FRIEDRICH KUNATH
There Must Be A Spanish Word For This Feeling (solo show)
CAC Malaga
17 February 2023 – 21 May 2023
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CAC Malaga will present Friedrich Kunath’s first museum exhibition in Spain. Kunath’s oeuvre spans painting, drawing, installation, sculpture and video. Informed by the artist’s own personal history, but also music, German Romanticism and American pop culture, the works are imbued with both tradition and modernity, and illustrate themes of tragedy, comedy and romance, freely shifting between the three and occupying a unique space between irony and sincerity.
FRIEDRICH KUNATH
AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE (I’LL HAVE THE CALAMARI) (solo show)
G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
7 June – 8 September 2024
The G2 Kunsthalle in Leipzig presents AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE (I’LL HAVE THE CALAMARI), a solo exhibition of work by Friedrich Kunath. Spanning painting, objects and installation, Kunath shows supposedly ideal landscapes that are saturated with romantic and pop-cultural references which, at second glance, nullify their perfectionism. By interweaving historical epochs with contemporary mass cultures, he creates an anachronism that unites past and present and gives rise to a universal timeline.
G2 Kunsthalle
FRIEDRICH KUNATH
Only Lovers Left (duo show)
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
16 March – 9 June 2024
In their first joint exhibition, artists Margarete Jakschik and Friedrich Kunath transform the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf into a space of contemplation, reflection and melancholy. Under the title Only Lovers Left, the exhibition presents photographs, paintings and installations by both artists, thus bringing their aesthetic positions into focus. The artists capture journeys both inward and out, reckoning with the legacy of German Romanticism while unravelling its conceptual ironies and clichéed motifs of longing. In other words, the Romantic is brought firmly into the present.
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf