Biography

Marco Frauchiger (1976), is a photographer and artist based in Bern, Switzerland. Since 2009 he has been working as a freelance photographer and artist, realizing his own projects in the art and documentary field. A scholarship enabled him to spend three months in Laos in 2013, where he worked as a photographer on his own series and with various NGOs. In 2014, he was allowed to attend a ‘Masterclass’ course in Vienna. From 2018 onwards, he completed the Master’s program CAP (Contemporary Art Practice) at the Bern University of the Arts. He completed this Master’s program in June 2020.

Awards

– 2022 ‹Continuer› Research Grant of the Canton of Bern for how to dismantle a bomb
– 2022 Travel research grant of the City of Bern for how to dismantle a bomb
– 2020 Scholarship Bürgi-Willert Stiftung
– 2017 Travel grants from the canton of Bern (fine arts)
– 2015 Landskrona Photo & Breadfield Dummy Award, Sweden (2nd place)

Exhibitions

– 2021 Cantonale Berne Jura 2021/22, Kunsthaus Langenthal, how to dismantle a bomb
– 2021 Noorderlicht International Photography Festival, Groningen, Niederlande, how to dismantle a bomb
– 2020 Whiteout, Kunstmuseum Thun, Cantonale Berne Jura 2020, Thun, Switzerland "how to dismantle a bomb"
– 2020 Common Ground, Kunsthaus Pasquart Biel, Switzerland, MA CAP diploma exhibition, "how to dismantle a bomb"
– 2018 Strategies Against the Map, A Ilha Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

Video ‘how to dismantle a bomb’ here