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About me! Kenneth Friend
Born in Vancouver, Canada (1966). I completed a two-year programme in Fine Arts in Vancouver, then studied history at the graduate level. I went to Freiburg, Germany with a scholarship in 1996 and have lived in Freiburg, Hamburg and Oldenburg in Holstein, Germany since 1996. I now live art every day as a visual artist, an art lover and a professional translator of art texts for museums, galleries and art book publishers. I develop my art continually through independent study and a regular, daily practice.
Exhibitions and memberships
Exhibitions
• TASTE Fest der Künste in Hamburg, August 2017
• 30th district exhibition of the Förderverein Bildende Kunst Ostholstein, 2020
• Group exhibition "10 Tage, 10 Künstler, 10 Orte" in Oldenburg in Holstein, 17 to 27 June 2021, followed by solo use of a former travel agency as studio/gallery until end of August 2021, sponsored by KulTour Oldenburg in Holstein GmbH in the context of KulturSommer Schleswig-Holstein
• Participation in the project "Kunst im Archiv" of the artist Merabi Danelia in Eutin, 20 to 29 August 2021
• 31st district exhibition of the Förderverein Bildende Kunst Ostholstein, November 2021
• Group exhibition in a former travel agency in Oldenburg in Holstein, November-December 2021
• "Farbe bekennen" group exhibition in Oldenburg in Holstein, May 2022
• Participation in the juried "Tischlein deck dich" group exhibition of the Dornumer Kunsttagen in Dornum, East Frisia, Germany,August 2022
• Participation in the "State of the World" group exhibition of the Gmünder Kunstverein, February 2023
• Participation in the "Mangel" (Scarcity) group exhibition of the Kunstverein zu Rostock, March 2023
• "Farbe bekennen" group exhibition in Oldenburg in Holstein, June 2024
• Solo exhibition "Artists Under the Swastika" of linoleum portraits and mixed-media collages, Stadtbücherei Oldenburg in Holstein, Jan. - Feb. 2025
Memberships
• Member of the Förderverein Bildende Kunst Ostholstein
• Member of the Kunstverein in Hamburg