Fred Friedrich is a German painter, sculptor, and architect who has long been at the forefront of an international movement aimed at promoting pioneering art forms and protecting creative freedom and new ideas. Throughout his career, he has molded the idea of a painting style particularly appropriate to his abstract creative patterns, one which uses generous, powerful body movements to create informal abstractions. Much of his inspiration comes from his immersion in and appreciation of the surprise and chaotic nature of life, with all of its limitless potential and interest. At the heart of Friedrich’s art is a wholehearted acceptance of creativity and anything that seeks to limit this freedom.
Friedrich’s abstract expressionist paintings are as compelling as
they are complex, studies in movement and the massive web of
each image is a sense of drama and surrender to chaos even
as unseen forces seem to resist and struggle against the very
and form seem to have a mind of their own as they clash and collide across the canvas. In the end, Friedrich’s paintings present a strong commentary on our modern world, the traps inherent in an industrial age and the potentiality for destructiveness that lies within. patience, love and innocence inherent in the human soul. Faces half-hidden yet powerful are embedded within the rock, while an intrinsic component of the human spirit: unwavering, steady faith despite the chaos of one’s external context.
Throughout his career, Fred Friedrich has continued to promote freedom in artistic expression, most recently through his Friedrich Foundation, which continues to protect ideas in danger of extinction and encourage bold innovation in arts and culture.
TEILNAHME/ AUSWAHL
2016 solo exhibition castello provenza, italien
2016 solo exhibition museum ludwig, kohl
2015 solo exhibition museo diego rivera, mexico d.,f
2015mostra fundacion jumex, mexico d.,f
2015 workshop with students from Instituto Rio Verde, spain
2015 participation premio laguna italy
2015 participation the open west, london
2104 3rd. biennal photograph & documentary. museum malaga, spain
2014 solo exhibition „bass museum of art“ miami.
2013 participation, visions of change „unrisd“ „onu“ qr „urubus“
2013 „fin de ciel“ qr medianismu, kunsthaus-berlin-marbella
2012 "fin de ciel" qr medianismu. kasser rassu. marbella spain.
2012 art laguna 7th, international edition. venice italy
2012 exhibition amsterdam whitney, new york
2012 exhibition lati kala akademi, new delhi
2012 august & september contemporary nina torres fine art, miami
2012 win prize art eterne. new delhi, India
2012 participation royal academy of arts. piccadilly. london
2011- 12 representation agora gallery. new york
2011 arte laguna 6th. international edition. venice italy
2011 the open west. gloucester cathedral
2011 bienal del milenio. reino de granada.
2011 premio de pintura fundacion focus-abengoa
2011 concurso artes plasticas diputacion de alicante. spain.
2011 participacion 16th. biennal of cerveira portugal.
2010 premio „fundacion de les arts artistes“. barcelona.
2010 premio „honda la garriga“. barcelona.
2010 „11 mostra internacional gas natural fenosa“. corunya.
2010 III premio „fundacion jesus barcena“. valdepenyas.
2010 projekt „fin de ciel“, espacio contemporaneo. toledo.
2010 herbst ausstellung united kindom, amsterdam, dublin.
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN/AUSWAHL
2015 1.biennail contemporary art marbella, khbm, marbella
2013 participation „confluences ´14“ new delhi, india
2013 participation „miami art-river“ fine art nina torres, miami
2012 cuatro estaciones. sala velez-malaga. (aplama) spain
2012 miami call for artists. miami. usa
2009/2010 (si) „festival international de arte marbella“. spain.
2009 „body & soul“, gallery houses of art. spain.
2007 „descanse no mas II“, gallerie kyra maralt. berlin.
2002 orenzas foundation, new york. united state of america.
1998 (si) „provisorische utopie“, kunsthaus-berlin. berlin.
(si) (szeniche installation)
AUSWAHL/SELECTION
2015 mostra fundacion jumex, mexico d.,f
2015 solo exhibition museo diego rivera, mexico d.,f
2012 himalayas art museum, shanghai
2012 liverpool biennal
2012 "fin de ciel" solo exhibition agora gallery. new york. usa
2012 "fin de ciel" cartuja 93.sevilla. spain
2011 "fin de ciel" galeria de arte saoba.madrid.
2009 „mayart, hijos del sol“, museo cortijo miraflores. spain.
2009 „metamorphosies“, milas gallery. spain.
2007 kunsthaus berlin/ art- berlin.
2006 art-berlin/ art-base.ch.
2004 art-basel.ch
2002 art-köln.
2001 galerie kyra maralt.berlin.
2001 art-basel/art-berlin.
2000 galerie asperge knittlingen.
2000 art-berlin.
1999 partie 6/6 branderburger kunsttage/ art-köln.
1998 partie 6/7 branderburger kunsttage/ galerie asperger.
1997 kunsthaus-berlin. berlin.
1996 partie 4 branderburger kunsttage.
1995 menshikoff foundation & galerie. berlin.
1995 art joction, canes. frankreich.
1995 menshikoff/hilgemann moskau-berlin/berlin-moskau.
1994 hotel hilton, berlin-berin.
1994 avantgarden galerie. berlin.
1994 branderburger hof. berlin.
1993 porsche centrum, berlin/ kunstahaus-berlin- berlin.
1993 art galerie richter. berlin.
1993 galerie meile ch/ kusntahuas-berlin. berlin.
1992 galerie kantila shah mahne, seychellen. südafrika.
1992 art blue, nwe york. united state of amerika.
KURZBIOGRAPHIE
1984-1985 auslandaufenthalten: seychellen/bali/südafrika.
1979-1983 freischaffernder künstler.
1972-1976 architekturstudium berlin-basel.
1968 reportage vietnam
1969-1971 kunststudium werkkunstakademie. berlin.
1943 geboren aus berlin.
member "aplama" spain.
member “club internacional empresarial”
member “cit marbella”