Friedrich Kunath
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Friedrich Kunath (born 1974 in Chemnitz, East Germany) is a visual artist who lives in Los Angeles. Kunath works in a wide range of media, integrating a highly descriptive visual language into his paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and videos. By exercising an acute understanding of life’s highs and lows, Kunath creates emotive works that tap into a collective consciousness - exploring the ways in which we live, love and remember.
He has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (2014), Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry (2014), Oxford Museum of Modern Art (2013), Schinkel Pavillon (2011), Sprengel Museum (2012), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010), Kunstverein Hannover (2009), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2009), Aspen Art Museum (2008).
2011 | Resident Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California |
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2006 | Foerderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen fuer junge Kuenstlerinnen und Kuenstler |
2005 | Arbeitsstipendium der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftlung, Frankurt am Main |
2001 | Peter Mertes Stipendium, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
1974 | Born in Chemnitz, Germany |
2018 | Where is the Madness that You Promised Me, Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
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2017 | Frutti di Mare, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
2016 | Juckreiz, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany The World Is A Beautiful Place (We’re Not Here For Long), Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Gil Bronner Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany My Loneliness Shines, VNH Gallery, Paris, France |
2015 | Sentimental Air, BQ, Berlin, Germany |
2014 | Earth to Fuckface, White Cube, Hong Kong The Temptation To Exist (May Contain Nuts), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY If I Could Only Remember Your Name, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany A Plan to Follow Summer Around the World, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France The Forest Smelled Like Bananas, Capri, Düsseldorf, Germany Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY Grand Optimist, Easter Star Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2013 | White Cube, Mason's Yard, London, UK Raymond Moody's Blues, Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; traveling to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany |
2012 | Your Life is Not for You, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Lacan's Haircut, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Things We Did When We Were Dead, BQ Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
2011 | Lonely are the Free, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany The Most Beautiful World in the World, White Cube, London, United Kingdom |
2010 | I used to be darker but then I got lighter and then I got dark again, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo Hammer Projects: Friedrich Kunath, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Tropical Depression, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY |
2009 | BQ, Berlin, Germany Kunstalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany |
2008 | Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Emoh, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
2007 | Twilight, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Kunst aus NRW in der ehemaligen Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimunster BQ, Cologne, Germany |
2006 | I have always been here before, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
2005 | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY |
2004 | We were the one thing in the galaxy God didn't have his eyes on, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Our endless numbered days, BQ, Cologne, Germany |
2003 | We are not as far west as we suppose we are, The Bakery/ Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Statements, Art I34I Basel, Basel, Switzerland (under the auspice of BQ gallery) |
2002 | Welcome Home Steve Curry, BQ, Cologne, Germany |
2001 | Bonner Kunstverein, Peter Mertes Stipendium (with Thea Djordjadze), Bonn, Germany Friedrich Kunath, Videos, CHAUSSE 37, Berlin, Germany |
2000 | One day it will all make sense, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland (weekend-show with Dirk Bell) |
1998 | Why are my friends such finks, BQ, Cologne, Germany (with Dirk Bell) |
2018 | This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL Cliché, organized with Bill Powers, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY LA Friends, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY |
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2017 | Horror Vacui, or The Annihilation of Space, curated by Shane Campbell, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan Form and Volume, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden |
2016 | Mount Analogue, Performance Ski, Aspen, CO Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan Tomorrow is a long time, Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Group show, M+B, Los Angeles, CA Juxtapoz x Superflat, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Self-Fiction: David Altmejd & Friedrich Kunath, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands Giles, Gagosian Gallery, Athens Human Condition, curated by John Wolf, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA |
2015 | Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan If You Leave Me Can I Come Too?, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, City University of New York, New York The Avant-Garde Won't Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Love or the Lack of It, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain My wife does the dishes, I do the revolution, Kimmerich, Berlin, Germany Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
