Peter Fend è nato nel 1950 a Columbus, Ohio.
Vive e lavora a New York

 

EDUCAZIONE

1973
BA, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

 

MOSTRE PERSONALI

2021

Peter Fend, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna, Austria (PF)

 

2020

BIRDS REIGN, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany (PF)

 

2019
Peter Fend. AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY, Museo Nivola, Orani, Sardinia, Italy
Filling the absence – Peter Fend and Yona Friedman, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italya

 

2018
HACE SENTIDO / MAKES SENSE, Embajada, San Juan
Costa Verso Costa, Pinksummer, Palermo, Italy

 

2017

Forse, pinksummer, Genova

Shadow Cabinet: A Loyal Opposition Response, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, New York

 

2015

TO BE BUILT, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany

AFRIKA EUROPA BRÜCKE, Oracle, Berlin, Germany

 

2014

REBELS ARE REASONABLE, ESSEX STREET, New York, NY

Lomonosov Furthered, with Shane Munro, LISTZ, Berlin, Germany

 

2012

Über die Grenze: May Not Be Seen Or Read Or Done, ESSEX STREET, New York, NY

WHAT TO DO NEXT, Peanut Underground Art Projects, New York, NY

 

2011

“Arab Springs”/ Atlantic Wealth: Trading Room, White Box / MA.P.S, New York, NY

Ricchezza D’Italia, Galeria Cesare Manzo, Pescara, Italy

 

2010

Situation Room, 391 Victoria Street, Hamilton, New Zealand

 

2009

Situation Room: Technology Change Climate Stability, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

 

2007

Elbegas, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany

BET AND WIN: Way Out Too, Unit 2 Gallery, London, UK

 

2005

Parallel Projects: Proposals for Condoleezza Rice / Parallelprojekte: Vorschläge für Condoleezza Rice, Christian

Nagel, Berlin, Germany

 

2004

Reverse Global Warming, Spacex, Exeter, UK

One to Another (foreign policy proposal), American Fine Arts, New York

Correspondence, American Fine Arts, New York

 

2003

Independence from Big Oil, Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council, Dublin, Ireland

Proposals for Arabia, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

 

2002

Global Gas / Super Gas, Ocean Earth vis-à-vis Superflex, Kunstruimte Wagemans, The Netherlands

 

2001

Naval Action, Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Big Deal: Revival of the Americas, Nikolai Fine Art, New York

Sea Change, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK

Ocean Earth: Policy Models, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL

Economic Potential, Roger Smith Gallery, New York

 

2000

RAPID: Post-Petroleum Gas Stations, Launching a Brand, American Fine Arts, New York

EURAFRICA/AMERICAS/MONDO, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

NEWS ROOM NEW YORK (Chaikin, Fend, Lehman, Lombardi, RR), Roger Smith Gallery, New York

 

1999

Global Warming: A Rapid Response Remark, at Chelsea Exxon station, Nikolai Fine Art, New York

Chase Scene, American Fine Arts, New York

 

1998

NEWS ROOM GRAZ, Kunst und Neue Medien, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria

 

1997

Spiral Ramp, Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, NY

 

1996

Chernobyl Solutions, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York

Art Meets Science, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

1995

Landkraft/Swiss Split, Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland

Landkraft, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria

Architecture for the 21st Century, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

 

1994

Eurasian Scenario, Marc Jancou Gallery, London, UK

Startbahn Oesterreich, Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria

Global Spiral, installation at Global Forum, G-Mex Centre, Manchester, UK

Ocean Earth, Strauss & Adamopolous, Frankfurt, Germany

NEWS ROOM COPENHAGEN, with Globe, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

1993

Strategie Globale: Giant Algae System for France, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France

Habitus, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

OCEAN EARTH: FOR A WORLD WHICH WORKS, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria

NEWS ROOM PARIS, Galerie des Archives, Paris, France

 

1992

Site Simulator, Tivat Bay, American Fine Arts, New York

Beach Party Deutschland, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany

Beach Party Yugoslavia, Riverside Studios, London, UK

Documenta Flags, Galerie de Marseille, Marseille, France

Documenta Flags, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy

Espace Circulant/Spinning Room, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, France

