Peter Buggenhout
1963
born in Dendermonde, Belgium
lives and works in Ghent, Belgium
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (Selected)
Neues Museum, Nürnberg
SMAK, Gent
KIASMA, Helsinki
Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris
Colección Jumex, Mexico City
FRAC Normandie, Rouen
FRAC Limousin, Limoges
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Collection Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Collection Axel Vervoordt, Antwerpen
David Roberts Collection, London
Verbeke Foundation
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
The Blind Leading The Blind (MONA piece), MONA, Hobart, Tasmania
Hollow Man, collaboration with Willem Boel, Migratie Museum Migration, Brussels
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Holtermann Fine Art, London, UK
2021
Kunstmuseum Reutlingen
Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
2020
Galeria Hilario Galguera, San Rafael, Mexico
Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
… use menace, use prayer … (part II) Axel Vervoordt Gallery
2019
… use menace, use prayer … (part I) Konrad Fischer Galerie Düsseldorf
2018
Los Ciegos Guiando a los Ciegos, Museo de la Ciudad de Queretaro, Mexico
On Hold #6. om situ 39 Great Jones Street, New York
Temporalizing Temporality. Peter Buggenhut & Marie Cloquet, Jason Hamm Gallery, Seoul
2017
Peter Buggenhout. Kein Schatten im Paradies, Neues Museum Nürnberg
Pas éléphant, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
The Blind Leading the Blind, Palazzo De'Toschi, Bologna
2016
Peter Buggenhout, Museum Zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
2015
Für Alle und Keinen, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Peter Buggenhout, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Peter Buggenhout, Museum M, Leuven
2014
Gorgo – Peter Buggenhout, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
Peter Buggenhout, Centre International d'Art & du Paysage, Ile de Vassiviére
Caterpillar Logic II, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2013
The Blind Leading The Blind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Ni chair, ni poisson, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
2012
de-titled, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
2011
Shape Of Things To Come, Saatchi Gallery, London
Ongewerveld, De Pont Museum, Tilburg
Contes Invertébrés, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
2010
Caterpillar Logic, Kunstraum Dornbirn
It's a strange, strange world, Sally, La Maison Rouge, Paris
The Broccoli Cycle 1, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
2009
Peter Buggenhout, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
The Blind Leading the Blind, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
Peter Buggenhout, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2008
Res Derelictae II, Gallery Maskara, Mumbai
The Blind Leading the Blind #26, Saatchi Gallery, London
2007
Individual presentation, new works acquired by the Flemish Community, S.M.A.K., Ghent
2006
De Res Derelictae, Objects owned by nobody, De Garage, Mechelen
2005
Peter Buggenhout, Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent
2002
Wolken zijn geen bollen/ Clouds are no spheres, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
2001
Pati Natae – Darmsculpturen/ Intestine Sculptures, S. Cole Gallery, Ghent
2000
Eskimo Blues, Kunstvereniging / Art society Diepenheim
Peter Buggenhout, No solution at the moment, De Bond, Bruges
1998
Tweeluik '98, Campo-Santo, Sint-Amandsberg
1997
Darmsculpturen/ Intestine sculptures, Huize St.-Jacobus, Ghent
1996
The unlogical proposition. Drawings by Peter Buggenhout, Het Kunsthuis, Ostend
1995
The unlogical Proposition, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
1994
Peter Buggenhout, Gallery De Oorzaak & Zn, Turnhout
1991
Peter Buggenhout, Gallery Fortlaan 17, Ghent
1990
Paintings, Gallery Fortlaan 17, Ghent
1989
Peter Buggenhout, International Cultural Centrum - ICC, Antwerp
1988
Recent paintings, Gallery William Wauters, Oosteeklo
1987
Paintings and drawings, Community House, Hamme
Works on paper, Gallery William Wauters, Oosteeklo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Die Wirklichkeit ist sowieso da, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
2021
Bienanale Kunst in de Heilige Driehoek, Oosterhour, Netherlands
Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, Belgium