2014 | Friendly Takeover: Artists Show Their Collection, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany FIRE!, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY Lone Tree, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY |
2013 | À triple tour: oeuvres de la collection Pinault, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, La Conciergerie, Paris, France The Hope of Wrecks, Museum of St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Netherlands More Young Americans, L’Enclos des Bernardins, Hôtel de Miramion, Paris Set Pieces, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy |
2012 | Wonderful – Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Die Olbricht Collection, Me Collectors Room Berlin Funny, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Stiftung Schloss Dyck, Juechen, Germany Other Voices, Other Rooms, Wentrup Avlskarl Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark Schach Matt (Checkmate), Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany Orchestra Change, Stiftung Schloss Dyck, Juechen, Germany Death Can Dance, Townhouse, Zurich, Switzerland You Should’ve Heard Just What I Seen, Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA |
2011 | Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya, Israel Gesamtkunstwerk, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom Collection Exhibition, Berezdivin Collection, San Juan, Puerto Rico The Second Strike, 3rd Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel Marklin World, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands Deserteure, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Il Mondo Vi Appartiene – The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice dwellings, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Pamphile, Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg, Germany Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
2010 | Captain Pamphile- nach einem Roman von Alexandre DumasStädtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany Saw It, Loved ItMuseum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, United Kingdom Country Music, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA Larger than Life - Stranger than Fiction,Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Also on View, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, Projectspace 176, London, United Kingdom |
2009 | 15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA Play, Galeria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy Grin & Bear It: Cruel humor in art and life, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland |
2008 -2009 |
The Eternal Flame, Kunsthaus Baselland, (curated by Burkhard Meltzer and Sabine Schaschl) Life on Mars: the 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
2008 | Journeys to Nowhere: Selections from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN The Eternal Flame, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel Vertrautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in/über Deutscheland, ZKM Museum for Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe Gravity in Art , Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, California (curated by Rene Daalder in association with Theo Tegelaers) Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, (co-curated by Claudia Calirman and Susan Hoeltzel) The Leisure Suite, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY |
2007 | Blind Date, Magazzino d’arte moderna, Rome, Italy Dream and Trauma-Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria, curated by Edelbert Köb, Gerald Matt and Angela Stief) [cat.] Learn to read, Tate Modern, London Seb Koberstädt / Friedrich Kunath: Förderpreisträger 2006, Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany Verwendungsnachweis, Stipendiaten der Jurgen Ponto-Stiftung 2003-2006, MMK Frankfurt am Main |
2006 | Bonanza, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Karola Grasslin) Nothing but pleasure, BAWAG Foundation, Wein Spooky, Het Gebouw, Utrecht Esquidor en el fondo de un pozo, Fundaccion/ Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City |
2005 | Avalon Art Association, Revelin Castle, Dubrovnik, Kroatia Exile. New York is a good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York, NY Fabriques du Sublime, La Galerie, Centre d'art contemporain, Ville de Noisy-le-Sec, France The Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam Words: The Formal Presence of Text In Modern and Contemporary Works On Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY |
2004 | Rings of Saturn, Rockwell, London, United Kingdom No one else can make me feel the colors that you bring, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Strawberry Fields, La Coleccion Jumex and CANAIA, Mexico City, Mexico (curated by Patricia Martin) (cat.) |
2003 | Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
2002 | Superschloss, Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany On the other hand you have different fingers, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany Friedrich Kunath: When which the roofridge time when you realized the NEXT time would the read time, mise EN scène: Curieux VI-VIII, Bonner Kunstverein & Videonale, Bonn, Germany |
2001 | Zero Gravity, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dsseldorf, Germany 1995-2001, BQ, Cologne, Germany |
2000 | Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany Make my paper sound, Studiogalerie Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany |
1998 | Junge Kunst im Zweiten, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Dirty Windows, Berlin, Germany |
1995 | VOXXX-Galerie, Chemnitz, Germany Green Room, San Diego, CA |
1994 | The easiest thing to grow in a garden is tired, Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Braunschweig, Germany |