PIA FRIES Pia Fries work is known for its dramatic impasto and sculpted surfaces that bristle with vibrant colors. She applies pigment often directly from the tube with brushes, rollers, presses, palette knifes and other instruments. The paint appears saturated, glossy and luscious, in rich, colorful masses as well as other layers that are thin and fluid. Much like an archaeologist, she also scrapes, cuts or scratches off areas of the thick surface to reveal the layers of paint beneath. The negative space designated by the white or unfinished areas of the panel or paper provides a compliment to the painted areas and acts as a structural element in its own right. Ultimately Fries interest lies in the movement in the picture, the process, and the energies that emerge. Pia Fries lives and works in Dusseldorf and Berlin, Germany. She is an MA student of Gerhard Richter, having attended his painting classes at the Kunstakademie Dusserldorf from 1980 to 1986. Fries has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany (2010-2011) and Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (2007). Her work has been included in group exhibitions, The Doubled Image at Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland (2013), Landscape Confection at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2005), Beau Monde the SITE Santa Fe Biennial curated by Dave Hickey (2001), and Venice Biennale (1999). Fries work is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, NY; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland, among others. Born in 1955 in Beromünster, Switzerland Lives and works in Dusseldorf and Berlin Education 1977-1980 College of Art and Design, Lucerne, technical sculpture class at Anton Egloff 1980-1986 Art Academy Dusseldorf, painting with Gerhard Richter, a master student Solo Exhibitions 2015 Windhand Laufbein, Kunstplattform AKKU, Emmenbrücke, Lucerne, Switzerland Fernleib Manual, Galerie Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland 2014 Pia Fries: Paisages Maritimes, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica 2013 Pia Fries: Painting / Installation: Vera Lossau, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck Pia Fries: Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, 6 2012 color did Studio Michael Royen, Vettelschoss Pia Fries: marginal sea, CRG Gallery, New York 2011 Iserlohn Art Prize, Villa Wessel Iserlohn 2010 Pia Fries - Krapprhizom Luis copper, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Pia Fries: Circumpolar, Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid 2009 Fred Thieler Award 2009, Berlin Gallery, Berlin 2009 Pia Fries. Chip space, Baloise Art Forum, Basel Pia Fries: Merian's Surinam, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris 2008 Pia Fries. gutzgauch élévateur, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Pia Fries. la partie élévatrice, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon 2007 Pia Fries: loschaug, CRG Gallery, New York Pia Fries. Painting 1990-2007, Kunstmuseum Winterthur Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop Pia Fries. Painted Tongues, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 2006 Pia Fries: black wild, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Pia Fries: plumbago, Galería Distrito CU4TRO 2005 Pia Fries: lukilux, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica Pia Fries: hollerith, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon Pia Fries: Black flowers - monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco Pia Fries: Dover Publications, Galerie Nelson, Paris 2004 Pia Fries: Ornithology, Galería Distrito CU4TRO, Madrid Pia Fries: debris flow, CRG Gallery, New York 2003 Pia Fries: Les aquarelles de léningrad, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich 2002 Pia Fries, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels Pia Fries: New Paintings, CRG Gallery, New York Pia Fries, Galerie Nelson, Paris Pia Fries: ski trails, Paintings and Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica 2001 Pia Fries, Studio A, Museum gegenstandsfreier art district of Cuxhaven, Otter Village Pia Fries: Works on Paper, Herder space for art, Cologne Pia Fries, The Box, Turin, Italy 2000 Pia Fries, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck Pia Fries, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne 1999
