THE GREEN BOX

Theresa Frölich
A Semi-Spiritual Thing
edited by Hildegund Amanshauser.

What do the perfect female body, the 'everhard cock' and the Holy Spirit, a paradise landscape and the Mother of God have in common? They are all part of a world that exceeds our everyday material existence and its linear time. They signal wishes and desires as well as fears and horrors. These scenarios exist in fantasy, in myths, in religion and on the internet. Theresa Frölich's works do also deal with these topics. In her imagery, she recycles media images – mainly those from the virtual Second Life.

Theresa Frölich works spatially. Even if she places paintings on the wall, the intervene in space. Her technique belongs to the oldest cultural techniques: stretching threads and stitching. The way the threads are braced within the picture, within the space, Theresa Frölich establishes connections to other disciplines, artists and theorists. Similar to how she links found pictures, she also associatively creates collages of scientific findings: networks which can be found pictorially in her thread structures.

With texts by Hildegund Amanshauser, Verena Kuni and John Hartle.

This catalogue was published in connection with the exhibition 'Linien. Laub. GWK Förderpreis 2007' at the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, 25.11.2007 å 10.02.2008.

Theresa Frölich (*1977) lives and works in Cologne. She studied at the Kunstakademie MÈnster and the Hochschule der Bildenden KÈnste Munich.

Exhibitions (selection):
2007: 'Linien. Laub. GWK Förderpreis 2007', Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (K); 'Kölnquartett', Fuhrwerkswaage Köln (K); 'Field of Vision', Galerie Kunst und Bauschlosserei, Leipzig;'Theresa Frölich - Daniela Löbbert', Universität Innsbruck; 'Paradise Lost', Galerie plan.d., DÈsseldorf. 2006: 'Mind Hacking', Wewerka-Pavillon MÈnster (K); 'Soul Surfer', Modulor Beat, MÈnster; 'De stoel in de kunst', Brakel; 'Josef Albers fÈr 5 Mark', Westfälischer Kunstverein, MÈnster. 2005: 'Between Reality and Fiction', Pictura, Dordrecht. 2004: 'Freundschaftsspiel: Dostluk Ma¬i', Istanbul (K), 'Leere und Vision', Kunstmuseum MARTA, Herford (K).