Friedrich Kunath
Friedrich Kunath is a German visual artist who lives in Los Angeles. He was born in Chemnitz, East Germany, and has had numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig, the KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, CAC Málaga, Spain, Kunstsammlung Jena, Germany, Kunsthal Kade Amersfoort, Schinkel Pavillon, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Kunstverein Hannover, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Aspen Art Museum. Group exhibitions include 'The World Belongs to You', Palazzo Grassi, Venice, '11th Triennale für Kleinplastik, Fellbach' and 'Life on Mars: the 55th Carnegie International'.
Kunath's first major monograph, 'I Don't Worry Anymore,' was published by Rizzoli Electa in 2018.
Early life
Kunath was born in 1974 in Karl-Marx-stadt, later renamed Chemnitz, in East Germany. His mother was a band manager. The family moved to West Germany, and Kunath studied at the Braunschweig University of Art.Work
Kunath works primarily with oil and airbrush acrylic paintings, but his practice encompasses a range of mediums including drawing, sculpture, large-scale installation, photography, performance and video work. His paintings employ a personal style of conceptual romanticism, layering references from history of German Romanticism, American landscape painting, music lyrics, cartoons and other popular culture.Kunath received co-writing credit on the song "Everything's Electric" from Liam Gallagher's 2022 studio album C'mon You Know, alongside Gallagher, Dave Grohl, and Greg Kurstin.
Collections
- CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
- Center for Early Education, Los Angeles, CA
- Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
- Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
- Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Oketa Collection, Tokyo, Japan
- Pinault Collection, Paris, France
- Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
- V-A-C Collection, Moscow, Russia
- Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Art market
Kunath is represented by Blum Gallery, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Avlskarl Gallery, and Travesía Cuatro.Kunath was represented by Johann König until 2022.