In his artistic practice, Kurt Fritsche (*1995) deals with the topics of grief, loss and memory, their processual nature, and transformative potential. Often developed in collaborative settings, his work aims to function as a vehicle to navigate the observer through configurations of multiple pasts and futures folded into the political present. Using his biography as a starting point such as the post-GDR aesthetic of his upbringing or western consumer iconography of play and entertainment, he explores the intersections and dependencies of personal, collective and intergenerational storytelling. Kurt Fritsche works with various techniques, including installation, sculpture, photography, video and text, focusing on medium-specific qualities to articulate subjective relations to time, memory and oblivion. He lives and works in Berlin (DE).
Education
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2016-2024
Fine Arts, Berlin School of Arts (DE), Sculpture Department, Diplom and Meisterschüler degree
(Prof. Albrecht Schäfer) -
2021
Fine Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), Class for Sculpture and Space
(Prof. Hans Schabus) -
2022-2024
Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (DE), Class for Sculpture
(Prof. Alexandra Bircken; Prof. Raphaela Vogel)
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
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2025
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2024
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2023
axis (with Joshua Gottmanns), b10b, Düsseldorf (DE)
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2020
Traum/Haus (with Joshua Gottmanns), Erratum Galerie, Berlin (DE)
Group Exhibitions
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2026
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2025
hey-hey, my-my, Berlin (DE)
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2024
The Visitors, Residenzatelier CH, Berlin (DE)
Nowhere Fast, Kunstverein culterim, Berlin (DE)
Trying to find the one by seeking and hiding, B12, Bottrop (DE)
The House is Smokey and I Quit it, House of Spouse, Vienna (AT)
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2023
Arkadenale, Kunstarkaden, Munich (DE)
she‘ll bliss, Send/Receive, Berlin (DE)
Parallel Vienna, Vienna (AT)
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2022
Blister Shell, Boo2, Amsterdam (NL)
Sweet Machine, Spoiler, Berlin (DE)
5000, Edvard-Munch-Haus, Warnemünde (DE)
Yet Yet, Kühlhaus, Berlin (DE)
Sun Dogs or Mock Suns, Magma Maria, Offenbach (DE)
Para Text, Berlin (DE)
Remote_01, 2322, Berlin (DE)
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2021
In Conversation with Places, Oststation, Vienna (AT)
SchrankSchrank, Galerie Oel-Früh, Hamburg (DE)
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2020
Not Cancelled, Weserhalle, Berlin (DE)
U55, Berlin Hauptbahnhof (DE)
Curatorial Projects
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2025
hey-hey, my-my, MyPlace Berlin (DE)
Co-curated with Barbara Mährlen and Johanna Ballweg; participating artists: Johanna Ballweg, Kurt Fritsche, Adriana Lasheras Mabanta, Barbara Mährlen, Malte Niels Möller, Lisa Sifkovits, Lennart Wolter, Kay Yoon -
2024
The Visitors, Residenzatelier CH, Berlin (DE)
Co-curated with Bryony Jean Dawson and Maxi Ehrenzeller; participating artists: Paula Breuer, Belia Zanna Geetha Brückner, Bryony Jean Dawson, Margaux Dewarrat, Maxi Ehrenzeller, Kurt Fritsche, Sam Fuentes and Elena Hizaar -
2022
she‘ll bliss, Send / Recieve, Berlin (DE)
Co-curated with Emma Bombail, Shelim Alvarado, Oscar Le Merle, Joshua Gottmanns, Mathilde Heuliez, Masha Ryabova -
2020
U55, Berlin Hauptbahnhof (DE).
Co-curated with Joshua Gottmanns; public-space intervention with 55 participating artists
Awards, Grants
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2025
Berlin Senate Research Grant
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2019 - 2024
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Publications
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2025
Goldilocks Zone (with Bryony Jean Dawson), Tausend Editionen, Berlin (DE)
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2021
In Conversation with Places, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (AT)
In Conversation with People, University of Applied Arts, Vienna (AT)
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2020
Storytelling (Ed. by Peter Stohler and Yvan Sikiaridis), Grimmwelt, Kassel (DE)