Innuendo, Istanbul, Turkey
2020
Galerie Laurent Godin, Re-ouverture, Paris, France
Fondation Villa Datris pour la sculpture contemporaine, Recyclage-Surcyclage, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Museum De Domijnen Sittard, Schoonheid En Verval, Sittard, The Netherlands
W.I.E.L.S. Brussels, Risquons-Tout, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Infinitive Mutability, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
'Group Shouw'. Jason Hamm Gallery, Seoul
Gigantisme, FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque
Genesis, L.A.C. Lieu d'Art Contemporain, Narbonne
Souvenirs de voyage. La collection Antoine De Galbert, Musee de Grenoble
2018
Het Vlot-Kunst is (niet) eenyaam, Mu.Zee, Ostend
I-Object, Old courthouse, Ghent
Always Different, Always the Same, Bünder Kunstmuseum, Chur
Reichtum. Schwary ist Gold / Wealth. Black is Gold, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
The Fragrance of Images - Works of the collection olorVISUAL from Barcelona, travelling exhibition
Presentation des Collections Contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Color-Blocking, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
2017
Wirikuta. Mexican Time-Slip, Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes
50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967-2017, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Inextricabilia - Enchevetrements magiques, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Ecce Homo, Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerp
Elbphilharmonie Revisited, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Bizarre Spaces. Attacks, Transformations, Explosions, Marta Herford, Herford
On Site, Petit Palas, FAIC, Paris
2016
10 Years Anniversary Exhibition - Part II, Gallery Laurent Godin, New Space, Paris
Capital: Debt-Territory-Utopia, Hamburher Bahnhof, Berlin
Peter Buggenhout - Marilous Van Lierop, Crepain House, Antwerp
WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Peter Buggenhout and Didier Vermeiren, Marion De Canniere Artspace, Antwerp
Non figuratif, un regain d'interet?, Abbaye Saint-Andre, Centre d'art Contemporain, Meymac
Streamlines, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2015
I Belgi – Barbari et Poeti, Espace Vanderborgh, Brussels
Substance, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
I Belgi – Barbari e Poeti, MACRO, Rome
Vormidable, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague
Triennial Bruges, Bruges
2014
Inside, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Divided Body, Predikherenkerk, Leuven
The Promise of Melancholy and Ecology, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
Expo 1, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
The Great Acceleration - Taipei Biennal 2014, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Sculpture Unchaperoned, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna
Capita Selecta, Broelmuseum, KortrijkVom Dasein & Sosein, Skulptur, Objekt & Bühe, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
Distant Proximity, Centrale, Brussels
2013
Passages, Recyclart, Brussels
Artzuid 2013 - International Sculpture Biennal, Amsterdam
EXPO 1: New York, MOMA PS1, New York
Slow Burn, Stichting Fundament, Tilburg
L’arbre de vie, le collège des Bernardins, Paris
Time Space Poker Face, Be-Part, Waregem
Accelerating toward Apocalypse, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin
Monuments, Schloss Sihlberg, Zurich
2012
Scripture, De Bond, Bruges
BIOS - Konzepte des Lebens in der zeitgenössischen Skulptur, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
Champ d'expériences, Centre International d'art, Ile de Vassivière, France
Track, S.M.A.K., Ghent
Paris Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Accelerating toward Apocalypse, Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv
Curators’ series #5. Bouvard and Pécuchet’s compedious quest for Beauty, David Roberts Foundation, London
The Spirit Level, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Le silence - une fiction, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
2011
Ainsi soit-il, Musée des Beaux Arts Lyon
The Second Strike, Herzliya Biennial, Herzliya
From Trash to Treasure, Kunsthalle KielThe Shape of Things to Come, Saatchi Gallery, London
TRA - The Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Inauguration show, MONA, Hobart, Tasmania
