Friedrich Kunath (born 1974) is a German visual performer who lives in Los Angeles. He was born in Chemnitz, East Germany, and has had solo exhibitions at the Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort (2016), Schinkel Pavillon (2011), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010), Kunstverein Hannover (2009), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2009), Aspen Art Museum (2008). Group exhibitions include ‘The World Belongs to You’, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2011), ’11th Triennale für Kleinplastik, Fellbach’ (2010) and ‘Life upon Mars: the 55th Carnegie International’ (2008).
One-Person Exhibitions
2018
Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2017
Frutti di Mare, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Juckreiz, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
The World Is a lovely Place (We’re Not Here for Long), Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
My Loneliness Shines, VNH Gallery, Paris, France
Gil Bronner Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015
Sentimental Air, BQ, Berlin, Germany
2014
Earth to Fuckface, White Cube, Hong Kong, China
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harber, NY
The Forest Smelled Like Bananas, Capri, Düsseldorf, Germany
If I Could Only Remember Your Name, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Grand Optimist, Eastern Star Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Temptation to Exist (May Contain Nuts), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
A scheme to Follow Summer Around the World, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2013
I’m Running out of World, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London, UK
Raymond Moody’s Blues, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2012
Lacan’s Haircut, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Your Life is Not for You, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Things We Did When We Were Dead, BQ, Berlin, Germany
2011
Lonely Are the Free, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
The Most pretty World in the World, White Cube, London, UK (cat.)
2010
Tropical Depression, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
I used to be darker, but later I got lighter and then I got dark again, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hammer Projects: Friedrich Kunath, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
2009
Hello Walls, BQ, Berlin, Germany
7 x 14, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Home wasn’t built in a day, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2008
Rising vs. Setting, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Emoh, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Twilight, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
Warum, 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 event 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 in the distance west as we suppose we are, The Bakery/Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002
Welcome Home Steve Curry, BQ, Cologne, Germany
Mise en Scene: Curieux VI – Friedrich Kunath: When was the First Time You Realized the Next Time Would be the Last Time, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2001
Bonner Kunstverein, with Thea Djordjadze Peter Mertes Stipendium, Bonn, Germany
Videos, CHAUSSE 37, Berlin, Germany
2000
One Day It Will All Make Sense, with Dirk Bell, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
1998
Why Are My Friends Such Finks, with Dirk Bell, BQ, Cologne, Germany (cat.)
Group Exhibitions
2018
This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
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
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, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Love or the Lack of It, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
My wife does the dishes, I attain the revolution, Kimmerich, Berlin, Germany
Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Oh, of course, you were berry picking, Galerie Drei, Cologne, Germany
2014
Lone Tree, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Friendly Takeover: Artists Show Their Collection, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
FIRE!, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
2013
Set Pieces, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
More Young Americans, L’Enclos des Bernardins, Hotel de Miramion, Paris, France
The Hope of Wrecks, Museum of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
À triple tour: oeuvres de la stock Pinault, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, La Conciergerie, Paris, France
Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Netherlands
2012
Death Can Dance, Townhouse, Zurich, Switzerland
Stiftung Schloss Dyck, Juechen, Germany
Funny, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Wonderful-Humboldt, Krokodil & Polke, Die Olbricht Collection, Me Collectors Room Berlin, Germany
You Should’ve Heard Just What I Seen, Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA
The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Other Voices, Other Rooms, Wentrup Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
Watercolour, Tate Britain, London, UK
Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya, Israel
Gesamtkunstwerk, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Deserteure, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria
Always, Sometimes, Often, Never, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA
MärklinWorld, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Collection Exhibition, Berezdivin Collection-Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Second Strike, 3rd Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Il mondo vi appartiene (The World Belongs to You), Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Pamphile, Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg, Germany
Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MIAC III Away From the Horde, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, FL
BS-VISITE, Braunschweig, Germany
Painting…Expanded, Berezdivin Collection – Espacio 1414, Puerto Rico
2010
The Library of Babel: In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, Projectspace 176, London, UK
11th Triennale für Kleinplastik (Triennial of Small-scale Sculpture), Fellbach, Germany
Country Music, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK
Captain Pamphile #2, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany
2009
Play, Galeria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Grin & Bear It: Cruel Humor in Art and Life, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Leisure Suite, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Gravity in Art, Telic Art Exchange, Los Angeles, CA
Life upon Mars: the 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Vertrautes Terrain: Aktuelle Kunst in/über Deutschland, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Eternal Flame, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Journeys to Nowhere: Selections from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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 (cat.)
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London
Seb Koberstädt / Friedrich Kunath: Förderpreisträger 2006, Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Stipendiaten der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung 2003-2006 Verwendungsnachweis, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2006
Bonanza, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Nothing But Pleasure, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Spooky, Het Gebouw, Utrecht, Netherlands
Esquidor en el fondo de un pozo, Fundacción/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
2005
Avalon Art Association, Revelin Castle, Dubrovnik, Croatia
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, Netherlands
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text In Modern and Contemporary Works On Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2004
No One Else Can Make Me Feel the Colors That You Bring, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Rhinegold: Art from Cologne, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Rings of Saturn, Rockwell Gallery, London, UK
Strawberry Fields, O.P.A. Guadalajara and Galeria CANAIA, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.)
2003
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Mise en scène: Curieux VI- Friedrich Kunath: When was the first time following you realized the neighboring time would be the last time, Bonner Kunstverein & Videonale, Bonn, Germany
On the Other Hand You Have Different Fingers, Galerie Gait Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Present, Hammer Sidi, London, UK
Superschloss, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2001
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995-2001, BQ, Cologne, Germany
2000
Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany
Make My Paper Sound, 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 issue to increase in a garden is tired, Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Braunschweig, Germany
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