Ilse Frech (1972, Amsterdam) is a visual artist, documentary photographer, and filmmaker. She studied Photography at the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Architecture and Music in The Hague (1990-94). In 2013, she earned a Master’s degree from the University of Art and Design, HEAD-Geneva, in Fine Arts and Contemporary Artistic Practices, major Visual Arts. Identity related to political heritage, myth, war, exile and trauma embody her practice situated between the interplay of documentary, re-enactment, poetry and fiction. From March 1st - June 1st, Ilse Frech has been artist-in-residence at Ashkal Alwan – The Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, in affiliation with The Mon-driaan Foundation (The Netherlands), during which she researched the theme of war and its multiple carriers of memory, closely related to Beirut and Lebanon’s history. This resulted in a collaborative improvisational performance titled “Fugacious Presence,” presented May 27th at Ashkal Alwan as part of her two-fold project of which a film is in the making, both works-in-progress.
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