Max Freund Skulptur im Park II

Skulptur im Park II (2025)

For Collectors Agenda, Max Freund has developed the series Skulptur im Park II (2025). The ten oil and collage works on wood (each 40 × 30 cm) build on an earlier series while shifting the focus more strongly to tactile qualities. Thickly applied paint, relief-like surfaces, and collaged fabrics produce images that, depending on the light, take on the quality of dioramas. Rather than centering on a single figure, the works present layered constellations of abstract objects and situations brought into relation within an imagined park.

The park fascinates Max Freund both as a social and visual site. Neither private nor professional, it is a democratic space accessible to all, where social differences recede into the background. Here, people, sculptures, trees, playground structures, and architectural elements meet on equal terms. In Freund’s paintings, they appear as equivalent actors, collectively animating the pictorial space. The series thus envisions the park as a site of possibility, where community and individuality, memory and the present intertwine.

Max Freund

Max Freund (*1992) approaches painting as an open field for exploring the human condition. His images emerge from the observation of culture—drawing on art history and pop culture, subcultural movements, music, books, as well as personal archives and everyday situations. Within them resonate themes of fragility, dependency, and alienation, but equally of community and shared experience. This ambivalence—between proximity and distance, familiarity and strangeness—shapes Freund’s visual worlds. His works often appear enigmatic and open-ended, offering narratives that resist rational explanation or neatly contained meaning.

Portrait: Maximilian Pramatarov