Kasper Feyrer – CV

Kasper Feyrer
b. 1982, Victoria, Canada
Lives and works in Vancouver

Education

  • 2010 Meisterschülerin, HfBK Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2004 Bachelor of Media Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2019 New Pedestrians, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
  • 2018 Background Actors, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  • 2017 New Pedestrians, Potts, Alhambra, CA, USA
  • 2014 Kitchen, grunt gallery, Vancouver
    Escape Scenes, Western Front, Vancouver
  • 2012 Alternatives and Opportunities, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  • 2011 Irregular Time Signatures, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
  • 2010 The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar, Artspeak, Vancouver

Selected Collaborative Exhibitions

  • 2016 Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: The Last Waves, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2015 Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: Consider the Belvedere, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
  • 2013 Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: Bottles Under the Influence, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
    Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: Unfinished Corpse Bar, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, USA
  • 2012 Kasper Feyrer, Nate Hess, and Erik Lavesson: The Rotting Husk, Leonhardi Kultur Projekte, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2008 Kasper Feyrer and Pietro Sammarco: The Composition Kids, Access Artist-Run Centre, Vancouver

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2019 Routes, Kressmann-Halle Offenbach, Offenbach, Germany
    Estuary, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimio, Canada
    Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
  • 2018 The Metamorphosis, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
    A Kiss Under the Tail, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA
  • 2017 Persistence, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2016 Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
    Insomnia, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
    Response, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, QC, Canada
    NEO-PAGAN BITCH-WITCH!, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Evelyn Yard, London, UK
    The Blur in Between, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • 2015 Stopping the Sun in its Course, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
    Enter the Fog, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL, Canada
    The Geometry of Knowing, Part 1, in collaboration with Derya Akay, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada
  • 2013 The Intellection of Lady Spider House, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
    Special Collection: Acquisitions and Archives, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
    A Postcard from Victoria, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
  • 2012 Wandering Art Metropole Publications and Ephemera Archive: Part 2, in collaboration with Pietro Sammarco, Project Space, Vancouver, with Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
    Children’s Films, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; International Project Space, Birmingham, UK
    Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
  • 2011 Children’s Films, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
    The Problem of Nothing, Hayaka Arti, Istanbul, Turkey
    Sitely Premises, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2010 Geschmacksverstärker, MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt, Germany
    Ghost Town, “Ghost Town”, MOTHER, Frankfurt, Germany
    International Chilliwack Biennial, organized by the Or Gallery, Cultus Lake Provincial Park, BC, Canada
  • 2009 Various Business, LES Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2008 Sink the Boat before it Sails, Basis, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2007 Let There Be Light, Blanket Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2006 Placed & Found, Access Artist-Run Centre, Vancouver

Selected Screenings and Performances

  • 2020 Kasper Feyrer: Broken Clocks, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
  • 2019 Kasper Feyrer: Broken Clocks, DIM Cinema at The Cinematheque, Vancouver; Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick, UK
  • 2018 Out of Body, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Tate Modern, London, UK
  • 2017 Governing the Effects of Retrograde, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, 221A at Things that can happen, Hong Kong, China
  • 2016 Uncanny Relations, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at The Cinematheque, Vancouver
    Couleur Locale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • 2015 Toying with String: Ute and Detel Aurand / Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson, DIM Cinema at The Cinematheque, Vancouver
  • 2014 Adjacencies, performance in collaboration with Pietro Sammarco, 221A, Access Gallery, and grunt gallery, at Semi-Public, Vancouver
    Poets Theatre Intensive, The Apartment, Vancouver
    Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
  • 2013 A bullet stuck in the chest partakes in the life of the body, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Stedelijk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
    Consider the Belvedere, performance in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada
  • 2012 Car Rally, from The Part of No Part, Part 1: Sound, 221A, Vancouver
    Roundhay Garden Scenes, in collaboration with Derya Akay, Video Bar, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver
    Spoox Texts, in collaboration with Pietro Sammarco, Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
    The Sense of a Sound, in collaboration with Pietro Sammarco, Tramway Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, in association with Lux, Glasgow, Scotland
  • 2011 A Scale of Speeds, New Forms Festival, Vancouver
    time-based, for SummerLive, Stanley Park, Vancouver
    Outside, for Based in Berlin, Monbijou Park, Berlin, Germany
  • 2010 ett historia den objekt, snö vax skugga, in collaboration with Tamara Henderson, There Ain’t No Cure, Berlin, Germany
    Sans Comic, Cineworks Annex, Vancouver
  • 2009 Summer Reading Video Program, Invisible Exports, New York, USA
  • 2008 Vancouver Fraction, for Upgrade! International, Lothringer13/Laden, Munich, Germany
    OK. Quoi?! Contemporary Arts Festival, Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB, Canada
    Film Schau, Blumen, Leipzig, Germany
  • 2006 Video Kill 3, Video In, Vancouver
  • 2003 It’s Better Inside, Signal and Noise Festival at Video In, Vancouver
  • 2002 Performance Works!, The Blinding Light, Vancouver