Pia Fries: Peinture, Galerie Nelson, Paris Pia Fries, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Pia Fries: Nieuw work, Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem Pia Fries: parse and modules, Kunsthalle Göppingen 1998 Pia Fries, Kunstverein Göttingen Pia Fries: Painting, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf 1997 Art Prize Munsterland 1996: Pia Fries, Aurelia Mihai, Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, savings Coesfeld Pia Fries, Kunstverein Freiburg, Pia Fries, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau Pia Fries, Museum Kurhaus Kleve Pia Fries: painting, Kunstverein Ulm 1996 Pia Fries, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich 1995 Pia Fries, gallery Benzeholz, Meggen 1994 Pia Fries, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich 1993 Pia Fries, Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld 1992 Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Luzern Pia Fries, Bonner Kunstverein 1988 Pia Fries, Galerie Rüdiger Schoettle, Munich Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 freshly painted, Brother Klaus Museum, Sachseln 2013 Yes, No, Maybe, Artists Working at Crown Point Press,National Gallery of Art, Washington Double image, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn 2012 salon of the present, Hamburg Beautiful sadness, Gallery E105, Berlin, Berlin new paintings from the collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur it's only painting but I like it, with Jo Dickreiter, Tatjana,Kunstverein Offenburg, Offenburg
Doll, Pia Fries, Steffen Lenk, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Richard Allen Morris, Gert and Uwe Tobias, Stéfane Zaech la lingne passée, Gallery Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg 2011 risk + reward, The Foster Gallery, Wisconsin the language of the flowers, CRG Gallery, New York 2010 Ambigu. Contemporary painting from abstraction and narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Do not Look Now. The Collection of Contemporary Art, Part 1, Kunstmuseum Bern FUSION. Goya Contemporary Baltimore, Mariland Inaugural show, CRG Gallery, New York 2009 Drawing of the World - World of Drawing, Museum of Art, Seoul National University show. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander. Soundtrack by Hans Brändli, Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin Christoph Bucher / vs. / Pia Fries. Gallery Kamchatka, Paris Irreversible. Double Meaning of the Sanchez Ubirìa's Collection, Paco da Cultura de Pontevedra 2008 Lust. The Presence of Absence, group exhibition for the opening of the Columbus Art Foundation, Leipzig Plasticismes. Pràctiques abstractes avui, Centre de Cultura "SA NOSTRA" de Palma Exhibition handle. Participating artists of the symposium put together with students and teachers at the Muthesius Academy of, Muthesius Academy Kiel 2 x [(2 x 20) + (2 2)] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world, Part I, May 36 Galerie, Zurich 2007 25th Anniversary, Galerie Nelson, Paris Group Show, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Rolf Ricke Collection a contemporary document, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main Top of Central Switzerland. Contemporary Art from Central Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern Certainly art. The art collection of the provincial insurance, Museum Flensburg 2006 From judges to Scheibnitz: German works on paper since 1960 from the Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur Option 3: Daylight: provincial involvement in the Rhineland of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn Helga de Alvear: Concepts for a Collection, Exhibition Center of the Centro Cultural de Belém Clear Cuts Collection "Clear": The Private Collection of Michael Stankiewicz, castle Raab, Raab an der Thaya 100 artists - 100 Watercolors, Jeannie course, Fine Art, New York VIP III: Arena of abstraction, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen 2005 Karin Sander show. Audio Tour Through the Collection of Helga de Alvear, Soundtrack by Hans Brändli, 2005, No. 18 Landscape Confection, Wexner Center Galleries at The Belmont Building, Columbus, 29.1. - 1.5.2005 / Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 23.7. -11.9.2005 / Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach Sweet Temptations: Rolf Ricke Collection, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Art Unlimited. Art Basel 36
Miradas conceptos y en la colección Helga de Alvear, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz Painting's Edge, Parks Exhibition Center on the Idyllwild Arts Campus, Idyllwild, CA, Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Balance in two acts: Collection of Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation, Part 2, Kunstverein Hannover Looping, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand Step into Liquid, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles XS, Galería Distrito CU4TRO, Madrid 2004 25th Anniversary: The LA Years, Part I, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles VIP 2: The New, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen Arte sobre papel, Galería Distrito CU4TRO, Madrid Angela de la Cruz, Paul Doran, Pia Fries, Dennis Hollingsworth, Jürgen Meyer, Adrian