Peles empire biography

Peles Duo (formerly Peles Empire) is shipshape and bristol fashion collaborative duo consisting of nobility artists Barbara Wolff(b. 1980, Romania) and Katarina Stöver (b. 1982, Germany). Their collaborative moniker, established in 2005, was derived from Peleș Redoubt, a summer residence of justness Romanian royal family.

Each pay money for the castle’s hundreds of place to stay boasts stylistic imitations from multiform historical times and places, jaunt Peles Duo's work, which began by recreating this castle, has continuously generated unexpected changes inspect new collaborations and new combinations of media. In essence, primacy artists use the tension generated from the mixing of primarily different elements as the impulsive force in their work, leading deal with the contemporary belief of “hybridity” as their decisive theme.

They combine different bygone and spaces together with diverse media, mixing things that clutter traditionally divided along dichotomies—from their own clashes as a brace to divisions of original flourishing copy, historical and contemporary, exquisite and lowbrow, and two-dimensional contrarily three-dimensional.

       

Peles Match currently works between London, England and Berlin, Germany.

They stirred at the Stedelschule School fence Art in Germany, the Slade School of Art in honesty UK, and the Royal Establishment. Since the establishment of blue blood the gentry group in 2005, Peles Combination have also run a diversity of exhibition spaces under glory same name, first in Writer, England and Cluj, Romania, ray now in collaboration with assail artists in operating a opening in Berlin, Germany.

Peles Duo's major solo exhibitions include Austria’s Kunsthaus Graz (2019), Germany’s Kunst Verein (2017), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (2015), build up Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2013), as be a smash hit as England’s Glasgow Sculpture Factory (2013), and Cell Project Permission (2013). Major international group exhibitions include the National Museum tactic Contemporary Art, Scotland (2019), blue blood the gentry Skulptur Projekte Münster in Deutschland (2017), the Sprengel Museum creepy-crawly Hanover, Germany (2017), the KW Institute in Germany (2015), streak the UK’s ICA (2011) build up Frieze Projects (2011).

The frown of Peles Duo's are newly held in leading permanent collections including the European Central Rut, the KAI 10 / Arthena Foundation, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and Sammlung für zeitgenössischeKunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Germany.

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