Adib Fricke

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Adib Fricke (* 1962 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German artist who works with words and text. Fricke studied visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts (1981–1986) and Japanese Studies at the Free University of Berlin (1985–1987). He lives and works in Berlin.

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Since the late 1980s, Adib Fricke has been grappling with the meaning, use and perception of words and text.

At the center of his first group of works the antonym of synonym is antonym from 1988 to 1994 are experimental text and video works that make use of both traditional print media and new technologies. Already in his early works - Die Reise - Ein Gedicht in 42 Stanzen (reading by computer-generated voice, 1988) and Das Raumschiff - A film with words (Video, 1989) - Fricke manipulated the traditional standards of use and perception of text in context. The book project AdibProp , in which he published 30 artist billboards in different contexts in 1988, led in 1992 to a poster exhibition in around 400 museums and cultural institutions around the world, organized in collaboration with Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin. From the beginning of the 1990s, the self-programmed random number generators The smile of Leonardo da Vinci (1990 f.), Which generated around 30 million sentences on the visual arts, and The Night Watch by Rembrandt (1992 f.), The approx Produced 100 million captions for clipper photography.

Between 1994 and 2004, Fricke and his company “The Word Company”, founded in 1994, devoted himself to the production and sale of meaningless word creations, the so-called protonyms. Accompanying his word creations, he formulated terms and conditions for their acquisition and use, thereby questioning the use of words and their function as a medium of communication. Individuals or groups of protonyms have been presented internationally in numerous exhibitions and projects - in the form of installations, wall paintings, or projects in public spaces, such as B. Words to Go II, in which regularly usable underground tickets in the Nuremberg Transport Association were each printed with one of three protonyms. The relationship between the creative process, the creation of meaning and use is finally distorted when protonyms become both part and title of an exhibition and thus a brand on every level: ONTOM for the opening exhibition of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (1998), QUOBO for the traveling exhibition Art in Berlin 1989–1999 by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), or QUIVID , which has been used since 2002 to designate art in building activities by the building department of the city of Munich.

From 2003/2004 onwards, Fricke was increasingly concerned with the physical presence of text and words and with the fragmentation of sentence structures based on digital text collections. This work with text corpora was carried out programmatically under the title Public Words . Through text installations in books, on banners, in the form of wall painting or light boxes, works were presented that gave rise to “word spaces”. The physical representation of the newly combined text fragments offers an area open to the viewer; the meaning of the word works can be freely opened up by each individual. These include a. the installation Jam from Mexico with search engine queries at the Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene at the Charité in Berlin (2003), the ten light boxes Above Us the Sky for the Lufthansa Seeheim conference hotel (2009) or the 8 text blocks on the theory of thoughts in the new building of the University of Lucerne and the Central Switzerland University of Education (2009/2011).

As part of his Your Brain is Your Brain project, realized in 2013 , Fricke founded the Meaning Laboratory, a platform that deals with questions about the origin of meaning in an interdisciplinary manner. The art project Your Brain is Your Brain is being developed in collaboration with neuroscientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig and the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité , Berlin. Ten different headlines are presented on a total of 110 large-format posters in three districts of Berlin - short statements on the neuroplastic functioning of the brain, whose spectacular physical presence in public space prompts the viewer reflexively to think about their own perception of meaning and text and to think about their own thinking leaves.

