Fritz Balthaus

Marked space - unmarked space in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Fritz Balthaus (* 1952 in Oberhausen ) is a German visual artist .

Life

Balthaus completed an apprenticeship as a printer and then studied art at the Berlin University of the Arts . He completed his studies in 1983 as a master class student with Helmut Lortz . He then studied for a year at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles with John Baldessari and Michael Asher. He writes articles about media and art in the Skyscraper Art Journal , Artscribe London, Kunstforum International Cologne, Kunstbulletin Zürich, etc. a. Since then, Balthaus has been working as a visual artist in Berlin and Adligenswil (Switzerland). In addition, he has been teaching as a lecturer and mentor in the Master Art in Public Spheres at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences since 2008 and in the Master in Spatial Strategies at the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art in 2009/10. In 2009 he took on a visiting professorship at the UDK, Berlin University of the Arts, and in 2015 a visiting professorship for sculpture and installation at the HFK Hochschule für Künste Bremen .

Scholarships

• 1984: Annual scholarship, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles with John Baldessari and Michael Asher
• 1991: Studio grant, Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
• 1992: Senate scholarship, Berlin
• 1993: Scholarship, Akademie Schloss Solitude , Stuttgart
• 1995: Project grant , Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
• 1996: Scholarship, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 1997: Balmoral scholarship, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems

Works (selection)

Balthaus's work focuses on “precise experimental arrangements and ironic interventions in the art world and exhibition operations”. He creates objects such as Die Blume in 2009 for the Federal Garden Show in Schwerin , as well as architectural works such as marked space - unmarked space . This concerns the artistic-architectural design of the outside area of ​​the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 2010 the bronze sculpture Pure Moore was erected on the BKA site at Am Treptower Park in Berlin-Treptow as art in architecture. In 2013 the light object use was set up at the Museum Heidenheim. In 2015, four objects followed as Petri-level in the park of the Petriviertel in Rostock . Kunst / Nest , a sculpture on the Berlin-Buch campus, was completed in 2017. In the new building of the OSZ Chemistry, Physics, Biology / Lise-Meitner-Schule Berlin, five site-specific installations were realized with Bricolage in 2018 .

Exhibitions (selection)

• Brett, Kunstverein Bochum and Adhoc Raum, Bochum 2017 (E)
• EXACT, GENOA, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen 2017 (E)
• Fritz, I like the way you grasp the situation by its balls, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2015 (E)
• Parisienne verte, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Paris 2012 (E)
• 1 Colli, Berlinische Galerie, State Museum for Art, Architecture & Photography, Berlin 2006 (E)
• QUOBO, Art in Berlin 1989–1999, Berlin, National Gallery Hamburger Bahnhof, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Jakarta, Seoul, Hanoi, Mexico City, Tallinn, Novosibirsk, Santiago, Sofia, Belgrade, Vilnius, Lima, 2000–2008 (G)
• Rocket Gallery, London 2001 (E)
• Stall # [0], Liechtenstein State Art Collection, Vaduz, curator: F. Malsch, Vaduz 1998 (E)
• Mies-van-der-Rohe-Haus, Berlin, curator: Wita Noack, Berlin 1996 (E)
• Drei Fenster, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, curator: Thomas Wulffen (E)
• Club Berlin, La Biennale di Venezia 1995, Teatro Malibran, curators: Klaus Biesenbach, Mercedes Bunz, Venice 1995 (G)
• NBK, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, curator: Lucie Schauer, Berlin 1994 (E)
• Livres d'artistes bibliothèque nationale, Center George Pompidou, Paris 1984 (G)
• M'a alarmé, cat., Exhibition, lecture and installation, Goethe-Institut Toulouse, Toulouse 1984 (E)
• California Institute of the Arts, Main Hall, Los Angeles 1984 (E)

Working in public collections

• Dornach monastery garden, Dornach
• Sitterwerk Art Library, St. Gallen
• IFA Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart
• Kupferstichkabinett, National Museums in Berlin
• MAM Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
• Getty Foundation, Jean Brown Collection, Los Angeles
• Liechtenstein Art Museum, Vaduz
• Artothek, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
• New Museum Weserburg, Bremen
• Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation, Bremen
• Constructive house, Zurich
• Center Georges Pompidou, Collection Semaphore, Paris
• Bibliothèque nationale de France François-Mitterrand, objets de livres, Paris
• Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany
• German Bundestag Collection, Berlin
• Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of Balthaus scholarships  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 2, 2011.  
2. ↑ Guido Fassbender about Fritz Balthaus at www.balthaus.org . Retrieved March 2, 2011.
3. ↑ Article about the sculpture on the BUGA 2009 website ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 2, 2011.  
4. ↑ Information on Pure Moore on Städtebauforderung.de.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 7, 2011.  

Web links

• Artist's website . Retrieved March 2, 2011.
• Works by Fritz Balthaus on Kunstforum.de . Retrieved March 2, 2011.