Deconstructivism can be understood both as a specific way of thinking and as a particular technique in handling materials. Freiwald’s art is distinguished by his impressive ability to combine both aspects. In his works, Tim Freiwald focuses on the themes of material and surface. His works are based on motifs that continuously evolve in new variations. Freiwald often conducts his research photographically or digitally. From this starting point, the process of image construction begins, which resembles a deconstruction, translating into material. The compact physicality of the images is always in tension with the fragile structure within the image.
Even during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, which he completed in 2014 as a master student of Thomas Scheibitz, Tim Freiwald (born 1986 in Leisnig near Leipzig) received numerous awards and grants, most recently a one-year scholarship from 2018 to 2019 at the International Artist House Villa Concordia in Bamberg.
At the beginning of 2020, the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven presented the artist’s first major institutional solo exhibition, “Keeping Things Whole.” Accompanying this, a comprehensive catalog of the same name was published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. His most recent exhibitions include the “Schmetterling” exhibition in 2020 at Bluerider ART in Taipei, Taiwan, and an exhibition and book presentation in 2020 at the Walter Storms Gallery in Munich.
“Tim Freiwald works with a variety of materials, to which he gives unexpected forms through interplay and various techniques, thus creating never-before-seen visual worlds. In the end, a freely interpretable ensemble is created, which appears unique in its relief-like, spatial depth and expressive colorfulness,” says Walter Storms.
education
2014
Master student of Thomas Scheibitz
2007-14
Studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Jerry Zeniuk and Thomas Scheibitz
selected solo exhibitions
2020
Schmetterling, Bluerider ART, Taipei
Tim Freiwald, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
Keeping Things Whole, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven
2019
Broken Hard Drive, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2018
Chimaerica, Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg
NEW POSITIONS, Art Cologne, Cologne
2017
Attracting Samples, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
2015
Save Your Best Friends, Big Pond Artworks, Munich
2014
How to Play with Skyscrapers, Kunstvilla im KunstKulturQuartier, Nuremberg
2013
Go Ahead Young Man, Weltraum, Munich
2010
If You Can Talk About It, Why Paint It?, Stadtgalerie Neuburg a. d. Donau
selected group exhibitions
2024
What Year Are You?, MODEM, Debrecen
2023
Homeland Universe, Bluerider ART, London
Abstraction, Bluerider ART, Taipei
Winter Wonders, Bluerider ART, Taipei
New Mediations, MODEM, Debrecen
2022
New Mediations, MODEM, Debrecen
2021
SHOT#Two: It’s Part of a Strategy, Galerie Burster, Berlin
2020
Joint Gesture, Galerie Conrads, Berlin
2019
Farbrausch. A Field Study, Galerie Kleiner von Wiese, Berlin
Tiefe Nach Außen II, Kunstverein Aichach, Aichach
2018
Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg
2017
40 Years – Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
2016
Tiefe Nach Außen, Galerie der Künstler, BBK München
2015
Concrete Jungle, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich