Aldo Freund

biography

Aldo Freund (*1985, Kassel) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. His practice unfolds in the space between resistance and resignation, drawing on observations of social interaction, human needs and the ways they are communicated, performed and concealed. Working primarily through sculpture while extending into painting, large-scale print, installation, performance and digital collage, Freund develops works that expose states of vulnerability and contradiction. Processes of removal and reduction frequently play a central role in his practice. By stripping away visual substance, he reveals underlying structures, emotional cores and forms of interiority that often remain hidden. Across a diverse range of materials and media, Freund constructs an aesthetic language marked by apparent oppositions: childlike yet unsettling, tender yet painful, humorous yet shaped by experiences of powerlessness and loss. Rather than resolving these tensions, his works inhabit them, creating spaces in which emotional and social ambiguities become materially and visually tangible. Freund studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach from 2006 to 2012, where he completed his Diploma in 2012. He subsequently pursued postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach from 2012 to 2013.

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selected works

Aldo Freund – playfully mean
playfully mean 2023 Styrodur, acrylic paint 20cm × 50cm × 10cm
Aldo Freund – heavily implied
heavily implied 2023 Styrodur, acrylic paint, plastic 50cm × 70cm × 10cm
Aldo Freund – Exblechmann (keine Updates)
Exblechmann (keine Updates) 2025 Fabric, filling 70cm × 180cm × 40cm
Aldo Freund – Heaven is a Secret
Heaven is a Secret 2024 Foam, rescue blanket, paint 1120cm × 80cm × 5cm
Aldo Freund – There is no way to do it so wrong you might die
There is no way to do it so wrong you might die 2025 Styrodur, plaster, acrylic paint, tape 115cm × 85cm × 35cm Foto: FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph
Aldo Freund – Measure once cut twice (a collaboration with Anna Nero)
Measure once cut twice (a collaboration with Anna Nero) 2024 Plastic, resin 90cm × 90cm × 25cm Foto: Robert Schittko
Aldo Freund – Selfless Lover
Selfless Lover 2023 Styrodur, aluminium, paint 80cm × 30cm × 10cm Foto: Tobias Still
Aldo Freund – Dummer Hund
Dummer Hund 2023 Styrodur, acrylic paint 140cm × 65cm × 12cm Foto: Tobias Still
Aldo Freund – untitled (Desperation)
untitled (Desperation) 2024 Metal, paper 160cm × 100cm Foto: Robert Schittko
Aldo Freund – untitled (Dreamcatcher)
untitled (Dreamcatcher) 2024 Metal, paper 160cm × 100cm Foto: Robert Schittko

exhibitions

Selected Exhibitions

2025 Als nei, DAS GERICHT, Frankfurt am Main — solo exhibition
Heaven is a Secret, M.A.R.S. e.V., Frankfurt am Main — solo exhibition
Two of Hearts, permanent installation, saasfee*pavillon, Frankfurt am Main — group exhibition
Artist Run Fair, Reset Atelier, Brussels — group exhibition
Aus gegebenem Anlass Din A4, Freitagsküche, Frankfurt am Main — group exhibition
You & Me, Galerie FWR, Berlin — group exhibition
2024 Butter Wouldn't Melt, with Anna Nero, Galerie Heussenstamm, Frankfurt am Main — group exhibition
Crémant Feuilleton, La Felce & M.A.R.S., Cologne — group exhibition
Once You See the Pattern, Everything Falls into Place, with Anna Nero, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg — group exhibition
2023 Definitely Not Annoying, saasfee*pavillon, Frankfurt am Main — solo exhibition
I Was a Teenage Ghost, with Tina Kohlmann, Alte Schmelze, Frankfurt am Main — group exhibition
2022 When You Die of Cancer the Cancer Dies Too, DAS GERICHT, Frankfurt am Main — solo exhibition
Wet Conditions, invasive performance during Diversion by Asad Raza, Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt am Main — group exhibition
2021 Ideologies, framed gallery during RAY Festival, Frankfurt am Main — group exhibition

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