Florian Freier // selected works and concepts

about

Florian Freier's selected works and concepts are exploring social, cultural and political topics by working at the intersection of photography, digitalization and communication.

Freier graduated from Munich Academy of Arts while working as a freelance webdesigner, photographer and google search engine optimizer. His works have been exhibited at international group shows, including works by Richard Prince, Marcel Duchamp, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Elaine Sturtevant and others.

Freier's documentary Profile Page has been published as a print on demand foto book and free e-book under a cc license and has been added to the library of the printed web and the collection of artist books of the Museum of Modern Art New York.

The project Cached Landscapes has been awarded by Trevor Paglen and Frankfurter Kunstverein with the Eagle-Eye photo award and exhibited at Trevor Paglen's first German solo show "The Octopus" at Frankfurter Kunstverein in mid 2015.

Freier's ongoing photographic study The Moving City has been realized with a long term studio residency at Barcelona based Hangar Studios and has been nominated for the Promotion Award for Photography by the City of Munich in spring 2018.

Also recognized for his google earth based travels in the series The Eye of God, Freier's works have been cited in international blogs and magazines, including Monopol-Magazin, Fastcompany, Süddeutsche Zeitung, WIRED, VICE creatorsproject, ilikethisart.net and frieze-magazine.

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, 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:

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, Error, Ambiguity, and Creativity;
Emilio Vavarella; On Counter-Mapping and Media-Flânerie
ISBN 978-3030397548

Folkwang/Steidl, 2014, (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 - The Moving City
self published, print on demand

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

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

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

Link Editions, 2015, Florian Freier - Profile Page
ISBN 978-1-326-49923-5 (collection)