FREITAGSKÜCHE
FREITAGSKÜCHE
Freitagsküche (Friday Kitchen) was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 2004 by the artists Thomas Friemel and Michael Riedel, based on the desire to create a place of exchange for and about art, not unlike the idea of the salon of former days. At the beginning, different artists stepped up to the kitchen stove every Friday evening to cook for their friends. Meanwhile, the Friday kitchen has become an institution. On the Friday session that Heinrich Völkel photographed, the artist and former Städel student Andreas Diefenbach did the cooking. Freitagsküche is an insider tip, favourite spot, and legendary. In November 2020 during lockdown, the Freitagsküche makers formed a new cooperation. Together with the Lichter Filmfest, they founded the cinema format TO GO: a duet of soul food and finest short films.
HEINRICH VÖLKEL
(*1974, Moscow) studied photography from 1996–1999 at the Lette Verein, Berlin. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2004. His works have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and published in books: TIRANA — MON AMOUR (2009) in Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin; 7KM — FELD DER WUNDER/THE TERRIBLE CITY — GAZA 2009, with Kirill Golovchenko in 2010 in the Freelens Galerie, Hamburg; ALBANIA — GERMANY: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY, Tirana Art Lab, Albania; TALES FROM THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN, Jordan National Museum Amman, Jordan. In 2010 and 2017 he received the VG Photo Art Scholarship, followed in 2010 by a solo exhibition. In 2011 his works appeared in the book EMERGE 011, emerge Verlag, Berlin. 2013 Audience Prize of the International Welde Art Prize for Photography. 2014 solo exhibition. 2017 publication PROVINTSIYA, ROUND-NOT-SQUARE, Berlin.