Born in 1960, Oberneukirchen, Austria
Lives and works in situ
(Peter Friedl has withdrawn from participation on June 19)
Peter Friedl has made a steady incision in the methods and conventions of contemporary art. After publishing reviews and essays on contemporary theater for a few years, Friedl turned to his own artistic production in the 1980s. Friedl’s work—consistently heterogeneous in classical terms of medium, style, and meaning—highlights political awareness, autobiography, permanent displacement, design interventions, potential counter-imagery, and the reinvention of genres left over from the history of Modernism.
Recent solo exhibitions (selection)
2008
Peter Friedl, Blow Job
Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
30 May 2008 - 27 July 2008
www.extracity.org
>> for more information about the exhibition see Documents
Peter Friedl, Working
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
18 January 2008 - 30 March 2008
www.kunsthallebasel.ch
2007
Work 1964–2006, Malmö Konstall, Malmö, Sweden
Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels
Travail 1964–2006, [mac] Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille
Work 1964–2006, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
2006
Peter Friedl, Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel
Peter Friedl: Obra 1964–2006, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
The Distribution of Sensibility, v. II. Peter Friedl: Playgrounds, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2005
Playgrounds, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
Drawings, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
Theory of Justice, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
2004
Four or Five Roses, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
Peter Friedl, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
Out of the Shadows, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2003
King Kong, Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel
badly organized, Galerie Hohenlohe & Kalb, Wien
For more information: www.ernahecey.com
Map, 1969–2005
Silkscreen on paper, 8 parts; 233 x 334 cm
Courtesy Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels
Photo: Philippe De Gobert
Untitled (brothers in crime), 2004
Neon tubing, cables, transformers
190 x 310 x 6 cm
Courtesy Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels
Photo: Philippe De Gobert
Tiger oder Löwe, 2000
(Tiger or Lion)
Video, color, sound
1’05’’, loop; Video still
Courtesy the artist and Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels
The Zoo Story, 2007
Taxidermized giraffe from the Qalqiliyah Zoo, Westbank
351 x 66 x 278 cm
documenta 12, Kassel
Courtesy the artist and International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah
Photo: Katrin Schilling
King Kong, 2001
Video projection, color, sound
3’57’’; Video still
Courtesy the artist and Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels