Born in the Black Forest in Germany, Jürgen Fritz studied theatre and the science of music before working as a theater director, curator and actor. His largely site-specific approach to artistic work is characterized by concentration and precision, using simple materials to create “performative images”. Fritz is co-founder and co-organizer of the Festival Platform for Young Performance Artists in the Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin, and the International Summer Camp at Castle Bröllin/Brandenburg. His pedagogical approach in these workshops is to negotiate presence and question borders, both social and gendered, thereby creating challenging situations and possibilities in the art of workshop participants. Fritz is also co-founder of Black Market International, a group who performed in the early iterations of LIVE, and has worked with the International Cooperation of Performance Artists since 1985. He has presented his performances across Europe, as well as in the US, Canada, Mexico, Asia and Australia. Fritz has lived in Hildesheim, Germany, since 2005, where he is co-founder of the International Performance Association.
Jürgen Fritz
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