Valeska Peschke

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Valeska Peschke (* 1966 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) is a German conceptual artist .

Life and professional history

Peschke grew up as the niece of the painter Annelise Everts in Germany and began studying art and intellectual history at Principia College in Illinois in 1987 . She then did an apprenticeship as a blacksmith , before she began studying architecture at the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin and finished fine arts as a master class student. Since 1996 she has participated in international exhibitions. She is co-founder of the artist groups "Stadt im Regal" and "Salon 808". Among other things, she received scholarships for research and art from the Berlin Senate (1996), for “Research and Culture” from the Pasadena Art Center, USA (1997–98), the Villa Aurora (2000), and the Headlands Center for the Arts in New York , the “Artist in Residence at Djerassi”, California (2002) and for the “Sirius Art Center” in Cork , Ireland (2002). In addition, she was appointed visiting professor at the Art Center College of Design , Pasadena, USA, and at the University of Fine Arts, Dresden.

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Peschke's projects are diverse. She works in the field of photography, space-consuming sculpture and the intervention in public space and uses different materials for this.

Valeska Peschke learned metal construction before starting an apprenticeship as an architect at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where she graduated in 1997 with an MFA in Rebecca Horn's class. Peschke's artistic approach is correspondingly diverse, she moves virtuoso between the media of photography, the expansive sculpture and the intervention in public space. For example, the Instant Home work , a gable-roof house with furniture that can be inflated in two minutes, surprisingly settled in places that had been declared uninhabitable, and interested passers-by were asked about their ideas about home. The house, which is open to all, could be found between 1999 and 2002 in places as diverse as the forecourt of the Semper Opera House in Dresden, on the beach in Santa Monica and in the Servico Social Comérico in Ipiranga in São Paulo. Peschke's interest in questions of identity and their construction against the background of increasing mobility and urbanization runs like a red thread through her work.

Instant Home

"Instant Home" was created as art in public space in California and deals with the question of mobility and identity in the postmodern era. The 12 m 2 structure consists of vinyl and air. The Instant Home was exhibited as part of the City Index exhibition in the Kunsthaus Dresden in 2000, through the Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin 2000, Inflavles in the SESC Ipiranga in São Paulo, Brazil 2002 and X-treme Houses of the Federkiel Foundation in 2004.

What is a house made of? Generations of architects have been pursuing this question since the beginning of modernity at the beginning of this century, since the industrialization of production companies and since the invention of social housing. In theory, the answer is simple: a roof, four walls, a door and a window. Despite postmodernism and deconstructivism, the fascination with inexpensive architecture is still unbroken. The dream of their own house is longingly dreamed. The home is the phantasmatic focus of bourgeoisie, it represents prosperity, security, success - and nevertheless, or precisely because of it, becomes the 'main source of petty bourgeois misery'. The prefabricated house has established itself as the ideal type of home: It is not only propagated by building societies up and down the country, but also preferred by many home builders - what you see is what you get, namely the lowest common denominator of human housing.

Volcanoes

Vulkan in the Göttweig Abbey as part of the European Forum Wachau

Inspired by volcanoes, a series of performances emerged, such as the “First World Catastrophy Camp” and “Without Compromise” in the Martin-Gropius Building in 1996. “As a 'volcano researcher', Valeska Peschke goes to construction sites, dealing with the object with geological meticulousness to approach their desire. She is fascinated by the dynamics and the energy that keep things and thoughts moving. To do this she uses the vocabulary of volcanology and the shift of the volcano metaphor to Berlin ”.

Katja-Valeska Peschke has followed intensively the "volcano research" in the last few years in which she made the process of transformation in urban space visible. Places where the flow of thought, time or material could be experienced were declared places of art and included in the mapping of the "Volcanoes in Berlin". The artistic intermedia research investigated time and material, pressure and tension, gases and heat and created films, drawings, maps and models that were summarized in a travel book.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • "And he's not coming alone", Temporary sculpture in public space, "Speculations",
  • Sculpture Garden Mitte, KunstREpublik eV Berlin, 2008
  • Invitational, ACE Gallery New York, 2002
  • Inflavles, SESC Ipiranga, São Paulo, Brasil, 2002
  • "Vamos", Wolfenbüttel Art Association, 2002
  • "Instant Home", gallery in Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, 2001
  • "The First World Catastrophy Camp", ACE Gallery, Los Angeles 2001
  • "Volcanes en Berlin y Campamento Paracaidista", ACE Gallery, curated by Hilario
  • Galguera, Mexico DF, 2001
  • Instant Modernism, ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2001
  • "Plutonics // Boxes", curated by Christoph Tannert, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt a. M.,
  • Germany, 2000
  • Volcanoes in Berlin, Producer Gallery Kassel, Germany, 1997;

