Rike Frank

Rike Frank is a curator and researcher based in Berlin and Oslo. Currently, she works as associated professor of Exhibition Studies at the Academy of Fine Art of the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Recent exhibition and research projects include ‘Textilities … and Roses, too’ (2015), ‘Shimmering’ (2014), ‘Textiles: Open Letter’ (2012-13, with Grant Watson), ‘Friedl vom Gröller’ (2012). Frank was member of the program team for the European Kunsthalle and Ludlow 38, New York; Head of the Curatorial Office for documenta 12, and curator at the Secession. Publication projects include, as editor and writer, Textiles: Open Letter (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015); Textile Theorien der Moderne: Alois Riegl in der Kunstkritik (Berlin: b_books, 2015); Timing—On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014); Sketches of Universal History: Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce (London: Book Works, 2013), and Constanze Ruhm: ‘Coming Attractions’ (Vienna: Schlebrügge.Editor, 2012).