Peter Funch
“The work of Peter Funch is, in the most captivating sense of the term, lost in time. It seems like the sort of work Andy Warhol might be doing now were he still alive. It’s twenty-first century yet 1970s. It’s metropolitan, cosmopolitan and simultaneously inhabits any number of art niches: social sculpture, time-based-art, and portraiture.” - Douglas Coupland, 2017
Born 1974 in Denmark
Lives and works in Paris, France
EDUCATION
Photojournalist, The Danish School of Media and Journalism, Denmark, 1999
2022
Meltdown: A Visualization of Climate Change, Whirinaki Whare Taonga, New Zealand
Meltdown: A Visualization of Climate Change, Nelson Provincial Museum Pupuri Taonga O Te Tai Ao, New Zealand
2021
Compositions, V1 Gallery II, Copenhagen, Denmark
Meltdown: A Visualization of Climate Change, Museum And Galleries Of Ljubljana Institute, Slovenia
2020
42nd and Vanderbilt (public installation), Fondation Vevey Ville D’images, Switzerland
2019
42nd and Vanderbilt (public installation), CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2018
42nd and Vanderbilt, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Last Flight: An American Anthology, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
The New Street Types of New York, Alice Austen House, New York, USA
2011
Babel Tales Redux, V1 Gallery, New York (KWPF Space), USA
Babel Tales, Book Launch, Invisible Exports, New York, USA
2010
Babel Tales, Colette, Paris, France
Babel Tales Addendum, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Danish Diaries, The Danish Pavilion, Shanghai, China
2009
Dream Amsterdam Foundation, Dream Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Babel Tales, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
The Eye of the Beholder, A Solo Project at Voltashow Art Fair, New York, USA
2007
Patent & Varemærkestyrelsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Babel Tales, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
Las Vegas – Made by Man, Gallery Kling & Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland
Las Vegas – Made by Man, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
42nd and Vanderbilt, The National Collection Of Photography, The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lumiere Nordiques, Abbaye Jumieges, Jumieges, France
Screen Time from Robert and Renee Drake Collection, Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg PA, US
In Reality – Fotografisk Center 25 Years, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Go, Sophienholm, Sophienholm, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
2020
Babel Tales, part of Street. Life. Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
The Imperfect Atlas, part of Fotobokfestival Oslo 2020, Oslo, Norway
The Imperfect Atlas, part of Project Pressure at Landskrona Photo Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
42nd and Vanderbilt, part of A History Of Photography: Daguerreotype To Digital, V&A, London, UK
Meltdown: Visualizing Climate Change, Horniman Museum, London, UK
MINE IV, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
Bad Moon Rising, Paris Photo, Chris Duncan & Peter Funch, V1 Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Street. Life. Photography, Kunst Haus Wien, Wien, Austria
Meltdown – A visualization of Climate Change, Project Pressure, Natural History Museum, Wien, Austria
The Danish Photo Book 1919 – 2019, Malmö Kunsthall, Malmö, Sweden
2018
A History of Photography: Daguerreotype to Digital, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Photography To End All Photography, Photobiennalen, Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Face To Face, The Ruth Youth Wing, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2017
Ramt Af Byen, Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
Friendships, Nivaagaards Museum, Nivå, Denmark
2015
Hamster and Hipster – The Aesthetics of the Mobile Phone, Museum Angewandte kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2014
New York, New York, Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark
Volta, V1 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2013
Summer Reading, The Hole, New York, USA
State of The Art, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Tonight We Won’t Be Bored, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Terra Cognita Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen/Oranjewoud. Photofestival Noorderlicht
PARATY EM FOCO photo festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Paper Match Halmlageret/Carlsberg, Copenhagen Denmark
Hello Materials, Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
An Øje for The Hole, The Hole, New York, USA
Mods vs. Rockers, The Essential Collection & V1 Gallery, Brooklyn NY, USA
Broken Language, Armory Show New York, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Continental Drift, Volta8 Basel, Switzerland
2011
Ny Dank Fotografi, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen
LIVING Frontiers of Architecture III and IV 2011 at LOUISIANA, Denmark
Volta, V1 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
OneShot, Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark
WHAT’S HE BUILDING IN THERE? Fuse Gallery, New York.
The Eye is a lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg
Role and Ritual, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
The Practice of Everyday Life, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany
2010
NEW WORK NEW YORK, Tiny Vices, New York
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gallery, Contemporanea Granada, Spain.
OneShot, Allmänna Galleriet 925, Stockholm, Sweden
Volta 6 Basel, Switzerland
Art Copenhagen, Denmark
2009
OneShot, Werkstette Copenhagen
Art Copenhagen, Denmark
Volta5 Basel, Switzerland
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2008
The Destruction of Atlantis, Union Gallery, London, UK
Fogtdals Fotografpriser 2008, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Aarhus, Denmark
Art Copenhagen, Denmark
Voltashow Basel, Switzerland
Voltashow, The Eye of the Beholder, a Solo Project Art Fair, New York, USA
2007
Spitting Image, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Zoo Art Fair London, UK
Art Copenhagen, Denmark
Preview Berlin, Germany
Voltashow Basel, Switzerland
2006
DNA (Diesel New Art), Winners exhibited in Denmark, Sweden and Norway
There is a U in Us, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Preview Berlin, Germany
Art Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
Random Happenings, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Face to Face – New Portraits, Lumas, Berlin, Germany
Art Copenhagen, Denmark
2004
A Celebration of Rebellion, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001
On Contempo, Kunsthallen, Copenhagen, followed in Zing Gallery,
Stockholm, Sweden
EinZweiDrei.com in Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen with the project Crossin Red Town
Crossing Red Town, Arles Photo Festival, France
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2018
Direktør Einar Hansen & hustru fru Vera Hansens Fonds ´Kunst-, Design- og Arkitekturpris´ (Art, Design and architecture price)
2008
Palle Fogtdals Photo Award, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
New Photographers 2007, curated by Lewis Blackwell
Winner of Diesel New Art in the Photo category
2003
Student at the 10th annual World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Finalist at SXSW Web Awards
2002
1st prize from Danish School of Journalism with portraits from World Trade Center, Aarhus, Denmark
2001
1st prize, Best in open Class in Danish Press Photo of the year, with the portraits from World Trade Center
Crossing Red Town, awarded at the Arles Photo Festival, France
2000
1st prize in best photojournalist project of the year, from The Danish School of Journalism
Awarded in open class for the project Crossing Red Town, in Press Photo of the Year
1999
1st prize, Best Daily Picture in Danish Press Photo of The Year
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria & Albert, London, (UK)
The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, (DK)
West Collection (US)
Reinhardhallen, Berlin, (DE)
New York Public Library (NYPL) Print Collection, New York, (US)
West Collection, Collegeville, PA, (US)
Nykredit Collection (DK)
Jens-Peter Brask Collection (DK)
Statoil Art Collection (NO)
The Drake Family Collection (NL)
SELECTED EDITORIAL WORK
The New Yorker
New York Times Magazine
New York Magazine
Time magazine
Fast Company, Next Level
Adbuster, Neon
Big Magazine
Intersection Magazine
Kilimanjaro Magazine
S Magazine
Garage Magazine
Numero Magazine
V Magazine
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