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Katharina Fritsch:

Rat-King (Rattenkönig), 1993

April 15, 1993 - June 19, 1994

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Selected Bibliography

Katharina Fritsch. Basel: Kunsthalle/London: ICA, 1988. Text by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

BiNATIONALE: German Art of the Late '80s. Düsseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle, 1988. "Interview with Katharina Fritsch," by Marie Luise Syring and Christiane Vielhaber.

Katharina Fritsch 1979-1989. Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein/Frankfurt am Main: Portikus, 1989. Text by Julian Heynen.

Parkett, no. 25, September 1990. Special Edition: Katharina Fritsch & James Turrell. Texts by Gary Garrels, Julian Heynen, Dan Cameron.

Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1990. Text by Kathy Halbreich.

OBJECTives: The New Sculpture. Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990. Text by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen.


Biography

Katharina Fritsch was born in Essen, Germany on February 14, 1956. She studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where she continues to live and work. Since her first show in 1984 she has exhibited widely in Europe and North America.


Funding

Major funding for this project has been received from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, Washington, D.C., with additional funding from The Cowles Charitable Trust, the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, the Dia Art Council, the major annual support group of the Dia Center for the Arts, and the Dia Art Circle. International transportation was provided by Lufthansa German Airlines. Support for the 1992-93 exhibitions program has also been provided through a generous grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.