Über die Metapher des Wachstums, travelling exhibition: Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunstverein Hannover; Kunsthaus Baselland
Flemish Masters - That's Life, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2010
Signs of Life, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
Christmas Show, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
Voyage dans ma tête, La Maison Rouge, ParisWhen will they finally see - the power of drawing, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp
Xanadu, S.M.A.K., Ghent
Between the Sacred and The Profane, CIAP, Hasselt
2009
In-finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
time, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Tracking Traces, KIASMA, Helsinki
Wade Guyton / Peter Buggenhout / Francesco Gennari, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Amit Berlowitz, Peter Buggenhout, Tsibi Geva, Ariel Kleiner, Volker Maerz, Steve
McQueen, Oscar Muñoz, Michal Shamir, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
2008
Herzliya Biennial 2008, Herzliya
Belgier- Aktuelle Kunst aus Belgien, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
Qui es-tu, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Trends 08, Sint Barbara College, Ghent
The Aerials Of Sublime Transscapes, Lokaal 01, Breda
Die Hände der Kunst, Marta Herford
The Hands of Art, S.M.A.K., Ghent
2007
New Collection, Municipal Museum Wuyts Van Campen & Baroly, Lier
Paulo Post Futurum 25 years, Lokaal 01, Breda
Vitrti, De Kunstkas, Kemzeke
Artempo, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
De Schoonheid en de Waanzin/ Beauty and Insanity, cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges
Mutatis Mutandis (collection Antoine De Galbert), La Maison Rouge, ParisDrawed, Rectangular Room, Sint Niklaas
2006
Gorge(l). Oppression and relief in Art, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
La belleza y la locura/ Beauty and Insanity, Felipe I el Hermoso, Rey de Castilla, Duque de Borgoña, Burgos
Images 2006, Estate Anningahof, Zwolle
Dots, Vierkante Zaal Academie, Sint Niklaas
Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Vlaamse Ardennen, Brakel
BeTekenII, Drawing art, Cultural Centrum Hassel
Ademen en Verstikken, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
2005
Soul, Groot Seminarie, Bruges
Watou/ Over the Border, Summer of Poetry, Watou
The Blind Leading the Blind, Lokaal 01, Antwerp
Visionary Belgium, BOZAR, Brussels
2004
Vanitas, IKOB, Eupen
Trends04, Sint Barbara College, Ghent
Peter Buggenhout, HAL23, SA Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, Ghent
2003
Art / Life, Gallery Cartwright, Ghent
Metamorphosis, De Schrijnwerkerij, Geel, Belgium
Grand Tour, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent
2002
Zinnebeeldig. 7 symbolen in cultureel erfgoed en hedendaagse kunst: een confrontatie, Provinciaal Kultuurcentrum Caermersklooster, Ghent
Station2Station. Vlaanderen & Brussel, Benzinestations, Brussels
Inside Drawing, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The HagueMetamorphosis, Lieu d'Art Contemporain, Sigean
Empty Space/ Blind Spot, Gallery Empty Space, Ghent
2001
Gebroed. Dubbelshow Peter Buggenhout and Berlinde De Bruyckere, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Secret Gardens, artmanifestation in Gardens, Village and environment of castle Oud-Rekem
Versus. Contemporary Art and Music, several venues, Oudenaarde
Something is rotten in the state of Europe, Lokaal 01, Antwerp
Metamorphosis. Peter Buggenhout, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Peter De Cupere, Johan
Tahon, Academia Belgica, Rome
2000
Metamorphosis. Peter Buggenhout, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Peter De Cupere, Johan Tahon, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporaneo, San Gimignano
Darmsculpturen / Soft parts. Intestine sculptures by Peter Buggenhout in confrontation with Westafrican Vodunsculptures, Galerie CD, Tielt
Kunst voor kunst/ Art for art's sake, Oude Abdij, Drongen
Children's play. Kindertekeningen actuele kunst, different venues, Waarschoot
Everything needs time...., Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, United Kingdom
1999
De wereld volgens.../ The world according to ..., Stichting Odapark, Venray
Jan Fabre and Peter Buggenhout, Galerie CD, Tielt
Berlinde De Bruyckere Peter Buggenhout, CIAP, Hasselt
Young art of Flanders. Irony & Transitoriness, Cultural Centrum De Werf, Aalst
Art isn't food, about collections and collecting art, De Warande, Turnhout
1998
Loplop /re/presents: Back to Basics, Cultureelcentrum, Sint Pieters Abdij, Ghent
The Future Tradition. Peter Buggenhout - Awakening from tormented dreams, Lokaal 01, Breda
Tussenin / In-between, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Trends '98. 50 contemporary artists, Sint Barbara college, Ghent
1997
Loplop /re/presents: The im/pulse to see, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Straatlopers/ Contemporary art in the Ghent quarter of parrots, Ghent
Multiples, De Slijperij, ruimte voor beeldende kunst, Geel
1995
Materia - Scultura, EXMA Centro d'Arte e Cultura, Cagliari
(Cross)roads, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels
Discours-Metis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels
Infections, Park Wolfslaar, Breda
1994
Art Neighbourhood Space. Contemporary artists exhibit at different venues, Prinsenhof, Ghent
Sculpturen - Sculptures, Felix Happark, Brussels
1993
25ème Festival international de la peinture. Cinquième rétrospective (1989-1992), Château Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer
1992
Modernism in Painting. Ten years of painting in Flanders. Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend
Symposium 92/94. Ten artists in hotel Navarra, Navarra Hotel, Bruges
1991
23ème Festival international de la peinture, Château Musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer
1990
Summeraccumulation, Gallery Fortlaan 17, Ghent
Berlinde De Bruyckere - Reflecting on Confinement and Death & Peter Buggenhout -Drawings on Plastic and Glass, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Sommeratelier. Junge Kunst in Europa, Deutsche Messe, Hannover
1988
125 years Sint Lucas, Sint Lucas School of Arts, Ghent
Affinities, Peter Buggenhout, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Mario De Brabandere, Bogardenkapel, Bruges
1987
3 young artists from Ghent, Mario De Brabandere - Berlinde De Bruyckere - Peter Buggenhout, Gallery Fred Lanzenberg, Brussels
Kunstexpo - 7nd edition. Sint Lucas School of Arts, Ghent
Peter Buggenhout - Untitled, Art Gallery Vierhuizen, Netherlands
1986
Antichambre. Entartete Kunst. Ex Factory, Alsberghe van Oost, Ghent
Berlinde De Bruyckere / Peter Buggenhout, Volvo Cars Europe, Ghent
1984
Palmares Gaverprijs, Cultureelcentrum De Schakel, Waregem
2015
Peter Buggenhout: We did if before, we will do it again, Paris: Éditions de l’Amateur
Herman Melville, Peter Buggenhout presents Moby Dick: Edition Ex Libris
2010
Peter Buggenhout, Caterpillar Logic, Dornbirn: Kunstraum Dornbirn
It’s a strange, strange world, Sally – Peter Buggenhout, Belgium: Lannoo
2006
Sincerely, A friend — Peter Buggenhout, Mechelen: Cultuurcentrum Mechelen
2002
Van der meiren, Jean-Pierre; Bex, Florent, Zinnebeeldig : 7 symbolen in cultureel erfgoed en hedendaagse kunst: een confrontatie?, Ghent
2001:
Nollet, Lieven, Ateliers d’artistes, Antwerp: Pandora
J. Pas, E. Doove, Wolken zijn geen bollen : Peter Buggenhout. Amsterdam: de Brakke Grond
2000:
Kinderspel, kindertekeningen - actuele kunst. Texts by Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Waarschoot
Metamorphosis : Peter Buggenhout / Berlinde De Bruyckere / Peter De Cupere / Johan Tahon. Ruiselede: Phidias
1999
De wereld volgens... België. Deel 1 . België : Een verkenning langs de Europese grenzen op het terrein van de hedendaagse beeldende kunst. Venray: Stichting Odapark -
Peter Buggenhout: Op het ogenblik geen oplossing (monograph), Bruges: Cultuurcentrum Brugge
1998
Bismuth, Pierre, Tussenin/in-between, Deurle: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Berlinde De Bruyckere / Peter Buggenhout, Trends ‘98 : Kunst maakt School. Ghent: Roegiers, Christine
1997
Straatlopers : Actuele kunst in de Gentse Papegaaiwijk. Ghent: Werkgroep ‘Kunstproject 97’
1996
Materia – Scultura, Cagliari: Exma - Centro d’Arte e cultura
1995
Van Den Dorpe, Willy, Discours – Metis, Brussels: Van den Dorpe, Willy
Infections 7.5 - 9.7’95 : Wolfslaar Breda. Temporary art outside. Breda: Stichting Fundament
1994:
Beeld in park : Hedendaagse beeldende kunst ‘in situ’ / Les Arts plastiques contemporain ‘in situ’. Brussels: Jacques Vantomme
Symposium 92/94 : Tien kunstenaars in hotel Navarra, Bruges: Hotel Navarra
1993
Invasie / Invasion.
