1955 Born in Beromunster, Switzerland
Lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany
EDUCATION
1977-1980 Lucerne School of Art and Design, Sculpture Department, Switzerland
1980-1986 Studied with Gerhard Richter, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Herkules Farnese, C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021 Kienbaum Collection, Cologne, Germany
Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Pia Fries: picklock manual, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
2019 FABELFAKT, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 corpus transludi, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Pia Fries, parsen und module, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France
Pia Fries, The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambler, OH
2015 Kunstplattform AKKU, Emmenbrucke, Luzern
Pia Fries – fernleib manual, Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Pia Fries: Paysages Maritimes, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Pia Fries: Paintings, Vera Lossau Installations, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck
Pia Fries, wetter fahnen fächer, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
2012 Pia Fries, randmeer, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Krapprhizom Luisenkupfer Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Pia Fries, Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany
2010 Pia Fries: Zirkumpolar, Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2009 Pia Fries: Merian’s Surinam, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France (cat.)
08-09 Pia Fries. la partie élévatrice, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lissabon, Portugal
2008 Pia Fries: gutzgauch élévateur, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Paintings 1990-2007, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany
Pia Fries: Painted Tongues, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
Loschaug, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Pia Fries: schwarzwild, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
Pia Fries: plumbago, Gallery Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain
2005 LUKILUX, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Pia Fries: hollerith, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
Pia Fries: Dover Publications, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland
Pia Fries: Schwarze Blumen – Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2004 Mur Gang, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Ornithology, Districto Cu4rto, Madrid, Spain
03-04 Pia Fries: Les aquarelles de léningrad, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2002 Schiwege, Paintings and Drawings, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Pia Fries, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
Pia Fries, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Pia Fries: New Paintings, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Museum Moderner Kunst, Ottendorf, Germany
Pia Fries, Studio A, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, Germany (cat.)
The Box, Associati, Torino, Italy
Pia Fries: Arbeiten auf Papier, HerderRaumFürKunst, Cologne, Germany
2000 Pia Fries, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
Pia Fries, Galerie Rolf Ricke,Cologne, Germany
1999 Pia Fries: Peinture, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Pia Fries: parsen und module, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany
LUDWIG FORUM fur internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1998 Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
97-98 Pia Fries: Malerei, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Pia Fries: Malerei, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
1997 Pia Fries, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Kunstverein, Arnsberg, Germany
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
1996 Pia Fries, Galerie Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland
1995 Pia Fries, Gemeindegalerie Benzeholz, Meggen, Switzerland
1994 Pia Fries, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1993 Pia Fries, Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany
1992 Pia Fries, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
1988 Pia Fries, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 VOR DEN BILDERN: Fotografie als Inspiration, NKR - NEUER KUNSTRAUM, Düsseldorf, Germany
Notes on Abstraction, Edition VFO, Zürich, Switzerland
2021 Contemplation, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany
INSIGHTS, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Diversity United. Contemporary European Art, Moscow. Berlin. Paris, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,
Russia; traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, and Paris, France
.CH, Mai Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2020 small is beautiful: (A) rtschwager to (Z)augg, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2019 Focus on Color, Braun-Falco Galerie, Munich, Germany
Pia Fries & Liat Yossifor, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
Flying Letters, Clay Street Press, Cincinnati, OH
Flugblätter Schloss Plüschow, Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus, Upahl, Germany
Schau, ich bin blind, schau, Hans and Monika Furer Collection, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Frozen Gesture, Kunstmuseum Winterthur,Winterthur, Germany
Flugblätter, Cross Lane Projects, Kendal, United Kingdom
2018 Magma#2, Shedhalle Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Flying Letters, Renga_gura / art & culture, Maebashi, Japan
QUASIDACAPO: Pia Fries, Hans Brändli, Galleria ARTE-RIA, Locarno, Switzerland
