Biography
Peter Welz
born 1972, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
mail@peterwelz.com
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Cooper Union, New York, USA
National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
Collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum für Moderne Kunst | MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
Galeria d’Arte Moderna | GAM, Torino, Italy
Weserburg | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Neue Nationalgalerie, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany
Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie, München, Germany
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
Hoffmann Collection, Berlin, Germany
Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany
Private Collections
Scholarships
2022
VCU Qatar,
Artist in residence, Doha, Qatar
2020 / 22
Casa degli Artisti, Milano, Italy
Artist in residence
2012
Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, USA
Artist in residence
2008
Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, Artist in residence
2007
AICA Awards, 2nd best thematic museum show Boston-area, MIT List Visual Art Center, USA
2006
Scholarship GASAG, Berlin, Germany
2005
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Kaiserring Scholarship,
Goslar, Germany
2003
Konrad Adenauer Scholarship, EHF, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, Artist in residence
Teaching
University of Applied Science, HFT Stuttgart, Germany
Professorship for Architecture (BA)
Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Faculty of Film & Architecture
Postgraduate (MA)
VCU Qatar | Virginia Commonwealth University
PaPr Department, experimental Film, Video & Installation
Exhibitions
2023
Fragment of an Infinite Discourse
Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie | Municipal Museum, Munich, Germany
Bet Alpha
Kira A. Princess of Prussia Foundation, Villa Mautner-Jäger, Vienna, Austria
How I forgot about the skin of the places I & II
Stef Heidhues, Annette Kelm, Manfred Pernice, Gregor Schneider, Peter Welz
The Possibility of an Island, Berlin, Germany
Reaching
Peter Welz incontra Vito Aconcci
Casa degli Artisti, Milano, Italy
2022
#saymaybe
Monica Bonvicini, Jonas Brinker, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon
The Possibility of an Island, Berlin, Germany
Reaching
Peter Welz incontra Vito Aconcci
Casa degli Artisti, Milano, Italy
Related to Transition
Berlin Los Angeles Connect
Take Care, Los Angeles, USA
Oh my Data
Diskurs, Berlin, Germany
2021
TELL ME
SuperBien, Berlin, Germany
2020
Studio Berlin
Boros Foundation, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
MAYBE
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
Portrait #4 [AA Bronson]
Casa degli Artisti, Milano, Italy
TAPEMODERN #27
Projectspace, Berlin, Germany
Green go home
HUA International, Tomas Vu and Rirkrit Tiravanija Project, Berlin, Germany
Installations from 25 years of the Falckenberg Collection
Deichtorhallen-Phoenix Hallen, Hamburg, Germany
Picnic
Hoffmann Collection, Berlin, Germany
2019
I’m a cage, in search of a bird
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Installations from 25 years of the Falckenberg Collection
Deichtorhallen-Phoenix Hallen, Hamburg, Germany
Picnic
Hoffmann Collection, Berlin, Germany
Look at me !
Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection, Locarno, Swiss
Stance & Fall | A wavering world
Marta Herford Museum, Germany
Portrait #4 [AA Bronson]
Galerie Crone, Vienna, Austria
The Foreigner’s Home (screenings):
Brooklyn Museum of Art, NYC, USA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2018
A fist of pure emotion
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Chaos
Vestfossen, Oslo, Norway
A strong Desire
PS120, Berlin, Germany
After White
Fold Gallery, London, UK
Angehaltene Zeit. Bilder vom Tanz
Teatro Central Sevilla, Goethe Institut, Spain
Flyer Berghain | Panoramabar
Berlin, Germany
2017
Cinema & Arti
Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, Italy
Performance
Centre George Pompidou at TriPostal de Lille, Lille, France
mise - en - scène | architectural portraits
Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ, Berlin, Germany
Swarm
National Museum of Art | Museo Nacional de Arte | MUNAL, Mexico City, Mexico
Chronos | L'arte contemporanea e il suo tempo
Palazzo Botti, Bergamo, Italy
Portrait #3 [out-take | monica vitti]
MIBArt Multimedia Festival 2017, Milano, Italy
2016
Artist Films at Kino International
Concept, Installation and screening,
Kino International, Berlin, Germany
The Berlin Case
Boris Yeltzin Presidential Centre, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Peter Welz | Portrait #2 | Casa Malaparte