25ème Festival international de la peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer: Château Musée Grimaldi
1992
Modernism in Painting: 10 Jaar Schilderkunst in Vlaanderen, Bruges: Stichting Kunstboek
Synergie ‘92: Jonge kunst uit het Gentse. Ghent: Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst
1991
23ème Festival international de la peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer: Château Musée Grimaldi
1990
Berlinde De Bruyckere - Reflecting on confinement and Death / Peter Buggenhout - Drawings on plastic and glass. Deurle: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Peter Buggenhout, Gent: Galerie Fortlaan 17
Sommeratelier: Junge Kunst in Europa, Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann
1986
Antichambre. Ghent: Antichambre
Infections 7.5 - 9.7’95 : Wolfslaar Breda. Temporary art outside. Breda: Stichting Fundament
1994:
Beeld in park : Hedendaagse beeldende kunst ‘in situ’ / Les Arts plastiques contemporain ‘in situ’. Brussels: Jacques Vantomme
Symposium 92/94 : Tien kunstenaars in hotel Navarra, Bruges: Hotel Navarra
1993
Invasie / Invasion.
25ème Festival international de la peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer: Château Musée Grimaldi
1992
Modernism in Painting: 10 Jaar Schilderkunst in Vlaanderen, Bruges: Stichting Kunstboek
Synergie ‘92: Jonge kunst uit het Gentse. Ghent: Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst
1991
23ème Festival international de la peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer: Château Musée Grimaldi
1990
Berlinde De Bruyckere - Reflecting on confinement and Death / Peter Buggenhout - Drawings on plastic and glass. Deurle: Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Peter Buggenhout, Gent: Galerie Fortlaan 17
Sommeratelier: Junge Kunst in Europa, Munich: Klinkhardt & Biermann
1986
Antichambre. Ghent: Antichambre
Die WELT
01.09.2012
Es liegt was in der Luft am Rhein
von Alexandra Wach
Der belgische Bildhauer Peter Buggenhout bekommt bei Konrad Fischer in der Platanenstraße die Gelegenheit, für apokalyptische Schauer zu sorgen - üble Düfte inklusive. Seine Objekte aus Abfall, Haaren, Staub, Tierblut und Eingeweiden lassen niemanden gleichgültig. Sie erinnern an Relikte eines Bombenangriffs. Zu den Höhepunkten dürften das mühsam fixierte Hausstaubgebilde aus der Serie "The Blind Leading the Blind" gehören, eine Hommage an Pieter Bruegel den Älteren.(Auszug)
art - Das Kunstmagazin
SCHNITZELJAGD DURCH DIE STADT
Favelas, beerdigte Museen, umbauter Glockenturm. Ein faszinierender Parcours durch die belgische Stadt Gent führt zu Kunst an überaschenden Plätzen abseits der bekannten Touristenschauplätze. In einem der Kunstwerke lässt sich sogar spektakulär übernachten.
von KERSTIN SCHWEIGHÖFER
"TRACK" ist eine fesselnde Ausstellung – inspirierend, faszinierend, sie wird kaum jemanden unberührt lassen. Es bedarf lediglich Ausdauer, Entdeckerlust und sportlichen Ehrgeizes auf dem Fahrradsattel.Denn die Schau folgt der Tradition der "Chambres d’Amis" von 1986, jener legendären Schau, die Jan Hoet, damals Kurator am S.M.A.K, dem Genter Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, in den Wohnzimmern seiner Mitbürger stattfinden ließ, und die im Sommer 2000 mit "Over the Edges" eine erste Fortsetzung erlebte: Diese Ausstellung zeigte Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, an überraschenden Plätzen.Das ist nun zwölf Jahre später wieder der Fall: Die Kuratoren Mirjam Varadinis vom Kunsthaus Zürich und Philippe Van Cauteren, Direktor des Genter S.M.A.K., haben rund 40 internationale Künstler ausgewählt, die kreuz und quer in der Stadt ihre Werke zeigen – in Parks und Klostergärten, an Fassaden und Türmen, im Wasser oder in verlassenen Stadtpalästen. Angefangen beim Sint-Pieters-Bahnhof im Süden bis ganz hinauf zum Verbindungskanal im Norden, wo der Belgier Peter Buggenhout in einer verlassenen Boxschule Verpackungsmaterial, Bretter, Blech, Rohre, Wohnwagen- und Schwimmbadteile zu einem fast zehn Meter hohen Ungetüm aufgetürmt hat. Es strahlt eine gefährliche Schönheit aus und droht, den Besucher in sich aufzusaugen. (Auszug)
New York Times, Art & Design13.04.2012Tapping Psychic Undercurrents - The Spirit Level, Group show at Gladstone Gallery, Chelseaby Karen Rosenberg(...) Peter Buggenhout’s hulking sculptures of scrap metals and plastics, covered with a dense moss that turns out to be household dust. They’re repulsive yet tantalizingly tactile, like Chamberlains caught up in a giant vacuum bag. (...)