ARTIST TALK | Fernanda Fragateiro and Frank Maes

Fernanda Fragateiro’s projects are characterized by a strong interest in rethinking and probing modernist practices. Her practice involves an archaeological approach to the social, political and aesthetic history of modernism through continuous research with material from archives, documents and objects. Some of her projects are the result of collaborations with architects, landscape architects, artists and performers.
Her work has been shown, among others, in Museu de Arte Contemporânea in Elvas (PT), Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea in Santo Tirso (PT), Museum da Guarda (PT); Museum of Art, Architecture and technology, Lisbon (PT); Bronx Museum, New York (US), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián (ES), MUAC, Mexico (MX); Centre Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris (FR); Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT); Dublin Contemporary (IR); and Lisbon Architecture Triennale (PT). Public collections include the Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander (ES); IVAM, Valencia (ES); Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (PT); Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (ES); Serralves Foundation, Porto (PT); Fundación ‘La Caixa’, Caixa Forum, Barcelona (ES); Culturgest, Lisbon (PT); and Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich (DE).

Frank Maes has been artistic director of Emergent for more than seven years now. During that time, this platform for contemporary art, located in a historic building on the Grote Markt in Veurne, has grown to become an established fixture in the Flemish art scene.