corrugated card, cement, slide projection, ed. 3+1, 2011
born 1972, lives and works in Berlin, Germany
1995-98 Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
1997 Cooper Union, New York, USA
1993-95 National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
exhibitions [selection]
2011
distorted l'eclisse [after m. antonioni]
Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt am Main
MMK 1991-2011 20 Jahre Gegenwart
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2010
The tale of a blind resistance fighter
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Zeigen
Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
‘Wenn die Nacht am tiefsten’
Bel-Etage-Projects, Berlin, Germany
Longing for... score #1
Biennale di Venezia, eventi collaterali, Venice, Italy
All art has been contemporary
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Inkonstruktion V
Art Biesenthal, Biesenthal, Germany
From the inside
Rugby Museum, Rugby, England
Hommage à Maurice Béjart
Station du métro m2 Riponne - Maurice Béjart
2009
Peter Welz | Wiliam Forsythe
Retranslation | Final Unfinished Portrait
(Francis Bacon) figure inscribing a figure
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte e Contemporaneo, Rome, Italy
Peter Welz
galeria SENDA, Barcelona, Spain
Peter Welz
Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
peter welz | recent works and installations
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
2008
it’s too fuckin’ loud, and it’s too fuckin’ fast
Neues Museum Weserburg | Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
now jump
Nam June Paik Art Center, Inaugural Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
Otto-Dix-Preis 2008
Kunstsammlung Gera, Orangerie, Gera, Germany
Linie 08
Galerie Dina Renninger, Munich, Germany
EHF 2010
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
ZEIT RAUM ZEIT
K-Haus, Vienna, Austria
I can watch my thoughts evolving
Galerie fruehsorge contemporary & Galerie Dina Renninger, Berlin, Germany
2007
figure inscribing a circle - Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, at EnBW Showroom, Berlin, Germany
drafts for a [video-]sculpture, Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt am Main
Ohnmacht | powerlessness - Kunsthalle Kiel | Institute of Contemporary Art, Kiel, Germany
Tanzen. Sehen | Dancing. seeing - Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen, Germany and
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo Sevilla | Museum of Contemporary Art Sevilla, Spain
One month | one artist - Pantalla Centro Cultura Barcelona CCCB, Loop Video Festival, Barcelona, Spain
peter welz : model for a video-sculpture & drawings - Galleria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
Dialoge | Dialogues - Neues Museum Weserburg | New Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2006
corps étrangers [retranslation | final unfinished portrait (francis bacon)] [solo] - Musée du Louvre, Galerie de la Melpomène, Paris, France - with William Forsythe
the choreographic turn - MIT, List Visual Art Centre, Boston, USA
Jenseits des Kinos: Die Kunst der Projektion | beyond cinema:
the art of projection, Film, Video & Installations from 1965-2005
- Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, curated by Stan Douglas & Christpher Eamon
peter welz: video-sculpture [solo] - The Kitchen, New York, USA
Museo Museo Museo GAM - Galleria d´arte moderna e contemporanea | Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, Turin, acquisitions 1998 – 2006, Italy
9th Disposition | 9.Hängung 2005-2006 - Sammlung | Collection Hoffmann, Berlin, Germany
Der Raum im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der zeitgenössischen Plastik | space in contemporary dance and contemporary sculpture
Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany
Frozen Motion. Photographs of Dance | Angehaltene Zeit. Bilder vom Tanz - The Cultural Forum for Photography, c/o Berlin, Berlin, Germany [travelling exhibition by SK Stiftung Kultur & Goethe Institut]
Anstoss Berlin | Kunst macht Welt – Art makes the world - Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Interactions, corps en mouvement - Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca, Goethe Institut | Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
video-sculpture | architectural device [solo] - Art Forum Berlin, solo installation for Gasag Förderpreis, support grant, Berlin, Germany
Steiler Konter - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
Jump Cut – Nights
Museum Ludwig, Cinema at the Museum Ludwig, SK-Kultur, Köln, Germany
Jump Cut – Special
SK-Kultur, Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Germany
2005
whenever on on on nohow on | airdrawing [solo] - The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
to unsay [solo] - Mönchehaus, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany
URBAN REALITIES - Focus Istanbul - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Visioni | Vision - 20 sculptural spatial installations from ‘Zero until today’, Bergamo, Italy
Truss Thrust: The Artifice of Space - Museum of Contemporary Art,
Denver, USA
Punkt und Linie, Fläche und Raum | surface and space: drawing today - Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
The 23rd Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic - The Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovicz Cacak, Belgrade
Der Raum im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der zeitgenössischen Plastik | space in contemporary dance and contemporary sculpture - Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Marl, Germany
2004
Central Station - Sammlung | Collection Falckenberg at the Foundation d’Antoine Galbert, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
airdrawing – work in progress [solo] - Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
whenever on on on nohow on | airdrawing [solo] - Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, Germany
whenever on on on nohow on [solo] - Opernhaus Frankfurt,
Frankfurt | Main, Germany
Constellations [solo] - ARTissima, Fiera internazionale d‘arte contemporanea, Turin, Italy
imPACT 04 - Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany
scholarships & awards
2008
artist in residence, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2007
AICA Awards, 2nd best thematic museum show Boston-area,
MIT List Visual Art Center, USA
2006
Neue Nationalgalerie | New National Gallery, nomination long-list, art-award 2007
Förderpreis Gasag | Financial Grant, Berlin, Germany
2005
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany, Kaiserring Förderpreis | Financial Grant
2003
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Konrad Adenauer Stipendium EHF, Berlin, Germany
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, artist in residence
bibliography [selection]
solo exhibitions
2009
Peter Welz // galeria SENDA // Barcelona // 26.05.09 - 13.06.09
2008
peter welz, Neues Museum Weserburg, Buchhandlung König
2007
drafts for a [video-] sculpture, Peter Welz, Galerie Lorenz
2005
to unsay, Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
group exhibitions
2008
Nam June Paik Art Center
NOW JUMP
inaugural festival
October 8, 2008 - February 5, 2009
Republic of Korea
2007
Tanz. sehen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Museum for Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany
2006
corps étrangers, Musée du Louvre, fage éditions, Paris, France 2006
What’s new, pussycat?, recent acquisitions 2002-2005
- Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt|Main, Verlag Moderner Kunst, Nürnberg, Germany
Anstoss Berlin | Kunst macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Transversale, research in art & science, european yearbook, Wilhelm Finck Verlag, p. 146 - 171 Germany
Steiler Konter, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2005
URBAN REALITIES: Focus Istanbul, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
2004
Central Station, Ausstellungskatalog | Exhibition catalogue Sammlung | Collection Harald Falckenberg, S.121, La Maison Rouge, fage éditions, Paris