Milano Vogue Photo Festival,
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, Italy
2015
Antonioni | Aux Origines du Pop
(Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo)
La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
Portrait #3 | Antonioni - Vitti
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
The Vacancy
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
Movement towards formation
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Reverse Inequality
Galerie Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany
2014
Künstlerräume 02 | Artist Spaces 02
Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Malaparte
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
The door is imperceptibly ajar | Samuel Beckett
The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
peter welz | portraits and installations
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, Italy
Part 2: Figuration, Illustration, Notation und Zeichen
Semjon Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2013
Francis Bacon
MOMAT Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Francis Bacon
Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan
Whenever on on on noho on
Aichi Triennale 2013, Nagoya, Japan
DÉS-ORIENTÉ(S)
L’Iselp, Brussels, Belgium
Itinerarios del Video. De LOOP a SCREEN (2003-2013)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), La Coruña, Spain
EHF 2010
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Andratx on Paper
Centre of Contemporary Art, Mallorca, Spain
Mies van der Rohe – Casa Malaparte
Model 1:1, Mies van der Rohe, Krefeld, Germany
2013
EHF 2010
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Horticulture
Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt Main, Germany
Wall Space
Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany
switch on
Galleria Fumagalli, Milano, Italy
2011
MMK 1991–2011 20 Jahre Gegenwart | 20 years of presence
Frankfurt Main, Germany
Bocconi Art Gallery
Palazzo Roetgen, Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy
Around the clock, Biennale di Venezia, Eventi Collaterali
Venice, Italy
BAU_HAUS, tät
Berlin, Germany
EHF 2010
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Peter Welz - distorted l’eclisse [after m. antonioni]
Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt Main, Germany
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
Mesauring potentials
Temporary project space, 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, UK
Hommage à Maurice Béjart
Station du métro m2 Riponne - Maurice Béjart | permanent installation
Reality looks back on me
Museum Kaiserpfalz, Kaiserslautern, Germany
2009
peter welz
National Gallery of Modern Art, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rom, Italy
peter welz
Galleria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
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
figure inscribing a circle | random collage | split [figure] | single – triple
NEXT, Galerie Wernicke, Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
2007
figure inscribing a circle
Museum for Contemporary Art | Museum für Gegenwart, Hamburger Bahnhof,
Berlin at EnBW Showroom, Berlin, Germany
Peter Welz : Pantalla CCCB, one month | one artist
Centre de Cultura Contemporàna de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Tanzen. Sehen.
Museum of Contemporary Art | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Ver Bailar. La provocación en el diálogo entre la danzaYlas artes visuales
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Peter Welz | architectural device for a Forsythe movement
Galeria Senda | Espai 2nous2, Barcelona, Spain
Loop
Video art festival, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Corps étrangers
[retranslation | final unfinished portrait]
Musée du Louvre, Galerie de la Melpomène, Paris, France
Museo Museo Museo
GAM - Galleria d´arte moderna e contemporanea | Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art,
Turin, acquisitions 1998 – 2006, Italy
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, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Peter Welz | video-sculpture
The Kitchen, New York, USA
9th Disposition | 9.Übersicht 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, Marroko
video-sculpture | architectural device
Art Forum Berlin, solo installation for Gasag Förderpreis, Berlin, Germany
Steiler Konter
Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
Jump Cut – Nights
Museum Ludwig, Cinema at the Museum Ludwig, SK-Kultur, Köln, Germany
2005
whenever on on on nohow on | airdrawing
The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA
to unsay
Mönchehaus, Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Goslar, Germany
URBAN REALITIES - Focus Istanbul