VLUGSCHRIFT | FLUGBLÄTTER, Teekengenootschap Pictura, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Collection of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2017 Landscape in Art After 1946, Hurrle Collection, Museum für Aktuelle Kunst, Durbach, Germany
Flugblätter, Künstler Gut Loitz, Loitz, Germany
Collection of Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Artist Portraits in Düsseldorf: 1800 until now, Akademie-Galerie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
THINK-PAINT, UNIX Gallery, New York, NY
Swiss Art from F. Hodler and G. Giacometti until now, Kunstausstellung Trubschachen,
Trubschachen, Switzerland
2016 Drama Queens, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
The Invention of Abstraction, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Outward Depth, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, Germany
I’ll Not Be In Your Damm Ledger: Steven Bindernagel,Tomory Dodge, Pia Fries, Sam Reveles,
Steve Roden, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Works from the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
2015 CH-Variations-Newer Swiss Drawings, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Germany
20 Years of Graphics, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
I can do it otherwise, Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
2014 Paperfile #10, Galerie Oqbo, Berlin
Frisch Gemalt, Bruder-Klaus Museum, Sachseln
2013 Yes, No, Maybe, Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Doubled Image, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
2012 Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg
Schontrauer, Galerie E105 Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Neue Malerei aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Its only Malerei but I like It, With Jo Dickreiter, Tatjana Doll, Pia Fries, Steffen Lenk, Fabian Marcaccio,
David Reed, Richard Allen Morris, Gert und Uwe Tobias, Stéfane Zaech, Kunstverein
Offenburg, Offenburg, Germany
La Lingne Passee, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg
2011 Risk + Reward, The Foster Gallery, Eau Claire, WI
The Language of the Flowers, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Material Matters, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2010 Inaugural Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Fusion: Pia Fries, Christian Marclay, Wilhelm Mundt, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Don’t Look Now: Die Sammlung Gegenwartskunst, Part 1, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland (cat.)
Ambigu: Zeitgenössische Malerei zwischen Abstraktion und Narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (cat.)
The Language of Flowers, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
09-10 Zeigen: Eine Audiotour durch Berlin von KarinSander. Soundtrack by Hans Brändli, Temporäre
Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany (cat.)
2009 Irreversible: Double Meaning of the Sanchez Ubirìa’s Collection, Paco da Cultura de Pontevedra,
Pontevedra, Spain
Christoph Bucher/vs./Pia Fries. Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, France
Drawing of the World – World of Drawing, Museum of Art Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea (cat.)
2008 rolfrickecollection. A Document of the Times, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein,
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (cat.)
2 x [(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world, Part I,
Mai Galerie 36, Zurich, Switzerland
Ausstellung HANDhaben: Artists involved in the symposium exhibit along with students and teachers of the
Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, Germany
Plasticismes: Pràctiques abstractes avui, Centre deCultura “SA NOSTRA” de Palma,
Illes Balears, Spain (cat.)
Wollust: The Presence of Absence, group exhibition for the reopening of the Columbus Art
Foundation, Leipzig, Germany
07-08 Mit Sicherheit Kunst: Die Kunstsammlung der Provinzial-Versicherungen, Museumsberg
Flensburg, Germany (cat.)
Top of Central Switzerland: Zeitgenössische Kunstaus der Zentralschweiz, Kunstmuseum
Luzern, Switzerland (cat.)
2007 Group Show, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
25th Anniversary, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France
2006 VIP III: Arena der Abstraktion, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
100 Artists – 100 Watercolors, Jeannie Freilich FineArt, New York, NY
Clear Cuts – Sammlung Wolkenlos, Die Privatsammlung von Michael Stankiewicz, Schloss Raabs,
Raabs an der Thaya, Austria
Helga de Alvear: Concepts for a Collection, Exhibition Center of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brazil
Auswahl 3: Daylight: Provinzial – Engagement im Rheinland für zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunstmuseum,
Bonn, Germany
Von Richter bis Scheibnitz: Deutsche Arbeiten auf Papier seit 1960 aus der Sammlung,
Kunstmuseum Winterthur (cat.)
05-06 XS, Galería Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain
Step into Liquid, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape Confection, Wexner Center Galleries, The Belmont Building, Columbus, OH; Contemporary
Arts Museum Houston, TX; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (cat.)
2005 Looping, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Bilanz in zwei Akten: Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung Collection, Part 2, Kunstverein
Hannover, Germany (cat.)
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (cat.)
Painting’s Edge, Parks Exhibition Centeron the Idyllwild Arts Campus, Idyllwild, CA
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte
Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain (cat.)
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switerland (cat.)
