Announcing the 2022 Alba Artist-in-Residence

IL SOGNO NON SI FERMA, 2022 THE DREAM DOESN’T STOP (Multilayered installation essay - Car Air suspension valves, compressor, air tank, speakers, amplifier - Portable Radio - Israeli Arm, field monitor, weather cast hurricane video representations and Hand hammered iron spurs) Dimension variable

ESS is pleased to announce that Friedrich Andreoni has been selected as the 2022 Alba Artist-in-Residence.

The Alba Sonic Arts Residency is a three-month residency at ESS in which all of the organization’s resources and platforms are made available to a graduating MFA student from the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Residents are chosen by an outside panel of artists and organizers in Chicago. Past Alba Artists-in-Residence have included Adrian Wood, Veronica Anne Salinas, and Seamus Carey.

About Friedrich Andreoni

Friedrich Andreoni is an Italian-German artist born on the verge of the last century who grew up between the Middle East and Europe. He works across media including sculpture, sound, installation, performative acts, and video, operating independently around the world. Andreoni studied with Hannes Brunner & Ulrike Mohr (Kunst­hoch­schule Berlin Weißen­see), Susan Philipsz (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden) and participated in an exchange program at Chelsea College of Art & Design in London. He then moved to the United States in 2020, to attend a Master in Fine Arts with focus on Sound at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, for which he had been awarded a fellowship from the DAAD and the Art Institute of Chicago. Andreoni has been member of the Stu­dien­stif­tung des deutsch­en Vol­kes since 2018. Andreoni’s work has been shown and presented internationally including Chicago, Berlin, London, Rome, Athens, Malmö, Zagreb and Abu Dhabi. His recent work SHIFT (2021), was presented within the partner program of the 4th Chicago Architecture Biennial: The Available City. Andreoni currently resides and works between Chicago, USA and Berlin, Germany.

Olivia Junell