PETER WÄCHTLER
Born 1979, Germany
Lives and works in Brussels and Berlin
Education
- Fine Art Studies at Bauhaus-University, Weimar with Prof. Fritz Rahmann and Roger Behrens
- Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury / England with Pete Fillingham and Derek Hampson
- Diploma in 2004
Solo Exhibitions
2009
- Songbook, Kunstraum, München - Collaboration with Andreas Wegner
- Depression Glass, Goethe Nationalmuseum / Nietzsche Archiv, Weimar (DE) - Interior design for the conference "Historicity and Modernism"
2008
- Omen, Aktualisierungsraum, Hamburg (DE)
2007
- Concert - Look back in Anger, galerie 35, Berlin (DE)
2004
- Singer, Bauhaus-Museum, Weimar (DE)
2003
- Art and Consumption, Projectspace Infection-Manifesto, Düsseldorf (DE)
2001
- Concert, Series of concerts in shopping malls, Berlin (DE) - Collaboration with Andreas Wegner
Group Exhibitions
2009
- Morality: From Love to Legal, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL)
- Finishing off a Genre: Last of the Money Paintings, Studio of Brunnhuber and Vardag, Vienna (AT)
- Pretty Ambitious, Corner College, Zürich (CH)
- Wir verbessern ihre Arbeit / We improve your Work, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin (DE)
- Isomopolis, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels (BE)
2008
- BIG FOOT, Lübbener Straße, Berlin (DE)
- In.Visible, Deutschvilla, Strobl (AT)
- Victory over the Sun, Aktualisierungsraum, Hamburg (DE)
- Re-Education. You too can be like us. HAU-Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (DE) - Collaboration with Friedrich Lissmann
2006
- The Culture of Fear I + II, Halle 14, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig / ACC Gallery, Weimar (DE)
- Interior Trim, Ausstellungsraum Bleicherstrasse, Hamburg (DE)
- Contragolpe – Reenacting a failed operation, Karl-Marx Allee, Berlin (DE)
- Art as loot - Loot as art, Manor Dr. Otto Krebs, Holzdorf (DE)
2005
- Transmission, Neues Museum, Weimar (DE)
- The Capacity of Art, Kunsthaus, Dresden (DE)
- Most Haunted 05, Galeria AG7, Riga (LV)
Scholarships
2009
- Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, Exhibition Funding
2007
- Filmfestival Sidewalk Cinema 07, 1st Prize, Vienna (AT)
Festivals
2005
- Foundation for vibrant cities, Politics in the Free Theatre, Sophiensaele Theater, Berlin (DE) - Lecture with Andreas Wegner
- Cops and Robbers, 200th Anniversary of the death of Friedrich Schiller, Weimar (DE)
2003
- Superumbau, Art- and Theatre Festival, Hoyerswerda (DE)
Stage Design
2007
- Empty rooms - Completely Furnished, HAU-Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin / Schwankhalle, Bremen / Theaterhaus, Jena (DE)
2005
- Dogs, HAU-Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin / Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden / E-Werk, Weimar (DE)
Publications
- "Nancy and Tonya", Exhibition review of "I kiss your ectoplasm like I would a shark" by Danai Anesiadou at the Kiosk, Ghent (BE)
- In der Pandurenklause / At the Panduren Tavern, Essay published in the magazine Lichtung - Collaboration with Miriam Visaczki
- In.Visible, Exhibition catalogue feat. various authors, Czerny Verlag, Vienna (AT)
- The Capacity of Art, Exhibition catalogue feat. various authors, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne (DE)
- Monster, Project publication
- Kunstreport, Annual publication feat. various authors
- Transmission, Exhibition catalogue feat. various authors, Neues Museum, Weimar (DE)
- HMP-Her Majesty’s Prison, Brochure with texts and drawings on Canterbury’s prison
- Concert, CD, 8 Songs, Booklet
- Parkett, Nr. 67, "Mimetic Extracts" review by Rita Kersting
- Public Relation, Academic Publication feat. various authors
- Abenteuer Optional / Adventurous Options, Essay published in Finger, Nr. 9
- Portrait, Portrait Drawings feat. various artists