Books and Exhibition Catalogues

  • 2019 Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
  • 2016 Daina Augaitis, Jesse McKee, eds., Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
    Camilla Larsson, ‘Closed Circuit Canadian: Notes on the work of Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson’, in Insomnia: Sleeplessness as a Cultural Symptom, Bonniers Konsthall and Art and Theory Publishing, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2014 Part of No Part, 221A and Brick Press, Vancouver
  • 2013 Reid Shier, ‘Kasper Feyrer’, in Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes, Phaidon Press, New York, NY, and London, UK
  • 2012 Thomas Thiel, Luke Fowler & Toshiya Tsunoda / Children’s Films, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
  • 2010 Michael Turner, ‘The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar and Vancouver’s Subtracted Future’, Postscript 40, Artspeak, Vancouver
  • 2008 The Composition Kids, Access Artist-Run Centre, Vancouver

Magazines and Periodicals

  • 2019 Lorenza Mezzapelle, ‘Art as activism: personal and collective histories’, The Concordian, 19 November
  • 2018 David Balzer, ‘A Year in Waiting’, Canadian Art, 27 December
    Steffanie Ling, ‘Kasper Feyrer at Catriona Jeffries’, Akimbo, 4 April
  • 2017 Simone Krug, ‘Critics’ Picks: Kasper Feyrer’, Artforum, 13 September
    Andrew Witt, ‘Eccentric, Polymorphous, Abstract: Vancouver Art and other Mythologies of the Near-Future’, The Mainlander, 14 January
  • 2016 Michael Turner, ‘Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: The Last Waves’, Preview, November 2016–January 2017
    Aaron Peck, ‘Vancouver at the Movies’, Canadian Art, Fall
    Andrew Witt, ‘Critics’ Picks: NEO-PAGAN BITCH-WITCH’, Artforum, February
  • 2015 Erica Prince, ‘Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson: Consider the Belvedere’, C Magazine, Issue 127, Autumn
  • 2013 Andrea Williamson, ‘Bottles Under the Influence’, Color Magazine, Issue 11.2
    Michael Turner, ‘A Postcard from Victoria’, The Capilano Review, Issue 3.21, Fall
    Christine Clark, ‘A Postcard from Victoria’, Preview, June–August
    Conrad Sweatman, ‘Under the Influence with Michael Turner’, The Banff Centre, 13 June
  • 2012 Lee Henderson, ‘Timekeeper Timemaker: The Art of Kasper Feyrer’, Border Crossings, Issue 123, Fall
    Erika Thorkelson, ‘Exploring Vancouver’s photographic future, digital and otherwise’, Vancouver Sun, 12 June
    Jeremy Shepard, ‘Photography displays a phantasmagoria’, North Shore News, 25 May
  • 2011 Jesse Birch, ‘The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar’, Hunter and Cook, Issue 8, Winter
  • 2008 Robin Laurence, ‘Nomads make home in ruins’, The Georgia Straight, 27 March

Artist’s Books and Special Projects

  • 2016 Kasper Feyrer, Fruit(ing) Body(ies), artist book, Perro Verlag
  • 2015 Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson, Night Times, Issue 2, artist dream newspaper
  • 2014 Kasper Feyrer, Script Ruins by Page Turner, artist book, Perro Verlag
  • 2013 Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson, Les Bouteilles de la Table Ronde, Perro Verlag
    Kasper Feyrer and Tamara Henderson, Night Times, Issue 1, artist dream newspaper
  • 2012 Kasper Feyrer and Erik Lavesson, The Rotting Husk, Leonhardi Kultur Projekte, Frankfurt, Germany
    The Wandering Art Metropole Publications and Ephemera Archive, Project Space, Vancouver, BC
  • 2010 Kasper Feyrer, Scrap Book, Perro Verlag
    Kasper Feyrer, ‘The Poodle Dog Ornamental Bar’, Pyramid Power, Issue 7
  • 2009 Kasper Feyrer, Comedy Tragedy, Perro Verlag
  • 2007 They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Pick Up Sticks, LP, Kill Rock Stars
    Kasper Feyrer, untitled drawings, Pyramid Power, Vol. 1, Issue 3, Fall
  • 2006 They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Boo Hoo Hoo Boo, LP, Kill Rock Stars
  • 2006–2010 Editor, Spoox Audiozine, Issues 1–8, spooxmagazine.org
  • 2004–2006 Editor, U.E. Magazine, Issues 1–3

Residencies

  • 2016 International Programme for Visual Arts, with Tamara Henderson, Iaspis, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2015 Artists-in-Residence, with Tamara Henderson, The Rooms, St. John’s, NL, Canada
  • 2010 Theatre of Erosion or I Hate Work That Is Not A Play, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada
    Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, Canada

Awards

  • 2011 Emerging Artist, nominated by Honoree Stan Douglas, Mayor’s Arts Award for Visual Arts, Vancouver
  • 2009 Film Prize, HfBK Städelschule Rundgang, Frankfurt am Main, Germany