FRIEDRICH KUNATH
Coming Home Was As Beautiful As Going Away (solo show)
KINDL, Berlin
26 March – 30 July 2023
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KINDL Berlin will present a solo exhibition of works by Friedrich Kunath, encompassing painting, sculpture, installation and video. With references to landscape painting, GDR television, and pop music, the presentation will revolve around questions of distant wanderings and arrival. Kunath combines themes such as longing, loneliness, euphoria and fear with impressions of his adopted home in California. The works, often exaggerated to the point of the grotesque, comment on the present in a way that is as melancholy as it is astutely humorous.
KINDL Berlin
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