GUNNAR FRIEL
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* 6.12.1967, Cologne, Germany
1993 -1997 Academy of Media Arts Cologne
with Prof. David Larcher and Prof. Valie Export
since 2002 projects with Anja Vormann
2006 - 2009 guest curator "Kunstraum" Düsseldorf
exhibitions: 2006: “Videoart from the Baltic – Scene”,
2008: "Video: Düsseldorf / Riga" in collaboration with
LCCA Latvian Center for Contemporary Art
2009: "Embedded realities. Kairo - Beirut - Dusseldorf"
since 2008 gave lectures and teached at several Universities
e.g.: Academy of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf
Massana University of Arts Barcelona, BAU Escola Superior de Disseny Barcelona
Universidad del Norte, Baranquilla, Colombia
Awards and Grants
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
Exhibitions
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 (C)
2014 "Material Digital", LOOP International Video Fair and Festival Barcelona
2014 "Positive SPACE" Times Museum, Guangzhou, China, curated by Zhang Jiaping (Store Space)
2014 "Approach to Realities II" Media Art, Performances and Movies, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
2013 "Approach to Realities", Media Art from China and Germany, OrganHAUS Gallery, Chongqing, China
2013 Floating Stones, Videowalk im Nördlichen Ruhrgebiet
Urbane Künste Ruhr, curated by Billie Erlenkamp and Katja Aßmann
2012 "Temps d`Image", Media-Art and Performance exhibition, tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
2012 "Insel", exhibition "Blickwechsel", Gustav Lübcke Museum Hamm (C)
2009 "Unrealized objects" Casa Soleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (S)
"Cabin Project", KUNSTRAUM xtd, Linz, European Capital of Culture 09, Austria (C)
2008 NOASS Gallery, Riga, Latvia
"focus: sculpture", Kunsthalle Mannheim
2007 "Videoart", Kunstforum Galerie Regensburg
"Reconstruction of the truth", International Days of Photography, Darmstadt, Germany (C)
"audio / video", Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2006 5th Biennale for Contemporary Art Busan, South-Korea (C)
"Labor III", German Prize for Video Art, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg
"Interpretationsresistenz", Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria (C)
12th German Prize for Video Art Marl, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (C)
"Und es bewegt sich doch", Museum für moderne Kunst, Bochum (C)
2005 "For some reason ...", MAERZ Gallery, Linz, Austria
Hausbau_05, International week for informal construction, Gropiusstadt, Berlin (C)
Kunstverein Bochum, Germany (S)
2004 H.W. & J. Hector Award for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Mannheim (C)
exhibition PRIVATGRUEN, Kunstverein "Fuhrwerkswaage", Cologne (C)
"Contemporary Sculpture", Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Städtische Galerie Remscheid, Germany (S, C)
Sculpture competition "Alexanderplatz", NGBK Berlin
2003 Prize for Fine Arts of the Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (S, C)
THE DOORS, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf (S, C)
2002 “HELL-GRUEN”, Hofgarten Düsseldorf, International Exhibition at EUROGA 2002 (C)
"Posiciones de la escultura", Museo del Arte Contemporaneo, Bochum
2001 "Videoart", Gallery Januar e.V., Bochum, Germany
2000 "Medien Meile 2000", Museum of Contemporary Art Mülheim a.d. Ruhr, Germany (C)
Trendwände II, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
(C): there was published a catalogue
(S): single exhibition
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Publications
Fresh Trips
Contemporary Art Aspects
Herausgeber: Stefan Bidner / Roland Maurmair
Folio Verlag Wien / Bozen 2009
ISBN 978-3-85256-507-1
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
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
www.lcca.lv/projects/duesseldorf/
www.arf-arf.org