Schiess, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem Le Syndrome de Babylone, Centre d'art Contemporain de la Villa du Parc, Annemasse 2003 La Langue dans la boue, Musée du Tapis et des Arts Textiles, Clermont-Ferrand New Abstract Painting - Abstract Painting Now, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen Torn Between Two Lovers, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Painting?, Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel, Colorado, Gallery Klinkhammer and Metzner, Dusseldorf Perpetuum Mobile: 40 years Galerie Rolf Ricke Gallery Rolf Ricke, Cologne Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe 2002 Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galleria No Code, Bologna Group Exhibition: Sculpture Painting Photography, Beautiful Forest Fine Arts, Xanten Simply Art: Rolf Ricke Collection, New Museum State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg Sight Mapping, Konsthalle Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla,Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Rekalde, Bilbao 2001 LA International, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica Delicious, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, 5.7. -15.8.2001 / Gallery Rolf Ricke, Cologne Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism - The Fourth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe Julius Baer type in the helmet house guest, Helmet House Zurich Un siècle de défis: L'art du XXe siècle dans les collections du Musée des Beaux-Arts d'aarau Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau, Musée Rath, Geneva 2000 Surface and Paint, CRG Gallery, New York Paintings, Maximilian Krips Gallery, Cologne Flowerpower, Klinik Im Schachen, Aarau From Edgar Degas to Gerhard Richter. Works on paper from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, / Prague National Gallery, Palais Kinsky, Prague / Rupertinum, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Salzburg / Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster / New Museum, State Museum of Arts and Design, Nuremberg The memory of the painting, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau 2356 KM art from Dusseldorf to Moscow, New Manege, Moscow
Campi di Oscillazione, Convento dei Cappuccini, Caraglio Juxtaposition III: Painting Today - Overseas and Here, Renate Schroeder Gallery, Cologne 1999 special offer, Kassel Kunstverein La Biennale di Venezia: 48 Esposizione internazionale d'arte: Dapertutto '99 '59 Respectively: consideration on 40 years of art in Switzerland, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau Super-Abstr-Action, The Box, Turin / gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris 1998 Abstract: Paintings by Pia Fries, René J. Goffin, Birgit Jensen, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel Color 1, gallery Monika Reitz, Frankfurt am Main Arts Switzerland, Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 3.1. Booth 351, 7-12.10.1998 / Townhouse Olten 1997 Pia Fries, Birgit Jensen, Kunstverein Arnsberg Image spaces, Regional Cultural Centre, Salzau Position Abstract / Specifically, gallery Beautiful forest and Beuse, Krefeld Pia Fries, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Perry Roberts, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf Not yet and / or infrequently Shown from the collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur 1996 near & far: 19 positions. Artists from Germany, City Gallery in Sofia Last infusion: 50 Artist / inside of Dusseldorf, sauna department of the former wave pool, Green Street, Dusseldorf En Helvetes förvandling-eng-90 talskonst från North Rhine-Westphalia, Kulturhuset Stockholm Our time-our Time, Gallery Beautiful forest and Beuse, Krefeld 1995 3 positions to painting: Pia Fries, Gerhard Martini, Paul Moran, Cora Hölzl Gallery, Dusseldorf Untitled: The collection of contemporary Swiss art the Foundation for Art Today, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau Drawing: Inner Switzerland II, Valley Museum Engelberg 1994 Miniature: Painting and Sculpture, Gallery Beautiful forest and Beuse, Krefeld Visiting... Atroper 26, Duisburg-Rheinhaus From the art collection of the city of Lucerne, Lucerne Kornschütte at City Hall 1993 Hans Brändli, Pia Fries, Karin Kneffel, Galerie Rüdiger Schoettle, Munich Fellows of the Federal Art Scholarship in 1992, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / Ernemann new, Dresden Troy Brown cloth, Pia Fries, Thomas Ruff, Adrian Schiess, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Stephanien Straße 16: An address - An exhibition Stephanien Straße 16, Dusseldorf 1992 Fellows of the Federal Art Scholarship in 1991, the Kunstmuseum Solothurn The carpet of life: Katharina Fritsch, Pia Fries, Hans Brändli, Michael van Ofen, Stefan Sehler, Municipal Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve 1987-1992: The 29 Exhibition, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne 1991
