Friedrich Andreoni
Born in Italy in 1995.
Lives and works between Germany and Italy.
Friedrich Andreoni grew up between Italy and the Arabian Peninsula and currently lives between Germany and Italy. His interdisciplinary artistic practice encompasses sound, sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and video.
In 2020, he completed his studies in Fine Arts (sculpture) at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. He then pursued a two-year master’s degree as a DAAD fellow and undertook an artistic research program at the Sound Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he earned an MFA. From 2022 to 2024, Andreoni further developed his artistic practice as a Meisterschüler of Turner Prize–winning artist Susan Philipsz at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden. During his studies, Andreoni was an active member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from 2018 to 2023.
Most recently, he was one of the first artists-in-residence at the Museo Novecento in Florence. He subsequently participated in a studio residency at the historic Palazzo Vizzani Lambertini Sanguinetti in Bologna, which culminated in an exhibition that evoked the palace’s layered history through the interplay of sound, light, and space. In addition, Andreoni was the only visual artist to receive a special mention at the Prize of the Pontifical Academy of Virtuosi at the Pantheon in Vatican City, in 2023 he won the Ducato Art Prize in the Academy section and in 2025 he was granted the Italian Council 14th edition – from the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiC).
His exhibitions include, among others, a series of public space installations created as part of the program for Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture 2024, as well as a solo show at Galerie Met in Berlin presented during Berlin Art Week 2024.
At the beginning of 2025, another solo exhibition took place in collaboration with the Fondazione Claudia Cardinale at the Château de Fontainebleau and Château de Nemours in France. In June 2025 Andreoni‘s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany This all sounds opened at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum in Greifswald and upon invitation by curator Francesco Bonami, Friedrich Andreoni will participate in the 18th Quadriennale di Roma from October 2025 to January 2026.
