Katrin FRIDRIKS

/// artnews /// spring 2012 ------

VIENNA - Escape the Golden Cage 11.05 - 25.05 curated by Sarah Musser - K&K Telegraph office, Börseplatz 1

“Golden Angry Birds” - acrylic on reflected paper - 100x70cm (macro) - 2012

Katrin FRIDRIKS / WK INTERACT / VARIOUS & GOULD / Abner PREIS / Christian AWE / Dan WITZ / SATONE ... SAN FRANCISCO - SF artMRKT fair 17.05 - 20.05 LeBasse projects, booth 607 @ Concourse Exhibition Center

Katrin FRIDRIKS / Jim HOUSER ...

NEW YORK / SOUTHAMPTON - Art Hamptons fair 13.07 - 15.07 Vickydavid gallery @ Fields of Nova’s Ark

Niki de SAINT-PHALLE / Katrin FRIDRIKS / Arne QUINZE / Jacques VILLEGLÉ / ARMAN / Jean-Pierre RAYNAUD / /// artnews /// previously ------

BERLIN - Gallery Week-End 27.04 - 29.04 Circleculture gallery, Gipsstrasse 11

The Circleculture Gallery Weekend presented selected and new artworks by the artists: STOHEAD, Aaron ROSE, VHILS, Stefan STRUMBEL, Olivia STEELE, Marco “PHO” GRASSI, Jaybo MONK, Katrin FRIDRIKS and Markus MAHREN.

On this occasion: book launch of XOOOOX’ s monograph recently published by Gestalten Verlag & later in the evening Olivia Steele invited people to her highly inspiring artist studio “Atelier Paradis” for a great night with drinks and music.

DUBAÏ - Design Days 18.03 - 21.03 Stilwerk design gallery, booth A2 @ Burj Khalifa building

Oskar ZIETA / FRIDRIKS / GRAPHLAB

PARIS - Auction Artcurial 15.02 Hôtel Marcel Dassault - “Art Urbain Contemporain”

FRIDRIKS / BANKSY / JR / ZVES / NUNCA / Shepard FAIREY / SWOON / INVADER / KAWS...

My Art Invest - Prêt à Dîner, Kofler & Kompanie 14.01 - 29.02 Circleculture gallery @ Alte Münze, Am Krögel 2

This winter, Prêt à Dîner inspiring concept hits German’s capital for finest art lovers & gastronomes enjoyment.

Highlighted by CNN interview, Prêt à Dîner co-founder Olivia Steele, young multifaceted businesswoman & artist, teamed up with Johann Haehling von Lanzenauer, Circleculture Gallery acute owner (who curated JR first solo show in 2005), to present the most cutting-edge contemporary art.

Like a temporary white cube, the Circleculture pop up exhibition is displaying large-scale artworks from Stefan Strumbel, Katrin Fridriks, XOOOOX, Stohead & Jaybo Monk, as well as Olivia Steele‘s neons & street artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils who specially carved Angela Merkel visage into one of the venue walls.

VHILS / Katrin FRIDRIKS / Jaybo MONK / Stefan STRUMBEL / Olivia STEELE ...

After having scaled the roof of a Frankfurt skycraper, taken underground with Lazarides street art gallery & stars like Madonna, Valentino, Kevin Spacey, star Michelin chefs such as Tim Raue, Kay Schoeneberg, “In The Mix” is hosted at Alte Münze, hottest Berliner event venue. Inviting people to a totally new experience, “Prêt à Dîner” is an exclusive platform where innovative arts & tastemakers are involved. BERLIN - 100 Nike by Katrin Fridriks 19.01 Circleculture agency

N°1 German fashion magazine Grazia commissioned talented contemporary artist Katrin Fridriks to create, in collaboration with the brand-leader Nike, a very limited series of sneakers, becoming genuine & must-have pieces of art.

For Berlin Fashion Week (17/22 Jan.12), with an innovative concept, she reinvents sneakers common use in transforming them into customize magazine holders.

As background & alluding to urban art: spray cans used to paint all shoes with a well-defined colorimetry: silver, gold, copper… reminding of Katrin’s metallic “Leak of Info” solo show at Circleculture gallery (Berlin/2011). Fridriks affixes her unique signature through acrylic paint giving an organic dimension to the so-sculpted shoes. Her unseen colourful drippings, as lava flows across rocks, cover each Nike shoe. In yellow & black dominance, with blue and red shades, all perfectly aligned, as fresh news to read, spreading like wildfire so as to be the first. At the speed of light, every colour slices throughthe others, finally leaving a mark, allowing reader thoughts to capture the nature of this newOdyssey.

The designed-shoes are totally unique & trendy art objects, ready to be hung on a wall to carry your most fashionable magazine.

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