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Truss Thrust: The Artifice of Space
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
The 23rd Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic
The Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovicz Cacak, Belgrade, Serbia
Körper - Leib - Raum, Der Raum im zeitgenössischen Tanz und in der zeitgenössischen Plastik /
space in contemporary dance and contemporary sculpture
Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Marl, Germany
Visioni | Vision
20 sculptural spatial installations from ‘Zero until today’, Bergamo, Italy
Punkt und Linie, Fläche und Raum | surface and space: drawing today
Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
2004
Central Station
La Maison Rouge | Falckenberg Collection at the Foundation d’Antoine Galbert, Paris, France
whenever on on on nohow on | airdrawing
Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, Germany
whenever on on on nohow on
Deutsche Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
airdrawing – work in progress
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Constellations
ARTissima, Fiera internazionale d'arte contemporanea , Turin, Italy
imPACT 04
Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2003
tanzmedial: installationen, fotographie, filme
SK – Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Germany
neue arbeiten für und nach emilio prini | new works for and after emilio prini
projektraum berlin, Germany
the fall | at an 90 angel | on card | on concrete
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
the fall | forward | front | below
Goethe Institute, Baltisches Haus, St. Petersburg, Russia
2002
passages | four projects between art and architecture
Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, Germany
de waan | the delusion
Odapark, Vincent van Gogh Institute, Venray, Holland
2001
body politics
berlin_london, ICA Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, UK
highspeed | alta velocita
GAM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, San Pietro in Vincoli, Turin, Italy
senselessness-lessness
Tramway, Glasgow, Scottland, UK
superchannel | superflex
Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
die Macht der Gewohnheit | the power of the ordinary
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, Austria
2000
STILLSTILL
Projectroom Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, Germany
to withdraw
Produzentengalerie, Kiel, Germany
continental shift
Ludwig Forum Aachen, New Nashubi Gallery, Aachen, Germany
post 2000
Festival experimenteller junger Kunst, Berlin, Germany
festival of vision
Tamar Festival Center, Hong Kong, China
1999
absence
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
STILL
Projectroom Gipsstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Bibliography
Catalogues Solo Exhibitions
2009
Peter Welz
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
2008
Peter Welz
Otto-Dix-Preis 2008, Kunstsammlung Gera, Germany
2007
drafts for a [video-] sculpture
Peter Welz, Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt, Germany
2005
to unsay
Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar ,The Renaissance Society, Chicago more
Catalogues Group Exhibitions
2020
Counter Culture
25 years of the Falckenberg Collection
Snoeck Publisher
Studio Berlin | Berghain
Distanz Publisher, Boros foundation
2019
Haltung & Fall | Stance & fall
Museum Marta Herford, Germany
LOOK AT ME !
Scalpendi Editore, Milano, Fondazione Ghisla Art Collection
No Fotos on the Dance Floor!
Prestel Publisher, Munich, Germany
Time Is A Queer Thing
Ben Miller, Media Guru Zine #5,published by AA Bronson, Berlin, Germany
2017
Samuel Becketts Spuren im 21. Jahrhundert: Intermediale Transformationen in bildender Kunst und Choreographie
Katharina Knüppel, Epodium Verlag
Gestualités Textualités en danse contemporaine, Stefano Genetti, Édition Hermann, Paris
Contemporary Chaos, Vestfossen Kunstlaborarium Foundation, Norway
2013
Bacon, MoMAT Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokkyo & Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan
DÉS-ORIENTÉ(S), L’Iselp, Brussels, Belgium D.A.: A Transdisciplinary Handbook of Design Anthropology, Yana Milev, Peter Lang Publishing Group
2012
Disability and modern fiction
Alice Hall, Palgrave MacMillan
2011
Sammlung MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst | MMK , Frankfurt, Germany
Around the Clock, Biennale di Venezia, Sengno in Segno, Bergamo, Italy
2010
Zeigen, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
From the inside, Rugby Museum, Rugby, England
2009
Now Jump, Nam June Paik Museum, MJP Press, Korea
Raum - Bewegen Konstruieren Erkunde, transversale hrsg. v. Armen Avanessian und Franck Hofmann, München Paderborn 2009
