Danny Frede

Frede grew up in Sondershausen (Kyffhäuserkreis), graduated from high school in 2000 and then moved to Cologne for his civilian service. At that time he already started working as a freelance artist and self-taught photographer. Mostly active as an artist on a project basis until 2014, Frede has been working in his own studio in Cologne-Porz since 2015.

Work
As a freelance artist, Frede is concerned with the translation of traditional concepts of painting and photography into the ways of seeing everyday life, which are increasingly shaped by digital processes.

From 2004 to 2012, he initially designed backdrops for various theatre plays consisting of pure canvas projections. In this collaboration with theatre director Gregor Leschig ("Netaffairs - Heiner Müller's Quartet and Life on the Internet", "Bin ich Arbeit?[1]" and "Play Sisyphos"), socio-critical themes move to the centre of his works.

His exhibition "gemalte Kästchen" ("Painted Boxes") first attracts greater attention, which later reappears in various group and solo exhibitions as "Serielle Rechtecke" ("Serial Rectangles"). In 2016, Frede initiated his photographic intervention "I was here" for the first time. This confronts people living today with the German past at pe...

2017 "skin to the market" Berlin

2017 DelRayArtisans and Union 206 Studio, Alexandria, USA

2017 SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, USA

2017 Live Painting"#nowordart 256 unpferfekte Farbverläufe", Atelier Köln

2018 "Portraits", Group Exhibition, HELLERAU – EUROPÄISCHES ZENTRUM DER KÜNSTE, Dresden

2018 "Round Hole Square Peg" Group Exhibition c/o Los Angeles Art Show, USA

2018 LA Art Show, Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, USA
2018 The Surreal Show", Group Exhibition, Spectoartspace, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA

2018 KUNZTRAUM, Solo Exhibtion, Dresden, Germany

2018 CICA-Museum, Solo Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Bienale Austria, Group Exhibition, Vienna, Austria

2018 Akademie der Avantagarde, Talk and Exhibition, Düsseldorf, Germany

2018 Black Earth Gallery, Group Exhibition, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

2018 NRW Forum, Performance, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 NordArt, Germany
2018 Cotuit Center for the Arts, MA, USA
2019 Størpunkt Galerie, München, D
2019 BUNKERHILL Gallery, Hamburg, D
2019 KLEINE AFFÄRE, Hattingen, D
2019 LE TOUR BELGIQUE, Köln, D
2019 Gründung Kunstraum KEINE GALERIE
2019 FESTIVAL DER ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN KÜNSTE,
2019 FRESH LEGS, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Berlin, D
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