Gunnar Friel
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Gunnar Friel (*1967 in Cologne) graduated at the University Düsseldorf and holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Media Art Cologne (with Prof. Valie Export and Prof. David Larcher). In collaboration with Anja Vormann (Vormann/Friel) he realized interventions and installations in public spaces – concept based works, that deal with space and architecture, reflecting representation through digital media. Friel uses video and photography for researches about identity and social practice.

Gunnar Friel has exhibited internationally and received several fellowships and prizes, amongst others: Stiftung Kunstfonds Germany 2022, International Scholarship Casa Planas and Goethe Institut Barcelona (2020), Triangulo – International Research Program Centro University Mexico City (2015-2018), OrganHaus Association Chongqing China (2013), Fundación Caixa / Sa Nostra Media Art Grant for Spain (2009), German Prize for Video Art Marl, Special Award (2006), H.W. & J. Hector Prize for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2004), Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (2003) and Ministère de la Culture DRAC Alsac and Ecole Superieure des Arts Strasbourg (1997).

From 2007 to 2012 he has taught Video and Digital Media at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences - Peter Behrens School of Arts at the faculty of Design and is member of the Institute of Bild-Medien since 2012. In 2012 and 2014 he was member of the jury of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). From 2010 – 2020 he was member of the Jury "Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst Düsseldorf". He has lectured in various international and interdisciplinary contexts, 2011 - 2013 at the BAU Escuela Superior de Diseño Barcelona, the Massana School of Art and Design in Barcelona and the Universidad del Norte, Baranquilla, Colombia.

In 2014 Gunnar Friel was teaching as Professor for Moving Images at the Münster University of Applied Sciences and since 2015 he is working as professor for Video and Digital Media at Centro University Mexico City.

In his artistic practice he investigates different qualities of spaces and their relationship to material and digital technology. His work results in media based objects and installations, videos and photography.

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Awards and Grants

2022 Grant Stiftung Kunstfond, Germany
2021 Film Production Scholarship, GVL Berlin
2020 International Scholarship Casa Planas Palma, Goethe Institut Barcelona
2015 Triangle, International Research Program Centro University, Mexico City
2013 Scholarship, Residency, Organhaus Galerie, Chongqing, China
2011 Prize of the IIK International Institute for Communication
2009 Grant for Mediaart, Fundación "Caixa/SaNostra" for Spain
2006 12th German Prize for Video Art Marl, Special Prize, Working Grant
2009 Grant "SaNostra" Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2006 12th German Prize for Video Art Marl, special-award (work-grant)
International Videoartprize Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2004 H.W. & J. Hector Award for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Mannheim
2003 Prize for Fine Arts of the Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
2000 Award, 9th German Prize for Video Art Marl
1997 Grant of the Ministère de la Culture DRAC Alsac and the
Ecole Supérieure des Arts Strasbourg, France

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Exhibitions (selection)