fast forward II, Sammlung Goetz, Sammlung Goetz Verlag, Germany
Gegenbilder, Petra Maria Meyer, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München, Germany
Now Jump, Nam June Paik Museum, MJP Press, Korea Raum
Bewegen Konstruieren Erkunden, transversale hrsg. v. Armen Avanessian und Franck Hofmann, München Paderborn 2009
Media-Bodies, Sabine Huschka, Theater & medien, Transcript Verlag, Germany
2008
CONCRETE I BETON I BÉTON, Joachim Fischer, Tandem Verlag, Munich, Germany
raduction(s) interview by Noelle Batt, trevue TLE nr. 25, Presses Université Paris 8, France
zeitraumzeit, K-Haus Wien, Folio Verlag, Austria
Linie 08, Galerie Dina Renninger, Diana4 Projekte, Munich, Germany
2007
Tanzen. Sehen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst | Museum for Contemporary Art, Siegen, Germany 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
Tanz x Skulptur x Raum | ein Lexikon, Nele Lipp, Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Marl, Germany
The 23rd Memorial of Nadezda Petrovic, The Art Gallery Nadezda Petrovicz Cacak, Belgrade
Interactions, corps en mouvement, Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca
Transversale, research in art & science, european yearbook, Wilhelm Finck Verlag, Germany
Steiler Konter, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2005
URBAN REALITIES: Focus Istanbul, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany Visioni, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo, Italy
2004
Central Station, Ausstellungskatalog der Sammlung Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2003
Tanzmedial, SK – Stiftung Kultur, Köln
2002
Logboek de waan, Ausstellungskatalog, Stichting Odapark, Venray, NL
Articles in newspapers and art magazines (selection)
2007
Bill Arning, Aspect – the chronicle new media art, volume 9 - performance, April 07
Dominique Moulon, Les arts mediatiques en Allemagne, Images Magazine, May 07 Claudia Posca,
Tanzen, Sehen Kunstforum International, p.361, Spring 07
Sylvia Staude
Kill Achill – mit den Füßen, Frankfurter Rundschau, p.18, 1.March 07
Camilla Peus, Let’s dance, Kunstzeitung Nr. 127, March 07
Johannes Wendland, Tanz trifft auf Kunst, Handelsblatt nr. 34, Kunstmarkt p.1, Feb. 07
Stefanie Ippendorf, What a wonderful Welz, Art in Berlin, 2.February 07
Andres Santana on peter welz: dancing on the surface special feature in Art.es including DVD, International Contemporary Art, No.17, March 2007 Joana Hurtado Matheu, Danzas y dibujos / dancing and drawings, Culturas in La Vanguardia, 3.February 07, p.11 Christpph Schulz, Filmen für Forsythe / Filming for Forsythe, Interview, Filmschnitt, no.45 jan. 07, p. 24-26
2006
Alan Riding, Rap and Film at the Louvre. What’s up with that?, New York Times, 21.11.06 Alan Riding, Entr’act, Herald Tribune International, 15.11.06
ARTE, TV broadcast on the installation at the Louvre, Sat.11.November 2006 Tagesschau, TV broadcast on the installation at the Louvre, Wed. 13.October 2006
J.Sennewald, ‘Peter Welz im Louvre’, Kunst-bulletin, November 2006, p. 75 Beaux Arts Magazine, ‘corps étrangers’, special supplement, October 2006 Rosita Boisseau, ‘quand la gestuelle de Forsythe rencontre le portrait de Bacon’ in Le Monde, 29.10.06
Rosita Boisseau, ‘William Forsythe à Paris en deux tableaux dansés’ in Le Monde, 05.10.06
Special Supplement, ‚corps étrangers’ in le Point, October 2006
Daniel Völzke, ‘Tänzer im Hamsterrad’ in Tagesspiegel, Berlin Kultur, 1. October 06 Katrin Wittneven, ‘Fremdkörper’ in Monopol Art Magazine, no. 5, 2006
Maya Sachweh, radio interview, Deutschlandradio, 17. October 2006 McQuaid, Cate: ‘Feats [and follies] of technology’ in Boston Globe, June 18, 2006
2005
CAN – TV Chicago, ‘to unsay’ Interview broadcast, The Renaissance Society, Sept. 05
Voelz, Mary Chandler: Rocky Mountain News, 21. October 2005, Denver, USA Mac Millan Kyle, Denver Post, 6.November 2005, Denver, USA Wesemann, Arnd: Ballettanz, ‘infinite’, May 05
2004
Hüster, Wiebke: Be on - wie Peter Welz William Forsythe filmt und beide über Beckett stolpern, in: Jahrbuch Ballettanz on William Forsythe, 2004
Meyer-Thoss, Gottfried: Wo das Fallen beginnt, in: Berliner Zeitung, 17.11.04 Wilson, Mick: On Peter Welz - rhyming circles, in: New York Arts Magazine, No. 5/6, May/ June 2004
Müller, Kartin Bettina: Kalligraphie des Körpers, in: tip, May 04
William Forsythe tanzt airdrawing, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 7.4.04
Galan, Fernando: Drawing has not gone with the wind, in: Art.es, International Contemporary Art, No.2, März/ April 2004
SAT, Kulturzeit, TV broadcast, TV interview for Central Station, Collection Falckenberg, 22.10.04
2003
3 SAT, Kulturzeit, TV broadcast, Tanzmedial, 10.12.2003