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Peter Welz
[artist]



installation, sculpture, video

collaboration with Choreographer William Forsythe

Peter Welz, born in 1972, lives & works in Berlin. He studied at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin from 1993 to 1995, the Cooper Union in New York in 1997, and from 1995 to 1998 he attended the Chelsea College of Art in London.

Welz sees himself as a sculptor who examines issues related to sculptural design with the medium of video. He is primarily interested in the movement of the human figure in space, which he subjects to extensive artistic research in various test arrangements.

The themes of the artist’s work reflect his long-standing examination of Samuel Beckett. Welz attracted international interest with his five-part video that developed in close collaboration with the celebrated choreographer William Forsythe. Forsythe, director for many years of the Staatstheater ballet in Frankfurt am Main and one of the most sought after choreographers of our time.

exhibitions: [selection]

2013 MOMAT Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, Japan

2013 Aichi Triennale 2013, Nagoya, Japan

2009 National Gallery of Modern Art, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rom, Italy

2007	 Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

2006	 Musée du Louvre, Galerie de la Melpomène, Paris, France

2006 MIT,List Visual Art Center, Boston, USA

2006 Museum of Contemporary Art, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, curated by Stan Douglas & Christpher Eamon

2005 The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA

2005 Mönchehaus, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany