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Gunnar Friel

Gunnar Friel
Gunnar Friel
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www.gunnarfriel.de

Gunnar Friel is a german media artist that works with installation, video and photography. He studied at the Academy of Media Art Cologne with Prof. Valie Export. Friel investigates different qualities of spaces and their relationship to material and social interactions. His videos are often based on interviews reflecting language and image.

Together with Anja Vormann, as german artist-duo Vormann /Friel, he realized site specific interventions and installations in public spaces. 2004 they were awarded at the H.W. & J. Hector Prize for Contemporary Art, 2006 at the German Video-Art Prize Marl.

Gunnar Friel has exhibited internationally and received several prizes, amongst others: 2020 „Dialogos con el Archivo“ Casa Planas Palma, 2019 „STUDIO friendship“, Academy of the Arts of the World Cologne, 2015 – 2018 Triangulo – International Research Program Centro University Mexico, 2009 Linz European Capital of Culture, Austria, Media Art Grant, 2006 „Resistance on Interpretation“, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria.

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