Pe Lang (Switzerland, 1974)

Pe Lang’s poetic and elegant hand built sculptures combine mechanized systems with new materials to mandate and manifest a different approach to kinetic movement. Lang realizes performances and creates installations by ingeniously assembling magnetic, electrical and mechanical devices and even inventing new devices and prototypes. The resulting works are both visually appealing, because of their elegant and minimal kinetic qualities, but also fascinating for their acoustic features. If chance plays an important role in his works, the artist playfully manages to balance between order and chaos by controlling the forces involved in his compositions: the precision of the mechanical devices and the confusion resulted from the collision of the various elements. (Text: Boris Magrini)

Solo Exhibition (selection)
2012
Moving Objects, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
2011
Kiblix Festival, SFAI, San Francisco, USA
BSgroup technology innovation : art@work projekt (september - dezember), Zurich, Switzerland
Interstice, Artothèque and City Hall, Caen, France
2010
Moving Objects, Sound and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2009
Falling Objects, Växjö Art Hall, Växjö, Sweden
2008
Pe Lang, Gosia Koscielak Gallery, Chicago, USA
Bon Accueil / Elektroni[k] Festival, Rennes, France
2007
Untitled Sound Objects, Espacio Menosuno, Madrid, Spain
Untitled Sound Objects, Die Schachtel, Milano, Italy
Untitled Sound Objects, Artis Gallery, Büren a.A., Schweiz
2006
Untitled Sound Objects, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland
Untitled Sound Objects, Leerraum [ ], Bern, Switzerland
2005
Untitled Sound Objects 023, Kunstraum, Aarau, Switzerland
Untitled Sound Objects, Freie Internationale Tankstelle, Berlin, Germany
Untitled Sound Objects, Marks Blond Gallery, Bern, Switzerland

Group Exhibitions and Prizes
2011
Decay, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
Aktuelle Kunst aus der Region, Sankturbanhof, Sursee, Switzerland
Think art - Act Science, Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland and SFAI, San Francisco, USA
Leerraum, Störung Festival, Barcelona, Spain
performing the exhibition, Chàteau Mercier, Sierre, Switzerland
Kunstler-Residenzprogramm, Akademie Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Deutschland, (Nov 2011-Aug 2012)
2010
Think Art - Act Science, Centre d‘art santa monica, Barcelona, Spain
Modifier, Dienstgebäude, Zürich, Switzerland
Plattfon, Basel, Switzerland
Hanareproject, Kyoto, Japan
Notation of a signal, Nuit Numérique#8, Centre Culturel Saint-Exupéry, Raims, France
Starkart Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Durch die Wand, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
Energy, AV Festival 10, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom
Aktuelle Kunst aus der Region, Sankturbanhof, Sursee, Switzerland
Grand Prix Fenetre
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Unpredictable Forms of Sound and Motion, bitforms Gallery, New York, USA
Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland
Sounds to Tabakalera,Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain
See this sound, Lentos Art Museum (optofonica capsule), Linz, Austria
Jubiläumspavillon Balgrist, Zürich, Switzerland
Untitled (plate tectonics), Program, Berlin, Germany
Leerraum, Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA
2008
Sonicacts XII, Amsterdam, Holland
Lucid Fields, ISEA 2008, Singapore, Singapore
Nemo Festival, Paris, France
Version beta, Centre pour l‘image contemoraine, Geneva, Switzerland
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Miller Fine Arts Center, Mcminville, USA
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Niederlande
Syncronie Festival, Milan, Italy
Progr, Bern, Switzerland
Sitemapping/Mediaprojects Award, Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK)
2007
CSEM Artists in labs residency (BAK: 9 Month stipend 2007 at the swiss center for electronics and microtechnology CSEM)
Premio-Award (Video-software «Jitterbug»-project)
2006
Sound of Music, Volksystem, Toulouse, France
Cybersonica 06, London, United Kingdom
Intersolar, Freiburg, Germany
Kunstexpander, Aarau, Switzerland
S11, Solothurn, Switzerland
2005
Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland
Sitemapping/Mediaprojects Award (Software development), Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK).
2004
Galerie Anton Meier, Geneva, Switzerland

Performances (selection 2006-2011)
2011
Optofonica Showcase, Maribor, Slovenia
Swiss Nex Conference, SFAI, San Francisco, USA
City Hall, Caen, France
Kunsthalle Luzern
SONM Barcelona, Spain
Observatori Festival, Valencia, Spain
2010
Futurity now!, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
National Taiwan University, Taipeh, Taiwan
Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
Plattfon, Basel, Switzerland
K3, Zurich, Switzerland
Progress Festival, Ausland, Berlin, Germany
2009
Deep North, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
Listen to the world, ISCM-World New Music Days, Växjö, Sweden
PI Performance Intermedia, Szczecin, Poland
Staalplaat, Berlin, Germany
2008
Elektra Festival, Montreal, Kanada
Wien Modern, Vienna, Österreich in collaboration with M. Papalexandri-Alexandri
ISEA 2008, Singapore, Singapore
Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
Monkey Town, New York, USA
Bowerbird, Philadelphia, USA
Piano Factory, Boston, USA
Elektroni[k] Festival, Rennes, France
Tag, den Haag, Holland
Blurred Edges Festival, Hamburg, Germany
Melkweg, Holland
Ausland, Berlin, Germany
Kornhaus, Bern, Switzerland
2007 
Dissonanze Festival, Rome, Italy
Shift Festival, Basel, Switzerland
Zentrale Randlage, Berlin, Germany
 Hörbar, Hamburg, Germany
Intro, Maastricht, Holland
Mex, Dortmund, Germany
Leerraum [ ], Bern, Switzerland
Kulturbunker Mühlheim, Köln, Germany
2006
Kunstraum, Aarau, Switzerland
osc//8 Festival, Geneva, Switzerland