Astali/Peirce work in the field of mixed media, collage, sculpture and installation. Seeking out the crossroads between these generic disciplines, the artists generate hybrid materials and forms that court and probe the epistemological field. Informed by modern psychoanalytic theory, semiotics and fiction, Astali/Peirce dramatize a journey into the complexities of hybrid identity formations, where atomized signs and plastics merge to form a synthetic, ductile and pliable body.
Exhibitions
Selected exhibitions Gesundbrunnen, Berlin (Mobile Art Space by Heike Gallmeier) 05.09.021 “M-O-T-O-R” Soundinstallation with musician Romain Bertheau
Frontviews Gallery, Berlin 2017 “Faultlines” www.frontviewsgallery.de
The Chain, Düsseldorf 16.06.-26.08.2012 www.markusambachprojekte.de “Interiors”
Autocenter, Berlin 30.03.-14.04.2012 www.autocenterart.de “Group Velocity”
Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten 12.02.-27.03.2011 www.kulturforum-witten.de “Zeitgenossenschaft”
CV
Astali/Peirce cooperation since 2000
Tolia Astali
∗1974 in Tiflis lives and works in Berlin, DE 1993–1995 Academy of Fine Art, Tiflis, GE 1996 Diplom (Prof.F.Hahn), Akademie für Bildende Künste, Mainz, DE 2000–2001 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK 2004–2007 Teaching, Klasse Friedemann Hahn, Akademie für Bildende Künste, Mainz, DE 2018–2021 Teaching Installation Art at UDK, Bildende Kunst, Grundlehre – Berlin, DE
Dylan Peirce
1977 Paris lives and works in Berlin, DE 1996–1999 BA (Hons) Fine Art, John Moores University, Liverpool 2000–2001 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) Bursary 2004–2007 Teaching (Klasse F. Hahn), Akademie für Bildende Künste, Mainz 2018–2021 Teaching Installation Art and Sound at UDK, Bildende Kunst, Grundlehre – Berlin, DE
Fellowships/Awards/Residencies
2013 Katalogförderung Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE 1999 Stipendium der Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2021 Horizont, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE M O T O R (with Romain Bertheau) , Mobile Art Space, Berlin, DE 2018 Drop Shadow, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2017 Faultlines, Frontviews Temporary, Berlin, DE Hed, Klein Raum für Aktuelles Nichts, Berlin, DE 2016 Airhead / Lifejacket / Mugshots, Milchof Pavillion, Berlin, DE 2014 Anachronics, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2013 Crash Blossoms, Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DE A perfect Vacuum, Gossomerstraße, Berlin, DE 2012 Interiors MAP, Düsseldorf, DE Seams, Autocenter, Berlin, DE 2011 Insular, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2010 Der Kern des Ganzen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE About The details, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2009 Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Astali and Peirce, La Centrale, Montreal, CA 2008 Sub, Brick, Berlin, DE 2007 Die Passage (with H. Gallmeier), Galerie Andreas Wendt, Berlin, DE 2006 Geometrie des Irrsinns, Hospitalhof, Stuttgart, DE 2002 Screen Seduction, Arsenal HKM 1, Mainz , DE 2001 I Used to Live in a Room Full of Mirrors, Fordham Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2020 Haunt, Frontviews, Berlin, DE L’Artiste et les Comissaires, Lage Egal, Berlin, DE 2019 Wer Kann Der Soll, Kunstgruppe, Köln, DE 2017 On and On, Kunstgruppe, Köln, DE Miss Read with Material Press (L.A.), Berlin, DE Real Estate Show, Spor Klübü, Berlin, DE 2016 In neuen Räumen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Books, Wild Palms, Düsseldorf, DE Kunst@McKinsey, Düsseldorf, DE Lage Egal, Berlin, DE Von Mir Aus, Kunstgruppe, Köln, DE Kollision, Bethanien, Berlin, DE 2015 To Go Too Far, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE 2014 About Sculpture #2 (with Johannes Wald, Gianni Caravaggio, Christiane Lohr, Bo Christian Larsson, Piotr Lakomy), Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, DE Salon Schmitz, Köln, DE 2013 Flowery, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Riss, Galerie Hengesbach, Berlin, DE 2012 Biennale DÁrt Contemporain, Les Prairies, Les Ateliers de Rennes, FR Object Perdu, SITEmagazine MAP, Düsseldorf, DE space/socialspace, XF Formt Part 2, Kuttner Siebert Galerie, Berlin, DE Artist Merchandising Art, Wonderloch Kellerloch, Berlin & Los Angeles, DE/USA 2011 Beyond the fragile Geometry of Sculpture, SBKM /De Vleeshal, Kiddelburg, NL Verbrechen und Bild, Künstlerverein Walkmühle Wiesbaden, DE Friedenstraße, Berlin, DE Too Much, Salon Schmitz, Köln, DE Group Velocity, Märkisches Museum Witten, DE 2010 Rundblick 2010, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE Der Kern des Ganzen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE About the Details, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE Schwarzgold, Schloss Beesenstadt bei Halle an der Saale, DE Hart Am Glück, Schleswig-Holstein-Haus Schwerin, DE Early Works, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, DE 2009 Formation 45x16x6,5 Meter, Berlin, DE 2008 80×40, Uferhallen, Berlin, DE Passenger, GlassBox, Paris, FR Art and Identity, (with H. Gallmeier), Art Museum Guangzhou, CHN Zerrn, Infernoesque, Berlin, DE Siteprojectionen, SITEGalerie Düsseldorf, DE 2007 Space Chase, (curated by P. Reichensperger), Galerie Magnus Müller, Berlin, DE Zehner, Glue, Berlin, DE 2005 Wetterbericht, Reutlingen, curatorial project with Klasse Friedmann Hahn, DE 2004 Screening, Manchester Video Fair, Manchester, UK Fridge, (curated by Babak Ghazi), Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK 2003 KW – Kunstwerke (Berlin), Arte Fiera, Bologna, IT Bis ans Ende der Welt, Kunstverein Konstanz, DE 2002 Natürlich Kann Geschossen Werden, Alte Postfuhramt, Berlin, DE Sounds, (curated by G. Hildebrandt), G7, Berlin, DE 2001 New Brooms Sweeping Well, (curated by Gert + Uwe Tobias), Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, DE Erforschung des Horizonts, Kunsthalle, Goppingen, DE Basic Instincts, Chelsea College of Art, London, UK Weather Report, Riverside Studios, London, UK
Bibliography (selection)
2014 Footnotes/Seams, catalogue, published by Astali/Peirce und Petra Rinck Galerie 2011 Zeitgenossenschaft, Märkisches Museum Witten, group exhibition catalogue, published by Dirk Steimann with Kettler Verlag, Bönen 2010 Aktuelle Tendenzen zur abstrakten Fotografie, Magdalena Kröner, published by Kunstforum, Bd 206 Artnews.org, Review, by Thomas Kuhn 2006 Catalogue, Edition Hospitalhof, published by Helmut A. Müller
Publications


News
Record release, Düsseldorf + Berlin “Pindrop” LP with sound by Dylan Peirce upcoming Spring 2022