Lucerne transit? Part I: Andreas Snappy, Max Bühlmann, Pia Fries, Jörg Niderberger, Franz Wanner, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne 1990 Scene Switzerland, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim 1989 Presentation of juried works. Work grants from the canton and the town of Lucerne, competition Fine Arts in 1989, cultural panorama at the Lion Square, Lucerne 1988 Helmut Dorner, Pia Fries, Axel Kasseböhmer, Jürgen Meyer, Galerie Nelson, Lyon 1986 Greenhouse 4, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf 1985 Pour parer les coups, Instant Upload, Kriens 1984 Collection Helmut clinker: painting, sculpture, objects and graphics, Kunstmuseum Bochum 1982 Hans Brändli Bogomír Ecker, Pia Fries, André Gelpke, Arno Jansen, Astrid Klein, Bernd Minnich, Augustina von Nagel, Peter Telljohann, gallery Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf Collections Aarau, Aargau Kunsthaus Aarau Bern, Bern Art Museum, Fine Arts Foundation Today Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne FRAC Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art Essen, Museum Folkwang Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern Nuremberg, Neues Museum - State Museum of Art and Design in Nuremberg Otter Village, Studio A Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen Stuttgart, Stuttgart State Gallery Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich Scholarships and Awards
1985 Prize of the Jury of the six central Swiss cantons 1986 Graduate scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia 1989 Work contribution of the canton and the town of Lucerne, Visual Arts Federal Art Scholarship 1991 Federal Art Scholarship 1992 Nordmann Award Canton of Lucerne Federal Art Scholarship 1994 Bonn Art Fund 1996 Art Prize Munsterland 2000 Atelier Zuger Cultural Foundation Landis & Gyr in London 2009 Fred Thieler Prize, Berlin Gallery, Berlin 2011 Iserlohn Art Prize, Villa Wessel Iserlohn Bibliography 2014 Knight, Christopher. "Pia Fries at Christopher Grimes Gallery," Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2009. 2009 Pia Fries. Spanraum, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, June 10 October 30, 2009 (brochure). Ihler-Meyer, Sarah Pia Fries. Merian s Surinam, Parisart, Art/Reviews, October 6, 2009. Anonymous, Die Bildhauerin der Farbe, Badische Zeitung, September 1, 2009. Wildermann, Patrick Schmetterlingsraupen er blühen und verglühen, Der Tagesspiegel, March 25, 2009. Hinrichsen, Jens Metamorphose der Farben, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, March 25, 2009. Braun, Lena Im Sumpf der Farben, Berliner Morgenpost, March 19, 2009. Fred Thieler Preis 2009, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2009, March 18 May 11, 2009 (cat.) Carega, Paola Renommierter Preis fürs Malen mit Messer und Säge, swissinfo.ch, March 18, 2009. Interview mit Radio Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), March 17, 2009. Anon., Pia Fries mit Fred-Thieler-Preis ausge zeichnet, monopol,magazin für Kunst und Leben, Feburary 26, 2009. Anon., Fred Thieler Preis für Malerei 2009 an Pia Fries, art-in-berlin, February 24, 2009 Anonymous, Pia Fries erhält Fred Thieler Preis, Frankfurter Rundschau, online-ausgabe, February 19, 2009. 2007 Loskill, Hans-Jörg Freches Mädchen der Malerei. Das Bottroper Quadrat hat die Schweizer Künstlerin Pia Fries für sich entdeckt, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, September 6, 2007. Anonymous, Der Pinsel spielt keine Rolle mehr. Quadrat stellt Arbeiten von Pia Fries aus, Stadtspiegel Bottrop, September 5, 2007. Schmidt, Niels Holger Wildheit und Strenge. Neue Ausstellung moderner Malerei von Pia Fries im Quadrat, mittendrin!, September 2, 2007. Jäger, Bettina Farblich ist die Hölle los. Ausstellung: Die umwerfende Malerei von Pia Fries inbottrop, Ruhr Nachrichten, August 25, 2007. Anonymous, Das kleine freche Mädchen. Malerei von Pia Fries in der Modernen Galerie, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, August 25, 2007. von Burg Dominique, Pia Fries im Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Kunst-Bulletin no. 6, June 1, 2007, p. 83. Weiland, Florian Farbinseln in 3D. Kunstmuseum Winterthur zeigt Malerei der Richter-Schülerin Pia Fries, Südkurier, no. 107, May 10, 2007, p. 22. Mathonnet, Philippe Pia Fries fait danser les couleurs, Le Temps,Geneva, May 8, 2007, p. 40. Anon., Nichts als Farbe formt das Bild, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, May 8, 2007, p. 39. Schindler, Feli Farbmassen mit Rokoko-Touch, Zürcher Tagesanzeiger, May 5, 2007. Wüst, Karl Farbenspiel und luftige Lösungen, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, May 3, 2007, p. 12.