Floriade, The Hague, The Netherlands

Corse Divise, Assemblee Nationale, Paris, France

NICAF, Yokohama, Japan

Means to Wealth/Mittel und Wohlstand, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany

 

1991

Europa, Kunstraum Daxer, Munich, Germany

Beach Party, American Fine Arts, New York

NEWS ROOM STOCKHOLM, Galerie Nordenstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden

Salle du Monde, long-term installation at L’Hôpital éphémère, Paris, France

 

1990

City of the Dead / Die Totenstadt, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany

Cities as Bodies / Staedte als Koerper, Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany

NEWS ROOM FRANKFURT, Institut fuer Neue Medien / Pavilion Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany

NEWS ROOM NEW YORK/NEWS ROOM AMSTERDAM, American Fine Arts, New York and Museum Fodor,

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Progetto Adriatico, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy

Einheiten, Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany

Kleine Fragen, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

 

1989

Completion of the War, American Fine Arts, New York

Global Monitoring and Assessments: Towards the 21st Century, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy

 

1988

BODY, American Fine Arts, New York

Peter Fend, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York (PF)

Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden (PF)

 

1985

Bacino Torbido, Museo Santa Barbara, Calabria, Italy (OE)

 

1983

Image/Process, The Kitchen, New York

 

1982

Space Force in Action, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (OE)

Art of the State, The Kitchen, New York (SF/OE)

Global System, Chase Manhattan Plaza, sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (OE)

 

1979

IRON LUNG: A ROOM DEFINED NOT BY ITS WALLS BUT BY A PUMP, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York (PF)

WEALTH OF BASINS, DEATH OF NATIONS, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York (PF)

World Space: Political Economies After Oil, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York (PF)

 

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE

2020
Politiche della Natura_Masters, MAAB Gallery, Milan, Italy (forthcoming)
Critical Zones, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany (forthcoming)
Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (forthcoming)
Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (forthcoming)

 

2019
RESET, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY

 

2018
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Unthought Environments, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
The Dutch Savannah, De Domijnen Museum, Sittard, The Netherlands
We stared at the Moon from the centre of the Sun, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
The Second Yinchuan Biennale: Starting from the Desert, Ecologies on the Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China

 

2017

EUtopia | 28, Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent, Strombeek, Belgium (PF)

Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York (PF)

Aubades. Land Art for Aliens, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland (PF)

Water Worlds #1, Centre international d’art et du paysage, Beaumont-du-Lac, France (PF)

 

2016

World Made By Hand, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, New York (PF)

Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet, FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas (PF)

History Made By Artists, C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, New York (PF)

Tomorrow’s Man, Sheppard Contemporary, University Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada (PF)

You Cannot Do Nothing, Galerie Alte Schule, Berlin, Germany (PF)

Oceans After Nature, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California (PF)

Politics of Nature, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy (PF)

Global Terror, Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin, Germany (PF)

Mean Machine (Up Jumped the Devil), The Meeting, New York, New York (PF)

 

2015

Territories: Alighiero e Boetti and Peter Fend, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy (PF)

Globale – Exo-Evolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (PF/OE)

The Fountainhead, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy (PF)

to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: Artistic Practices around 1990, Mumok, Vienna, Austria(PF)

2050. A Brief History of the Future., Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium; travelling to Palazzo Reale

Milan, Italy (PF)

Dojima River Biennale 2015: Take Me To The River – currents of the contemporary, Dojima River Forum, Osaka,

Japan (PF)

Anthems for the Mother Earth Goddess, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York (PF)

Drawings | Fridges, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles (PF)

DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (PF)

Decolonized Skies, organized by High&Low Bureau, ADN Platform, Barcelona, Spain (PF)

For Troedsson Villa, curated by Tam Ochiai and Anne Eastman, Troedsson Villa, Nikko, Japan (PF)

ECO-TAX, Cannonball and Dimensions Variable, Miami (PF)

Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, selected by Cleopatra’s, White Columns, New York (PF)

Hollywood Hills House, curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles (PF)

 

2014

WORK IT OUT, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York (PF)

Decolonized Skies, organized by High&Low Bureau, Apexart, New York (PF)

TEDxVaduz redux, T293, Rome, Italy (PF)

The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980, James Fuentes, New York (PF)

 

