Peter Wächtler

Biography

Born in 1979 in Hannover, DE
Lives and works in Berlin, DE

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Frieze New York, with Francesca Facciola, Lodovico Corsini, New York, USA
Avant / Après, Le Consortium, Dijon, FR
Crackers, Simian, Copenhagen, DK
Die Ersten, Lars Friedrich, Berlin, DE

2023
A Life on Stage, Culturgest, Lisbon, PT

2022
Softies, dépendance, Brussels, BE

2021
Ever-ready Reveries, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA

2020
Playing La Polpidula, The Power Station, Dallas, USA

2019
The Datum Trail, Josey, Norwich, UK
Up The Heavies, Foundation Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, IT
Ad Astra, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, CH
Franky’s Theme, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NO

2018
Thunderdome has fallen, Lars Friedrich, Berlin, DE

2017
And the three nails, dépendance, Brussels, BE
Kein Morgen kann so schon sein, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE
Romulus, Museum of Contemporary Art M HKA, Antwerp, BE
Peter Wächtler with Sam Pullitzer, House of Gaga / Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA

2016
Far Out, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
9, KIOSK, Gent, BE
Secrets of a Trumpet, The Renaissaince Society, Chicago, USA

2015
Mascots, The View, Genoa, IT

2014
Help me Buddy, Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, DE

2013
Senator !?, dépendance, Brussels, BE
Frühling, Kunstverein Hildesheim, DE
B.A.C.K., Ludlow 38, New York, USA
Celtic Dawn, Kunstraum London, London, UK

2012
Das Kino im Alten Mühlenviertel, Lars Friedrich, Berlin, DE

2011
The Set, Etablissement d‘en Face, Brussels, BE

2010
New Album, SIC, Brussels, BE

2009
Sustainability, Elisa Platteau Gallery, Brussels, BE
Songbook, kunstraum muenchen, Munich, DE
Depression Glass, Goethe Nationalmuseum, Weimar, DE
Nietzsche Archiv, Weimar, DE

2008
Omen, Aktualisierungsraum, Hamburg, DE

2004
Singer, Bauhaus-Museum, Weimar, DE

2002
Art and Consumption, Infection-Manifesto, Düsseldorf, DE

2001
Concert, Series of concerts in malls, Berlin, DE

Group Exhibitions

2025
Bells and Cannons, Contemporay Art Centre, Vilnius, LT
Zeichnung, Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Film, Video, Sound, Sammlung Ringier 1995–2025, Langen Foundation, Neuss, DE

2024
Flowers of Romance - Act Two, Lodovico Corsini, Brussels, BE
Refuge, Sapieha Palace, Vilnius, LT
Sì - for Margot, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, BE
KölnSkulptur #10: ÜberNatur - Natural Takeover, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, DE

2021
Back Matter, Museo Macro, Roma, IT
Delusionarium 5 (Adaptation), Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2020
1,00000000 years later, C A B I N E T Gallery, London, UK
My Cartography: The Erling Kagge Collection, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, FR
La Colère de Ludd, BPS22, Charleroi, BE
Busan Biennale 2020: Words at an Exhibition–an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems, Busan, KR
Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, DE
The Secret Life of Lobsters, Clearing, Knokke-Heist, BE
J U N E, dépendance, Brussels, BE
Embarquez-vous !, FRAC Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk, FR

2019
iwillmedievalfutureyou1, Art Center Sonje, Seoul, KR

2018
Scripts, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE

2017
Social Surfaces: A Fundraising Exhibition, Artists Space, New York, USA
Section Littéraire, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH
The Promise, Index, Stockholm, SE
The Absent Museum, WIELS, Brussels, BE
Zeitgeist, Mamco, Geneva, CH

2016
Petit Déjeuner au Crépuscule, Centre d’Art Image, Orthez, FR
Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2016, Bremen, DE
dead among the dead!, Ellis King, Dublin, IE
L’Almanach 16, Le Consortium, Dijon, FR

2015
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, DE
Moscow Biennial, Moscow, RU
Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimor Igni., Museo Jumex, Mexico City, MX
Terrapolis, Neon Foundation/Whitechapel Gallery, Athens, GR
Conway Hall, Cabinet, 25 Red Lion Square, London, UK
Life in an Animated World, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
DIE MARMORY SHOW II, Deborah Schamoni, Munich, DE
Surround Audience, New Museum Triennial, New York, USA

2014
Menagerie, ACCA, Melbourne, AU
Theater Objects, Luma Foundation, Zurich, CH
Europe, Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO
Small museum for the American Metaphor, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA
Essential Loneliness, Taylor Macklin, Zurich, CH
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Everything falls faster than an anvil, Pace Gallery, London, UK
The Hawker, dépendance at Carlos Ishikawa, London, UK

2013
Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, FR
Pride Goes Before a Fall – Beware of a Holy Whore, Artists Space, New York, USA
Biennial of Moving Image, Contour, Mechelen, BE
Issues of our Times II, castillo/corrales, Paris, FR
Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, SI
Göteborg International Biennal for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, SE

2012
Un Scene II., Wiels Centre d‘art contemporain, Brussels, BE

2011
Melanchotopia, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NEL
Beginning Good. All Good., Basso, Berlin, DE
Kunsthaus Bregenz, AT
Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya, Israel
The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Magick Truths, D21 Kunstraum Leipzig, DE
Acts of Refusal, Arthouse Tartu, EE

2010
Groupshow, Elisa Platteau Gallery, Brussels, BE
The City is forever. Not me., Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK

2009
Morality: From Love to Legal, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NE
Isomopolis, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, BE

2008
BIG FOOT, Lübbener Straße, Berlin, DE
In.Visible, Deutschvilla, Strobl, AT

Selected Public Collections

M HKA, Antwerp, BE
BPS22, Hainaut, BE
Fondation Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, IT
University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Power Station, Dallas, USA
Adrastus Collection, Arévalo, SP