About
Fritz Bornstück’s paintings form orgies of scraps and junk: lightbulbs, matches, bottles, fruit, cables, a mug. Both quiet and busy at the same time, these assemblages are what is left over when the focus is taken elsewhere. Fritz Bornstück’s works step out of different traditions to form something new and often ambiguous with contrasting brushstrokes, paint squeezed directly from the tube, and textile swatches creating a dynamic play on the surface. His inventive works – both sombre and humorous – are full of references to popular culture as well as traditions of still life and landscape painting, thus engaging in a formal discussion to produce a dynamic aesthetic friction. Fritz Bornstück was educated at Universität der Künste in Berlin from 2005-2009. He has exhibited at major institutions such as Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam and his works can be fund in the collection of Arken Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.
For enquiries regarding available works by the artist, please contact cph@mikaelandersen.com
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Born 1982 in Weilburg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.
Education:
2010-2012: De Ateliers, Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005-2009: Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Exhibitions in the gallery:
NEONGRAU, 9.06 – 13.08.2022
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
FLIGHT MODE, 20.08 – 26.09, 2020
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
GMA XXX AAR (group show), 13.06 – 17.08, 2019
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
TEN, 19.01 – 03.03, 2018
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
1000 Sterne (group show), 4.12, 2017 – 13.01, 2018
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Accrochage (group show), 24.08 – 90.09, 2017
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
One for the Birds (w. Lucy Teasdale), 06.11 – 12.12, 2015
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Endless Nameless, 03.10 – 09.11, 2013
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Alles Wasser (group show), 07.07 – 10.08, 2013
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Blumen / Flowers / Blomster (group show), 24.05 – 31.06, 2013
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
Ikarier (group show), 15.02 – 16.03, 2013
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
Bait n’ Tackle, 07.09 – 02.11, 2012
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
Blumen / Flowers / Blomster (group show), 23.06 – 04.08, 2012
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
Alles Wasser (group show), 25.05 – 25.08, 2012
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
All Work and No Play (group show), 03.11, 2011 – 21.01, 2012
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
My Love for You Is Like a Japanese Car, 01.10 – 06.11, 2010
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
But It Felt Like a Kiss, 19.06 – 08.09, 2009
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
Two Holes In the Bottom of the Sea (w. Camilla Thorup), 05.12, 2008 – 10.01, 2009
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen