Peter Friedl

Austrian | 1960

Peter Friedl is an Austrian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1960.

How much does a Peter Friedl cost?

Peter Friedl's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices of up to 10,148 USD for paintings, and 3,395 USD for works on papers.

What is Peter Friedl's most expensive painting?

Since 2009 the record price for this artist at auction is 10,148 USD for Untitled, sold at Im Kinsky in 2021.

Where can I see Peter Friedl's works?

Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Mönchsberg have featured Peter Friedl's work in the past.

Peter Friedl in the news

Peter Friedl has been featured in articles for MOUSSE Magazine, The Art Newspaper and Juliet Art Magazine. The most recent article is From photo booths to porous selves: MACBA explores thirty years of collective and personal identity written for ArtDaily in December 2025.

At Auction

Notable Lots

A vertical abstract painting featuring bold blue and green strokes with a bright yellow rectangular highlight.

Untitled , 1989

By Peter Friedl

-26%

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Recent Auction Results

An abstract composition featuring a textured pink background with bold green splotches and a dark vertical mark.

Ohne Titel (Berlin

By Peter Friedl

Dorotheum, Linz

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Current Exhibitions

untranquil now: a constellation of narratives and resonances

Cukrarna Gallery

Ljubljana | Slovenia

Jul 07, 2026 - Jan 03, 2027

SCULPTURAL. The New Galleries

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hamburg | Germany

Apr 24, 2026 - Apr 11, 2027

Like a Dance of Starlings. MACBA Collection — Thirty Years and Infinite Ways of Being

MACBA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Barcelona | Spain

Nov 28, 2025 - Sep 28, 2026

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Articles

Cukrarna Gallery presents its summer 2026 exhibitions

ArtDaily Jul 28, 2026

This summer, Cukrarna Gallery presents three exhibitions: a new installation by Yein Lee, a solo exhibition by Phil Collins, and the exhibition untranquil now – a constellation of narratives and resonances organised in collaboration with the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Yein Lee / Phil Collins / untranquil now

e-flux Jul 27, 2026

From photo booths to porous selves: MACBA explores thirty years of collective and personal identity

ArtDaily Dec 16, 2025

Black-and-white portraits depicting Barcelona nightlife in the last decade of the previous century line the corridor on the second floor of MACBA's Meier building.

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Coverage

“ ..Turner), sent by Friedl to his mother in 1976... ”
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Kunsthalle Basel

“ ..Composed of four masterly handcrafted marionettes, it embodies Friedl’s long-standing engagement with theatre and historiography... ”
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Artspace, Auckland

“ ..Theatricality and the staging of childhood as a microhistory of desires and exclusions are recurring themes in Friedl’s oeuvre... ”
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Campagne Première

“ .. Peter Friedl’s multifaceted and stylistically heterogeneous works and projects in various media are meant to propose exemplary solutions to aesthetic problems related to our political and historical consciousness... ”
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Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier

“ ..By adopting a variety of genres, media and forms of display, Friedl’s works explore the construction of history and concepts and present new models of narration... ”
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