Frédéric Acquaviva

Frédéric Acquaviva (b.1967) is a French experimental composer and curator living in London, who was awarded the 2020 Karl Sczuka Prize for his music ANTIPODES. With Loré Lixenberg, he ran La Plaque Tournante based on his archives in Berlin from 2014 to 2017, which received the Berlin Senate Prize in 2017.
Historian of the Lettrist movement, Acquaviva has worked for the last 25 years with its main protagonists such as Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître or Roberto Altmann and organized many exhibitions such as the first international retrospective on Gil Wolman at MACBA (Barcelona, 2010), Spectars of Artaud at Reina Sofia (Madrid, 2012) and the biggest retrospective to date on Lettrism at Passage de Retz (Paris, 2012).
Acquaviva wrote the first reference monograph on Isidore Isou (Editions du Griffon, 2019 FILAF Prize), and books on Lemaître, Wolman, Altmann, Spacagna, Jessemin, Mauritz and is currently publishing his Lettrist Corpus in 3 tomes of 500 pages.