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Fritz Bornstueck

Berlin, Germany

Mixed media, Painting • Born in Weilburg an der Lahn, Germany • Studied at Berlin and Mainz, Germany

Published  10/04/2017   |   Updated  11/04/2017

WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA

The objects used in Fritz Bornstück's still lifes gain new life as the artist reuses and recycles the debris of popular culture in a practice he describes as cultural recycling. Bornstück (b. 1982) is a collector, pulling materials from wide and varied sources – such as film noir, found footage, his immediate surrounding or even private trash – and puts the contents of his ongoing collection in formal discussions to produce dynamic...

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The objects used in Fritz Bornstück's still lifes gain new life as the artist reuses and recycles the debris of popular culture in a practice he describes as cultural recycling. Bornstück (b. 1982) is a collector, pulling materials from wide and varied sources – such as film noir, found footage, his immediate surrounding or even private trash – and puts the contents of his ongoing collection in formal discussions to produce dynamic aesthetic friction. The used materials communicate the artist's creative context in translation, appropriating their sources and reinterpreting them to produce an associative space for the viewer.
Traces remain as the landscapes and places, which are depicted are abandonned. Silence, Light, Reflections, stories and history are calling to be unravelled.

Fritz Bornstueck
Bornstück in his studio

Bornstück in his studio

The Studio

The Studio

Tools, Paint and Paintings

Tools, Paint and Paintings

Shelf with Ceramics

Shelf with Ceramics

Bird on a Wire - 200x150cm - Oil and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

Bird on a Wire - 200x150cm - Oil and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

Weltfriedenstag - 40x30cm - Oil, plastic forks and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

Weltfriedenstag - 40x30cm - Oil, plastic forks and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

Quattro Formaggi

Quattro Formaggi

Hideout Motel - 60x60cm - Oil and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

Hideout Motel - 60x60cm - Oil and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

Die Neuen Nachbarn - 200x150cm - Oil and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

Die Neuen Nachbarn - 200x150cm - Oil and pigments on canvas collage - 2016

The Pink Lid - 30x40cm - Oil an pigments on canvas collage - 2016

The Pink Lid - 30x40cm - Oil an pigments on canvas collage - 2016

What is it about your studio space that inspires you?

Beauty in Dirt

What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?

Preferably Silence, but there is always something.

What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?

Paint

What themes do you pursue?

Still lifes, Romantic Landscapes, Brutalist Architecture, Trash, Astronomie, Tales from the Far Side, Everything and Nothing

What advice has had the biggest impact on your career?

An older and more experienced artist told me to forget about my personal life and stories.

If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?

On the Dark Side of the Moon

If you could only have one piece of art in your life, what would it be?

Any Vermeer

If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?

Scavenging

What are your favourite places besides your studio?

My moped, riding through outskirts


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2016

Transatlantic Hokuspokus

2010

My Love for You is Like a Japanese Car

GROUP

2016

Where are we now

2012

Intentional Stance

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Arken Museum, Copenhagen

Sammlung Hildebrand, Leipzig

GALLERIES

Galerie Mikael Andersen | www.mikaelandersen.com

Herrmann Germann Contemporary | www.herrmanngermann.com

EDUCATION (detailed)

2003-2005 Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Mainz

2005-2009 UdK, Berlin

2010-2012 De Ateliers, Amsterdam

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