FRIEDRICH KUNATH

Born                                    
Chemnitz, Germany, 1974

Education                 
University of Arts, Braunschweig, Germany, 1992-1998 (studied with Professor Walter Dahn)

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
                                                                  

One-Person Exhibitions

2013                 
Oxford Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; traveling to Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2012
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                 
Friedrich Kunath, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
The Most Beautiful World in the World, White Cube, London, UK (cat.)

2010                 
Tropical Depression, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
I used to be darker, but then I got lighter and then I got dark again, Kaikai Kiki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Friedrich Kunath, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

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 

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) (cat.)

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2013
Set Pieces, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy

2012
Funny, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Other Voices, Other Rooms, Wentrup Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
Schach Matt, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany
The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Death Can Dance, Townhouse, Zurich, Switzerland
Stiftung Schloss Dyck, Juechen, Germany

2011                 
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
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
Dwelling, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
Pamphile, Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg, Germany
Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2010                              
11th Triennale für Kleinplastik (Triennial of Small-scale Sculpture), Fellbach, Germany
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom
Kurt, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

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 Eternal Flame, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Life on Mars: the 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Gravity in Art , Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, California
Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
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 (cat.)
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London
Seb Koberstädt / Friedrich Kunath: Förderpreisträger 2006, Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Verwendungsnachweis, Stipendiaten der Jurgen Ponto-Stiftung 2003-2006, MMK Frankfurt am Main, 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, Dublin, Ireland
Rhinegold: Art from Cologne, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Rings of Saturn, Rockwell Gallery, London, England
Strawberry Fields, O.P.A. Guadalajara and Galeria CANAIA, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.)

2003                                   
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2002                 
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
On the Other Hand You Have Different Fingers, Galerie Gait Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Present, Hammer Sidi, London, England
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, 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

 Bibliography (selection)

2013
Stein, Lorin. "What We're Loving: Fires, Isolation, Whispering Gallery." Paris Review, February 1, 2013.
Tylevich, Katya. "Friedrich Kunath: This Is Where the West Ends." Elephant, no. 13 (Winter 2012-2013): 132-43. 

2012
Bowles, Hamish. “Testino Royale.” Vogue 202, no. 3 (March 2012): 518-531.
Finkel, Jori. "Friedrich Kunath's Fever Dream at Blum & Poe." Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2012. 
Herbert, Martin. “Now See This.” ArtReview, no. 59 (May 2012): 30-31. 
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman, and James Frey. Funny. New York: Flag Art Foundation, 2012. 
Johnson, Vincent. "The Art of LA Based German Born Artist Friedrich Kunath." Fireplace Chats (blog), October 28, 2012, http://fireplacechats.wordpress.com.
Kunath, Friedrich. Things We Did When We Were Dead. Berlin: BQ, 2012.
Losk, Alice. “Flag Does Funny.” Artsicle.com (blog), September 26, 2012.
Poyourow, Jill. "Artist in Focus: Friedrich Kunath." Fireplace Chats (blog), February 14, 2012, http://fireplacechats.wordpress.com.
The Residue of Memory. Aspen, Colorado: Aspen Art Museum, 2012.
"'Rheingold' Offers Contemporary Art." Kölnische Rundschau, April 19, 2012.
Steffen, Patrick. “Friedrich Kunath.” Flash Art 45, no. 287 (November-December 2012): 111.

2011                       
Bourgeois, Caroline. “The World Belongs to You.” L’uomo Vogue, no. 421 (May-June 2011): 168, 170, 177.
Hopkins, Echo. “Friedrich Kunath at White Cube, London.” Artwrit, no. 1 (May 2011).

2010                                   
Ackermann, Tim. “Die Bionadewerdung der Kunst,” TAZ, January 7, 2010.
Stoeber, Michael. “Friedrich Kunath.” Artist Kunstmagazin (February-April 2010).
Stoeber, Michael. “Gescheiterte Melancholie.” Kunstforum (March-April 2010).                                 

