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Peter Welz is a Berlin-based artist, known for his contemporary kinetic refunctioning of the traditional concerns of the sculptural figure. Movement is translated into video, video becomes sculpture. Peter Welz takes this inscription and relentlessly and forensically investigates it through the media of video, photography, drawing and model to large scale sculptural installations.

education

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]

2007

figure inscribing a circle - Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, at EnBW Showroom, Berlin, Germany

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

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]

1. catalogues solo exhibitions

2005 to unsay, Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, The Renaissance Society, Chicago

2. catalogues group exhibitions

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

Peter Welz
born 1972, lives and works in Berlin, Germany

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