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Luca Frei is a visual artist based in Malmö. His practice encompasses sculpture, installation, exhibition display and book design, often fulfilling practical purposes or suggesting pragmatic aesthetics. Frei is deeply interested in collective processes and pedagogy, frequently drawing on historical references and themes from daily life. His work and research have recently focused on textiles, exploring their material and cultural significance within his interdisciplinary approach.

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 lectured at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Copenhagen. He has also held workshops at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.

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