Sweet Temptations: Rolf Ricke Collection, Kunst –museum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Into the Liquid, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Dave Hickey
2004 Le Syndrome de Babylone, Centre d’Art Contemporainde la Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
Angela de la Cruz, Paul Doran, Pia Fries, Dennis Hollingsworth, Jürgen Meyer, Adrian Schiess, Galerie
Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Arte sobre papel, Galería Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain
V.I.P. 2: Die Neuen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
25th Anniversary: The L. A. Years, Part I, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
25th Anniversary: The LA Years, Part II, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
03-04 Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Perpetuum Mobile: 40 Jahre Galerie Rolf Ricke, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Colorado, Galerie Klinhammer und Metzner, Düsseldorf, Germany
Malerei?, Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel, Switzerland
Torn Between Two Lovers, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
New Abstract Painting–Painting Abstract Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.)
La Langue dans la boue, Musée du Tapis et des Arts Textiles, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Works on Paper, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Sight Mapping, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
01-02 Un siècle de défis: L’art du XXe siècle dans les collections du Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Aarau Aargauer
Kunsthaus Aarau, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism – The Fourth International Biennial, SITE,
Santa Fe, NM (cat.)
00-02 Von Edgar Degas bis Gerhard Richter: Arbeiten auf Papier aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseums
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic;
Palais Kinsky, Prague, Czech Republic; Rupertinum, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg,
Germany; Westfälisches Landes museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany;
Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, in Nuremberg, Germany (cat.)
2001 Julius Bär Art im Helmhaus zu Gast, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)
Delicious, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY; Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
L.A. International, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Beau Monde, The 4th SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
Surface and Paint, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Nebeneinander III: Painting Today – Overseas and Here, Renate Schröder Galerie, Cologne, Germany (cat.)
Campi di Oscillazione, Convento dei Cappuccini, Caraglio, Italy (cat.)
2356 KM Kunst aus Düsseldorf in Moskau, Neue Manege, Moscow, Russia (cat.)
Das Gedächtnis der Malerei, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland (cat.)
Surface and Paint, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings, Maximilian Krips Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Flower Power, Klinik Im Schachen, Aarau, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
99-00 Super-Abstr-Action, The Box, Turin, Italy; Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
1999 ’99 respektive ’59: Rücksicht auf 40 Jahre Kunst in der Schweiz, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, Switerland (cat.)
Special Offer, Kasseler Kunstverein, Germany (cat.)
D’Apertutto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig, Italy (cat.)
Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany
The Box Associati, Turin, Italy
98-99 Buch Kunst Schweiz, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Halle 3.1. Stand 351; Stadthaus Olten
1998 Farbe 1, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Abstract: Malerei von Pia Fries, René J. Goffin, Birgit Jensen, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Kiel, Germany
97-98 Noch nicht und/oder selten Gezeigtes aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
1997 Pia Fries, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Perry Roberts, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Position Abstrakt/Konkret, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld, Germany
Bild Räume, Landeskulturzentrum, Salzau, Germany
Pia Fries und Birgit Jensen, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
96-97 En helvetes förvandling–tysk 90-talskonst från Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturhuset
Stockholm, Sweden (cat.)
1996 Unsere Zeit – Our Time, Galerie Schönewald und Beuse, Krefeld, Germany (cat.)
Letzter Aufguß: 50 Künstler/innen aus Düsseldorf, Saunaabteilung des ehemaligen Wellenbades,
Grünstraße, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
nähe & ferne: 19 Positionen Künstlerinnen aus Deutschland, Stadtgalerie Sofia, Bulgaria (cat.)
1995 Zeichnung: Innerschweiz II, Tal Museum Engelberg Switzerland
Ohne Titel: Die Sammlung zeitgenössischer Schweizer Kunst der Stiftung Kunst Heute, Aargauer
Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland (cat.)
3 Positionen zur Malerei: Pia Fries, Gerhard Martini, Paul Moran, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf, Germany
1994 From the Art Exhibition of the City of Lucerne, Kornschütte im Rathaus Luzern, Switzerland
Zu Besuch…, Atroper Straße 26, Duisburg-Rheinhausen, Duisburg, Germany
en miniature: Malerei und Skulptur, Galerie Schönewaldund Beuse, Krefeld, Germany (cat.)
