CURRICULUM VITAE

Verena Freyschmidt
1975 born in Frankfurt am Main
lives and works in Offenbach and Hanau

STUDIES

2002-2006 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Helmut Federle
2000-2002 Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz with Prof. Winfried Virnich

LECTURESHIP

2015-2019 LECTURER FOR DRAWING Alanus University for Art and Society, Bonn - Alfter, Faculty of Fine Arts, subject painting

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2015 Artist in residence, MYART, Vienna, Austria
2015 Artist in residence, SZENT-ANDRAS-KASTELY, Bolcske, Hungary
2015 Nomination for the prize of DARMSTÄDTER SEZESSION
2013 Stipend of GOETHE-INSTITUT MALAYSIA, Artist in residenc, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
2011/12 Grant of ONOMATO Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 Artist in residence, Vienna, Austria
2011 Exhibition support of GOETHE-INSTITUT BELGRADE, Serbia
2010/11 Stipend and studio grant of LEPSIEN ART FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf
2009 Stipend of the city of DÜSSELDORF, Artist in residence, Belgrade, Serbia
2006 Stipend of the ministry of culture of HESSEN, Artist residency, Czech Republic

EXHIBITIONS

solo shows

2020 SUSPENDED STRUCTURES, Orbit 24, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2018 RHIZOM, Neuer Kunstverein Gießen, Gießen, Germany
2018 SCHATTENPFADE HELSINKI, Akusmata Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2016 PAPIERARBEITEN 6, Gallery Maurer, Frankfurt / Main, Germany (with Katrin Paul)
2016 METAMORPHOSEN, Kunstverein Trier Junge Kunst, Trier, Germany
2015 WOLKEN SIND KEINE KUGELN, Tina Miyake, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 PATTERN AND GEOFORM, RAUM Oberkassel, Düsseldorf, Germany (with J. Schnüttgen)
2013 BAT WALK, Lostgens Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2013 ORGANICS, Gallery Alte Lateinschule, Viersen, Germany (with Ulli Böhmelmann)
2011 FRACTAL STRUCTURES, myart, Vienna, Austria
2011 CONSTRUCTION-DECONSTRUCTION, Gallery of the university Belgrade, (with Simon Halfmeyer), Belgrade, Serbia
2010 BACK FROM, Atelier am Eck (with Yukako Ando), Düsseldorf, Germany Kunstverein Duisburg (with Wonkun Jun), Duisburg, Germany
2009 Gallery of the academy of fine art, Belgrade, Serbia

group shows

2020 PATTERNS-STRUCTURES-LINES, Gallery Nanna Preußners, Hamburg, Germany
2020 PAPER POSITIONS BERLIN, with Gallery Nanna Preußners
2019 HAUSGEISTER – KÜNSTLER SAMMELN KUNST, Literaturhaus Halle, Halle, Germany
2019 ADDITIONEN, RK Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018 EINUNDZWANZIG, Kunstverein Gießen, Gießen, Germany
2018 THE FLYING FIELD, CLB Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018 L'ANGLE DU HASARD, modena artlab, Vienna, Austria
2018 HAUSGEISTER – KÜNSTLER SAMMELN KUNST, Stadtmuseum
Naumburg, Germany
2018 GRAENSELANDSUDSTILLINGEN, Sønderjyllandshallen, Aabenraa, Denmark
2017 PAPER(S) ART, Gallery Matthias Erntges, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 STRICHSTÄRKE, PETERSBURGER Raum für Kunst, Cologne, Germany
2017 30 JAHRE ARTMARK, Artmark Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2017 DAS ESSZIMMER GOES WELTRAUM, Weltraum, Basel, Switzerland
2017 WACHSEN – WIEDERHOLEN – VARIIEREN, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, Germany
2016 3 POSITIONEN AUS DÜSSELDORF, Gallery Bernhard Bischoff, Bern, Switzerland
2016 PAPER TIGER, Studio Bronx, Neuss, Germany
2016 TRANSITIONS, Galerie Lattemann, Darmstadt, Germany
2016 ABSTRACT STRATEGIES, boecker-contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany
2015 AUFBRUCH, prize of Darmstädter Sezession, University of Darmstadt, Germany
2015 ABSTRACT STRATEGIES, Gallery Martina Kaiser (Cologne) and Mirta Demare ruimte voor actuele kunst, Rotterdam, Netherland
2015 TRANSITIONS, Artmark Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2015 ABSTRACT STRATEGIES, Gallery Schütte, Essen, Germany
2014 ABSTRAKT, SPAM contemporary, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014 MEMORY, Gallery Alte Post, Neuss, Germany
2013 ÜBERMALEN, prize of Darmstädter Sezession, Designhaus, Darmstadt, Germany
2013 CONTINENT 2000, Galerie Lethert, Bad Münstereifel, Germany
2013 MA - LOB DEM ZWISCHENRAUM, Shiwori Gallery, Kurashiki, Japan
2012 MA – LOB DEM ZWISCHENRAUM, Gallery Artmark, Vienna, Austria
2012 STIPENDIATEN ABSCHLUSSAUSSTELLUNG, Künstlerverein onomato, Düsseldorf

PROJECTS

Since 2020 mentor within the framework of the professionalisation programme for female visual artistsof the KULTURBÜRO RHEINLAND-PFALZ, supported by the Ministry of Culture of the State of Rhineland-Palatinatesince
2016-2017 member of SPAM-CONTEMPORARY, off-space, Düsseldorf, Germany