Katharina Fritsch

Katharina Fritsch (born 1956 Essen, Germany) is a Düsseldorf-based sculptor known for her sculptures and installations that reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. Fritsch’s art is often concerned with the psychology and expectations of visitors to a museum. Gary Garrels wrote that “One of the remarkable features of Fritsch’s work is its ability both to capture the popular imagination by its immediate appeal and to be a focal point for the specialized discussions of the contemporary art world. This all too infrequent meeting point is at the center of her work, as it addresses the ambiguous and difficult relationships between artists and the public and between art and its display—that is, the role of art and exhibitions and of the museum in the late twentieth century.” [Gary Garrels, “Katharina Fritsch: An Introduction,” in "Katharina Fritsch" (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996), 12.]
*She studied at the prestigious Kunstakademie Düsseldorf completing her studies in 1981. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. She is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

References

elected Bibliography

*"Katharina Fritsch". San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996.

*"Katharina Fritsch". Wolfsburg: Stadische Galerie Wolfsburg, 1999.

*"Katharina Fritsch". New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2000.
*Blazwick, Iwona. "Katharina Fritsch". London: Tate, 2002.

External Links

[http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=1&a=124&im=1 Katharina Fritsch at the Matthew Marks Gallery]