2009                 
Beradini, Andrew. “Friedrich Kunath: EMOH.” Art Review, (January 2009): 112.
“Friedrich Kunath: Home Wasn’t Built in a Day,” KUNST Magazin (Berlin), December 2009.
“Gescheiterte Hoffnung,” Schädelspalter, December 2009.
Di Blasi, Johanna. “Der Duft von Denim,” Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, November 27, 2009.
Ddp. Kunstverein Hannover zeigt Werke von Friedrich Kunath, ddp, November 25, 2009.
Dpa. Sehnsucht und Melancholie im Kunstverein, DPA, November 14, 2009
“Ausstellungen im November: Highlights,” Kultur Spiegel, November 2009.
“Friedrich Kunath: Home Wasn’t Built in a Day,” Stadtkind Hannover, November 2009.
Moldenhauer, Anna. “Friedrich Kunath: Home Wasn’t Built in a Day im Kunstverein Hannover,” Kunstportal.de, December 21, 2009.
Probst, Carsten. “Scheiternde Pop-Träume,” kultiversum.de Die kulturplattform, November 29, 2009.
Probst, Carsten. “Schöne bunte Bilderwelt,” Deutschlandfunk, December 5, 2009.
Wallentin, Susanne. “Am Anfang das Ende: Kunstverein zeigt Kunath,” Neue Presse, November 27, 2009.
Weber, Simona. “Friedrich Kunath im Kunstverein,” h-eins-tv-0511/tv.lokal, November 27, 2009.
Zimmer, Klaus. T-Shirt-Aufschrift: “Das ist nicht das Leben, das ich bestellt habe,” Deister – und Weserzeitung, December 29, 2009.

2008                                    
Cashdan, Marina. “Cruz Control.” Whitewall (Winter 2008): 105.
Falconer, Morgan. “Friedrich Kunath.” Frieze, Issue 112 (January/February 2008).
Fogle, Douglas. Life on mars: 55th Carnegie International. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2008 [cat.]
Heiser, Jorg. “55th Carnegie International.” Frieze (September 2008): 187-188.
 Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman. “History with a Twist.” Aspen Magazine (Summer 2008): 68.
“The Listings.” The Aspen Times Weekly, July 13, 2008.
Rhodes, Richard. “Mars Explorer: Life I Space at 55th Carnegie International.” Canadian Art Magazine (Fall 2008).
Stunda, Hilary. “Friedrich Kunath: The Aspen Art Museum.” ArtInfo (September 2008).
Williamson, Damien. “AAM Exhibit Expolore the Duality of Art.” The Aspen Daily News (September 2008).

2007                  
Blancsubé, Michel. Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex presents: Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo September 4. February 2007: 124. [cat.]
Grayson, Kathy, ed. Panic Room: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Works on Paper Collection. July 2007: 70, index. [cat.]
Kunath, Friedrich. Friedrich Kunath. Cologne: BQ, 2007.
Smolik, Noemi. “Friedrich Kunath,” Artforum (September 2007): 482.

2006                 
Knight, Christopher.  “Looking for paths of change, release,”  Los Angeles Times (March 24, 2006): E14 & E15.
Kunath, Friedrich. “Top Ten.” Artforum (May 2006): 100.
Wood, Eve. “Friedrich Kunath.” Flash Art (May/June 2006): 126.

2004                                   
“Friedrich Kunath.” Artscenecal.com, May 2004.
Friedrich Kunath: alles macht weiter. Cologne: BQ, 2004.
Knight, Christopher. “Kunath does odd work, but well,” Los Angeles Times (April 16, 2004): E32.
“Strawberry Fields.” La Coleccion Jumex and Canaia (Mexico City, Mexico) (2004): 5, 13-19. (cat.)

2003                 
Fox, Dan. “A Song in my Heart.” Frieze, Issue 79 (November/December 2003): 60-63.

2002                                   
Backhaus, Catrin. “Friedrich Kunath in der Galerie BQ.” Kunst-Bulletin (June 2002): 55.
Kunath, Friedrich. I Would Kill for a Noble Peace Prize. Cologne: BQ, 2002.
Kröner, Magdalena. “Friedrich Kunath at BQ.” Flash Art 34, no. 225 (July-September 2002): 52.
Wege, Astrid. “Friedrich Kunath.” Artforum International (October 2002): 163-164.

2001                 
Let’s Not and Say We Did: Friedrich Kunath. Bonn: Bonner Kunstverein, 2001.
Zero Gravity. Düsseldorf: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 2001: 60-63, 106.

1998                 
Kunath, Friedrich and Dirk Bell. Why Are My Friends Such Finks. Cologne: BQ, 1998.

Grants and Awards

Arbeitsstipendium der Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung, Frankurt am Main, 2005
Peter Mertes Stipendium, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, 2001

Public Collections

The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands