Friedrich Andreoni
Friedrich Andreoni (*1995) grew up between Italy and the Arabian Peninsula and currently lives between Germany and Italy. His interdisciplinary artistic practice encompasses sound, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and video.
In 2020, he completed his studies in Fine Arts (sculpture) at the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. He then pursued a two-year master’s degree as a DAAD fellow and undertook an artistic research program at the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he earned an MFA. From 2022 to 2024, Andreoni further developed his artistic practice as a Meisterschüler of Turner Prize–winning artist Susan Philipsz at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden. During his studies, Andreoni was an active member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from 2018 to 2023.
Most recently, he was one of the first artists-in-residence at the Museo Novecento in Florence. He subsequently participated in a studio residency at the historic Palazzo Vizzani Lambertini Sanguinetti in Bologna, which culminated in an exhibition that evoked the palace’s layered history through the interplay of sound, light, and space. In addition, Andreoni was the only visual artist to receive a special mention at the Prize of the Pontifical Academy of Virtuosi at the Pantheon in Vatican City, in 2023 he won the Ducato Art Prize in the Academy section and in 2025 he was granted the Italian Council 14th edition – from the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC).
His exhibitions include, among others, a series of public space installations created as part of the program for Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture 2024, as well as a solo show at Galerie Met in Berlin presented during Berlin Art Week 2024.
At the beginning of 2025, another solo exhibition took place in collaboration with the Fondazione Claudia Cardinale at the Château de Fontainebleau and Château de Nemours in France. In June 2025 Andreoni‘s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany This all sounds opened at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum in Greifswald and upon invitation by curator Francesco Bonami, Friedrich Andreoni will participate in the 18th Quadriennale di Roma from October 2025 to January 2026.
His works are included in both public and private collections.
Works:
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Solo exhibitions
2025: ‘This all sounds’ Caspar-David-Friedrich Zentrum, Greifswald, DE
2025: ‘Another Chance’ Alchemilla, Bologna, IT
2025: ‘Rencontre en trois temps avec le plasticien Friedrich Andreoni’ Château de Fontainebleau & Château-Musée de Nemours, Fondazione Claudia Cardinale, Fontainebleau & Nemours, FR
2024: ‘Remember me when you enter into your Kingdom’ Galerie Met, Berlin Art Week, DE
2024: ‘Arco, Archè, Archetipo’ Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture curated by Marcello Smarelli e Caterina Angelucci, Pesaro, IT
2021: ‘SHIFT’ onl. show official partner program Chicago Architecture Biennial 4th edition: The Available City, IL, USA
2021: ‘,please come home’ Bait15, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2021: ‘Florida I Thought I Saw You’ Parkhaus15, Orlando, FL, USA
2020: ‘Parallele Prozesse’ Lobe Block, Berlin, DE
Group exhibitions (selection)
2025: ‘Fantastica’ 18a Quadriennale di Roma, section curated by Francesco Bonami, Rome (upcoming)
2025: ‘Fernweh II’ Casa degli Artisti, Milan
2024: ‘Archeologia della memoria’, Il Bisonte Foundation, Florence
2024: ‘Anche in un castello si può cadere’, Museo Novecento, Florence
2024: ‘Radio International’ with Susan Philipsz’s class, Glasgow Internation, Glasgow
2023: ‘Fernweh – /ˈfɛɾnˌveː/’ KA32, Berlin
2023: ‘The Others’ art fair, Torino
2023: ‘Displays: On the Surface’, Galerie Met, Berlin
2023: ‘Ducato ArtPrize Finalist Exhibition’, Volumnia Space, Piacenza
2023: ‘Archive of Upcoming’ ehemaliger Georg Knorr-Bremse Archiv, Berlin
2023: ‘BRUTALISM x TYME’ LOBE Block, Berlin
2022: ‘K/eIN Kollektiv+1’ Delphi Space, Freiburg
2021: ‘(dis)placement’ SAIC, Chicago
2021: ‘EPICENTROOM audiovisual art festival’ Pushkinskaya-10 Art Center, St Petersburg
2021: ‘Ipso Facto’ Kühlhaus, Berlin
2021: ‘Come Here, I Want To See You’ Canopy exhibition space, Malmö
2021: ‘EMAF 33 First Person Plural’ – European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
2021: ‘Street walk and talk’ West Loop, Chicago
2020: ‘3 Speakers 3 Sounds 3 Artists’ Großer Wasserspeicher, Berlin
2020: ‘Not Cancelled’ Weserhalle, Berlin
2019: ‘Hinterm Wald’ Berlin Art Week, Berlin
2019: ‘Rausch – Begehungen Festival’, Chemnitz
2019: ‘Transformart’, Berlin
2019: ‘ArtZagreb: True lies for singled freedom’, Zagreb, Croatia
2019: ‘Linea’, Pinacoteca Comunale di Arte Contemporanea, Ruvo di Puglia
2019: ‘Can I pay with cash’, Alexander Studios, London
2019: ‘Wechselraum’, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin →
2018: ‘Kookoo – There is Thunder in our hearts’, Ohm Club, Berlin (Art in a club context)
2018: ‘Hinterm Wald’, Agora Collective, Berlin
2017: ‘Synaesthesia’, Bunker; Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin
2014: ‘Stars. Sguardi sonori’, Museum Pietro Canonica, Rome
Work in public space
2021: ‘Untitled’, Woodstock, Illinois, United States (Permanent work)
2020: ‘Arcate’, Tricase Porto, Italy
2018: ‘Spitzbögen-Labyrinth’ Rotary Club Bad Saarow, Germany (Permanent public work)
2017: ‘Entfernungen’, Kastela Art Center, Athens, Greece (Permanent public work)
Artist Residencies
2025: Alchemilla, Bologna, IT
2024: Fondazione Claudia Cardinale – Fontainebleau & Paris, FR
2024: Post print media, Il Bisonte – Foundation for Art and Printmaking, Florence, IT
2024: Fondazione Claudia Cardinale – Fontainebleau and Paris, FR
2024: WONDERFUL! Art Research Programme MUSEO NOVECENTO, Florence, IT
2022: Alba Sonic Arts Residency Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, USA
2020: B.R.A.C.T. Tricase, Italy
2019: Begehungen Chemnitz, Germany
2019: Apulia Center for Art and Technology Linea Festival, Italy
Prizes / Scholarships (Selection)
2023: DucatoPrize Academy Award
2022: Special mention Pontifical Academies Prize 2022 – Virtuosi del Pantheon
2022: Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR
2021: Theodor Pfizer-Stiftung Award
2021: Graduate Dean Professional Development Award
2020: DAAD – Scholarship for education and training abroad (North America)
2020: School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship
2019: Apulia Center for Art and Technology Award
2018: Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Publications / Articles
2025: Angelucci C. ‘A Bologna l’artista Friedrich Andreoni racconta la storia del cinquecentesco Palazzo
2025: Vizzani Lambertini Sanguinetti’ Artribune, 2025
2025: Zanon E. ‘Fenomenologie dell’intermittenza: Friedrich Andreoni tra presenza e sottrazione’ Juliet Art Magazine, 2025
2025: Abate F. ‘Friedrich Andreoni. Another Chance | Alchemilla, Bologna’ atp diary
2025: ‘Fernweh: A shared Turbulence’ Review on Les Nouveaux Riches
2024: ‘Feeling the invisible: Sound as a sculpture, with the dreamscape pushing at the limits of technology’ Inside Art Magazine N.131 printed issue
2023: ‘DucatoPrize 2023. Contemporary art award’ Catalogue
2023: ‘DucatoPrize 2023’ Mousse Magazine
2023: ‘Fernweh at KA32’ on Art of the Working Class
2023: ‘Fernweh. Una mostra-viaggio tra nostalgia e desiderio di fuga’ Segnonline, Giorgia Aprosio
2022: Pontifical Academies Prize of the Vatican – Virtuosi del Pantheon, shortlisted and special mention as the only visual artist among architecture studios
2021: ‘Chicago Works and Studies 2021-2022’ catalog
2021: ‘SHIFT” official partner program 4th Chicago Architecture Biennial
2021: ‘Works, Studies, Gestures – Friedrich Andreoni’ 2021 Catalog
2021: Art Das Kunstmagazin / Starter, Larissa Kikol
2021: THE DOCUMENTARIAN Magazine Chicago
2021: ‘EMAF 33’ European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück Katalog (page: 162)
2020: Arts Life – ‘Profili gotici sospesi nell’acqua. Le Arcate di Friedrich Andreoni si ergono nell’Adriatico salentino’
2020: Hafenmuseum Tricase (Porto Museo di Tricase)
2020: KONTINUUM – Kleine Humboldt Galerie Berlin
Educations
2022 – 2024: Master by Susan Philipsz – Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (DE)
2020 – 2022: Master Fine Arts Sound at SAIC – School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA)
2019 – 2020: Erasmus (Exchange program) at UAL Chelsea College of Arts London (UK)
2015 – 2020: Diploma of Fine Arts at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin by Hannes Brunner & Ulrike Mohr (DE)
Social:
Website / SHIFT (2021-2022) / Archive-FA / Youtube Channel
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