Ingrid Falk (born 1960 in
Sweden
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) is a painter, installation artist and
curator
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. In 1992 formed the art collective
FA+ in collaboration with her husband,
Gustavo Aguerre
Gustavo Aguerre (born 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an artist, photographer, curator, writer, and theatre designer.http://www.artfortune.com/gustavo-aguerre/artist-198613/
Career
Aguerre studied at the Munich Art Academy between 1974 and ...
. Amongst the artists who have worked with FA+ are
Nicola Pellegrini,
Otonella Mocellin,
Daniel Wetter
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and
Lennie Lee
Lennie Lee (born 4 March 1958) is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London.
Life and career
Lennie Lee is a British artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college ...
.
Together Ingrid Falk and
Gustavo Aguerre
Gustavo Aguerre (born 1953 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an artist, photographer, curator, writer, and theatre designer.http://www.artfortune.com/gustavo-aguerre/artist-198613/
Career
Aguerre studied at the Munich Art Academy between 1974 and ...
have worked on a number of
site-specific installations throughout
Europe
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. These involve large-scale
installations,
photographic
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projections,
sculptures
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and
video
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installations. Falk has exhibited in a number of important museums and private galleries throughout Europe. Ingrid Falk and Gustavo Aguerre assembled 3,053 pieces of toast into a large mosaic of a toaster in late 1999—they are attributed with spreading
toast as an art medium.
Exhibitions
*Italian Pavilion at the
Venice Biennale
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in 1999
*
Malmö Art Museum
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...
in 1996
*
ARCO
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in 2000
*The
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, 2000. Two site installations: ''The Toaster'' and ''Pax Securitas''
"First International Art Biennial - Buenos Aires / The Toaster"
FA+. Retrieved 04 March 2016.
*Konstnärshuset
Konstnärshuset (literally Artists' House) is a building in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is owned by the Swedish Artists Association (''Svenska konstnärernas förening'') and is used as an art gallery. History
Designed by Ludvig Petersen, the b ...
, Stockholm
*Stenersen Museum
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Stenersen Museum opened in 1994. It principally features exhibitions of contemporary art. The museum art exhibited originated with three private art co ...
, Oslo
*Tirana Biennale
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, 2001
*Reykjavik Art Museum
Reykjavik Art Museum ( is, Listasafn Reykjavíkur ; founded in 1973) is the largest visual art institution in Iceland. It occupies three locations in Reykjavík; Hafnarhús by the old harbour Kjarvalsstaðir by Klambratún and Ásmundarsafn i ...
in 2002
*National Center of Contemporary Art
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* National, Maryland, ce ...
in 2005
References
1960 births
Living people
20th-century Swedish photographers
21st-century Swedish photographers
20th-century Swedish women artists
21st-century Swedish women artists
20th-century women photographers
21st-century women photographers
Swedish women photographers
Swedish contemporary artists
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