Peter Aerschmann
Born in Fribourg (Switzerland) in 1969, lives and works in Bern (Switzerland).

Peter Aerschmann works since 1999 as an artist in the fields of video and interactive computer installations.
His work has been exhibited at galleries, festivals, and museums internationally including Palazzo Grassi Venice (2012); The National Art Museum of China, Beijing (2010); The Musée d'Art Moderne Luxembourg (2009); Moscow House of Photography (2009); Maison Européenne de la Photographie (2008), Paris; Berlinische Galerie - Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin (2008); Center of Contemporary Art Fri-Art, Fribourg/CH (2007); The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami (2008); ZKM - Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe/D (2007); Kunstverein Freiburg/D (2006); Kunstmuseum Bern (2005); The Center for Contemporary Images, Geneva (2002).
Aerschmann's work is in private and public collections including The François Pinault Foundation, Venice; The Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami; Credit Suisse Collection Zürich; Julius Bär Art Collection; The Carola and Günther Ketterer-Ertle Collection; Kunstmuseum Bern and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris;
Awards include the Swiss Art Award (2002), the Aeschlimann-Corti Award (2006) and residencies in New York, Berlin and South Africa. Aerschmann is represented by Galerie Anne De Villepoix Paris.

On Screening: Sputnik
HD Video, 10 minutes, loop, no sound - 2014

The idea of the "Big Bang" suggests that one day there will be a "Big End Bang". The Earth will melt completely and only some objects left will float in space. What remains of the human race? A chicken, toothpaste or some chips? The video shows traces and memories of our civilization that give shape to new constellations and small universes.


RECENT SOLO SHOWS

2013 PETER AERSCHMANN & LEYLA GOORMAGHTIGH, Galerie Beatrice Brunner, Bern
2012 TOTEM, Kunstraum Atelier Fribourg-Nord, Fribourg
2012 PETER AERSCHMANN [Videographie], Espace d’exposition de la Librairie Saint-Paul, Fribourg
2012 Omar Ba & Peter Aerschmann, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2011 DAS LEBEN SELBST, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen
2011 XIE LEI & PETER AERSCHMANN, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2010 FROM A TO B, Galerie Anex14, Bern
2009 PETER AERSCHMANN, Forum Vebikus - Kulturzentrum Kammgarn, Schaffhausen

RECENT (SELECTED) GROUP SHOWS

2014 Arte Video Night #6, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2014 Crosstalk Videoart Festival, Budapest
2014 Free Fall / Szabadesés, CHIMERA - PROJECT GALLERY, Budapest
2014 NUIT BLANCHE VIDEO LONDON, London
2014 Face à Face, Les Echappées belles, Alençon
2014 Natur - Sehnsucht und Erforschung, Sommerausstellung Südhang, Kirchlindach
2014 Videoparcours, videocity.bs, Basel
2014 Special Swiss Focus, International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal
2014 IDENTITY, Galerie C, Neuchâtel
2014 AERSCHMANN & GOORMAGHTIGH, Medienzentrum Bundeshaus, Centre de Presse du Palais Fédéral, Bern
2014 CANTONALE Bern Jura, Kunstmuseum, Thun
2013 SUITCASE, SOIL Art Gallery, Seattle
2013 Kleinformate, Galerie Beatrice Brunner, Bern
2013 «Auf der Strecke» | Bern - BanskÁ Štiavnica, Stadtgalerie, Bern
2013 «Feu sacré», Kunstmuseum, Bern
2013 PETER AERSCHMANN, MATTEO LAFRANCHI, BARBARA JÄGGI, Kunstraum Tribschenhorn, Luzern
2013 PROGR IN HOUSE, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff, Bern CH
2013 VICE VERSA 3, Kurt im Hirsch Berlin, Berlin
2013 BABEL, Bienzgut VIDEOFENSTER Videokunst.ch, Bümpliz
2013 BABEL, PROGR Videokunst.ch SHOWROOM , Bern CH
2013 THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, Ernst Muzeum, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest
2013 ON DISPLAY - Video art at WEF Davos, Multiplespacings.com, Davos
2013 PETER AERSCHMANN & LEYLA GOORMAGHTIGH, Galerie Beatrice Brunner, Bern
2013 CANTONALE Bern Jura, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken
2013 CANTONALE Bern Jura, Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier
2012 MUTATIONS II - Photomonth 2012, A22 Gallery, Budapest
2012 TOTEM, cur. Michel Gorski, Kunstraum Atelier Fribourg-Nord, Fribourg
2012 L’Oeil sur les rues, Parc de la Villette, Paris
2012 Kunstnacht, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen
2012 VOICE OF IMAGES, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
2012 SUMMER SHOW, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2012 PETER AERSCHMANN, Kunstraum Juraplatz, Biel
2012 MUTATIONS II: Moving Stills, Photon - Centre for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana
2012 HOLZWEGE - Die Sammlung der Mobiliar, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
2012 PETER AERSCHMANN [Videographie], Espace d’exposition de la Librairie Saint-Paul, Fribourg
2012 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Armory Show 2012, New York
2012 Omar Ba & Peter Aerschmann, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2012 CANTONALE Bern Jura, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
2012 CANTONALE Bern Jura, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel
2011 CUT & PASTE, Zula, Cape Town
2011 Paris Photo 2011 Grand Palais, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2011 Kunstsammlung der Schweizerischen Post / Swiss Post Collection, Kornhausforum, Bern
2011 DAS LEBEN SELBST, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen
2011 OIL, EMMEDIA GALLERY, Screening Room, Calgary
2011 Peter Aerschmann, François Chalet und Yves Netzhammer, 14-1 Galerie, Stuttgart
2011 Infecting the City Arts Festival, Cape Town
2011 XIE LEI & PETER AERSCHMANN, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
2010 Mukashi Mukashi, stage video for T42 Dance Projects, F. Duméril + M. Inoue, Dampfzentrale, Bern
2010 ARTE Video Night, Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts Ville de Paris, Paris

WEB
www.aerschmann.ch