Katharina Fritsch West Germany, b. 1956

Lives and works in Düsseldorf. 

She first studied History and Art History at the University of Münsterand, in 1977, transferred toKunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Fritsch is known for hersculpturesandinstallationsthat reinvigorate familiar objects with a jarring and uncanny sensibility. Her sculptures play on the tension between reality and apparition, between the familiar and the surreal or uncanny. The clarity, austerity and precision of Fritsch’s forms is developed through a lengthy manual sculpting process, a way to achieve the near industrial perfection of their finish.

She represented Germany in the 46th Venice Biennale and has had many solo exhibits round the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago (2012); Kunsthaus Zurich and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2009); White Cube, London (2006); Tate Modern, London (2001); Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (1997), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1996) and Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1993). Her work has also been included in numerous international group shows.

Fritsch's work is currently represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and the Museum Brandhorst, Munich.