Pia Fries (born 6 October 1955) is a Swisspainter.
Biography
Fries was born in
Beromünster
Beromünster is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2004 the former municipality of Schwarzenbach merged into the municipality of Beromünster.Switzerland and studied
sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary Germa ...
at the
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...
in 1986. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Munich.
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
The Kunst Museum Winterthur (English: The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local ''Kunstverein''. From its beginnings, the activities of the Kunstverein Winterthur were focused on contemporary art - ...
, Switzerland.
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Neues Museum
The Neues Museum (English: ''New Museum'') is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, ...
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (, "State Gallery") is an art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, it opened in 1843. In 1984, the opening of the Neue Staatsgalerie (''New State Gallery'') designed by James Stirling transformed the once provincial gallery ...
La Biennale di Venezia
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
: 48. esposizione internazionale d’arte: ''dapertutto''
* 1999 ''Pia Fries: parsen und module'', Kunstverein Göppingen, (Kat.)
* 2000 ''Pia Fries: en détail & en gros'', Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
* 2001 ''Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism'', The Fourth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe
* 2005 ''Extreme Abstraction'', Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
* 2007 ''Pia Fries: Malerei 1990-2007'',
Kunstmuseum Winterthur
The Kunst Museum Winterthur (English: The Winterthur Museum of Art) is an art museum in Winterthur, Switzerland run by the local ''Kunstverein''. From its beginnings, the activities of the Kunstverein Winterthur were focused on contemporary art - ...
; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop
* 2008 ''Pia Fries: la partie élévatrice'', Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
* 2009 ''Pia Fries: merian’s surinam'', Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
* 2010 ''Pia Fries: zirkumpolar'', Galería Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid
* 2010 ''Pia Fries'',
Kunstmuseum Bonn
The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German ...
* 2010 ''Pia Fries: ambigu'',
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (English: ''Art Museum St. Gallen''), is a Swiss art museum founded in 1877 and located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is an important museum within Eastern Switzerland because of their expansive European art collection.
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* 2011 ''Pia Fries: krapprhizom luisenkupfer'',
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
The Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery) is an art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The museum, created by architect Heinrich Hübsch, opened in 1846 after nine years of work in a neoclassical building next to the Karlsruhe Castle and the ...
* 2011 ''Pia Fries: Ausstellung der Kunstpreisträgerin'', Villa Wessel, Iserlohn
* 2012 ''Pia Fries: randmeer'', CRG Gallery, NY
* 2013 ''Pia Fries: wetter fahnen fächer'', Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
* 2014 ''Pia Fries, paysages maritimes'', Christopher Grimes Gallery L.A.
* 2015 ''Pia Fries: windhand laufbein'', Akku-Emmen, Emmenbrücke, Lucerne
* 2015 ''Pia Fries: fernleib manual'', MAI 36 Galerie, Zurich
* 2015 ''Pia Fries: tabula coloribus'', Kunstparterre, Munich
* 2015 ''Pia Fries: volume & light''
* 2016 Ortswechsel, Werke aus dem
Kunstmuseum Bonn
The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German ...
, Schauwerk Sindelfingen
* 2016 ''Pia Fries: oxyponto'', Galerie Thomas, Munich
* 2016 Drama Queens - Die inszenierte Ausstellung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
* 2016 Tiefe nach Außen, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
* 2016 Die Erfindung der Abstraktion, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf
* 2016 ''Pia Fries: Weisswirt & Maserzug'', Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung, Düsseldorf,
* 2016 ''Pia Fries: seascapes'', Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
* 2017 THINK-PAINT, Unix-Gallery, New York
* 2017 Künstlerporträts Düsseldorf 1800 bis heute, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf
* 2017 20. Kunstausstellung Trubschachen 2017, Trubschachen, Schweiz
* 2017 ''Pia Fries: nasen und nauen'', Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf
* 2017 ''Pia Fries'', Moss Art Center, Virginia, U.S.A.
* 2017 Hendrick Goltzius + Pia Fries: proteus und polymorphia, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
* 2017 Pia Fries: Vier Winde, Gerhard-Altenbourg Preis,
Lindenau-Museum
The Lindenau-Museum is an art museum in Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany. It originated as the house-museum of baron and collector Bernhard August von Lindenau. The building was completed in 1876.
The museum's main attraction is its collection o ...
Altenburg
* 2018 Pia Fries: parsen und module, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 9.3.-20.5.2018