What is GAP?
GAP Glurns Art Point was founded in 2012 as the first artistic laboratory in Glorenza-Val Venosta. Offering local and international emerging artists, a work and live space where ideas and concepts could be developed and tested in isolation, alongside colleagues and/or engage with the local community.Â
Glurns geographical position, at the crossroads between Italy, Austria and Switzerland, represents a stimulating point of contact for cultural encounters. Right there, the Atelier-house incorporates a centre for contemporary art in all its permutations: from the local tradition of wood carving typical of the Val Gardena Valley to the most innovative techniques and strands of artistic thought with the looping concern to harness the exchange between tradition and international representatives of forward-thrusting perspectives.
Behind GAP is a group of young professionals (Kunigunde Weissenegger, Andy Tappeiner, Verena Malfertheiner, Julia Frank) operating in different branches of the cultural and media industry. Notwithstanding financial limitations, they volunteer throughout the year to transform ideas into reality.
Since 2015 the artist-in-residence project also dedicates its forces in supporting the realization of one annual curatorial project, to enhance collaborations among the individual creative and the local, societal and economic, environment.Â
Housed in a former club house, now transformed into an artists’ residence and laboratory, GAP is located in the very centre of the town of Glurns/Glorenza, at the crossroads between Austria, Switzerland and Italy. The ground floor is occupied by a large work and exhibition space, a bar and a kitchen. The upper floor offers two spacious bedrooms and a balcony, looking into the studio and exhibition space.
The exhibition space is devoted to the display of the artists’ work and covers a surface of roughly 70m². The neighbored working space (85 m²) is equipped with a well-furnished variety of working tools and machines including a carver’s bench for wood cutting. The open space lends itself to the realization of a variety of media and project formats.
Julia Frank was born in Val Venosta, Trentino Alto-Adige (IT) in 1988.
She lives and works in London (GB).
Julia Frank graduated in sculpture at the Academy of Arts in Carrara in 2012 and was awarded a prize by the German-Italian Institute for her ONE&ONE project, created in New York and exhibited simultaneously in Bolzano. From 2013 to 2015 she attended a Masters course at the Royal College of Art in London.
