2009: Johan Deumens Gallery in Editions/Artists' Book Fair. Location: The Tunnel ( former DIA space), New York, USA.
2009: Johan Deumens gallery, Haarlem. Groupshow (with book project 'On the road too).
2009 Near the entrance of the Rai, Amsterdam 6 new works from the series 'Om het zien' / the archival project. Enlarged on canvas (14 meters width totally)
2009 Home of Unconart, Amsterdam. OM HET ZIEN / NEW WORKS.
2008 SEE HERE FOR THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE 'ON THE ROAD TOO' BOOK PROJECT
2007 The end of the Scheldestraat / Europaplein, Amsterdam. 'Rivierenbuurt International', a project for the Rai / Noord-Zuidlijn. 180 meters with photographs on canvas, mounted on the wall of the construction dwell (18 pieces 10 meters width, 160 cm high).2007 Dam Square, Amsterdam.
Project 'AMSTERDAM'. 15 new photographs, each 2 x 3
meter.
2007 Europaplein, Amsterdam. Update project
De Rai. 5 new photographs, each 2 x 3 meter.
2006 Europaplein, Amsterdam 16 new photographs
each 2 x 3 meter ( total work 32 works)
2006 Kruithuis
Den Bosch. Niemandsland, groupshow. Hans Eijkelboom
and Peter spaans show their project: 'No Way Out'.
2006 Heks
galleries, Heks, Belgium. Photo serie ' Holland'
2006 De
Branderij,
Expositieruimte Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen,
Belgie, with Jan Henderikse, Hans Eijkelboom, amongst
others. Photography project: 'Unknown
Cities
1'.
2006 De Kunstsuper, Hardenberg. with Hans
Eijkelboom. ( delayed)
2005 Arti
et Amicitae, Amsterdam with Hans Eijkelboom and
Jan Henderikse, among others. photography / book.
2005 Europaplein,
Amsterdam. Commissioned by Amsterdam RAI. The
surroundings of upcoming subway station Vijzelgracht
16 photographs, each 2x3 meter.
2005 Amsterdam
Rai, De Kantine, 10 photo works.
2004 Industrie terrein Het Ambacht,
Moordrecht. multi media opdracht Magazine.
2004 Proeftuin
Twente, Diepenheim ism SKOR (Stichting Kunst
Openbare Ruimte). with Hans Eijkelboom. photography + boek
opdracht +
lezing
2004 Art Hotel, Amsterdam. photography.
2004 Gallery
Sporadisch Antiquarisch, Amsterdam, Books,
Magazines, Photographs and video
2003 Arti, Amsterdam Numbers Only.
Photo installation
2003 Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus,
Germany. 10 jahre.
2002 Arti,
Amsterdam New Members exhibition. Installation with 8
big black and white photographs.
2002 Fonds Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. 4 photographers
between documentary and art photography. Photography and
books.
2002 Brewster,
New York, The
Brewster project. The library project: magazine,
photographs, installation.
2002 Stichting Kunstfort
Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen. The project 'Vijfhuizen
International': photographic installation and magazine.
2001 Kunstverein
Neuenhaus, Germany** no title photographs/book/video/installation
2001 Tramway, Glascow, Schotland Mirror’s Edge
(tour) ‘Unknown Cities’, video project
2001 The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada Optical
Verve video ‘NO WAY OUT’
2001 Charlottenborg,
Copenhagen, Denmark Mirror’s Edge (tour) ‘ Unknown
Cities’, video project and lecture
2001 SONSBEEK9,
Arnhem no title collaboration project with Hans
Eijkelboom
2000 Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada Mirror’s Edge (tour) video
2000 Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Mirror’s Edge
(tour) video and lecture
2000 Kunsthuis hardenberg** no
title photographs/book
and video. with Hans Eijkelboom
1999 Centrum
Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht** no title photographs /
installation / book
1999 Gallery Oele, Amsterdam** no title photography
and installations
1999 Kunstruimte
SAFE, Dalfsen** no title photographs /
installation
1999 Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam unlimitid.nl(2)
photography / video
1999 Nordhorn, Germany Die stadt zur galerie photography
1999 Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden Mirror’s Edge (tour) video
