Vinca Petersen
Born 1973, Seoul, South Korea - Currently lives and works in Kent, UK
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
2011 - Future Youth Project Bus Gallery at the Margate Photo Festival - an exhibition space built & curated by Petersen to show images from the recent FYP humanitarian journey to orphanages in Ukraine. Visit www.futureyouthproject.com
2011 - Future Youth Project - an art-life practice producing a continuous stream of creative events. Visit www.futureyouthproject.com
2011 - Art Direction of "Northern Soul" a feature film directed by Elaine Constantine, in progress.
2000-2009 A continuous project characterised by long journeys; to Chernobyl & twice to Romania driving trucks full of aid and putting on events along the way; to Africa, taking a bouncy castle to orphanages in 7 different countries; to Greece to buy a huge piece of slate for a gravestone; currently a horse ride/walk along the South Downs Way (first in a series) “to unclog the ancient arteries of Britain”
2009 - Bureau, Salford / Manchester, UK (forthcoming)
2004 - The Monsoon Building, London, UK (permanent installation)
2003 - Reload, Gallery Van Der Voort, Spain
2002 - Gallery Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2002 - Reload, Halles aux Poissons, Perpignan, France
2002 - Down the Rec, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, UK
2001 - Still Looking, Rolls Royce Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2011 - 22nd January-27th February, "Something that I never really see" presented by the V&A at the National Gallery or Modern Art, Bengaluru, India.
2010 - 2011 - November-February, "Notes to Workmen" Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK.
2010 - September, "Nothing is in the Place" curated by Jason Evans, Brighton Bienial, UK.
2010 - May, "Nothing is in the Place" curated by Jason Evans, Photomonth in Krakow, Poland. (C)
2009 - 5th-28th Feb “The Kiss of a Lifetime (part 1)” Rogue Artists Studios, Manchester
2009 - 6th-23rd Aug “Kiss of a Lifetime (part 2)” VANE (Print Beinnale) Newcastle
2009 - 24th Jan-29th March “Something That I'll Never Really See” Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
2008 - “Companion Piece”, London. curated by Phillipa Adams (Saatchi Gallery)
2008 - 2009 - Victoria & Albert Museum, "Contemporary Photography" touring exhibition. Touring to: The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich, showing 1st May-24th June; Arts Depot, London; The Herbert Read Gallery, Coventry; Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. Several other UK venues to be confirmed (C)
2007 - Victoria & Albert Museum, "Questions of Landscape" touring UK venues. (C)
2006 - “Full Frame”, Vienna, Austria
2006 - “Rave Review”, The Little Cinema, Vienna (Film collaboration)
2006 - “Et Maintenant...”, CRAC, Alsace, France (C)
2006 - “Rave Review”, Brick Lane Film Festival, London, UK (with Zena Merton)
2005 - “Habitat”, Brick-5 Building, Vienna, Austria
2004 - “Now Is Good: Ne Travaillez Jamais”, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (C)
2002 - The Armory Show, New York, USA
2001 - “Art Tube 01”, London Underground, London, UK
2001 - “Questions of Landscape”, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2001 - Cab Gallery, London, UK
2000 - “The Art of Photography”, New York, USA
( C ) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Publications
2009 - Photographs to be included in book by Giovanni Ozzola for Galleria Continua, Italy (pending)
2006 - "Okupe Backup#1", DVD publication, France
2005 - "Disruptive Pattern Material", published by Maharishi, London
2000 - "No System" Monograph (160 page) published by Steidl
“Different peoples lives are based around different things ours are based around music. At our core is a sound system. We want freedom from static society. Freedom to create our own societies with our own rules”
Bibliography
2006 - Whatever You Do People Will Talk, Flux Space, Flux Magazine
Flash Art Magazine, Dazed and Confused Magazine, ID Magazine, The Big Issue, The Evening Standard
Commissions
2006 - Eternity, Dream and to the Core, photographs incorporated in short film by Sophie Baruchel
2004-05 - We’re Back, Adbusters Magazine
2003 - You Lose, Adbusters Magazine
2003 - Issue A3, Richardson Magazine
Collections
Permanent collection, Victoria & Albert Museum
Permanent collection, The Monsoon Collection
Several public and private international collections (including: Kate Moss, Jade Jagger, Dan MacMillan)