Frederik Foert

Frederik Foert (born November 7, 1971 in Munich ) is a German sculptor and object artist.

life and work

Frederik Foert grew up in Bamberg in Franconia. From 1994 to 1996 he studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design , Halle / Saale with Una H. Moehrke and in 1996 he moved to the Art Academy in Münster in the class of Timm Ulrichs . In 2000 he finished his studies as a master student of Timm Ulrichs with a diploma in fine art. Foert has lived and worked in Berlin, Vienna and Beijing since 2012. Frederik Foert has been a guest lecturer at the Babelsberg Film University Konrad Wolf HFF and at the College for Art and Design of the Beijing University of Technology since 2016.

In his work, Frederik Foert deals with movement studies of all kinds, he builds experimental arrangements from everyday objects. He uses travel souvenirs and appliances from his own household as starting material, from hammer drills to stereo systems to kitchen appliances and the like. other mundane technical devices. Kinetic constructions are created from objects of everyday life. These narrative movement studies focus on the apparently absent people behind the equipment. Everyone knows the objects and associates different aspects of their own space of experience.

In all of his work, Foert is interested in the simplicity of construction. He only uses screw and plug connections, there is no gluing or welding, his installations are kits, every object can be returned to its familiar environment at any time. Each installation is adapted to the specific conditions of the respective exhibition space and staged in it.

In addition to kinetic installations, drawings and collages , he also shoots videos.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2018 High Rise / Low Fidelity, Studio im Hochhaus (with Konstantin Bayer), Berlin
• 2018 Mutation at the Bounty, pavilion in the Milchhof (with Ole Aselmann), Berlin
• 2017 Wings have short legs (with Benedikt Braun), Galerie Eigenheim, Berlin, Germany
• 2017 Bernsteinzimmer 2.0 (with Henrik Jacob), Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin, Germany
• 2016 The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Anninga Hof, Kunstwegen, Zwolle, Netherlands
• 2016 sunrise - red eyes, Kulturpalast Wedding, Berlin, Germany
• 2015 slow dancing in a burning room, Museum Angerlehner, Wels, Austria
• 2015 in the end the truth doesn't matter, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
• 2014 Miami Vice (with Robert Barta ), Stadtgalerie Kiel
• 2013 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever !, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
• 2013 Schwarzbrenner (with Gerhard Himmer), WAF Wiener Art Foundation , Vienna Austria
• 2012 The Sun's not yellow, it's Chicken, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Beijing, China
• 2011 Skill is not witchcraft, WENTRUP Gallery, Berlin
• 2011 Buschpiloten, Gallery Susanne Burmester, Bergen on Rügen
• 2010 Double Indemnity (with Henrike Daum), twenty square meters, Berlin
• 2009 Bad Men do what Good Men dream, second home project, Berlin
• 2009 Boomerang at my.visit, Preview Berlin, The Emerging Art Fair
• 2008 The Devil Got Him First, Neues Problem, Berlin
• 2007 Happiness is a warm Gum (with Reinhold Gottwald), Kulturpalast Wedding International, Berlin,
• 2006 Moving objects and their fear of attachment, Städtische Galerie im Kornhaus, Kirchheim / Teck
• 2006 Viva Las Vegas, Galerie Jarmuschek & Partner, Berlin,
• 2005 Construction / Deconstruction (with Max Grüter ), Kunstallianz, Berlin
• 2005 ... still warm and sand on it, Galerie Abel - Neue Kunst, Berlin
• 2005 $ 40,000, Kunsthalle 8, Kunstbüro Wien, Vienna
• 2004 The devil is a squirrel, Galerie am Stephansberg, Bamberg

literature

• Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Annett Reckert (Ed.); with texts by Annett Reckert, Sven Beckstette, Matthias Schamp and Olivia Seiling: On A Clear Day You Can See Forever , 2013. ISBN 978-3-944683-02-7 .
• Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, WOANDERS - Pictures from traveling, Thomas Niemeyer (Hrsg.); with a text by Thomas Niemeyer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-945950-04-3

Web links

• Frederik Foert's website , accessed on March 13, 2014
• kunstaspekte.de , accessed on March 13, 2014