Fritz Horstman

Raking Light

April 10 – May 17, 2025

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 10, 2025, 6-8PM

Read the exhibition press release here.

Order the exhibition monograph, Folded Light, here.

Preview the exhibition checklist here.

Fritz Horstman (b.1978) is an artist, curator, and educator based in Bethany, Connecticut. Recent exhibitions of his drawings, prints, sculptures, and installations have been shown across Europe and the US. Concurrent with his exhibition at Planthouse, he has a solo exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, Connecticut, and recently closed another at Municipal Bonds in San Francisco. Recent residencies include Bauhaus Dessau, The Arctic Circle Residency, and Shiro Oni in Onishi, Japan. He has curated exhibitions in Italy, Ireland, Croatia, Norway, and the United States, including Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper, which opened at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, TX in 2024. Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, he has lectured and given workshops at Yale University, Harvard University, l’École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Lebanese American University in Beirut, The Royal Academy of Art in London, and other institutions. He is the author of Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments published by Yale University Press in 2024. He received his BA from Kenyon College and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Accompanying the exhibition is a monograph on Horstman’s Folded Light, co-published by the New Britain Museum of American Art, Municipal Bonds, and Planthouse Gallery, featuring texts by NBMAA curator Lisa Williams and Vincent Broqua, professor of literature at Université Paris 8, Vincente-Saint Dennis.