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
Coming Home Was As Beautiful As Going Away (solo show)
KINDL, Berlin
26 March – 30 July 2023
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
There Must Be A Spanish Word For This Feeling (solo show)
CAC Malaga
17 February 2023 – 21 May 2023
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.