Ingo Fröhlich

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Ingo Fröhlich (* 1966 in Norderney) is a German sculptor , draftsman and curator. He lives in Berlin and France .

Life

Grew up happily on the East Frisian island of Norderney . From 1981 to 1984 he trained as a carpenter on Norderney and from 1985 to 1988 as a wood sculptor at the vocational school for wood carving and joinery in Berchtesgaden .

Fröhlich studied free sculpture and drawing from 1992 to 1998 at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art and became a master class student with Inge Mahn in 2000 . In 2002 he also obtained a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies at the KHB.

In 1998 Fröhlich was awarded the Mart Stam sponsorship award and was nominated for the bauhaus award in 2000. Grants followed, e.g. B. from 2000 to 2001 the Berlin NAFÖG scholarship (mentor Nanne Meyer ) and a DAAD annual scholarship in Iceland from 2003 to 2004. This stay had a lasting impact on his work. From 2008 to 2009, the artist also received a working grant from the Berlin Senate, in 2012 a residency grant from the Goethe-Institut Helsinki / HIAP on Suomenlinna , in 2018 a residency grant from the MWFK at Wiepersdorf Castle and in 2020 a residency grant from the Göschenen Art Depot Foundation in Switzerland.

In 1999 Fröhlich founded the art and project house Torstrasse 111 (since 2014: Torstrasse 111 - Forum for Contemporary Art Berlin eV) in Berlin-Mitte, which translates collective value issues into creative processes. The project received a publication grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation in 2019.

In 2011, Fröhlich began the collaboration with the painter Ulrike Seyboth , with whom he has been realizing the exhibition series I draw the time, you paint the moment in various places around the world as atelier vagabond since 2012 .

Works

The starting point of Fröhlich's artistic work is the space, which he explores on the one hand by means of drawings and on the other, places it in an interdisciplinary art context via specific locations. His early work includes numerous illuminations in the urban space with the artist group La Piazza. As a draftsman, Fröhlich today devotes himself entirely to the subject of drawing and explores endless facets from intimate, small-format studies to large-format drawings, chalkboards and prints to wall-filling art-on-building works.

Since 1998 he has regularly participated in exhibitions, projects, lectures and art fairs at home and abroad. a. in Iceland, France, the Netherlands, Finland, Uruguay and England.

Exhibitions

  • 2019 Fondation du Pioch Pelat - ARPAC, Montpellier / Castelneau, France
  • 2018 NGORONGORO Berlin, Gallery Weekend, Berlin
  • 2015 Village des Arts et Métiers - PARC, Octon, France
  • 2014 Jena art collection
  • 2013 Goethe-Institut Helsinki , Finland
  • 2011 Georg Kolbe Museum , Berlin
  • 2011 Drawing Center Diepenheim, Netherlands
  • 2008 Frize London, with the Kling og Bang gallery, Great Britain
  • 2009 New Society for Fine Arts , Berlin
  • 2004, 2007, 2008: Galerie Kling og Bang, Reykjavík, Iceland
  • 2006 Ministerio de la Cultura, Montevideo, Uruguay

Working in public space

  • "punctual blue", wall work at Wiepersdorf Castle, Brandenburg (2018)
  • "Interval" wall drawing, design of the stairwell of the Goethe-Institut Helsinki as part of the Design Capital Helsinki 2011 - funded by the Goethe-Institut Helsinki and the German Embassy (FIN)
  • "Fassade fragile", UIA Congress "rethinking space-time-architecture", with L. Kühne, supported by Prof. Rainer W. Ernst, Berlin (2003)
  • Light installation outside, purchase of a sculpture inside the Philipp Schaeffer Library Berlin-Mitte, with L. Kühne (2002)
  • "More light", permanent light installation, Goethe-Institut Rotterdam / NL, with L. Kühne, (2001)
  • Transmediale Berlin, clear space and facade project (2000), "luxcargo", light shipping, Spree Berlin (2000)
  • "Transit pictures", "Z 2000", Academy of the Arts, Berlin (2000)
  • 2. Showcase exhibition Haus des Lehrers, Alexanderplatz, Berlin (2000)
  • "Metronom", light installation Spreebogen, silo system Lehrter Stadtbahnhof, Berlin (1999)
  • 1. Showcase exhibition Haus des Lehrers, Alexanderplatz, Berlin (1998)
  • "Studio 5 self-generating city", facade project, Fischerinsel-Berlin (1998)
  • Development of a control system for the Parkklinik Weißensee, Berlin (1998)

Collections

Fröhlich's work is represented in numerous private and public collections, including the Jena art collection , municipal museums, the Safn - Pétur Ararson Reykjavík / Berlin collection, the Ben af ​​Shúlten collection, Helsinki, the Goethe-Institut, Rotterdam, the Goethe-Institut, Helsinki , in the Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt a. M., the Parkklinik Berlin-Weißensee and the Philipp-Schaeffer-Bibliothek, Berlin.

Curatorial activity

In 1999, Fröhlich founded the Kunsthaus Torstrasse 111 with the support of artists from all over the world under the artistic motto Making Immobile Mobile. In 2014, with the support of the artist Ulrike Seyboth, he founded the association “Torstrasse 111 - Forum for Contemporary Art Berlin eV”. He is the curator of around 50 exhibitions in the exhibition rooms at Torstrasse 111 with international artists.

literature

  • Ingo Fröhlich, Daniel Björnsson - Zeppelin Archive, Text: Guðmundur Jónsson, Reykjavík / IS, 2015
  • Ulrike Seyboth, Ingo Fröhlich - I draw the time, you paint the moment / In dialogue with Jena. Text: Erik Stephan, Jena Art Collection / Municipal Museums 2014, ISBN 978-3-942176-81-1 .
  • Ulrike Seyboth, Ingo Fröhlich - I draw the time, you paint the moment, texts: Dr. Heinz Stahlhut, Berlinsche Galerie, Art Museum Lucerne, Dr. Robert Kudielka, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Lukas Verlag Berlin, 2013
  • Hotspot Berlin - A Snapshot, Georg Kolbe Museum, Texts: Dr. Eugen Blume, Contemporary Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, André Schmitz u. a., publishing company ArtKapital, 2011
  • drawing now, Drawing Center Diepenheim / NL, 2011
  • MMX 5, Berlin, 2011
  • Ingo Fröhlich - Remaining quantities, Kunstverein Tiergarten, funded by the Berlin Senate, 2010
  • "Selected Artists", catalog of the laureates of the Berlin Senate working scholarship, text: Nanne Meyer, 2008
  • facade fragile, UIA Congress - rethinking space-time-architecture, Berlin, 2003
  • Luxcargo - Lichtschifffahrt, Spree Berlin, 2000
  • Transitbilder - Z 2000, Ed. Academy of Arts, Berlin, 2000
  • Mart Stam Prize, 1998

Movie

  • Various - different. Exhibition portrait on ikono.tv
  • Platform youtoube

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita Ingo Fröhlich , on archiv.hlp-galerie.de, accessed on March 5, 2020
  2. ^ Jena Museum shows pictures of an artist friendship , Ostthüringer Zeitung December 6, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Happy, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Norderney