2022 LOOP International Videoart Fair and Festival Barcelona
Museo de la Musica Barcelona, curated by Jaume Reus
2021 Dialogos con el Archivo, Screening
Casa Planas Palma, with Lilly Lulay and Stefanie Unruh
2020 Dialogos con el Archivo, Casa Planas Palma, Goethe Institut Barcelona
2019 STUDIO friendship, Memory Station Düsseldorf
Akademy of Arts of the World / Cologne
2017 Living and Working together, HFBK Hamburg / Klasse Marjetica Potrc
MUCA Roma Galerie Mexico City in colaboration with Centro University
2016 "Translocación", OMR Galerie Mexico City,
curated by torolab Tijuana, LiiSA, Centro University
2015 "Reflexionen", Franziskaner Kloster Düsseldorf
701 e.V., Düsseldorf, Kunststiftung NRW
2014 "Second Nature",videos by Vormann / Friel and Hörner / Antlfinger
imai Inter Media Art Institute, Museum NRW Forum, exhibition
"The invisible force behind", Quadriennale, Düsseldorf
2014 "Material Digital", LOOP International Video Art Fair and Festival Barcelona
2014 "Positive SPACE" Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, curated by Zhang Jiaping
2013 "Approach to Realities", Media Art China / Germany, Organhaus Gallery, Chongqing, China
2013 Floating Stones, Videowalk at the Seseke river,
exhibition "Überwassergehen", Urbane Künste Ruhr
2012 "Temps d`Image", Media-Art and Performance exhibition, tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
2012 "Insel", Gustav Lübcke Museum Hamm
2009 "Unrealized objects" Museo Casal Soleric, Palma, Spain
"Cabin Project", Kunstraum XTD, Linz,
curated by Beate Rathmayr, European Capital of Culture 09, Austria
2008 NOASS Gallery, Riga, Latvia
"focus: sculpture", Kunsthalle Mannheim
2007 "Videoart", Kunstforum Galerie Regensburg
"Reconstruction of the truth", International Days of Photography, Darmstadt, Germany
"audio / video", Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2006 5th Biennale for Contemporary Art Busan, South-Korea
"Labor III", German Prize for Video Art, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
"Interpretationsresistenz", Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, Media Art Tirol
Vormann / Friel and Simon Wachsmuth
12th German Prize for Video Art Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
"Und es bewegt sich doch", Museum für moderne Kunst, Bochum
2005 "For some reason ...", MAERZ Gallery, Linz, Austria
Hausbau_05, International week for informal construction, Gropiusstadt, Berlin
Kunstverein Bochum, Germany
2004 H.W. & J. Hector Award for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Mannheim
exhibition PRIVATGRUEN, Kunstverein "Fuhrwerkswaage", Cologne
"Contemporary Sculpture", Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Städtische Galerie Remscheid, Germany
Sculpture competition "Alexanderplatz", NGBK Berlin
2003 Prize for Fine Arts of the Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
THE DOORS, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf
2002 “HELL-GRUEN”, Hofgarten Düsseldorf, International Exhibition at EUROGA 2002
"Posiciones de la escultura", Museo del Arte Contemporaneo, Bochum
2001 "Videoart", Gallery Januar e.V., Bochum, Germany




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Publications

Public Living Systems, Vormann / Friel
Herausgeber: Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
Editorial, D-48620 Schöppingen, 2015
ISBN 978-3-937828-33-6

Transmediale Räume
Anja Vormann, Christian Geiger, Gunnar Friel
Herausgeber: Hochschule Düsseldorf, 2013

Deutsche Video-Kunst 2004-2006
Videoinstallationen aus der Sammlung Olbricht
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, 2006
Herausgeber: Uwe Rüth
ISBN 3-924790-75-2

H.W. & J. HECTOR KUNSTPREIS 2003
Herausgeber: Rolf Lauter
Kunsthalle Mannheim 2004
ISBN 3-89165-137-6

5th Biennale for Contemporary Art Busan
Living furniture / Public furniture
Artbooks Publishing corp., Korea, 2006
ISBN 89-89800-76-5

Anja Vormann / Gunnar Friel
Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
Katalog Kunstraum Düsseldorf, 2003

Blickwechsel
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
Kerber Verlag, 2010
ISBN 978-3-86678-476-5

Und es bewegt sich doch...
Von Alexander Calder und Jean Tinguely
bis zur zeitgenössischen mobilen Kunst.
Museum Bochum, 2006

LAB – Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate
Herausgeber: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 1999
ISBN 3-88375-381-5

Konstruktionen der Wahrheit
Herausgeber: Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
Darmstadt, 2007
ISBN 3-9810254-4-X

Fresh Trips
Contemporary Art Aspects
Herausgeber: Stefan Bidner / Roland Maurmair
Folio Verlag Wien / Bozen 2009
ISBN 978-3-85256-507-1

HELL-GRUEN
30 Kunstprojekte in und um den Düsseldorfer Hofgarten
Katalog Düsseldorf, 2002
ISBN 3-00-009476-8

Und es bewegt sich doch...
Von Alexander Calder und Jean Tinguely
bis zur zeitgenössischen mobilen Kunst.
Museum Bochum, 2006

LAB – Jahrbuch für Künste und Apparate
Herausgeber: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 1999
ISBN 3-88375-381-5

Konstruktionen der Wahrheit
Herausgeber: Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
Darmstadt, 2007
ISBN 3-9810254-4-X

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links
www.the-symptom.net
www.publicartwiki.org/wiki/Gunnar_Friel