their theories and works have been presented in lectures in
institutions in Beijing, Shanghai, Graz, Munich, Weimar, Barcelona,
Madrid, Malaga, San Juan and more. Their critical texts and
manifestoes have been translated to Spanish, French, Portuguese,
Arabic, Chinese, Russian, German and more.
Garcia and Frankowski’s work includes the creation of original
architecture, artist’s and children’s books.
Recent publications include Shapes, Islands, Text: A Garcia
Frankowski Manifesto (Sevilla: Vibok Works, 2014), Pure Hardcore
Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture (Artifice Books on
Architecture: London, 2013), the children's book The Story of the
Little Girl and The Sun, several artist books including The Book of
Shapes and the self-published WAIzine ‘What About It?’.
