KATHARINA FRITSCH

Katharina Fritsch (B. 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.

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Selected past exhibitions:

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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (2024)

 Glenstone Museum, Potomac ,Maryland, USA (2023)

Qatar Museums, Qatar (2022)

George Economou Collection, Athens (2022)

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA (2019)

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2016)

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (2012)

DIA Center for the Arts, New York (2003)

Selected public collections:

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Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Qatar Museums, Doha - State of Qatar

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Paris

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Fundación ”la Caixa” de Pensions, Barcelona

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