Group exhibitions

  • Amikejo's slide show in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation as part of the book premiere “Why Europe must become a republic! A political utopia ”, by Ulrike Guérot . Berlin, 2016
  • ROMART: Biennale Internazionale di Arte e Cultura, Fiera di Roma, 2015
  • Europe, The Future of History, Kunsthaus Zürich , 2015
  • Cross-section, Galerie Axel Obiger, Berlin 2015
  • Art & Cartography_Volcanoes, Schau Fenster Berlin, 2014 Art & Cartography_Vulkane, curated by Zuzanna Skiba, Galerie Schau Fenster Berlin, 2014
  • “The message from Amikejo”, future location: EUROPA - A salon in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, 2014
  • "The Last Days", performance, Phantasmagoria, Kaleidoskop Berlin, 2011
  • “The Last Days”, lecture and film performance “The New Museum”, Berlin, Phantasmagories in Berlin, Philosophical Institute, Potsdam Sansoussi, 2011
  • "Spacebags", performance and lecture "New Media" Verrat, Thealit Bremen, 2011
  • "The Return of The Cowboy Philosopher", Salon 808, Danish Embassy, ​​Berlin, 2008
  • Designblok, Prague Chekoslovakia, 2006
  • Martin Gropius Bau , Berlin, “Transatlantic Impulse”, 2005
  • "X-treme Houses", Federkiel Foundation / Halle 14, Leipzig, 2004
  • “X-treme Houses”, thirteen in Lorraine, a place for contemporary art in Munich, 2004
  • "WK8P2", City in Shelves, super conversion, Hoyerswerda Neustadt, Germany, 2003
  • "Melancholy", homage á Lucas Cranach the Elder Ä., Cranach Foundation Wittenberg, 2003
  • "The remaking of ..", Büro für Kunst, Dresden, Germany, 2002;
  • “Endless Walk”, Mathematica, Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA, 2002;
  • "Agua / Water", Museo Universitario de Ceincas y Arte, curated by Bernd Scherer,
  • Goethe Institut Internationes, Mexico DF, 2002;
  • "Catastrophico", curated by Ishiro Ireri, La Panaderia Gallery, Mexico DF;
  • “Paseo Miramar”, DAAD Gallery Berlin;
  • "City Index", Kunsthaus Dresden , Germany, 2000;
  • "Bungalow", City in Shelves, Z-2000 Akademie der Künste Berlin , Germany, 2000;
  • “Durchreise”, 25 Years of Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin, Germany, 2000;

literature

  • Christoph Doswald: airbag generation. the inflatable as a simulation of society. In: Grimaldi Forum de Monaco (ed.): Ouvrage publié à l'exposition Air-Air. Monaco 2000.
  • André Kubicek In: Paolo Bianchi, Sabine Folie (Ed.): Atlas Mapping. Turia + Kant, Vienna 1997.
  • Valeska Peschke, Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk Berlin eV (ed.): Vulkane in Berlin - A travel book .
  • Courtenay Smith, Sean Topham (Eds.): Xtreme houses. Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York 2002, ISBN 3-7913-2789-5 .
  • Beatrice Stammer: Volcanoes in Berlin. In: Paolo Bianchi (Ed.): Kunstforum International. Atlas of artist journeys . Volume 137 Jun-Aug. 1997.
  • Gerd-Helge Vogel: Mobility: The Fourth Dimension in the Fine Arts and Architecture. In: quod.lib.umich.edu. January 1, 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Villa Aurora scholarship holders
  2. ↑ Cathérine Hug: The future of history . Ed .: Kunsthaus Zürich; Cathérine Hug, Robert Menasse. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, ISBN 978-3-03810-088-1 .
  3. ^ Gerd-Helge Vogel: Mobility: The Fourth Dimension in the Fine Arts and Architecture. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  4. ^ Transit - 25th anniversary of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Fourteen - x-treme houses. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  6. ^ Christoph Doswald: City Index. Research in urban space . Ed .: Kunst Haus Dresden; European workshop for art and culture. ISBN 90-5705-162-1 .
  7. ^ Gold Rush 7. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Beatrice Stammer: Volcanoes in Berlin . In: Paolo Bianchi (Ed.): Kunstforum International. Atlas of artist journeys . tape 137 .
  9. ↑ Prof. Rebecca Horn. Berlin, October 22, 1996
  10. ↑ Gli Artisti. List of participating artists. In: galleria.romart.org. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016 ; accessed on May 24, 2019 (Italian).
  11. ^ Exhibition “Europe - The Future of History” at the Kunsthaus Zürich
personal data
SURNAME Peschke, Valeska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Weinstrasse