Verena Freyschmidt
The artistic work of Verena Freyschmidt moves in the field of drawing, painting and wall installation. Her materials are mainly paper, pen and scissors. She takes lines, structures and formations from what she has seen and remembered and places them in new contexts. She creates large-format paper cuts, which are both free artistic creations and impressions of nature. Like organic processes, fractal structures conquer the space in a growing way. She is interested in the nature of things, their structure and elementary form. For her, this approach has an exploratory character. She is interested in the exploration of structures, of organizations and connections. Predominantly she searches for these in the processes of creation of nature and the natural.
Born 1975 in Frankfurt/Main. Lives and works in Hanau and Offenbach/Main.
1996-2000 | Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, history and art education |
2000-2002 | Academy of Fine Arts in Mainz, painting under Winfried Virnich |
2002-2006 | Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf, painting under Helmut Federle |
2015-2019 | Lectureship for drawing, Alanus Academy for Art and Society, Alfter/Bonn |
2016-2017 | Member at SPAM-contemporary, off-space, Dusseldorf |
Awards and Grants
2020 | Hessian Cultural Foundation Grant |
2015 | Artist residency, myart, Vienna, Austria |
2013 | Grant of the Goethe-Institute Malaysia, Artist residency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
2011-2012 | Grant of the onomato Künstlerverein, Dusseldorf |
2011 | Artist in residence, Vienna, Austria |
2010 | Grant of the Lepsien Art Foundation, Dusseldorf |
2009 | Grant of the city Dusseldorf, Artist in Residence, Belgrade, Serbia |
2006 | Moldaus-Grand, Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, Wiesbaden |
Solo exhibitions
2022 | REFER, REDUCE, REPEAT (with Dorthe Goeden), Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt/Main BEGEGNUNGEN (with Dorthe Goeden), Kunstverein Würzburg Verena Freyschmidt - Papierschnitte, bok Galerie, Offenbach |
2021 | Kunst in Kirchen (with Dorte Goeden), Wetterau |
2020 | Von Fraktalen und anderen Formen, Atelier Orbit24, Frankfurt/Main |
2018 | Rhizome, Neuer Kunstverein Gießen, Gießen |
2016 | Metamorphosen, Kunstverein Trier Junge Kunst |
2015 | Pattern and geoform, RAUM Oberkassel, Düsseldorf (with Jeannette Schnüttgen) |
2013 | Bat walk, Petaling Street Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
2011 | Fractal structures, myart, Vienna, Austria |
2010 | Back from, Atelier am Eck, mit Yukako Ando, Dusseldorf |
2009 | Galerie Flu of the Art Academy Belgrade, Serbia |
Group exhibitions
2021 | Still Alive, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin Collage - openstudio, Kunstverein Röderhof, Röderhof Kunst aus Neuss, Städtische Galerie, Neuss |
2020 | Patterns, structures, lines, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg (with Daniela Wesenberg and Tilmann Zahn) |
2019 | Additionen, rk - Galerie, Berlin |
2018 | Einundzwanzig, Kunstverein Gießen im KIZ, Gießen |
2017 | Paper(s) Art, Galerie Matthias Erntges, Düsseldorf |
2016 | Drei Positionen aus Düsseldorf, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff, Bern, Schweiz (with Stefan à Wengen and Robin Merkisch) |
2015 | 68. Jahresausstellung, Städtische Galerie, Neuss |
2014 | Abstrakt, SPAM contemporary, Dusseldorf |
2013 | Übermalen, Ausstellung zum Preis der Darmstädter Sezession, Designhaus, Darmstadt |
2012 | MA - Lob dem Zwischenraum, Artmark Galerie, Vienna, Austria |
2011 | Grants 10/11, Lepsien Art Foundation, Dusseldorf |
2010 | Kunst aus Neuss, Städtische Galerie, Neuss |
2009 | 10 Jahre Moldaustipendium, Staatskanzlei, Wiesbaden |