1998 Gallery
Oele, Amsterdam no title photography
1998 Disco The Move, Arnhem** No way out
installation with slides
1998 The Loft, New York, USA** It is there in New York
photographs, books and video
1997
Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa Trade
Routes photography
1996 Jack
Prezant Gallery, New York, USA no title photography
1996 The Loft, New York, USA no
title photography
1995 Rita
Dean Gallery, San Diego, USA It is All Title paintings
+ photography
1995 Jack Prezant Gallery, New York, USA no title
paintings
1994
P.A.R.K.4DTV, Amsterdam Williamsburg
bridge video on cable network
1994 Gallery Oele, Amsterdam Prototypen
paintings and furniture
1994 Gallery Vooreer de Mensen, Amsterdam In
Marble Hill bookpresentation
1993 Jack
Prezant Gallery, New York, USA In Marble Hill
photographs and book
1993 The Loft, New York, USA In Marble Hill
bookpresentation
1993 Portable Gallery, Alkmaar Marble is portable
wall sculpture and photo’s
1993 Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego, USA In Marble
Hill photography + paintings
1992 P.A.R.K.
4DTV, Amsterdam Malen
video on cable network
1992 P.A.R.K. 4DTV, Amsterdam Schuiven
video on cable network
1992 Gallery Rita Dean, San Diego, USA Works,
don’t worry paintings, photography
1991 Gallery
K, Alkmaar* The Reflex installation*(with bert
Wils)
1991 Gallery City Without Walls, Newark, USA* Interlace
installation* (with bert Wils)
1991 Gallery Rita Dean, San Diego, USA* Travelling
Eye installation* (with bert Wils)
1990
Gallery Dionysus, Rotterdam* no title 2 installations*
(with bert Wils)
1989 Gallery
Inge Schrofer, Amsterdam no title paintings
1989 Studio Zaagmolenstraat, Amsterdam* no title
paintings/photographs (with bert Wils)
1988 Gallery
Rosenberg, Offenbach, Germany no title paintings
1988 Gallery Inge Schrofer, Amsterdam no title
paintings(group)*
1987 Gallery
Rosenberg, Offenbach, Germany no title paintings
1986
Mercurion Building, Rijswijk In Beeld / Station installation
1985 Gallery
B.A.C., New York, USA no title silcscreens
1985 Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany In The
City installations with photo’s
1984 Gallery De Krabbedans,
Eindhoven no title photoworks and silcscreens
1984 Gemeente Museum, Arnhem Works
Of A City installation with photo’s
1984 Gallery D’ell Occhio, New York, USA no title
silcscreens
1984 The Belvedere Tower, Arnhem The
View installation with photo’s
1984 Gallery De Gele Rijder, Arnhem The Office
installation/performance
1983 Art Center Pictura, Dordrecht
no title photoworks and installation
1983 Gallery Makkom, Amsterdam Two Feet
installation/performance* (with bert Wils)
1983 Gallery Makkom, Amsterdam no title paintings and
installation* (with bert
Wils)
1982 Gallery De Gele Rijder, Arnhem
no title paintings and installation* (with bert Wils)
'SCHUIVEN'
(2009, a
remake film Schuiven 1992)
De orde van de dag
Walk through the exhibition in Arti et Amicitea of the
artists Peter Spaans, Hans Eijkelboom and Jan Henderikse,
may-June 2005 in Amsterdam
TRAIN DANCE
(2005)
Train ride on the new elevated subway line in the airport
of Newark, new jersey
FEETWORK 2005.
A man in New York City
Glasgow (DOPE) 2005
Glasgow, D dilerious trip through Glasgow, Scotland.
Manhattan 2005
Manhattan, New York. Stop the war Stop poverty Stop Crime.
Lauersmeer,
2005
Lauersmeer: The first day of the holliday in October in
the North of Holland
The Empire State
Almost 25 seconds of the Empire State Building in New York
War in Amsterdam
War in Amsterdam is the celebrating of the New Year 2005
GAME OVER 2004-2005
New York: After a
night of playing on a playground
I love Rock and
Roll 2004-2005
Somewhere in this world: A childrens after party
Playground
(2004)
A man in New York City.
To the Bridge
(2003)
This film is a 15 minute walk in Brooklyn to the entrance
of the Williamsburgbridge, filmed in a slow motion
setting.
The sound track is like an ongoing drum machine consisting
of city sounds; cars and trains, buses, people and all
kind of street noise.
To be played loud!! Filmed in 2002. Finished in 2003. For
Under Construction Art Projects Amsterdam / New York.
films from
the serial Unknown Cities (1999 - 2002)
in the Mirror's Edge show. such as Vancouver, Umea,
Torino, Glascow and Copenhagen.
And The NEW WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE (September 2002), The last
film (#7) from this cyclus.
Hardenberg (2000)
31 minutes. moving video stills from a little town in
Holland.
