KATHARINA FRITSCH

Katharina Fritsch (was born in 1956 Essen Germany) is a german artist living and working in Düseeldorf. The artist is known for her sculptures and installations that reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. Her works' iconography is drawn from many different sources, including Christianity, art history and folklore. She attracted international attention for the first time in the mid-1980s with life-size works such as a true-to-scale elephant. Fritsch's art is often concerned with the psychology and expectations of visitors to a museum. The clarity, austerity and precision of Fritsch’s forms is developed through a lengthy manual sculpting process, a way to achieve the near industrial perfection of their finish.

Some of the past expositions: 

• (2022) White Cube Paris

• (2020) George Economou Collection, Athens

• (2020) Matthew Marks Gallery LA, CA

• (2016) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

• (2012) Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

• (2003) DIA Center for the Arts, New York

Permanently collected by: 

• Museum of Modern Art, New York

• National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

• Philadelphia Museum of Art

• The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

• Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 

• Museum Brandhorst, Munich