Katharina Fritsch West Germany, b. 1956

Born in Essen in 1956, she lives and works in Düsseldorf.

She first studied History and Art History at the University of Münster before transferring to the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

 

Fritsch is known for sculptures and installations with an unsettling sensibility, which put a twist on everyday objects. Her sculptures play with the tension between reality and appearance, between the familiar and the strange. The clarity, austerity, and precision of the forms Fritsch uses are the result of a long manual process through which she achieves an almost industrial level of perfection in the finish of her pieces.

 

She represented Germany at the 46th Venice Biennale and has had solo exhibitions at many institutions around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Kunsthaus Zürich; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; White Cube, London; Tate Modern, London; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993). Her work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions worldwide.

 

Fritsch’s work is currently represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and the Museum Brandhorst, Munich.