David Frommhold

Homing practices refer to honest, repeatable actions through which a sense of “home” is created in a given situation. They are process-oriented (not static), material-dependent (dependent on available resources), and feedback-sensitive (responding to environmental conditions). The goal is not a fixed location, but rather the temporary establishment of security, familiarity, and control under variable conditions. On the surface, Perseverance’s mission is to search for biosignatures (signs of life) on another planet in our solar system. Whether it will find any remains to be seen. The bigger picture, however, is to determine whether Mars is fundamentally capable of supporting life at all. I look at Earth and see many houses, many homes. Sol 1853 Current Location: Jezero Crater (exploring river delta; ancient lake bed) / Weimar (preparing diploma exhibition) Mission Status: Actively collecting samples and investigating potential biosignatures / In search for material sponsors and actively mapping out improbable constellations

vid.apr.26 In 1899, Republican Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt delivered a speech in Chicago to justify U.S. colonial expansion in the Philippines. Roosevelt emphasized that it was better to dare to do great things and achieve glorious victories, even if one fails, than to be among the “poor spirits” who experience neither great joy nor great sorrow because they live in the “gray twilight” that knows not victory nor defeat. His imperative: Dare mighty things. The motto of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which works for both NASA and the US Department of Defense and is responsible, among other things, for controlling the Mars rover Perseverance: Dare mighty things. In February 2021, millions of people on Earth watched the landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars via livestream. The parachute was in view for four seconds. Woven into the red-and-white stripes of the three inner concentric circles in binary code: Dare mighty things.

“Musterexemplar”, n. — literally: specimen copy; a model, a template, a proof. A thing that stands in for others while never being identical to them. This project operates as a recursive print structure. Found photographs are combined with self-produced images and condensed into a printed object. With each iteration, a fragment of the previous edition is carried forward, recontextualized, and supplemented. Four versions exist so far. None of them is final. So far. The publication behaves less like an archive and more like a membrane. Images migrate. Contexts shift. What was once background becomes foreground; what seemed stable turns provisional. Continuity is constructed through partial repetition, not through sameness. Images rarely exist in isolation. They accumulate, detach, reappear. They form constellations rather than sequences. Meaning does not reside in a single frame but in the interval between fragments — in repetition, displacement, and return. The GIF shows the object in motion, but the more decisive movement occurs between iterations: citation and authorship, inheritance and addition, document and speculation, puddle and pile. A specimen of Musterexemplar is never neutral. It selects, isolates, frames. The question is not what it represents, but what it allows to persist. thanks aby

back in germany, a multitude of ideas and concepts have gathered on my desk. Constellative Aesthetics, n. — art theory term (according to Birte Kleine-Benne) used to describe an elaboration of Relational Aesthetics; describes an aesthetic perspective that analyzes artistic works as constellations of references, dependencies, discontinuities, and fragments, taking into account not only connections but also interruptions, absences, and incompleteness in human and transhuman structures. the perspectives and concepts on my desk range from the world-famous Baron Münchhausen to loyal companions and disgraced companions to realistic mode walkthroughs and tigers on a leash. in reference to a work by my dear friend @tillroettjer and myself from 2023, bkb proposes a theoretical shift from the relational to the constellative—towards complex structures of relationships, breaks, and modulations—thus coining the term “constellative aesthetics.” what happens in between is questionable; it must be tested and reconstellated again and again. in the process, new vulnerabilities and loose ends may come to light. thanks birte! _____________________ slide 1 dog bites the hands that feeds him slide 2 Eine Kunstgeschichte ist keine Kunstgeschichte - Kunstgeschichtliche Perspektivierungen in Text und Bild, Birte Kleine-Benne (Hg.), Logos Verlag, 2024 slide 3 referenced text passage slide 4 concepts and persepectives slide 5 from the studio (bedroom)

reykjavik '25 so nice to see you, framed screenprint and 3D print, 90 x 60 cm, 2025 special thanks to @einar_vidarkubbur , @solbjortvera , @pinguftv for the vital backup, emotional and technical support. also thanks to the whole MA1 of listaháskóli islands and @sigurdur_gudjonsson for the time and care. it was so nice to see you. ___________ slide 1 so nice to see you, framed screenprint and 3D print, 90 x 60 cm, 2025 slide 2-3 detail - songbirds slide 4 @pinguftv and my studio @iua_fineart slide 5 process documentation with @einar_vidarkubbur slide 6-8 detail - so nice to see you

Work: David Vincent Frommhold From the exhibition "In your hands" that opened last Saturday 20.09.25 at Verksmiðjan in Hjalteyri. The result of the first-years Fine Art master's students week-long workshop where the history of Verksmiðjan and the uniqueness of the place where the material and subject of their works.

