Artist in Residence AIT Tokyo, September – November 2024

Luca Frei is a visual artist based in Malmö. In his practice, he combines sculpture, installation, textile, exhibition design and book design in works that often fulfil practical purposes or suggest pragmatic aesthetics. He is interested in collective processes and pedagogy and often uses historical references and themes from daily life in his work.

Luca Frei

Recent solo exhibitions include Guiding Fabric at Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, working spacing moving at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, 2021, and From Day to Day at Malmö Konsthall, 2020. Exhibition designs include Merz! Flux! Pop! at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2021, Migration, Traces in an Art Collection at Tensta Konsthall and Malmö Konstmuseum, and bauhaus imaginista at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2019. In 2021, he collaborated with The Otolith Group on the graphic design for their monograph Xenogenesis.

Between 2015 and 2021, Frei was a lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Copenhagen. He has held workshops at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, among others.