//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////Kunstraum Dornbirn, AustriaPeter Buggenhout, caterpillar logichttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST6jOfslEvgPeter Buggenhout im Gespräch mit der Kuratorin Barbara Martin03.09.2010 -Für seine aktuelle Ausstellung „carterpillar logic“ im Kunstraum Dornbirn – die erste Präsentation in Österreich – entwickelt Buggenhout eine auf eigene Weise erfahrbare In-Situ Installation.Peter Buggenhout, einer der bedeutendsten Künstler der belgischen Szene, findet Analogien und Weltenbilder zu Prozessen der Transformation. Abfallprodukte und organische Materialien wie Staub, gefundene Objekte, Haare, Tierblut oder Eingeweide übersetzt Buggenhout in zeitgenössische Skulptur. Mit einer experimentellen Produktionsweise greift er die immanente Wandelbarkeit von Gegenständen und zyklische Strukturen der Natur auf, die er sich zu Eigen macht.Für seine aktuelle Ausstellung „carterpillar logic“ im Kunstraum Dornbirn – die erste Präsentation in Österreich – entwickelt Buggenhout eine auf eigene Weise erfahrbare In-Situ Installation. Eine organische, scheinbar schwebende Skulptur utopisch anmutender Dimension dringt in eine verborgene Sphäre vor, die für den Betrachter auf verschiedenen Ebenen der Wahrnehmung erfahrbar wird. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////La Maison Rouge. Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Parishttp://www.lamaisonrouge.org/peter buggenhout, it’s a strange, strange world, Sally12 June - 26 September 2010After the first showing in Paris of a work by Peter Buggenhout (b. 1963 in Belgium) for the Mutatis Mutandis exhibition in 2007, la maison rouge now presents the artist’s first solo show in France. Peter Buggenhout transforms discarded material, reclaimed objects and organic residues into sculptures. Both repelling and compelling, these autonomous, solitary, indefinable shapes are as much miniature universes as they are parts of a fantasy macrocosm. They are the "archaeological finds of the future." An important group of works gives insight into the artist’s singular world. Amorphous and escaping classification, three categories of sculpture are represented: those covered in dust (The Blind Leading the Blind) with four large works, an astonishing in situ installation of dust in a 120 sq m/ 1,300 sq ft room, and works impregnated with animal blood (Gorgo) or made from entrails.Catalogue "It’s a Strange, Strange World, Sally," a 216-page hardback monograph in French, English and Dutch, with texts by Sofie van Loo, Michael Amy, Hans Theys, Thomas Rieger and Peter Buggenhout, was published in April 2010 by Éditions Lannoo./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Sculpture Magazine, June 2009, Vol.28, No.5
Seizing the Chaos of Life:
A Conversation with Peter Buggenhout (excerpt)
by Michaël Amy
Peter Buggenhout’s large, abstract sculptures force us to re-think the nature of art. They engage with the abject, with formlessness and chaos, preferring a jumbled reality to the order of symbolic systems. Covered with sometimes disturbing organic materials or dust, his works grow from a process of accretion; they are about transformation and, elliptically, about the messiness of life. Carefully planned installations built up of construction materials may resemble cheap structures ripped apart by hurricanes, while sculptural objects recall unknown machines covered in grime or heaps of dust-caked refuse. These works have something of ’50s Art Informel or ’60s post-Minimalism, but with a twist. Buggenhout upsets the status quo. This interview was conducted in Ghent in April 2008, at Buggenhout’s home and studio, which he shares with his wife, sculptor Berlinde de Bruyckere, and their two young sons.
Michaël Amy: What is your work about?
Peter Buggenhout: My goal is to achieve analogies for how I feel our world functions. Imagine yourself on the train, entering Brussels, passing behind all those old houses that have been completely transformed over time. New parts have been added to them, old parts have been torn down, a gabled roof has made way for a flat roof, windows with wood frames have been replaced by windows with plastic frames, and the design of the glass panes has changed. Some window and door embrasures have been sealed shut. New owners have modified these buildings in unforeseeable ways. The same is true of the room we are standing in, which has become my studio. It has gone through a great many changes since it was built over a century ago. It first served as the gym of a Catholic boys’ school. Then, the Neo-Gothic structure was transformed into a puppet theater. Next, it became a neighborhood movie theater, and then, 20 years ago, it became my studio. The space bears the marks of all of these changes. No one knows what transformation it will undergo next. Or take the sea: it washes over the shore, leaves something behind, rolls over the shore again and again, and gradually builds up a beach. Or this conversation: we jump from one point to another. A conversation is unpredictable—it’s chaotic, one has no overview. I am likewise inspired by my working-class neighborhood, where everything is in a state of flux. The flux of reality is one of the principal subjects of my work.