Mack, Gerhard Die Farbe soll auf ihre Kosten kommen, Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag, April 29, 2007, p. 70. Winter Agi, Kunstmuseum Winterthur: Pia Fries, Malerei 1990 bis 2007, Der Töszthaler, April 28, 2007, p. 5. Wüst, Karl Farben als Konstruktionsmaterial, Zürcher Oberländer, April 27, 2007, p. 28. Meier, Philipp Barocke Tafelfreuden. Pia Fries in einer Retrospektive im Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 25, 2007, p. 53. Pia Fries Malerei 1990 2007, Pia Fries im Kunstmuseum Winterthur, DRS2aktuell, April 21, 2007. Wüst, Karl Lustvolles Spiel mit der Farbe. Pia Fries imkunstmuseum Winterthur,Switzerland, Depeschenagentur, April 20, 2007. Schwendener Martha, Pia Fries, The New York Times, February 23, 2007, p. E35. Pia Fries: loschaug,crg Gallery,New York, February 2 March 3, 2007 (brochure). Frankel, David Pia Fries, CRG Gallery, Artforum International, April 2007, p. 270 271. Anon., Gebirge aus Farbe, Zurichtipp no. 13, March 27 April 2, 2008, p. 37. Reust, Hans Rudolf Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Artforum International, January 2007, p. 131. 2006 Mayer, Mariano Pia Fries, NEQ2, September 2006. de la Villa, Rocío Pia Fries, sentido y sensibilidad, El Cultural, October 12-18, 2006. Anonymous, Pia Fries: Plumbago, Artnotes, no. 11, 2006. Zarza, Víctor Un espectáculo suculento, ABC Cultural, September 20, 2006. Mooney, Christopher Pia Fries:DoverPublications, Modern Painters, February 2006. Vieira, Sandra Pia Fries, Artey parte, no. 56, 2005. Myers, Terry Coming Up Roses, Art Review, no. 56, June 2005. Johnson, Ken Pia Fries MurGang, The New York Times, May 28, 2004. de la Vega, Carlos García Madrid: Distrito Cu4tro, Contemporary, no. 63, 2004. Anonymous, Ornithology, de Pia Fries, El nuevo lunes, February 23-29, 2004. Nomblot, Javier Rubio Óleo para modelar, Blanco y Negro Cultural, March 13, 2004 Loría, Vivianne Pia Fries, Lapiz, vol. 23, no. 202, April 2004. Zwez, Annelise Pia Fries in der Galerie Mai 36, Kunst-Bulletin, December 2003. Meier, Philipp Joghurt und Konfitüre: Pia Fries in der Galerie Mai 36, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, no. 293, December 17, 2003. Reust, Hans Rudolf Zurich: Pia Fries, Galerie Mai 36, Artforum, vol. 43, September 2004. 2003 Frank, Peter Pia Fries, Rene Norman, LA Weekly, January 10-16, 2003. Douglas, Sarah Pia Fries: Christopher Grimes GallerySanta Monica, The Art Newspaper, no. 132, January 2003. 2002 Pagel, David A quiet riot, in a hothouse setting, Los Angeles Times, December 20, 2002. Smith, Roberta Pia Fries, The New Yorker, April 22-29, 2002. Goddard, Donald Pia Fries: New Paintings, New YorkArt World, March 21, 2002. 2001 Matteu, Daniela Fries: pittura come gesso, Arte, no. 337, September 2001. Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "Taking a Critic at His Word," Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2001. jk, Hell, klar und heiter: Papierarbeiten von Pia Fries, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, no. 136, June 15, 2001. Kruse, Hans-Henning Eine wahre Farbexplosion, Niederelbe Zeitung, March 27,.2001. ur, Kraftvolle Malerei mit starken Farben, Niederelbe Zeitung, March 23, 2001. Kaiserkern, Babette Rätselhaft und farbensatt, Foyer, March 15 May 15, 2001.
