Frank Wasser is an Irish artist and writer based in Vienna, London and Dublin. Wasser is a lecturer in Art (Studio Practice) and Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Wasser is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Visual Arts Bursary Award.
For a full dossier of work please contact contact@frankwasser.info
Frank Wasser is now represented by COMMUNE
Portfolio of a Selection of recent Exhibitions and Projects
'The Irish Face' at Tate Britain (October 2025)
'Debt' at Salzburger Kunstverein (February 2025)
'Plot-Holes' at the University of Oxford (December 2024)
'Welcome to the Neighbourhood' - Askeaton Contemporary (June 2024)
'Title, to be announced' at Steamworks, London (March 2024)
'Loading Bay' at the National Sculpture Factory (Ongoing)
'Split - Zero Hour Fragments' at South London Gallery MA Bibliothéque (October 2023)
'After Forethought' at UCC, Ireland (June 2023)
'On Tenterhooks' at PPS (October 2022)
Selected Recent Writing and Criticism
Researcher on Child Led project at Turner Contemporary (2018 -2022)
Education Work at Tate Modern and Tate Britain (2012 - 2025) (video from 2013)
News
Salzburger Kunstverein will be holding the launch of the catalogue reader of the 2024/2025 exhibition 'Debt curated by Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas on the 12th of December at 7pm featuring Gleb Amankulov and FrankWasser.
This publication is both a document of the exhibition and an extension of its (spatial) narrative into the form(at) of a book. To make a book about debt in times of debt is to take part in a fragile economy of care. It means insisting that thought, like art, still matters, even when everything around us suggests austerity, delay, and scarcity. It asks how debt can be read, not only as an economic or political condition but as an emotional, symbolic, and even psychoanalytic relation.
The publication includes texts and essays by Mirela Baciak, Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas, Benjamin Hirte, Miriam Stoney, Frank Wasser, and Alenka Zupančič and is published by DISTANZ Verlag and Salzburger Kunstverein.
0 Hour Fragments
A new book by Frank Wasser published by MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE.
Coming Soon.
You know, I think that you should let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.
Give me break, it's Monday again. Those are not your own words.
I know. Ok, Great, you have a half hour break in an hour.