1993 Annual exhibition of Central Swiss Artists 1993, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Inner Schweizer Kunst 90/70 from the collection of the Kunstmuseum Luzern, Kunstmuseum
Luzern, Switzerland
Stephanien Straße 16: Eine Adresse – EineAus stellung, Stephanien Straße 16, Düsseldorf, Germany
Troy Brauntuch, Pia Fries, Thomas Ruff, Adrian Schiess, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Swiss Art Scholarship Recipients 1992, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; Ernemann-Neubau,
Dresden, Germany (cat.)
Hans Brändli, Pia Fries, Karin Kneffel, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
1992 1987–1992: The 29th Exhibition, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
Der Teppich des Lebens: Katharina Fritsch, Pia Fries, Hans Brändli, Michael van Ofen, Stefan Sehler,
Städtisches Museum Haus Koekkoek, Kleve, Germany
Swiss Art Scholarship Recipients 1991, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland (cat.)
1991 Luzern-Transit Part I: Andreas Bissig, Max Bühlmann, Pia Fries, Jörg Niderberger, Franz Wanner,
Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
1990 Szene Schweiz, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany (cat.)
1989 Presentation of Judged Works: Work grants from the Canton and City of Lucerne, Fine Art Competition
1989, Kulturpanorama am Löwenplatz, Lucerne, Switzerland
1988 Helmut Dorner, Pia Fries, Axel Kasseböhmer, Jürgen Meyer, Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France
1986 Treibhaus 4, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
1985 Pour parer les coups, Galerie Instant, Kriens, Switzerland
1984 Sammlung Helmut Klinker: Malerei, Bildhauerei, Objekte und Graphik, Kunstmuseum
Bochum, Germany (cat.)
1982 Hans Brändli, Bogomir Ecker, Pia Fries, André Gelpke, Arno Jansen, Astrid Klein, Bernd Minnich,
Augustina von Nagel, Peter Telljohann, Galerie Maier-Hahn, Düsseldorf, Germany
SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Binding Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland
Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
New Museum - Nuremberg State Museum of Art and Design, Nuremberg, Germany
Niedersuchsische Kulturstiftung Hannover, D
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Stiftung Kunst Heute, Bern, Switzerland
Studio A, Otterndorf, Germany
University Hospital of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2017 Gerhard-Altenbourg Prize, Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany
2014 Art and Culture Award of the City of Lucern, Switzerland
2011 Iserlohner Art Scholarship,Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany
2009 Fred-Thieler Award, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2000 Studio Residency Award, Cultural Foundation Landis & Gyr Zug, London, UK
1996 Art Prize Münsterland, Germany
1994 Bonn Art Foundation, Germany
1992 Nordmann-Prize, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
1991 Swiss government art scholarship, Switzerland
1989 Work grant of the Canton and City of Lucerne, Fine Art, Switzerland
1986 Graduate scholarship from the State of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany
1985 Jury Prize of the Six Central Swiss cantons, Switzerland
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Don’t Look Now: Die Sammlung Gegenwartskunst, Part 1, Museumof Fine Arts Bern, Bielefeld: Kathleen
Bühler, “Pia Fries Ahli/Fich,” pp. 74–79
Ambigu: Zeitgenössische Malerei zwischen Abstraktion und Narration, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen,
Heidelberg: Roland Wäspe, “Pia Fries. Realität eigener Natur,” pp. 32–39
2009 zeigen: Eine Audiotour durch Berlin von Karin Sander, Soundtrack von Hans Brändli, exh. cat.
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Cologne
Drawing of the World – World of Drawing, Museum of Art Seoul, National University, Seoul
Christiane Meyer-Stoll, “Interview with Pia Fries,” p. 436
2008 Sammlungrolfricke ein Zeitdokument, ed. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Ostfildern
Plasticismes: Pràctiques abstractes avui. Centre de Cultura “SA NOSTRA” de Palma, L’Obra Social de
“SA NOSTRA,” Caixa des Balears, Palma
2007 Frankel, David. “Pia Fries”, Artforum, April. Schwendener, Martha, Pia Fries, Loschaug, New York Times,
Art in Review, February 23.
2006 Hickey, Dave, “The Remains of Today,” catalogue essay for “Schwarzwild.” Exhibition at
Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, June.
2005 Myers, Terry, “Coming Up Roses,” Art Review, May.
“Bold and Beautiful,” California Home and Design, April.
2004 Garcia, De La Vega. Reviews, Contemporary Magazine, Issue No 63, 2004. pp 75-76.
Johnson, Ken. “Pia Fries,” NY Times, May 28.
