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With the exhibition saum lös sich, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is showing works on paper, texts and large-format paintings by the artist Fedele Maura Friede (*1997 in Holzminden), who has recently (2024) been awarded the renowned Horst Janssen Graphics Prize of the Claus Hüppe Foundation at the Kunsthalle. Friede is the eighth winner of the €20,000 prize, the most valuable award for artists in the field of drawing and printmaking, which is linked to an exhibition and a publication. The aim is to promote young artists and new positions in the field of graphic art in dialogue with universities and academies based in Germany. The accompanying artist's book, Standortbestimmung, brings together texts and artworks by Friede, which are poetically explored in a contribution by the writer Tatjana von der Beek.

Fedele Maura Friede deals with space and landscape and moves between microcosm and large panorama. Her works suggest a hidden narrative without being literal or following a story. She uses various forms of expression that combine drawing in a broader sense with writing and allow them to enter into a dialogue with each other. The quality lies in the inherent disorientation of her pictures: Her drawings are constructed and legible from all angles of the paper ground. Through the mapping and additional folds of the paper, Friede's works elude a rigid structure and constantly shift perspective. The lines create a social space that unfolds different types of perception.

Fedele Friede received an award for her work eigentlich räumt niemand gerne auf, with which she completed her studies at the HGB with distinction in Prof. Anne Speier's painting and graphics class last winter semester. More about her work in the tendencies graduate archive... Fedele Friede is currently a lecturer in the painting and graphics class of deputy professor Franziska Reinbothe.