I’ll Romanticize This Later
December 1, 2026 – January 22, 2027 · ICA Miami
Fusing the visual language of German Romanticism with American pop culture, Friedrich Kunath (b. 1974, Chemnitz, Germany) explores longing, melancholy, and nostalgia with a wit that invites a smile even as it confronts the most vulnerable aspects of the human condition.
I’ll Romanticize This Later, Friedrich Kunath’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, will open at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) Expansion Building on December 1, 2026. The exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, and installations spanning the artist’s career, alongside a new immersive digital environment. The programming is a collaboration between ICA Miami, DMINTI, and Nassima Art Foundation.
Spread across the second floor of ICA Miami’s Expansion building, I’ll Romanticize This Later foregrounds Kunath’s longstanding dialogue with German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) and his recurring use of the Rückenfigur, alongside other themes and motifs that permeate his work.
In addition to painting, sculpture, and installation, the exhibition features an interactive digital environment that invites visitors to experiment with Kunath’s ongoing use of lyrics, titles, and other forms of text.
ICA Miami / DMINTI
Nassima Art Foundation
Selected works
A new digital environment
DMINTI collaborates with artists, museums, and cultural institutions to realize ambitious contemporary projects that create new forms of participation, dialogue, and public encounter. For I’ll Romanticize This Later, DMINTI has worked closely with Friedrich Kunath to conceive a new digital installation, LAX -BER, that extends key themes in his practice into a participatory form.
Beyond this new work, DMINTI has been closely involved in the exhibition’s broader development and realization, working across the project’s curatorial, experiential, and production dimensions.
Miami Art Week · Conversation
Friedrich Kunath
& Klaus Biesenbach
December 1, 2026 · 11 AM ET
ICA Miami Expansion
23 NE 41st Street
Friedrich Kunath in conversation with Klaus Biesenbach, Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie and Berlin Modern
Program presented by DMINTI, Nassima Foundation, and ICA Miami.
ICA Miami, DMINTI, and the Nassima Foundation are pleased to present Klaus Biesenbach in conversation with Friedrich Kunath at ICA Miami’s expansion space. The event will take place on December 1 at 11 AM ET during Art Basel Miami Beach 2026.
The conversation centers on Friedrich Kunath’s longstanding engagement with German Romanticism and the influence of Caspar David Friedrich on his work. The dialogue will explore how themes such as landscape, melancholy, and the sublime are reflected and interpreted in Kunath’s contemporary practice, alongside the influence of American popular culture.
Event details at ICA Miami ↗