2013

Looking Back / The 7th White Columns Annual, selected by Richard Birkett, White Columns, New York (PF)

Scott Burton, curated by Oscar Tuazon, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy (PF)

Yes Naturally: How Art Saves The World, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands (PF)

 

2012

OilScapes, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK (PF)

 

2010

Islands and Ghettos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberger, Germany (PF)

 

2008

This is the Gallery…, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (PF)

Come Out & Play, apexart, New York (PF)

 

2007

Green Dreams, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (PF)

Aussen vor/On The Outside, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany (PF)

Still Life. Art, Ecology & The Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Emirate of Sharjah (PF)

Arrêt sur Images, FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France (PF)

 

2006

The Drop, Exit Art, New York (PF)

 

2005

Gotik und Moderne, Fraenkische Galerie, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Kronach, Germany (PF)

Temporary Spaces, Ausstellungsraum Glue, Berlin, Germany (PF)

Mirage, curated by Martin Beck and Julie Ault, Alexander and Bonin, New York (PF)

Dry Wells that Upwell Groundwater to Revive Margins of Salt Lakes, Harper Dry Lake, CA (PF)

Waterways, Venice Biennale, Italy (PF)

 

2004

Election, American Fine Arts, New York (PF/GF)

Hortus, Independent Section, Liverpool Biennial, UK (GF)

Wonderful, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (PF)

Le Dessus des Cartes, ISELP, Brussels, Belgium (PF)

Adaptations, Apexart, New York (OE)

 

2003

Attack: Art and War, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (PF)

Banquete/Bankett, Barcelona Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain; travelling to Zentrum fuer Kunst und

Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany; Medialab, Madrid, Spain (OE)

GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (OE)

Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (OE)

Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Italy (PF/OE)

Collaborations, Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France (OE/PF)

 

2002

Ars Electronica 2002, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria (PF/OE)

Oekonomien der Zeit, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; travelling to Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany;

and Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (PF)

Ecovention, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (OE)

Ways Out, Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands (OE)

Empire/State: Artists Engaging Globalization, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York (PF)

 

2001

The South Bronx Story, James Fuentes / The Point, The Bronx, NY (PF)

Cartographie des artistes, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France (PF)

Sao Paulo Biennale, Azerbaijan/Armenia/Georgia Pavilion, Sao Paulo, Brazil (PF)

 

2000

Ecologies, The Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (PF)

Undo, Theater for the New City, New York

Dystopia, Tribes Gallery, New York (PF)

World Trade, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn (PF)

Carnival in the Eye of the Storm, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR (OE)

 

1999

Post-War Architecture, Venice Biennale, Italy (OE)

Crash, ICA, London, UK (PF)

 

1998

Your Utopia, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (PF)

Hey, You Never Know, Kenny Schachter / ROVE, New York (PF)

Cartographers, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (OE)

Cartographers, Umnetnosta Galerie, Maribor. Entrance display (OE)

Desert Flood, ROVE, New York, NY (PF)

 

1997

The Experimenters, curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York (PF)

French Pavilion TV Studio, with Fabrice Hybert, Venice Biennale (PF/OE)

Cartographers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Géographiques: territoires vécus, territoires voulus, territories figures, FRAC Corse, Corsica, France (PF)

 

1996

Atopic Site, curated by Yukiko Shikata, Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan (OE)

Art Meets Science, in conjunction with “Copenhagen, European City of Culture,” Charlottenborg, Copenhagen,

Denmark (OE)

 

1995

Faith, Hope, Love, Death, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (PF)

Mapping: A Response to MoMA, curated by Peter Fend, American Fine Arts, New York (PF/OE/NR)

On Board, Aperto, Venice Biennale (PF)

Photography After Photography, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Munich; travelling to Kunsthalle, Krems, Austria;

Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus, Germany; Museet for

Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland; ICA London, UK; ICA

Philadelphia, PA (OE)

Infrasound, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Hamburg, Germany (PF)

 

1994

Cloaca Maxima, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stadtentwasserung, Zurich, Switzerland (PF)

Bifurcations, Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France; travelling to Musée des Beaux-arts de Dole, France;

Cimaise et portique, espace d’art contemporain, centre culturel de l’Albigeois Albi, France (PF/OE)

Mission Impossible, Gashouder, Amsterdam (OE)

