photography: Noam Levinger
EN
Joachim Perez is a French/Swiss artist whose practice interrogates the social inscriptions of masculinity, diasporic identity, and repair through textile-based installation. Working primarily with hand embroidery, deconstructed garments and large-format textile structures, his work examines how bodies are shaped by inherited patterns and systems of representation.
Based between Germany and Japan, he approaches material as a site of transformation and inscription. Through processes such as layering, stitching, and distortion, Perez develops a language of soft resistance, where slowness becomes a political stance and memory takes tactile form.
Trained in industrial design at Parsons School of Design in New York, his trajectory reflects a critical shift away from production-oriented logics toward practices rooted in gesture, embodied knowledge, and a nonlinear relation to time. His work has been exhibited internationally, with shows in Germany, Japan, Switzerland, France, Romania, and the United States.
FR
Joachim Perez est un artiste franco-suisse dont le travail explore les rapports entre masculinité, mémoire diasporique et réparation à travers l’installation textile. Il développe une pratique fondée sur la broderie manuelle, la déconstruction de vêtements et la composition de structures suspendues, où le tissu devient le support d’une réflexion sur les formes héritées et les systèmes de représentation.
Vivant entre l’Allemagne et le Japon, il conçoit la matière comme un espace d’inscription et de transformation. Ses œuvres, élaborées par superposition, couture et altération des surfaces, dessinent une forme de résistance douce, où la lenteur devient un geste politique et la mémoire, une matière vivante.
Formé au design industriel à la Parsons School of Design à New York, son parcours témoigne d’un glissement critique des logiques productivistes vers des pratiques sensibles, ancrées dans le geste et une temporalité non linéaire. Son travail a été présenté dans des expositions en Allemagne, au Japon, en Suisse, en France, en Roumanie et aux États-Unis.
EDUCATION:
2015 - 2019 BFA Product Design, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA (Dean’s BFA Scholarship)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 UN-FIT, The 5th Floor, Tokyo, Japan
2024 I don’t want to answer with a simple yes, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2024 This Is Not A Boy Machine, La Galerie Univ’Paris 8, Paris, France
2022 Of Monkeys and Men, Espace Ruine, Geneva, Switzerland
2022 Show me a better way, Cazul 101, Bucharest, Romania
2021 Hier giebt’s alles, Galerie du Griffon, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2021 Désirer ne pas voir, Motto, Berlin, Germany
2020 Hors Cadre, CCM, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 NoTech, Ace Hotel, New York, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 The house, the paste, the weather, BINZ39, Zürich, Switzerland
2024 RAD Art Fair, Cazul 101, Bucharest, Romania
2023 Devenir Feuillage, LRRH, Düsseldorf, Germany
2023 Red Like The Sea, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2023 Foreland Bach and Britten, St Matthäus Kirche, Berlin, Germany
2023 RAD Art Fair, Cazul 101, Bucharest, Romania
2022 Seen #18, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
2022 Positions Berlin, Ivan Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 Untitled (by your side), SomosArt, Berlin, Germany
2022 Into the wild, Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2022 Instinct #10, Village Berlin, Germany
2022 Love: 15, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany
2019 Disaster Preparedness, Design Center Kobe (KIITO), Kobe, Japan
2018 Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, USA
2016 UN Global Compact Summit, New York, USA
2016 Labors of Love, Parsons, New York, USA
2015 Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
PERFORMANCES:
2024 A fold for departure, Institut Français, Tokyo, Japan
2024 An elegy for Eccentricity, LRRH, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 Journal, We Are Village, Berlin, Germany
2021 Désirer ne pas voir, Motto, Berlin, Germany
RESIDENCIES:
2021 Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland
AWARDS:
2015 Dean’s BFA Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, NYC, USA
TALKS:
2021 Artist Talk, Parsons Paris, France
2019 Artist Talk, Parsons, Kellen Auditorium, New York, USA
PUBLICATION:
2021 Numéro Berlin AW 21, Artists to watch