HARDENBERG:
This book and film was part of the exhibition
'Uiteindelijk kwam hij aan in Hardenberg'
made by Peter Spaans and Hans Eijkelboom.
NO WAY OUT
Dalfsen(2000)
A film about the slide project made by Peter Spaans and
Hans Eijkelboom for art gallery SAFE in Dalfsen
Amsterdam walk
(1999)
1 hour walking through Amsterdam center / west, guided.
Normally I choose my own images, but for this film I
followed a guide
(asked for an artists project during the Unlimited.nl/2
exhibition in De Appel) for 80 minutes and followed
exactly with my camera how he walked
and talked and when he stood still I stood still, looking
around a little bit. I filmed in one single shot, starting
in front of De Appel in
Amsterdam and ending in a cafeteria, where the camera is
standing on a table with a close-up to my body while
eating a hamburger.
This work raises questions about how important is the way
I look and what is the difference between information
given by somebody else or chosen
by myself and what are 'outside' / 'inside' influences and
what are they doing with me? Who tells me how and where to
move in a city?
Queensborobridge (1999)
1 hour walking on the Queensborobridge, New York, from
Manhattan to Queens.
Round the block (1999)
6 walks of about 4,5 minutes around 6 different blocks in
downtown Manhattan.
To the waterfront (1999)
20 minutes walk from my apartment in New York to the
Hudsonriver and back.
Circle (1999)
30 minutes of a slow movement of the camera from the
balcony of a highrise apartmentbuilding in Upper
Manhattan.
NO WAY OUT (1998)
1 hour walking through midtown Manhattan
No Way Out lasting 50 minutes is a walk through the
midtown district of
Manhattan, filmed in one single shot and the camera is
filming the way I walk, look and see around me. It is
about my physical absence in the
image, but presence in the movements.
Williamsburgbridge
(1994)
1 hour walking on the Williamsburgbridge, New York, from
Manhattan to Brooklyn
I walked over the Williamsburgbridge between the end of
the day and the beginning of the evening and asked a
friend to shoot this walk. Everything is important in this
film. The sound, the images,
the structure of the bridge. The way of filming. The
difference between light and dark. Day or night. The
different uses of the bridge
(walking, bikes, cars and subway). duration 50 minutes.
Williamsburgbridge is part of the video work displayed in
the 'Mirror's Edge exhibition
seen in Umea, Vancouver, Turin,
Glasgow and Copenhagen.
This exhibition was curated by Okwui Enwezor
Schuiven
(1992)
1 hour of slowly moving architectural objects.
Malen
(1992)
1 hour of slowly scratching of 2 architectural objects.
ARTIST’S BOOKS
works of a city (1983)
Concept, photographs, text and lay out: Peter Spaans. Made
in Silkscreen. edition 50.silcscreen collages combined with diary fragments of my first travel through New York.
1. 207 STREET YARD
(Manhattan).1985 Concept, photographs, text and lay out:
Peter Spaans handprinted cover silkscreen, first edition 50 2. 239 Street Yard (the
bronx). 1985 Concept, photographs, text and lay out: Peter
Spaans handprinted cover silkscreen, first edition 50 3. Jerome / Concourse
Yards (the bronx). 1985 Concept, photographs, text and lay
out: Peter Spaans handprinted cover silkscreen, first
edition 50 4. Coney Island Yard
(the bronx). 1985 Concept, photographs, text and lay out:
Peter Spaans handprinted cover silkscreen, first edition 50 New York from the yards
(1986) with text of Anneke Oele, Amsterdam. silkscreen and
offset. total edition 150 ( partly luxery 50)photographs of New York made from subway yard views.
In Marble Hill (1993)
with text of Carl Hazlewood and Dan Schmidt, New Yorkphotographs of old people and architecture in Marble Hill, Bronx, New York, related to each other.
