Michael Freudenberg

1949
Born in Dresden

ab 1956
School, Abitur, Studies

Seit 1976
Freelance painter, graphic and object artist, Member of the VBK

1979
First abstract paintings and collages
Installation “Fluxus Helgoland” together with A. R. Penck and H. Springmühl
Organisation of the “Türen-Ausstellung” (“Door-Exhibition”) in the Leonhardi-Museum in Dresden
Experiments with improvised music

1980
Start of his series “2000 Flüche” (“2000 Curses”)

1986
Black and White images

1988
Laureates of the 1st Internationalen Triennale of Patterns, Budapest

1990
Travels to Boston, New York, New Jersey (Exhibitions)

1991
Travels to India, Exhibition in Calcutta (together with E. Göschel and Max Uhlig)

1996
Start of his series “Giverny”

1999
Project realization at the 8th International Künstlerpleinair im Müritz-Nationalpark

seit 1999
Construction-bound works with Meissner Porzellan, fontain design made of glass and stainless steel

2006
Construction-bound works at the Neumarkt Dresden (painted glass-façade)
Water design at the Wasserwerk (Waterwork) Hosterwitz

2008
Coloured polystyrene objects

1996–2013
Intense work at different series of panels like the Givernys, Abstract Landscapes or Reflexions

2014
"Nicht ewig blüht der Raps", gallery sybille nuett, Dresden

1994
“Adaptionen” (“Adaptions”), Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden

1992
Galerie Jugendbibliothek, Dresden
“Struktur und Strömung” (“Structure and Flow”), Kolkata, India (together with M. Uhlig & E. Gröschel)

1991
Maryland, USA

1990
Galerie Aschenbach, Amsterdam
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden

1989
Bunte Stube, Ahrenshoop
Neue Galerie, Dresden

1986
Galerie Oben, Chemnitz (together with C. Schlegel)

1982
“21 Collagen” (“21 Collages”), Obergrabenpresse, Dresden

1981
Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden

1979
Installation “Fluxus Helgoland”, Dresden (togehter with A. R. Penck and K. Hähner-Springmühl)
Jagdschloss (Hunting Lodge), Moritzburg

1978
Jazz-Workshop, Peitz

2014
Art Karlsruhe, gallery sybille nütt

1993
Galerie Salustowicz, Bielefeld
“Landschaft” (“Landscape”), Schloss Plüschow
Skidmore University, New York

1992
“Novemberbilder” (“November Pictures”), Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen
“Avantgarde”, Reflex Ost-West, Potsdam

1991
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, USA
“9 Künstler aus Dresden” (“9 Artists from Dresden”), Schloss Arolsen

1990
“Ob de press”, Singermuseum Laren, Holland
“Dresden heute” (“Dresden today”), Neumeister, München
“Neue Malerei aus Dresden” (“New Art from Dresden”), Breslau, Polen
“Kunst der Collage” (“Art of the Collage”), Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Cottbus
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1989
Triennale der Zeichnung (Triennale of Drawing), Leipzig
“40 unter 40” (“40 under 40”), Kupferstichkabinett (Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs), Dresden

1988
I. International Triennale of Patterns, Budapest (3rd Prize)

1987
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Cottbus (to honour for Prof. Herbert Kunze)

1986
“Zeichnungen aus Dresden” (“Drawings from Dresden”), Anabaur, USA

1985
“Rhythmus und Struktur” (“Rhythm and Structure”), Hoflößnitz, Dresden

1984
Triennale of Drawing, Pege (HU)

1982
“Frühstück im Freien” (“Outdoor Breakfast”), Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden

1980
“Gemeinschaftsbilder” (“Community Image”), Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden

1979
“Dezenien I” (Türenausstellung [Door Exhibition]), Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden

1978
“Dresdner Kunst Heute” (“Art from Dresden today”), Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden