Vinca Petersen
Born 1973, Seoul, South Korea - Currently lives and works in Kent, UK
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
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
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)