Enric FreundPainter · Berlin
The present moment feels to me like one great retrospective. We look back at the long history behind us and ask: what is actually still contemporary?
For me it is like looking at the rotor blades of a helicopter, or of a fan; we see a unity made of parts, which gives us the impression of being everywhere at once. We know it is an illusion, and yet, owing to the speed, we see a whole. The painterly equivalent of this visual ambivalence is, for me, the flicker. The eye gains and loses focus and finds its way through the paintings.
Enric Freund, born 1994 in Bremen, holds a Diploma in Fine Arts and completed postgraduate studies (Meisterschüler) with Prof. Stephan Baumkötter at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. He lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions
Awards & Grants
2025Georg Meistermann Grant, Cusanuswerk
2023Graduate Award, Hochschule für Künste Bremen
2019Max Ernst Grant, Schloss Brühl, Brühl
2018Werner-Kühl Prize, Kreis-Museum Syke
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026Die Schönheit des Unvollkommenen, DG Kunstraum, Munich
2025Georg Meistermann Grant, Werkhalle, Spinnerei Leipzig
2024Masterclass Prize, Ketterer Kunst, Munich
2024zip, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen
2024Produzent*innen, Galerie Mitte, Bremen
2023Die Oberfläche vom Mond sieht immer so trocken aus, Galerie 149, Bremerhaven
2022Spill Over, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin
2019Westentasche, GaDeWe – Galerie des Westens, Bremen
2019#9d725b, Tor 40, Güterbahnhof Bremen
2019Montage am Dienstage, Montagehalle, HFBK Braunschweig
2018Das Unheimliche, Focke-Museum, Bremen
2018A_Sample, Galerie am Schwarzen Meer, Bremen
CV
Enric Freund · b. 11 March 1994, Bremen · lives and works in Berlin
Education
2023–2024Meisterschüler (postgraduate studies) with Prof. Stephan Baumkötter, Hochschule für Künste Bremen
2016–2022Diploma in Fine Arts, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, class of Prof. Stephan Baumkötter. Diploma exhibition “Cave Vision”, Halle 1, Bremen
2012–2015BA History (major) and Social Anthropology (minor), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