2003 Frank, Peter. “Pia Fries,” LA Weekly, January 9.
Pia Fries, Christopher Grimes Gallery Santa Monica, The Art Newspaper, No. 132, January 2003.
2002 Pagel, David. “A quiet riot, in a hothouse setting,” Los Angeles Times,
December 20: E40.
Goldman, Edward. “Stormy Weather Pierced by Sunshine,” KCRW 89.9, December 3.
“When Painting has a Tactile Quality,” Los Angeles Times, November 28.
Pia Fries, Brentwood, November.
2001 Hunter, Drohojowska-Philip. “Taking a Critic at His Word”, Los Angeles Times, July 8.
Mitchell, Charles Dee. “Making the Case for Pleasure,” Art in America, November: 122-129.
Goddard, Donald. “Pia Fries: New Paintings,” New York Art World.
Conti, Tiziana. “Female Abstractionists,” Tema Celeste, 84.
2000 Jens Peter Koerver.”Niemand vermag Verunderung anders, als ber Gemische zu denken,” Pia Fries
(catalog), Overbeck- Gesellschaft, Lubeck.
1999 Special offer, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel.
Jens Peter Koerver. “Alles zugleich”, Noëma, Jan. 60-64.
John Sundkvist. “VŠmjelse insmugen i malerisk skšnhet”, Svenska Dagbladet, 24 April, p.18.
Middendorff, Kia. “Pia Fries,” Biennale di Venezia (catalog), d’apertutto.
Schwarz, Dieter. Papierarbeiten aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
Mack, Gerhard. “Raumgreifende Dialoge,” CASH Nr.41, 15.10.99.
Vogel, Mathias. “Farbe ein Ereignis an sich,” Neue ZŸrcher Zeitung Nr. 260, vom 8.1.99.
Busto, Andrea. “Pia Fries” Super-Abstr-Acton (catalog), Turin.
Brundli, Hans. “Parabeln und boliden,” Pia Fries, parsen und module (catalog), Richter-Verlag, Dusseldorf.
Liebermann, Valeria. “Damit man von ihnen reden kann,” parsen und module catalog),
Richter-Verlag, Dusseldorf.
Finkeldey, Bernd. “der Farbe lebhafte Kraft, parsen und module (catalog), Richter-Verlag, Dusseldorf.
1998 Thomas, Hirsch. “Pia Fries, das leuchtend Helle, dramatisch Bewegte”, Biograph, Dusseldorf, Oct., p.50
Good, Paul. “Uber Farbe reden,” Minimalia zur Gegenwartskunst, PAREGA Verlag, Verlag Neue
Zurcher Zeitung.
Wucherer, Barbara. “Pia Fries,” Biografisches Lexikon der Schweizer Kunst, Verlag Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
1997 Pia Fries, Heinrich Winterscheidt GmbH, Dusseldorf Kunstpreis Munsterland 1996 Sparkasse
Coesfeld, Coesfeld
Ralf, Beil. “Das urmein-Experiment”, Kunst Bulletin n¡4, April, pp. 26-31
Munig, Roland. “Polyphonie der Farben,” arteFACT Kunst im Westen, Nr. 10.
Kuster, Barbara. “Entrahmung,” Pia Fries, Kunstverein Freiburg, Kunstmuseum Aarau, Museum
Kurhaus Kleve, Kunstverein Guttingen
de Werd, Guido. “Das Barocke in der Malerei von Pia Fries,” Pia Fries, Kunstverein Freiburg,
Kunstmuseum Aarau, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kunstverein Guttingen.
Wismer, Beat. “Malerei, ganz konkret,” Pia Fries, Kunstverein Frieburg, Kunstmuseum Aarau, Museum
Kurhaus Kleve, Kunstverein Guttingen.
Berg, Stephan. “das Selbstbewusstsein der Bilder,” Pia Fries, Kunstverein Freiburg, Kunstmuseum Aarau,
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kunstverein Guttingen.
Heymer, Kay. “Autarke Bilder,” Pia Fries, Kunstverein Frieburg, Kunstmuseum Aarau, Museum Kurhaus Kleve,
Kunstverein Guttingen.
Liesbrock, Heinz. “Laudatio,” Katalog Kunstpreis Munsterland