Florian Freier // selected works and concepts

about

Florian Freier graduated from Munich Academy of Arts while working as a freelance webdesigner, photographer and google search engine optimizer.

His photographic and conceptual works have been cited in international blogs and magazines, including Monopol-Magazin, Fastcompany, Süddeutsche Zeitung, WIRED, VICE creatorsproject, ilikethisart.net and frieze-magazine, and added to the library of the printed web and the collection of artist books of the Museum of Modern Art New York.

Selected exhibitions:

2023	(Not) A Doll’s House. (K)ein Puppenheim - Traditional Roles and Brand-New Images, Sammlung Goetz and Munich Stadtmuseum curated by: Mascha Erbelding, Rudolf Scheutle, Karsten Löckemann and Pietro Tondello; (Including: Kara Walker, Cindy Sherman, Gillian Wearing, Laurie Simmons, Andy Hope 1930 and others)
2018	Nominations for the Promotion Award for Photography by the City of Munich, Lothringer13 Halle, Munich DE
2017	"Untitled Snapchats" at Rencotres d'Arles #BYOPaper, Papeteries Etienne, Rencotres d'Arles 2017, Arles FR
	"No Secrets" feat. "Cached Landscapes" at photographic collection of Munich Stadtmuseum curated by Rudolf Scheutle (including Paolo Cirio, August Sander, Susan Morris, Mario Santamaria, Jenny Rova, ...)
	"Dadaclub.online - the exhibition" feat. "revolving poet" at Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia IT
2016	"Polivalents 2016", feat. selected works at Hangar.org, Barcelona ES
	Solo presentation at „unpainted LAB 3.0“ - MMA Munich Kesselhalle curated by Nate Hitchcock / Annette Doms (including Michael Mandiberg, Miltos Manetas, Aram Bartholl, ...)
2015	„Cached Landscapes“ at „Trevor Paglen - The Octopus“, Frankfurter Kunstverein
	„6PM your local time“ - feat. selected works at Link Art Center, Brescia IT
2014	"The Eye of God" at "(Mis)Understanding Photography" - Museum Folkwang, Essen curated by Florian Ebner (including: Hans-Peter Feldmann, Richard Prince, Thomas Ruff, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, ...)
2012	"Photogenus - Contemporary Meta Photography" - DAAP galleries, FotoFocus biennial Cincinnati, Ohio curated by Aaron Cowan and Jordan Tate (including: Travess Smalley, Kate Steciw, John Houck, Sebastian Verdon, Clement Valla)
	"Déjà-vu? from Dürer to YouTube", Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe curated by Wolfgang Ullrich and Ariane Mensger (including: Albrecht Dürer, Marcel Duchamp, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Elaine Sturtevant, ...)

Selected Publications:

Emilio Vavarella, 2020, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Artistic Strategies in the Age of Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Street View
ISBN 978-3030397548

Florian Ebner, 2014, Folkwang/Steidl
(Mis)understanding Photography - Works and Manifestos
ISBN 978-3-869-30764-0

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, 2017
Transforming World Atlas 2017

Florian Freier, 2017, self published, print on demand
The Moving City

Rudolf Scheutle, Eres Stiftung / Munich Stadtmuseum, 2017
No Secrets - Images of Surveillance
ISBN 978-3-00-056058-3

Florian Freier, 2016-2017, self published
Untitled Snapchats
ISBN 978-1-389-77346-4

Mira Hirtz, Kerber Verlag, 2012
Déjà-vu? from Dürer to YouTube
ISBN 978-3-866-78676-9

Florian Freier, Domenico Quaranta 2015, Link Editions
Profile Page
ISBN 978-1-326-49923-5