2000 Koerver, Jens Peter Varianten der Farbe, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, no. 292, December 16-17, 2000. Holm, Eter Wenn die Farbe in den Raum greift, Kieler Nachrichten, no. 130, June 6, 2000. Adamek, Jürgen Üppig verführerische, fröhliche Farblandschaften, Lübecker Nachrichten, March 6, 2000. 1999 Müller, Helmut H. Hier wird das Bild zum Farbraum, Eßlinger Zeitung, November 9, 1999. Vogel, Matthias Farbe: ein Ereignis an sich, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, no. 260, November 8,1999. Anonymous, Parsen und Module, Neue Württembergische Zeitung, Göppingen, October 22, 1999. Anonymous, Pia Fries: parsen, GEPPO Der Stadtbote, October 20, 1999. Mack, Gerhard Raumgreifende Dialoge, Cash, no. 41, October 15,1999. Sundkvist, John Vämjelse insmugen i målerisk skönhet, Svenska Dagbladet, April 24, 1999. 1998 Otto, Julia Gewichtige Farben und federleichte Schleier, Göttinger Tagblatt, February 26, 1998. Otto, Julia Die Kraft soll im Bild zu sehen sein, Göttinger Tagblatt, February 14,1998. Otto, Julia Gespalten, zerpflügt und zerplatzt, Charakter: Göttingens Citymagazin, no. 12, 1998. Bubenzer, Nicole Thema ist die Farbe, Kunst Aktuell, no. 3, Year 12, 1998. 1997 Kollros, Petra Pink stört sich an Grasgrün nicht, Südwestpresse, December 13,1997. Heese, Ralf Pia Fries läßt Ölfarbe wirbeln, Neue Ulmer Zeitung, no. 285, December 11, 1997. rh, Pia Fries benutzt Ölfarbe als plastischen Werkstoff, Schwäbische Zeitung, no. 284, December 9,1997. Grass, Matthias Vegetation aus Farbe und Form, Rheinische Post, November 4, 1997. Mönig, Roland Polyphonie der Farben und Formen, artefact, no. 10, October15, 1997. Grass, Matthias Greller Gletscher aus gelber Farbe, Neue Ruhr Zeitung Neue Rhein Zeitung, October 18, 1997. Suter, Heinrich Pia Fries stellt in Aarau aus, An zeiger für das Michelsamt, 3. Bl. zu no. 15, October 4,1997. Gürtler, Carole Kunsthaus Aarau: Renée Levi, Kiki Lamers, Pia Fries: Die Farbe, die verbindet und die trennt, Basler Zeitung, no. 116, May 22,1997. Baumann, Hans Die Präzision der Dokumentation, Der Bund, May13, 1997. frg, Wesenskern, Raumwerte und Lebensgerüst: Kiki Lamers, Renée Levi und Pia Fries stellen im Aargauer Kunsthaus aus, Zofinger Tagblatt, April 23,1997. Oberholzer, Niklaus Kunsthaus Aarau: Pia Fries, Kiki Lamers, Renée Levi: Drei Künstlerinnen und ihr Gang aufs weite Feld der Malerei, Neue Luzerner Zeitung, no. 92, April 22,1997. Zwez, Annelies Endlich wieder eine junge zeitgenössische Ausstellung mit Kunsthallencharakter!, Aargauer Zeitung, April 22,1997. Ruhl, Felix Farben in voller Bergund Talfahrt, Badische Zeitung, February 12,1997. Blankenburg, Viola Pia Fries im Freiburger Kunstverein, Südwestfunk: Freiburg i.br., S2, Kultur Regional, February 3,1997. Beil, Ralph Das urmein -Experiment.Oderdie farbmateriale Lust der Pia Fries, Kunst-Bulletin, no. 4, 1997. AlterHofHerding, Sparkasse Coesfeld, January 19 March 2,1997 (cat.) 1996 Kunstpreis Münsterland 1996: Pia Fries, Aurelia Mihai, Ernsting Stiftung Mack, Gerhard Pia Fries inzurich, Cash, no. 51/52, December 20, 1996. Anon., Pia Fries stellt inzurichaus, Wynentaler Blatt, no. 94, November 26,1996. Suter, Heinrich Pia Fries stellt in Düsseldorf aus, Anzeiger für das Michelsamt, no. 45, November 7, 1996. Vogel, Maria Die Grenzen des Beschreibens der Malerei, Luzerner Zeitung, no. 246, October 24, 1995. Roelli, Eva Alles, was die Farbe hergibt, Luzerne Neueste Nachrichten, no. 244, October 21, 1995.
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