Several City, 16
pages.april 1998 concept, design and photographs:
Peter Spaans It is there
in New York 20 january 1999 concept, design: Peter
Spaans, photographs: Peter Spaans and Hans EijkelboomNO WAY OUT10
january 1999 concept, design: Peter Spaans, photographs:
Peter Spaans and Hans EijkelboomEscape
to Newark august 1999. concept, design and
photographs: Peter SpaansObject
and Memoryjune 1999 concept, design and photographs:
Peter SpaansNEW: message of the City
may 1999, concept, design and photographs: Peter SpaansLost
in Dordrecht 1999 concept, design: Peter Spaans,
photographs: Peter Spaans and Hans EijkelboomBRICKS
BUILD YOUR MIND 1999 concept, design: Peter Spaans,
photographs: Peter Spaans and Hans EijkelboomHardenberg
2000 concept, design: Peter Spaans, photographs: Peter
Spaans and Hans EijkelboomWhere the bus takes us' concept and photographs: Peter Spaans and Hans Eijkelboom Design inside Hans Eijkelboom. Cover: Peter Spaans (Sonsbeek 9)
Die Grafschaft Bentheim entdeckt anhand taglicher Wege von 11 Einwohnern' concept, design and photographs: Peter Spaans (Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany)
The Brewster
International july 2002 concept, design and
photographs: Peter SpaansVijfhuizen
Internationaal september 2002 concept, design and
photographs: Peter SpaansAmsterdam
International December 2002 concept, design and
photographs: Peter SpaansNew York
International(February 2003),concept, design and
photographs: Peter SpaansUnknown
Cities book and 7 films(2003 -2006), concept, design
and photographs: Peter SpaansBerlin
International(April 2004) Concept, photographs, text
and lay out: Peter SpaansHet
Dilemma van Ruimte(March 2004) Concept, photographs,
text and lay out: Peter Spaans Dusseldorf
International(September 2004) Concept, photographs,
text and lay out: Peter Spaans Moordrecht
Internationaal(September 2004) Concept, photographs,
text and lay out: Peter Spaans Unconart
International(May 2005) Concept, photographs, text and
lay out: Peter Spaans Brussels
International(December 2005) Concept, photographs,
text and lay out: Peter Spaans Rotterdam
International (May 2006) Concept, photographs, text
and lay out: Peter Spaans Antwerp
International (May 2006) Concept, photographs, text and
lay out: Peter Spaans Emmen
International (November 2006) Concept, photographs,
text and lay out: Peter Spaans Vancouver
International
(January 2007) Concept, photographs, text and lay out:
Peter Spaans IJmuiden
International (april 2007) Concept, photographs, text and
lay out: Peter SpaansThe Unknown Cities
project , 2007 (dummy, edition 1, book + 7 films)ON THE ROAD TOO,
2008 / SMALL (special edition, collectors item max edition
20) AND BIG (dummy, edition 1)SEE HERE FOR THE LATEST NEWS ABOUT THIS BOOK PROJECT
Om het zien /
the archival project, 2009 ( dummy, edition 1)
The
first family project, 2010
The
Diary project, 2010
OTHER BOOKS,
CATALOGUES AND MAGAZINES:
Makkom
10Catalogue Gallery Makkom, Amsterdam 25-09-1983
catalogue exhibition Peter Spaans and Bert Wils.
interview text of Gert Wijlage.
Harpers Bazaar magazine with 2 pages of
peter spaans 01-09-1990
Interlace Catalogue gallery City without
walls, Newark, USA 03-10-1991
catalogue Waterszoon exhbition with text of Carl
Hazlewood. show Peter Spaans and Bert Wils.
Travelling Eye Catalogue Rita Dean Gallery, San
Diego, USA 03-10-1991
catalogue Waterszoon exhbition with text of Carl
Hazlewood. show Peter Spaans and Bert Wils.
Trade Routes Catalogue Johannesburg Biennale
01-10-1997
catalogue with 2 pages: one page an illustration of my
work, the other a short biography)
Several Times Are Several Places 9 pages for the
magazine Atlantica Internacional 01-07-1998
artists pages, special designed. with photographs.
publisher: Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno Las Palmas,
Gran Canaria
Cream:
Contemporary Art in Culture Phaidon Press,
London 15-10-1998
book about 100 contemporary artists and their work,
including myself with text of Okwui Enwezor, choosen by
10 curators.
Archis, number 2 text and illustration about
‘Prohibited view’ in De Appel, Amsterdam 15-02-1999
HP/De Tijd by Mark Peeters: Peter Spaans de fotograaf
als flaneur 09-07-1999
NPS radio 5 One hour interview in: radio uit 09-08-1999
City wird zur galerie Nordhorn (landkreis
Bentheim, Germany, catalogue) 18-09-1999
Mirror’s Edge, Exhibition catalogue, Umea
bildmuseet, Sweden 21-11-1999
Unknown Cities and other projects Lecture
for the castello di Rivoli, Italy. 30 -9 -2000
Lecture
for the museum of modern arts in Copenhagen, July 2001
Sonsbeek9 catalogue.
articles about Sonsbeek 9: (1)
De Blauwe kamer, august 2007 And many more.
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