Pia Fries (born 6 October 1955) is a

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Biography

Fries was born in Beromünster,

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and studied

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

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in 1980, and painting under

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced Abstract art, abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and Glass art, glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important con ...

at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986. She lives and works in Düsseldorf and Munich.

Museum collections

* Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland. * Binding Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland. * Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. *

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, Switzerland. * Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany. * Niedersächsische Kulturstiftung, Hannover, Germany. * Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. * Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany. *

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(MFAH), Houston, Texas

Selected exhibitions

* 1992 ''Pia Fries'', Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn * 1997 ''Pia Fries'', Kunstverein Freiburg i.Br.; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve * 1999 La Biennale di Venezia: 48. esposizione internazionale d’arte: ''dapertutto'' * 1999 ''Pia Fries: parsen und module'', Kunstverein Göppingen, (Kat.) * 2000 ''Pia Fries: en détail & en gros'', Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck * 2001 ''Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism'', The Fourth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe * 2005 ''Extreme Abstraction'', Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY * 2007 ''Pia Fries: Malerei 1990-2007'',

; Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop * 2008 ''Pia Fries: la partie élévatrice'', Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon * 2009 ''Pia Fries: merian’s surinam'', Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris * 2010 ''Pia Fries: zirkumpolar'', Galería Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid * 2010 ''Pia Fries'',

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* 2010 ''Pia Fries: ambigu'',

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (English: ''Art Museum St. Gallen''), is a Swiss art museum founded in 1877 and located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is an important museum within Eastern Switzerland because of their expansive European art collection. ...

* 2011 ''Pia Fries: krapprhizom luisenkupfer'',

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe The Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery) is an fine art museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. Its collection consists of works by mainly German, French, Flemish and Dutch masters from the past eight centuries. The museum was conceived in the early ...

* 2011 ''Pia Fries: Ausstellung der Kunstpreisträgerin'', Villa Wessel, Iserlohn * 2012 ''Pia Fries: randmeer'', CRG Gallery, NY * 2013 ''Pia Fries: wetter fahnen fächer'', Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris * 2014 ''Pia Fries, paysages maritimes'', Christopher Grimes Gallery L.A. * 2015 ''Pia Fries: windhand laufbein'', Akku-Emmen, Emmenbrücke, Lucerne * 2015 ''Pia Fries: fernleib manual'', MAI 36 Galerie, Zurich * 2015 ''Pia Fries: tabula coloribus'', Kunstparterre, Munich * 2015 ''Pia Fries: volume & light'' * 2016 Ortswechsel, Werke aus dem

, Schauwerk Sindelfingen * 2016 ''Pia Fries: oxyponto'', Galerie Thomas, Munich * 2016 Drama Queens - Die inszenierte Ausstellung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen * 2016 Tiefe nach Außen, Galerie der Künstler, Munich * 2016 Die Erfindung der Abstraktion, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf * 2016 ''Pia Fries: Weisswirt & Maserzug'', Kopfermann-Fuhrmann-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, * 2016 ''Pia Fries: seascapes'', Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles * 2017 THINK-PAINT, Unix-Gallery, New York * 2017 Künstlerporträts Düsseldorf 1800 bis heute, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf * 2017 20. Kunstausstellung Trubschachen 2017, Trubschachen, Schweiz * 2017 ''Pia Fries: nasen und nauen'', Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf * 2017 ''Pia Fries'', Moss Art Center, Virginia, U.S.A. * 2017 Hendrick Goltzius + Pia Fries: proteus und polymorphia, Museum Kurhaus Kleve * 2017 Pia Fries: Vier Winde, Gerhard-Altenbourg Preis, Lindenau-Museum Altenburg * 2018 Pia Fries: parsen und module, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 9.3.-20.5.2018

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fries, Pia 1955 births Living people 20th-century Swiss painters 21st-century Swiss painters Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Swiss contemporary artists 20th-century Swiss women painters 21st-century Swiss women painters