Born:
1967, Antibes, France
Training / Education:
1987- 1992
- Apprentice at jewellery studio, France
- National Institute of Gemmology, Nice, Paris
- Ateliers de Fontblanche, Nîmes, France
- Research Department
Work Experience:
2007
- Lecture “Inner Beauty - When attitude becomes jewel”, Manchester Craft and Design Centre, Manchester, UK
2006
- Curator City of Biot, France. 3 exhibitions “100%, Passé”; “100%, Présent”; “100%, Futur”
50 artists: Fernand Léger, Georges Bauquier, Claude et Roland Brice, Lino Mélano, Alain Bergala, Denis Brihat, Serge Angel, Keïko Courdy (KI), Hans Hedberg, Marc Chagall, Raymond Peynet, Isabelle et Claude Monod, Jacky Coville, Jean-Paul Van Lith, Torun Bülow-Hübe…(Modern Art & Contemporary Art - video, print, drawing, painting, jewelry, ceramic, glass)
- Lecture Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
2005
- Curator for the contemporary jewelry art center, Espace Solidor, City of Cagnes sur Mer, France. Exhibition ”Transcender et Subvertir, un matériau en question, le papier”.
2004
- Lecture at EMAP, School of Fine Arts, Monaco
Organizer workshop “Design de soi” with Gijs Bakker (Droog Design Foundation) at the EMAP (School of Fine Arts) in Monaco
- Curator for the contemporary jewelry art center, Espace Solidor, City of Cagnes sur Mer, France. Exhibition “I don’t wear jewels, I drive them- Automobile et autres objets corporels”
2002
- Exhibition setting “Kris et Sarong. Masculin et Féminin dans l’Archipel Indonésien” Asian Arts Museum, Nice, France (Collaboration with Marc Barrani Architecture Studio, Nice)
- Lecture at Massana School of Art, Barcelona , Spain
- Curator for the contemporary jewelry art center, Espace Solidor, City of Cagnes sur Mer, France. Exhibitions “Three Visions of a Body”
2001
- Member of Association Gesellschaft für Goldschmiedekunst, Hanau, Germany
2000-2005
- Art consultant for the contemporary jewelry art center, Espace Solidor, City of Cagnes sur Mer, France
- (Since)
1999
- Interior designer for the for the contemporary jewelry art center, Espace Solidor, City of Cagnes sur Mer, France
1997
- Resident artist at the “Villa Fontaine”, Antibes, France
1996-95
- Visiting teacher (artistic practice) at a technical school for jewellers, Nice, France (Supported by the French Ministry of Arts, DRAC, PACA)
- Lecture and workshops: “Development of a sensitivity and a personal vision, self expression through a portable object”, “Creation, Body and society as support for the jewel”, Castel Museum, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Exhibitions (Solo & Group Shows):
Awards / Grants:
- 1996 Grant, French Ministry of Arts, DRAC, PACA
- 1995 Grant, French Ministry of Arts, DRAC, PACA
- 1994 Young Creator Fellowship, city of Cagnes sur Mer, France
- 1993 Nominated for the Diamonds International Awards, London
Awards / Grants:
- 2007 Stedelijk Museum’s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
- 2007 Dr Jean-Jacques Chaubard contemporary art Collection, Nice, France
- 2006 “Chi ha paura ?...” Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2005 Karl Bollmann Collection, Vienna, Austria
- 2005 Erika Demmelhuber Jewelry Collection, Germany
- 2005 Jewelry Collection, City of Cagnes sur Mer, France
- 2001 Maria-Luisa Samaranch Collection, Barcelona, Spain
- 2000 Peter Oehme contemporary art Collection, Munich, Germany
- 1997 Castel Museum Grimaldi, Cagnes sur Mer, France
Publications:
2007
- « Nouvelle Biennale »
Union Méditerranéenne pour l’Art Moderne UMAM, Affaires Culturelles, Nice
- « 100% Passé-Présent-Futur »
Frédéric Braham, Affaires Culturelles, Biot
2006
- « No Body Decoration »
Prof. Dora Liscia Bemporad, Zachary Androus & Noel Gazzano, Michèle Heuzé, Barbara Schmidt MA, Liesbeth den Besten, Maria Cristina Bergesio, Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, Lucca
- « 11 Erfurter Schmucksymposium »
Kulturdirektion der Stadt Erfurt und Thüringer Kulturministeriums
- « Plastic-jewellery-Art »
Olga Zobel Biró & Christianne Weber, Arnoldsche Art Publishers
- « Schmuck 2006 »
Bayerischer Handwerkstag, München
- « Koru 2 »
South Carelia Polytechnic, Lappeenranta.
2005
- « Maker-Wearer-Viewer, Contemporary Narrative European Jewellery»
Jack Cunningham, Dr. Helen Bennett, Pr. Elisabeth Moignard, Armanda Game, The Glasgow School of Art, Scottish Arts Council
- « Transcender Subvertir – Un matériau en question, le papier »
Frédéric Braham, Affaires Culturelles, Cagnes sur Mer.
2004
- « Un vrai Bijou ! »
Les 7 Péchés Capitaux, Paris
- « I don’t wear jewels, I drive them - Automobile et autres objets corporels »
Frédéric Braham, Affaires Culturelles, Cagnes sur Mer
2003
- «18ème biennale de l’Union Méditerranéenne pour l’Art Moderne »
Union Méditerranéenne pour l’Art Moderne UMAM, Affaires Culturelles, Nice
2002
- « 10 Jahre Galerie Biró »
Galerie Biró, München
- « Nature and Time »
Stadt Hanau/Kulturamt & Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau . Atelier d’Art n°42 Nov.Dec. p.19 . L’Estampille L’Objet d’Art n°368 p.22.23.
- « Trois visions d’un corps »
Frédéric Braham
- « Joyaux d’Espagne »
Frédéric Braham, Claude Pelletier, Mónica Gaspar Mallol, Affaires Culturelles, Cagnes sur Mer
2001
- « Nocturnus »
Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn . Schmuck Magazin Februar/März 1/01 p.22 . Courrier des Métiers d’Art n°195 p.31
1999
- « Henri Gargat - Françoise et Claude Chavent - Frédéric Braham »
Affaires Culturelles, Cagnes sur Mer . Courrier des Métiers d’Art n°181 p.20.
1997
- « Schmuckzene’ 97 »
Bayerischer Handwerkstag, München.
Artist Statement:
From The Artist
The body is at the center of a definition of man in a society and the mean by which this very society is realising itself through an embodiment of ideologies and standard it generates. It is the result of a social, political, religious and cultural structuration.
Art being a way of using the world, I use the body under social appearance and the product of society as a directory of forms. By observing and analysing spaces and in-betweens, one can find out the weaknesses, the structural unbalance, the gaps and the disorders of a pathogen society and a disenchanted world. Here is where the work of art provides restoring solutions, suggestions for questioning responses. I take the spectator throughout an introspection process which places the individuals in front of himself. F.B.
Maria Cristina Bergesio, Art Historian
Excerpt from the catalogue exhibition “No Body Decoration”, Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore, Lucca p.78.
Frédéric Braham’s research is based on the idea of working available products, but also images, references and behaviour that are analysed, selected, organized and recodified into cultural objects. His vision is that of art as action, which aims to involve the spectator not only emotionally but also physically. (…)
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