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Tom Früchtl is a Berlin-based artist who brings painting, sculpture, and installations to life with a unique blend of creativity and conceptual depth. Früchtl graduated from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1997, he has carved out a distinctive voice in contemporary art, exploring the boundaries between the everyday and the artistic with striking originality.
His work dives into the intricacies of perception, the essence of objects, and the dynamic relationship between art and architecture. With a career marked by solo exhibitions at renowned venues like Kunstverein Marburg, the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt, and the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum in Düren, Früchtl has also made waves on the international stage, showcasing his work at institutions such as Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne and Mexico City’s Museo Carrillo Gil. Constantly pushing the limits of his medium, Früchtl’s art invites viewers to see the familiar in unexpected ways.
TOM FRÜCHTL is fascinated by the interplay of representation and reality. The notion of portraying reality within reality, where painting over what’s seen while simultaneously depicting it, is an absurd yet captivating endeavor. It’s this paradoxical dance that becomes the very essence of his artistic expression.
The emphasis is on the relationship between the painting material and the painting background. The ground is at once the motif, the occasion and the beginning of the painting. Früchtl separates the subject from pictorial grammar in order to study the representability of reality through pictorial means.
Interesting words could be coined to describe this procedure: Concrete Hyperrealism, Illusionistic Monochromism or Abstract Illusionism. Clearly, we’re leaving the traditional image medium behind and using other image media. Thanks to this detachment, three-dimensional paintings have developed and, consequently, spatial paintings. Together with the background, which is also represented, an object is created that oscillates between painting and sculpture, but always remains painting.
![LAGE EGAL [BOOTHS A05 + S04] — ART DÜSSELDORF 2025 - Ben Greber, Franziska Reinbothe, Janine Eggert, Rodolphe Huguet, Tom Früchtl](https://file.web.artbutler.com/wph21/uploads/sites/8/2025/03/05080901/9d97c486-8d71-4b82-98a0-67a7d4d2e1bf-768x768.png "LAGE EGAL [BOOTHS A05 + S04] — ART DÜSSELDORF 2025 - Ben Greber, Franziska Reinbothe, Janine Eggert, Rodolphe Huguet, Tom Früchtl")
![LAGE EGAL [TAKE OFF D13] — LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK 2024 - Franck Miltgen, Marlen Letetzki, Marta Djourina, Tom Früchtl](https://file.web.artbutler.com/wph21/uploads/sites/8/2024/07/24141811/dca9e978-8504-4b44-b8ca-84d28bce901f-768x768.png "LAGE EGAL [TAKE OFF D13] — LUXEMBOURG ART WEEK 2024 - Franck Miltgen, Marlen Letetzki, Marta Djourina, Tom Früchtl")
![NOT SO A WHITE CUBE #13 — MART [EXTENDED] - Birgit Hölmer, Marta Djourina, Martin Pfahler, Tom Früchtl](https://file.web.artbutler.com/wph21/uploads/sites/8/2023/06/17015417/389857a648044dc2.jpg "NOT SO A WHITE CUBE #13 — MART [EXTENDED] - Birgit Hölmer, Marta Djourina, Martin Pfahler, Tom Früchtl")
