Friederike Warneke

The Material Images of Friederike Warneke


"Material Images" is the name for the series of works made up of bicycle inner tubes, household rubber and silicon. Despite their plasticity, the objects hang or lean against the wall; they could just as well lie on the floor. The works only have one side to be viewed from and can thus be seen as pictures. The artist emphasizes the relationship of these works to her past installations. Although the latter are temporary, the material images are of an enduring nature. The concept of material and site are common to both...The artist discovers specific possibilities of form in the material itself, for example, the elasticity of the rubber rings used in preserving jars. The structures with their peculiars materials - rubber inner tubes, household rubber and silicon cones - and their artistic form communicate with their surroundings and create space for the art itself.
(Friederike Warneke: Materialbilder, catalogue Munich, 2001, text by Annemarie Zeiller, translation: Anne Heritage

study of sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts Munich
1998 master class diploma in sculpture; lives and works in Leipzig/Germany

Group/Solo Exhibitions

You like to see "Grosses Luftkissenfeld Nr. 2" originally?
You can do it, see here:

Actual Exhibition:
"luft.spitzen", Delikatessenhaus NEU DELI, Lütznerstr. 36, 04177 Leipzig,
Sept 12th - Dec 19th 2015


2015: "Ästhetik des Banalen", Verein für Industriekultur, Leipzig; 2014: OSTRALE O14, Dresden; 2013: „Berlin – Dresden – München“, Galerie am Damm, Dresden; 2012: „Neues aus Leipzig“, Galerie Anais, München (E); 2011: Ausstellung Pilotenkueche, Galerienrundgang, Spinnerei Leipzig; 2009: Akiko Tomikawa/Friederike Warneke. Artothek München; Susan Stadler/Friederike Warneke, Oberste Baubehörde München; „Swinging Structures“ Galerie écart, Osnabrück (E); 2008: „visual tanks“ Neue Galerie Dachau (E)

2008: Museum MARTa Herford: AD ABSURDUM: Energien des Absurden von der klassischen Moderne bis zur Gegenwart, kuratiert von Jan Hoet