NINA FRÁNKOVÁ

NINA FRÁNKOVÁ

 

Nina Fránková (CZ) is visual artist and ceramist. Nina works primarily in sculpture, installation and production of porcelain tableware. Having a background in ceramics, she focuses on primeval forms that can be found in nature, and brings attention to what is usually discarded, often showing remnants and traces of work with clay. 

For a number of years she resided in Amsterdam where she received a BFA in Ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (2012), and a MFA in Fine Arts at the Sandberg Instituut (2014). 

 

 

Fránková has been showing her work internationally in various exhibitions, events, and residencies.

Selection: Gallery 35m2, Prague, Czech Republic, European Triennial for Ceramics and Glass, WCC BF Mons, Belgium, Rupert, Vilnius, Lithuania, Art Rotterdam, tegenboschvanvreden gallery Amsterdam, Sunday morning@EKWC, Oisterwijk, Netherlands, Trumpeten co Mellanrum, Sweden, The 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2017, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea , TAAK Summer School Marfa, Texas, among others. She is also a recipient of Werkbijdrage Jong Talent Mondriaan Fonds (2016-2017) The Netherlands and scholarship for professional art practice/Visual arts, Ministry of Culture Czech Republic (2017 – 2018).

EXHIBITIONS

 

SOLO/DUO EXHIBITONS

2018 Proměna / Metamorphosis 211g space, Galerie Blansko, Blansko, CZ
2018 18+2 Gallery 35 m2, Prague, CZ
2017 Current Work of Nina Frankova and Marije Gertenbach, Rupert Gallery, Vilnius, LT (DUO)
2017 A Garlic Ritual, Stockholm, SE *
2015 Gaia’s Antibiotic, Trumpeten co Mellanrum, Malmö, SE *
2014 Please Me Synchronicity & Written in these diagrams, duo graduation exhibition with Pedro Moraes in tegenboschvanvreden gallery Amsterdam, NL (DUO)
2013 Chukotka Temporary Art Space, Amsterdam, NL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PUBLIC EVENTS

2018 Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2017 Urns, European Ceramic Work Center, Oisterwijk, NL
2017 The 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2017, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
2016 European Triennial for Ceramics and Glass, Wcc Bf , Les Anciens Abbatoirs, Mons, BE
2016 De Kerstuin, KunstRai Art, Amsterdam RAI, NL
2016 Object Rotterdam, NS Rotterdam, NL
2015 Test Case#2, EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL
2015 Hrnek 2015, The Regional Museum in Teplice, Teplice, CZ
2015 VårSalong, Hölö Prästgård, SE
2014 Tre systrar på Vrångsholmen, Tanum, SE
2014 Open day Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, NL
2013 Passages in Modern Sculpture: A Series in Dead Ends, Marfa Public Radio broadcast, Marfa, TX, US
2012 INexactly THIS, Kunstvlaai 2012, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Žinkovy Art Festival, Žinkovy, CZ

* Collaboration with Denisa Kollarová