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\n\n\t\t\t\t[vc_column][vc_column_text]Pia Fries is a painter who approaches her work with care and conviction in a decidedly classical sense. She conceives her pieces with structure, seriousness, and finesse, while also demonstrating a keen sense of colors and shapes, along with a well-balanced blend of controlled purism and ecstatic energy. Pia Fries places great emphasis on proportion and rhythm, seeking harmony and simultaneous disharmony in her compositions. Her paintings are conceptual but not “conceptual art,” and they are abstract but not “abstract art” in the traditional sense, as she develops her subjects revolving around themes of color, composition, and expressiveness from representational contexts.<\/p>\n

Her artworks possess multiple layers of meaning, revealing intricate references within their content. Pia Fries harbors a passion for metamorphosis, finding pleasure in disassembling and reassembling highly complex visual elements.<\/p>\n

Text: Valentina Vlasic, Kuratorin, Museum Kurhaus Kleve<\/p>\n

Biography
\n1955 Born in Berom\u00fcnster, Switzerland, lives and works in D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany
\n1977 – 1980 Academy of Art and Design, Lucerne, sculpture class with Anton Egloff
\n1980 – 1986 D\u00fcsseldorf Academy of Art, painting with Gerhard Richter, master student
\n1984 – 1998 Lecturer for painting at the Lucerne School of Art and Design
\n1998 – 2000 Lectureship for painting at the D\u00fcsseldorf Academy of Art
\n2000 – 2001 Visiting professor at the State Academy of Arts Karlsruhe \/ Freiburg i. Br.
\n2007 – 2009 Visiting professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin
\n2009 – 2014 Professorship at the University of the Arts, Berlin
\n2014 – 2023 Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich<\/p>\n

Scholarships and awards
\n1985 Prize of the Jury of the Six Cantons of Central Switzerland
\n1986 Graduate scholarship of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
\n1989 Work contribution of the canton and city of Lucerne, visual arts
\nFederal art scholarship
\n1991 Federal art scholarship
\n1992 Nordmann Prize Canton Lucerne<\/p>\n

Swiss art scholarship
\n1994 Bonn Art Fund
\n1996 M\u00fcnsterland Art Prize
\n2000 Studio of the Zug Cultural Foundation Landis & Gyr in London
\n2009 Fred-Thieler-Prize, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
\n2011 Iserlohn Art Prize, Villa Wessel Iserlohn
\n2014 Art and Culture Prize of the City of Lucerne, Lucerne
\n2017 Gerhard Altenbourg Prize, Lindenau Museum Altenburg, Germany<\/p>\n

Works in public collections
\nAarau, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau
\nAltenburg, Lindenau Museum
\nBern, Art Museum Bern, Foundation Art Today
\nBonn, Bonn Art Museum
\nBottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat
\nBuffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery
\nClermont-Ferrand, FRAC Auvergne
\nDetroit, Detroit Institute of Art
\nD\u00fcsseldorf, Palace of Art
\nEssen, Museum Folkwang
\nHanover, Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation Collection
\nKleve, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
\nLeverkusen, Museum Morsbroich
\nLos Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
\nLucerne, Museum of Art Lucerne
\nNuremberg, Neues Museum – State Museum of Art and Design in Nuremberg
\nOtterndorf, Studio A
\nParis, Mus\u00e9e dArt moderne de la Ville de Paris
\nSan Diego, MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
\nSt. Gallen, Museum of Art St. Gallen
\nStuttgart, State Gallery Stuttgart
\nWinterthur, Winterthur Art Museum
\nZurich, Kunsthaus Zurich
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