Friedrich Kunath

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Kunath's object in the Life on Mars exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Friedrich Kunath (* 1974 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German painter and object artist .

Career

He studied with Walter Dahn at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . Friedrich Kunath lives and works in Pasadena near Los Angeles, until 2007 in Germany, most recently in Cologne .

His work includes sculptures , painting , video and graphics , and he often provides his work with texts.

"What difference it makes when it makes no difference anymore" from 2013

Reviews

“[...] his works are bitter, cheerful and sad at the same time. He's not making harmless jokes, but rather warm-hearted cold metaphors which, like art, are always a matter of perspective. "

“[...] Kunath's carnival-like installations arouse universal feelings such as love and loss, hope and despair with heartfelt sincerity. Tragicomic dramas are staged by actors, images and texts from a kaleidoscopic variety of sources. Abstract color glazes permeate canvases, song texts are quoted as slogans and animated film grimaces frolic in painted landscapes and gallery rooms. Once immersed in this dizzying flood of symbols, the viewer is left in lively uncertainty about fixed meanings - even the location of Kunath's own voice remains open in the multitude of narrative strands he has woven together. "

Awards

Exhibitions and participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016: Friedrich Kunath // Itching // , Philara Collection , Düsseldorf
  • 2014: "some power, that hardly looked like power, said I'm only perfect in an empty room", ADN Guardhouse, Culver City, CA
  • 2014: "Earth to Fuckface", White Cube Hong Kong
  • 2014: "New Image Painting", Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (group exhibition)
  • 2014: "Fire", Venus over Manhattan, New York (group exhibition)
  • 2014: "Where is here? # 1: Painting and the present", Kunstverein Reutlingen (group exhibition)
  • 2014: "If I could only remember your name", Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2014: abc art berlin, individual presentation at Galerie BQ
  • 2014: "The Forest Smelled Like Bananas", Capri, Düsseldorf (solo exhibition)
  • 2014: Friendly takeover, artists show their collection , Martha Herford, Gehry Galleries, Herford.
  • 2014: The Temptation To Exist (May Contain Nuts) , Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2014: A Plan to Follow Summer Around the World , Center d'art contemporain d'Ivry - le Crédac, Ivry-Sur-Seine. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2013: I'm Running Out Of World , White Cube, Mason's Yard, London. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2013: Raymond Moody's Blues , Modern Art Oxford, Oxford. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2013: À triple tour: oeuvres de la collection Pinault , Center des Monuments Nationaux, La Conciergerie, Paris.
  • 2013: Set Pieces , Cardi Black Box, Milan.
  • 2012: Your Life is Not for You , Sprengel Museum, Hanover. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2012: Lacan's Haircut , Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2012: Things We Did When We Were Dead , BQ, Berlin. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2012: The Residue of Memory , Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.
  • 2011: Lonely are the Free , Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2011: The Most Beautiful World in the World , White Cube, London. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2011: Gesamtkunstwerk , Saatchi Gallery, London.
  • 2011: Il Mondo Vi Appartiene - The World Belongs to You , Palazzo Grassi, Venice.
  • 2011: Captain Pamphile , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
  • 2011: Watercoler , Tate Britain, London.
  • 2010: Tropical Depression , Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2010: I used to be darker, but then I got lighter and then I got dark again , Kaikai Kiki Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2010: Hammer Projects Friedrich Kunath , Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2010: Kunstsaele, Berlin. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2009: Friedrich Kunath - Home wasn't built in a day , Kunstverein Hannover . (Solo exhibition)
  • 2009: Hello Walls , BQ, Berlin. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2009: 7 × 14 , 5th part of the 7 × 14 exhibition series , Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2008: EMOH , Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2008: Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International , Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh.
  • 2008: Informed by Function , Lehman College Art Gallery, New York .
  • 2008: Familiar Terrain, Current Art in / about Germany , ZKM Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe.
  • 2008: Friedrich Kunath: Rising vs. Setting , Aspen Art Museum, Aspen . (Solo exhibition)
  • 2007: Twilight , Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2007: Why , BQ, Cologne. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2007: Art from NRW in the former imperial abbey Aachen-Kornelimünster. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2007: Proof of use , Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2007: Learn to Read , Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London.
  • 2007: Seb Koberstädt / Friedrich Kunath: Award winner 2006 , art from North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf .
  • 2006: have always been here before , Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA.
  • 2006: Nothing but Pleasure , BAWAG Foundation, Vienna.
  • 2006: Spooky , Het Gebouw, Utrecht .
  • 2005: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2005: The Gravity in Art , De Appel , Amsterdam. Also shown in 2008 Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles.
  • 2005: Fabriques du sublime , Center d'art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec
  • 2004: We were the one thing in the galaxy God didn't have his eyes On , Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
  • 2004: Our endless numbered days , BQ, Cologne. (Solo exhibition)
  • 2004: Rhinegold: Art from Cologne , Tate Gallery , Liverpool.
  • 2002: mise en scène: Curieux VI - Friedrich Kunath , Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn.
  • 2002: Superschloss , Städtische Galerie , Wolfsburg.
  • 2001: Peter Mertes grant , with Thea Djodjadze, Bonner Kunstverein . (Solo exhibition)
  • 2001: Zero Gravity , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf.
  • 2000: Make my paper sound , Studiogalerie Kunstverein Braunschweig .
  • 2000: One day it will all make sense , The Modern Institute, Glasgow . (Solo exhibition)

literature

  • Friedrich Kunath: In My Room Text by Paul Hobson, Michael Bracewell, Ory Dessau, Claire Le Restif, Paul Luckraft - on the occasion of the exhibition Friedrich Kunath: Raymond Moody's Blues at Modern Art Oxford, publisher: Walther König, Cologne, 2014.
  • Friedrich Kunath: You Owe Me a Feeling , text by David Berman; Photographs by Michael Schmelling - on the occasion of the exhibition Friedrich Kunath: Lacan's Haircut at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, publisher: Plum & Poe, 2013.
  • Andrew Beradini: Reviews USA: Friedrich Kunath , in: Art Review 01/2009, p. 112.
  • Noemi Smolik: Friedrich Kunath , in: Artforum 09/2007, p. 482.
  • Richard Rhodes: Mars Explorer: Life I Space at 55th Carnegie International , Canadian Art Magazine Fall 2008.
  • Top Ten - Friedrich Kunath , in: Artforum 05/2006, p. 100.
  • Christopher Knight : Looking for paths of change, release , in: Los Angeles Times , March 24, 2006, pp. E14 & E15.
  • Christopher Knight: Kunath does odd work, but well , in: Los Angeles Times, April 16, 2004, p. E32.
  • Dan Fox: A Song in my Heart , in: Frieze, Edition 79, 11–12 / 2003, pp. 60–63.
  • Catrin Backhaus: Friedrich Kunath in the gallery BQ , in: Art Bulletin 06/2002, p. 55.
  • Astrid Weg: Friedrich Kunath , in: Artforum 10/2002, pp. 163–164.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tate Gallery of Modern Art : Friedrich Kunath ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Artist information on the exhibition Learn to Read ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tate.org.uk @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tate.org.uk
  2. Gregor Jansen, Head of the ZKM : Gregor Jansen on Friedrich Kunath ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in art - Das Kunstmagazin , Radar 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  3. ^ Paul Hobson, Director Modern Art Oxford, in: Friedrich Kunath: In My Room
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  5. ^ Friedrich Kunath - Home wasn't built in a day , Kunstverein Hannover.
  6. Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International - Featured Artists , Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
  7. ^ Informed by Function , Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, February 6 to May 5, 2008.
  8. ^ Friedrich Kunath: Rising vs. Setting ( memento of the original from December 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aspenartmuseum.org archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Aspen Art Museum, May 22 to August 3, 2008.
  9. Learn to Read ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tate.org.uk
  10. ^ The Gravity in Art , De Appel, Amsterdam, from December 2, 2005 to January 22, 2006.


Commons : Friedrich Kunath  - Collection of images, videos and audio files