Peter Fend
Peter Fend è nato nel 1950 a Columbus, Ohio.
Vive e lavora a New York
EDUCAZIONE
1973
BA, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota
MOSTRE PERSONALI
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