Friedrich Kunath (1974. Chemnitz, Germany) utilizes a personal style of romantic conceptualism, layering poetic phrases with poignant, often melancholic imagery. The work embraces comedy and pathos, evoking universal feelings of love, hope, longing, and despair. The artist’s personal journey from Germany to Los Angeles plays a key role in his work, incorporating German Romanticism and western popular culture, with still life, cartoon, commercial illustration, nature photography and lyrical references.
Kunath studied at the Braunschweig University of Arts, Braunschweig, Germany.
He has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including Live Forever, Blum & Poe, Tokyo, JP;
All Year Fears Trapped Inside, JTT, New York, US; One Man’s Ceiling is Another Man’s Floor, Blum & Poe, New York, US; Where is the Madness that You Promised Me, Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, BE; Juckreiz, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE (2016); A Plan to Follow Summer Around the World, Centre d’art Contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac,...Ivry-sur-Seine, FR (2014); Raymond Moody’s Blues, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK (2013); Your Life is Not for You, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE (2012); Lonely Are the Free, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE (2011); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2010); Kunstsaele, Berlin, DE (2010); 7 x 14, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, DE (2009); and Home Wasn’t Built in a Day, Kunstverein Hannover, DE (2009).
His work is also featured in prominent public and private collections such as the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US; Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, GR; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, US; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US; Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; Pinault Collection, Paris, FR; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US, among many more.
He lives and works in Los Angeles, US.
Entrada actualizada el el 28 may de 2021
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