EN
Joachim Perez works primarily with large formats that explore masculinity and the complexity of sexuality, both on a personal and collective level.Through multilayered installations that combine fabric, embroidery, carved linoleum plates and drawings, Perez constructs narratives that at times suggest themselves as metaphors for a sexual and sensual awakening.His site-specific installations aim to confront the viewer with the heaviness of materiality as well as the crude subject depicted though embroidery.
Joachim Perez graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York City. His work has been featured in exhibition in Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Romania and the United States.
FR
Travaillant principalement la couture et la broderie sur de grands formats, Joachim Perez crée des installations qui explorent le thème du corps et la complexité de la sexualité, à la fois à un niveau personnel et collectif.À travers des installations qui mêlent tissus, broderies, plaques de linoléum gravées, il construit des récits qui se suggèrent un éveil sexuel et sensuel avec une forme de brutalité sous-jacente.
Ses installations visent à confronter le spectateur au poids des matériaux utilisés ainsi qu'au sujet dépeint par la broderie. Son travail se place dans un dialogue entre le corps masculin et l’appropriation de techniques historiquement féminines.
Diplômé de la Parsons School of Design de New York. Son travail a été présenté dans des expositions en Allemagne, au Japon, en Suisse, en Roumanie et aux États-Unis.
EDUCATION:
2019 BFA Product Design, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
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
2023 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 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