 

1993

Aperto, Venice Biennale, Italy (PF/OE)

Kunst in Weltmasstab, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany (PF)

Fontanelle, Potsdam, Germany (PF)

Kontext Kunst, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (PF/OE)

First Europeans, Schloss Charlottenberg, Berlin, Germany (PF)

Antwerp Cultural Center, European City of Culture. (OE)

The Edge of Chaos: New Ways of Seeing, Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (OE)

Viennese Story, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria (PF)

Tutto Tondo, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany (PF)

 

1992

Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany (PF)

Documatter, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (PF)

Il Faut Construire Hacienda, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, CCC Tours

Multiplici Culturali, selected by Angela Vettesse, Rome, Italy (PF)

Floriade, The Hague, The Netherlands (OE)

Corse Divise, Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France (PF)

Nippon International Contemporary Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan (PF)

Reconnaissance, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (PF/OE)

 

1991

Teorici Americani, Ottagano, Milan, Italy (PF)

Wiener Festwochen, subway station installations, Vienna, Austria (OE)

FRAC Corse, Corsica, France (PF)

Iberian Current, FRAC Pays de la Loire, France (OE/PF)

 

1990

Around the World, PS 1, Long Island City, NY

The Köln Show, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (PF)

California Project, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA (PF)

Reconnaissance, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY (PF)

 

1989

Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden (PF)

Video Works, Galerie Nordenstadt, Stockholm, Sweden

Competition Diomede, The Clocktower, New York and sites in the US & USSR

On-Site: Response to Conditions, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York

Jet Lag, Turon Travel, New York (PF)

Project DMZ, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY

Completion of the War, American Fine Arts, New York, NY (PF)

Global Monitoring and Assessments: Towards the 21st Century, two-part presentation in conference sponsored by

UN Food & Agriculture Organization and UN Environment Program, Fondazione Cini, Venice.

 

1988

The New Poverty II, Meyers-Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (PF)

International Landscape, XPO Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (PF)

International Landscape, Galerie Christoph Duerr, Munich, Germany (PF)

Computer Images of Architecture, NY Chapter, American Institute of Architects, New York (OE)

Competition Diomede, The Clocktower, New York (PF)

Kunstrai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (PF)

Public Discourse, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

The Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York

 

1987

Documenta VIII, Kassel, Germany (OE, attributed to Ingo Gunther)

The New Poverty, John Gibson Gallery, New York (PF)

Corporate Crime, alternative spaces, San Francisco and San Diego, CA

 

1986

Surveillance, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (OE)

 

1985

Deutsche Kunst, 1945-1985, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (OE, attributed to PF and Ingo Gunther)

 

1984

Kunst und Medien, Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany (PF)

Via Satellite, Amerika Haus, Cologne, Germany (PF)

The International Show, curated by Michael Smith, Baskerville & Watson, New York

 

1983- 1984

Show, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/Village Voice, New York (SF/OE)

Image/Process, The Kitchen, New York (OE)

Documenta VII, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (SF)

 

1982

Natural History, curated by Scott Cook, Grace de Borgenicht Gallery, New York (PF)

 

1981

New York, New Wave, curated by Diego Cortez, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (PF)

Forrest Avenue Maze, on-site project, Forest Avenue School, The Bronx, NY (PF)

Jamaica Fish/Bird Port, Urban Animals II, ABC No Rio / Collaborative Projects (PF)

 

1980

The Real Estate Show, New York (PF)

Ruhrgebiet Projects, Duisburg, Germany

The Times Square Show, New York (PF)

Public Policy: Architecture Propositions, organized by Peter Fend, 626 Broadway, New York

 

1979

World Space: Political Economies After Oil, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York

Manifesto Show, New York, NY and Milan, Italy

Participation in Urban Animals shows, South Bronx and ABC No Rio, NY

Participation in Collaborative Projects shows (1978-83, 1979 being the peak year)

 

1978

Poetry of Systems, Baxter Art Museum, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (PF)

 

COLLABORAZIONI

(PF) – Peter Fend

(OE) – Ocean Earth Development Corporation

(NR) – NEWS ROOM

(GF) – GLOBAL FEED

(RR) – Rapid Response

(CH) – Swiss Defense

(SF) – Space Force