FRIEDRICH KUNATH
The End Is My Beginning, 2017 (film screening)
Studio Mondial, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin
16 and 17 September 2023, 6:30 pm
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Friedrich Kunath’s film The End Is My Beginning, 2017, will be screened as part of the Berlin Gallery Weekend Festival. The screenings will take place on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September, at 6:30 pm on both days.
The End is My Beginning, 2017, delves the viewer into the artist’s quintessentially beguiling and nostalgic world. The opening scene presents an older man walking alone along a railroad track, as tinkling music floats through the air. The man, it becomes clear, is an imagined form of alter ego, representing one of many possibilities. Drawing on themes of mortality and reinvention of the self, the film offers a contemplation on the composite fabrics of life, filled with all its wistfulness and whimsy.
Berlin Gallery Weekend Festival
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