Alicia framis biography

Having graduated from the University of Barcelona in Visual Arts, Alicia Framis continued her studies at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, the Institut des Hautes Études, Paris and the Rijksakademie van Beelden Kunsten in Amsterdam. Her polymorphic and unclassifiable body of work has found itself on the fringes of current artistic creation. Her projects (installations, environments, performances, videos), coming from different domains – fashion, design, architecture – are not art objects in the classical sense, but rather situations or experiences in response to public, economic and architectural issues of society. Based on the assumption according to which “art must be part of life,” she reconnects with humanist ideals from the renaissance and questions the role of the individual, within a couple, in family and within communication systems. In Billboardhouse (2001), she reconsiders man’s position within the habitat through prototypes of largely open urban houses, abolishing the separation between the interior and exterior. As a militant artist, she creates projects that seem to serve as alternatives to social realities such as coexistence, solitude, marginality, minorities, security and violence, notably in regards to women.

In Anti-Dog (2003), she invited women to demonstrate in various European capitals while wearing clothes she had made. In Immunity Square (2000), she created a protected zone for political refugees, and in Metro with Cemetery, metro Châtelet, Paris (1999), she reintroduced “death” to the city of Paris. A. Framis likes to surround herself with various collaborators: designers, stylists, architects and even producers. Spectators are generally invited to play a role in her work, to experience the artist’s proposals for themselves. In Murmurs (2000), the spectator is encouraged to write their thoughts with invisible ink on a piece of paper and to then insert it into a hole in a wall that will then b

Biography

Alicia Framis (1967 Barcelona, Spain) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice blends architecture, design, fashion and performance. Her work is project based and focuses on different aspects of human existence within contemporary urban society. Framis often starts out from actual social dilemmas to develop novel settings and proposed solutions. She develops platforms for creative social interaction, often through interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists and specialists across various fields. 

Framis is the first woman to marry a Ai hologram, an intelligent hologram that fulfills the need for companionship. This unique relationship combats loneliness in urban environments. She recently also started making art together with her husband Ailex. Read more here.

Alicia Framis studied at the Barcelona University and the École de Beaux Arts in Paris. She completed two masters programs, one at the Institut d’Hautes Etudes, Paris and another at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Framis won Prix Lleida Contemporary Art, Spain (2000) and Prix de Rome, Italy (1997).

Her recent exhibitions and performances include the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2023), Depot Boijmans van Beuningen (2024) Bangkok Bienale (2023), Kunsthalle Nurenberg, (2017), CREATIVETIME New York (2015), Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (2013), PERFORMA BIENAL New York (2011), La Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen (2012), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2010), MACBA, Barcelona (2008), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2002), and many more. Framis represented The Netherlands in the Dutch Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003) and has had work featured in the 2nd Berlin Biennale (2001), Performa 09 New York (2009), and Manifesta 2 Luxemburg (1998).

Her work is included in numerous permanent collections, including those of Collection FRAC Lorraine (France), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Switzerland), Museum Boijmans van Beuning

Alicia Framis is the first woman to marry an Ai hologram (meta human). She is one of 50 most influential artists working in Ai. She is contemporary artist living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She develops platforms for creative social interaction, often through interdisciplinary collaboration with other artists and specialists across various fields. Her work is project based and focuses on different aspects of human existence within contemporary urban society. Framis often starts out from actual social dilemmas to develop novel settings and proposed solutions. Framis studied with the French minimalist artist Daniel Buren and the American conceptual artist Dan Graham and her work can be located within the lineages of relational aesthetics, performance art, and social practice art. She represented the Netherlands in the Dutch Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). She is currently the director of an MA program at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, Netherlands and a lecturer at Nebrija University in Madrid, Spain. In 2019, Alicia Framis was awarded with the Lucas Artists Visual Arts Fellowship 2019-2022 in California.

Framis's work has been presented widely at museums, galleries, and public spaces throughout the world. Her works are included in numerous permanent collections, including those of Hirshhorn Museum in Washington (US), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Netherlands),MUSAC Castilla y Léon (Spain),Museum voor Moderne Kunst A