img.aug.'25 The word “turmoil” is a noun meaning a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty. Since all of the above terms have negative connotations, I would like to add that we must persevere. It is best to dive right in and then persevere. To this end, I have created a joint series of images with the Perseverance rover, which is currently on Mars. We both took photos from August 1 to 21. Here are some of them. Our task is to make trouble (turmoil), to stir up potent response to devastating events, as well as to settle troubled waters and rebuild quiet places. thanks donna

img.aug.‘25 A sea is a large body of saltwater, often (but not always) connected to an ocean. I’ll leave it open as to where, what, or who this ocean is. I love Iceland’s obsession with perfectly cut patches of green gras. I can relate! Even though the grass is always greener on the other side, this level of escapism is admirable. Se(a) you soon! the color of the water, whatever it is, changes constantly. half of it is the sky. thanks roni

Sunset Wayfarers 01 Kindred Spirits 1,2,4 Paul Knopf @plknpf crash-site_(ext.)recollection 2023 MDF, wood glue, paint, faux leather, wood, string, found metal parts, screws, cardboard, acrylic, HDF, sticker https://www.paulknopf.world/ 2,3,4, Paul Knopf UN-pit-lamp_headquarters 2025 wooden shelf, MDF, wood glue, self adhesive foil, staples, screws, cable, socket, light bulb https://www.paulknopf.world/ 2,5 David Frommhold @david.f.exe Milk and Honey, 2025 One of four frameless picture frames with archival photographs, Four pieces, each measuring 13 × 18 cm 1,2,6,7,8 Till Röttjer Dialogues I, III, IV, IX 2024 drywall, plaster, drywall profiles dimensions variable Photos © Till Röttjer edited by Paul Knopf

Sunset Wayfarers 01 Kindred Spirits 1-5 David Frommhold @david.f.exe Bread and Salt, 2025 Wooden base – interlocking bricks – plastic, 12x17x12cm Milk and Honey, 2025 Four frameless picture frames with archival photographs, Four pieces, each measuring 13 × 18 cm 1,2,6,7,8 Till Röttjer ________(disclosure) I/II/IV, 2024-Ongoing wood, filler, books, dimensions variable Photos © Till Röttjer edited by Paul Knopf

Exhibition ‚Geteilter Horizont‘ @jenaerkunstverein @sahrahfey @david.f.exe 22.03.25 – 17.05.25 (open Thu – Fri – Sa / 14h – 18h) Ten Days left to see our cooperative Exhibition! Many thanks to @m.ich.a_m and Team of @jenaerkunstverein for the invitation and the help along the way! __________________ Slide 1 – 2 / green lights, 2025, Sahrah Feyerabend & David Frommhold Slide 3 / Image of third topology (Bone), 2025, David Frommhold Slide 4 / davor (Stadtspeicher + Frühling), 2025, Sahrah Feyerabend Slide 5 – 6 / Installation View Slide 7 / -satz, 2025, Sahrah Feyerabend Slide 8 – 9 / Installation View Slide 10 / Bühnenraum – R220B6, 2025, David Frommhold Slide 11 – 12 / NIO heute, NIO dann, 2025, Sahrah Feyerabend Slide 13 – 15 / Geteilter Horizont, 2025, Sahrah Feyerabend & David Frommhold Photos: David Frommhold

Geteilter Horizont . . . Eröffnung mit den Künstler*innen und Musik von Martha Steinmetz und Marius Machill am Freitag, 21. März 2025, 19 Uhr in der Galerie des Jenaer Kunstvereins im Stadtspeicher, Markt 16, Jena Wir eröffnen das Themenjahr mit einer Doppelausstellung von Sahrah Feyerabend und David Frommhold. Sie präsentieren individuelle und gemeinsam entwickelte Werke – von Fotografie über Objekt und Installation –, die mit den Räumlichkeiten der Galerie im Stadtspeicher in Wechselwirkung treten. Mit ihren künstlerischen Positionen reflektieren sie das menschliche Sein in der Welt sowie Relationen zwischen Innen und Außen. Dabei bewegen sie sich in Themenfeldern wie Architektur, Natur, Gesellschaft und Zeit. Der Titel der Ausstellung verweist auf Fragen nach Trennlinien, Grenzen und Unüberwindbarkeiten einerseits, und nach Gemeinsamkeiten, Verbindungen und fließenden Übergängen andererseits. Allen Dissonanzen und verschiedenen Positionen zum Trotz teilt die Welt doch den Horizont. #kulturinjena #exhibition #ausstellung #jena #zeitgenössischekunst #contemporaryart #installation #art #kunst #fotografie #sculpture #skulptur @sahrahfey @david.f.exe @m.ich.a_m Die Ausstellung wird gefördert von der @kulturstiftung_thueringen und der Liebelt Stiftung.