MINNEAPOLIS, February 1 2017—The Walker Art Center presents Katharina Fritsch:
Multiples, spanning the career of Katharina Fritsch and celebrating the installation of
her monumental new work in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Katharina Fritsch:
Multiples will be on view in the Burnet Gallery from May 11–October 15, 2017. The
23-foot-high ultramarine blue Hahn/Cock (2013), the artist’s largest public art piece
in a US museum collection, will be unveiled in the newly renovated Garden in
June 2017.
Celebrated as one of the most innovative sculptors of our time, Katharina Fritsch
mines the history, myths, and fairy tales of Germany as well as her own thoughts and
dreams to explore the nature of human perception and experience. By using
everyday objects as subject matter—small animals, body parts, religious figurines,
and other elements from the made and natural worlds—and altering them through
unexpected shifts in scale, color, and materials, Fritsch evokes a sense of wonder and
blurs the boundaries between the ordinary and the deeply symbolic.
Organized by the Walker, Katharina Fritsch: Multiples includes early examples from
her student years at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie to later pieces, providing a look
into her long-standing themes and ideas through some 40 works drawn from the
Walker’s collection.
Curated by Pavel Pyś and Victoria Sung
Katharina Fritsch was born in 1956 in Essen, Germany and lives and works in
Düsseldorf. She has had many solo exhibitions including the Contemporary Art
Museum, St. Louis; Art Institute of Chicago; Kunsthaus Zürich; Deichtorhallen
Hamburg; K21, Düsseldorf; Tate Modern, London; Museum fur Gegenwartskunst,
Basel; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Dia Center for the Arts, New York. Her work has also been included in numerous international group shows including
the Venice Biennales of 1995 and 2011.
RELATED EVENTS
Opening-Day Program
May 11, 6 and 6:30 pm
Burnet Galley and Mediatheque
On the opening day of the exhibition Katharina Fritsch: Multiples, join exhibition
curators Pavel Pyś and Victoria Sung for an in-gallery talk. Then head to the
Mediatheque for a guest presentation by Rachel Jans (Assistant Curator of Painting
and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) featuring an in-depth look at
the multiples in the context of the artist’s larger practice. The first part will be at 6pm
in the galleries, and the second, 6:30pm in the Mediatheque.
Art School: Sculpture
May 21, 2 pm
Bentson Mediatheque
$5 (free for contributing members)
This summer Katharina Fritsch’s innovative sculptures will be featured in the
exhibition Katharina Fritsch: Multiples and in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden,
where her monumental ultramarine blue Hahn/Cock (2013) will be unveiled. Learn
about the artist behind the rooster from exhibition curators Pavel Pyś and Victoria
Sung.