Pedro Wirz

Descripción del Artista

Pedro Wirz (b. 1981 / São Paulo, Brazil) lives and works in Porto (PT) and São Paulo (BR). He received a Bachelor degree of Fine Arts at FHNW HGK Institute of Arts in Basel (Switzerland). He also studied one year at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Germany) - Institute of Arts, under the advisors Rainer Ganahl, Birgit Brenner, and Christian Jankowski. In his sculptural works and installations, he combines natural and found materials with artificial substances. Wirz’s interest in folk and popular cultures leads to an apperception of nature, culture, and technologies as the intersections between science and knowledge transmission. His work has been presented at Copenhagen Contemporary (2017),Tinguely Museum, Switzerland (2016), Kai Matsumiya Gallery (2016), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, USA (2015), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany (2013), Dortmunder Kunstverein, Germany (2013), Palais de Tokyo, France (2013), Galerie Mendes Wood DM, Brazil (2013), Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil (2013), Post Studio Tales (Germany) (2012) and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2011) and in October (2017) he will be part of the Sculpture Park Cologne, curated by Chus Martinez. This year he was nominated as a fellow of the Young Academy - Akademie der Künste Berlin, and in the past he was a resident at the Swiss Institute, Rome (2016), at Cité international des Arts, Paris (2012) and at Residency Unlimited, New York (2014). He is the co-founder, together with Raphael Linsi, of the "Panorama Boa Vista" in Porto, Portugal.

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Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream

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KölnSkulptur #9

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Fábula, frisson, melancolia

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