I did not start out with this view. Instead, I discovered my subject once I had produced quite a bit of sculpture.
I studied mathematics. Math uses the language of symbols. Images of things—which are, therefore, symbols for things—fail to seize the totality. That’s why I use analogy. Analogy stands so much closer to reality. My work does not include the least bit of symbolism. It is completely abstract. When we look at an image, we instinctively aim to recognize something in it. My sculptures do not escape this entirely natural impulse on the part of the beholder. However, each sculpture is built up in such a way that any impression one has of a reference is dismantled as one walks around it. After you have finished walking around one of my sculptures, you cannot help but conclude that it resembles nothing other than itself. The materials that I use are all abject—dust, stomachs, innards, blood, and hair. They lose their form and meaning when they are removed from their original context. Once this happens, they become repellent. The act of reading symbols, which is ingrained in all of us, makes us overlook the actual appearance of the object. By dismantling this tendency to work with symbols, I bring the viewer back to the object itself, and to its inherent qualities, which are bypassed by symbolism. That is why I work with abject materials. Bataille said that the abject was invented in order to declassify things. One declassifies by ignoring symbolism.
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Res derelictae II at Warehouse, Mumbai
reviewed by Tara Kilachland
posted on livemint.com on Jul 18, 2008
Were you to mistake his sculptures for junk, Peter Buggenhout wouldn't necessarily be offended. Coated in layers of dust so wondrously thick and layered, his works, careful compositions of discarded material, are indistinguishable from weathered debris you're likely to find rotting in a shipyard. In a sense, your confusion, and maybe even repulsion, would mean that the Belgian artist had accomplished his goal. "My main intention is to declassify thing," he says, standing amid his furry installations, currently showing at Warehouse on 3rd Pasta in Colaba, Mumbai.
A work from Buggenhout's The Blind leading the Blind series Buggenhout's sculptures are not easy to view. For one, they are monstrous looking, great crumbling relics that would seem more appropriate placed in an archaeological museum, a long-hunted tomb perhaps only just excavated. For another, they escape symbolic projections-metaphors for lost things and moral decay are futile, and not a little bit silly. They are in essence exactly what they are (dust sculptures) or as Buggenhout puts it, "The only conclusion you reach is that the thing you see is the thing you see."
It is perhaps apt then, that the exhibit Res Derelictae II (a legal term for abandoned assets) will only feature four of his works spread out across more than 3,000 square feet. The viewer is given plenty of space from which to circle and assess the sculptures. Approached from one angle, the works, priced at around €25,000 (about Rs17lakh), and all titled The Blind leading the blind (referencing a painting of the same name by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel), are vaguely recognizable, bits of metal shards and ceramic pieces that peep through gaps in the dust coating. They might have belonged to a tub or a shelf, objects that Buggenhout chances upon on his way to his studio in Ghent, Belgium. "It belonged elsewhere and has been withdrawn from its original context, lost its original shape, and, in doing so, its meaning," Buggenhout says. "We reject it. It's not classified because when you declassify, you really look at things."
If you approach the works from a different angle, you are tempted to run your hand over the soft crumbling dust (warning: Don’t, it’s been hardened by fixative, despite appearances to the contrary). Buggenhout had made an art of taking unsavoury materials and transforming them into sculptures both repugnant and riveting. The dust procured from cleaning companies by Buggenhout’s assistant, is probably his most benign medium; his other favoured media include blood and hair and animal intestines that are similarly forced into unfamiliar shapes and structures. “My way,” Buggenhout admits, “is not aesthetic.”
Res Derelictae II will run at Warehouse on 3rd Pasta, Colaba, Mumbai until September 7.
—Tara Kilachand
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Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
07 September – 20 October 2012
2010
The Broccoli Cycle 1
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
30 April – 05 June 2010
2009
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Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
26 June – 25 July 2009
Peter Buggenhout
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
17 April – 20 June 2009
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