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 2013 - Your Brain is Your Brain. Ten headlines about the human brain on 110 billboards in the districts of Mitte, Kreuzberg and Schöneberg in Berlin
  • 2009 - Once I say I, I am talking to you. Text installation / light boxes with photos, Realace Gallery, Berlin
  • 2006 - Can't simulate freedom , in Hannah Arendt Denkraum , former Jewish girls' school, Berlin (and as an artist contribution to the daily newspaper from October 14, 2006)
  • 2006 - my private corpus. Text installation, Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin and as an excerpt in Kickoff Berlin - Art Makes World , Haus am Waldsee , Berlin
  • 2004 - You Can Dump Me. Text installation in “Poetic Positions”, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
  • 2003 - jam from Mexico. Installation with search engine queries, Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene, Charité Berlin
  • 2001 - SWOKS in Public White Cube , an exhibition project in which the right to change the exhibition was auctioned several times on eBay , Berlin
  • 2000 - QUOBO . A protonym as the title for an exhibition on art in Berlin from 1989 to 1999, ifa - Institute for Foreign Relations , Stuttgart / Berlin
  • 2000 - Words to Go II. Regularly usable subway tickets in the Nuremberg Transport Association, each printed with one of three protonyms, in log.in , Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg
  • 1999 - Every word has its day / Every word has its day. In talk. Show - The art of communication in the 90s , Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal and Haus der Kunst , Munich
  • 1999 - word work. 12 posters with 6 protonyms / lecture program, Galerie Barbara Weiß, Berlin
  • 1999 - Words to Watch. Installation with 6 protonyms, Busch-Reisinger Museum , Cambridge / Mass.
  • 1998 - ONTOM. A protonym as the title for the opening exhibition of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst , Leipzig
  • 1997 - Bloody Idioms. Installation / mural, Galerie Barbara Weiß, Berlin
  • 1996/1997 - Ready to Mean. 12 flyers with 6 protonyms in connection with exhibition, Galleri Wang, Oslo
  • 1996 - The new word - magazine for new words. 6 issues of a magazine for new words, which only consisted of the front page, a new issue of which was sold to kiosks every week, in Surfing Systems, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
  • 1995 - No. 3/95. 4 protonyms canceled in issue no. 3/95 of the magazine neue bildende kunst , each quarter of the edition had a different word, Berlin
  • 1994 - The Word Company. First exhibition with protonyms, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin

Works in public collections

Publications (selection)

  • 2008 - A Gorilla in a Mirror. Book with 36 word tables and a text by Knut Ebeling, argobooks, Berlin
  • 1996 - The Word Company , Volume 2. With a text by Bojana Pejic, Fricke & Schmid, Berlin
  • 1995 - The Word Company , Volume 1. With a text by J. Schmid, Fricke & Schmid, Berlin
  • 1991 - The Face in Cold Storage / The Face in Cold Storage. Index card book with text images, Fricke & Schmid, Berlin
  • 1988 - The voice of Berliners. 40 found poems , Fricke & Schmid, Berlin
  • 1988 - AdibProp. 30 advertising boards in-house , Edition Fricke & Schmid, Berlin
  • 1988 - The journey. A poem in 42 stanzas , reading by computer-generated voice, cassette edition, Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Adib Fricke, "Words views. Notes on my work with words and text", blog entry, March 31, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Harald Fricke and Adib Fricke, interview in QUOBO , exhibition catalog, eds. Ingrid Buschmann and Gabriele Knapstein , ifa Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart / Berlin, 2000
  3. ↑ Thomas Wulffen, "Adib Fricke: The smile of Leonardo da Vinci" in "Operating System Art" Kunstforum International , Vol. 125, Cologne, 1994
  4. ^ Bernhard Landwehr, "Der Worterfinder", Die Zeit , August 30, 1996 Website der Zeit . Retrieved December 1, 2013
  5. ^ Exhibition ONTOM , Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, curated by Jan Winkelmann ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig. Retrieved December 1, 2013
  6. ↑ QUOBO website from QUOBO . Retrieved December 1, 2013
  7. ^ QUIVID - on behalf of the public. The city of Munich's art-in-building program Website by QUIVID. Retrieved December 1, 2013
  8. ↑ Knut Ebeling, "King of Korpus" in Adib Fricke, A Gorilla in a Mirror , Berlin, 2008
  9. ^ "The artist's art", Der Tagesspiegel , January 12, 2013 Website of the Tagesspiegel . Retrieved December 1, 2013
  10. ↑ Rebecca Freiwald, "Memo" in public space: Your Brain is Your Brain - Exhibition Project by Adib Fricke ", art in berlin , June 5, 2013 website of art in berlin . Accessed December 1, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Adib
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main