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Peter Panyoczki

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Peter Panyoczki Hungary

Born 1953, Budapest, Hungary
Lives and works in near Auckland, New Zealand and Zurich, Switzerland

Karin Weber Gallery artist Peter Panyoczki draws inspiration from nature and uses light on several dimensions. He is a truly global citizen. He emigrated to Switzerland with his family aged only four, in 1957, studied and taught at the University of Zurich and Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, USA, as well as Rotterdam, Florence, and Vienna, before making his home in New Zealand in 1995. Peter is also the founder of the Kaipara Foundation, awarding residencies in Switzerland to New Zealand artists.

Born 1953, Budapest, Hungary
Lives and works in near Auckland, New Zealand and Zurich, Switzerland

Karin Weber Gallery artist Peter Panyoczki draws inspiration from nature and uses light on several dimensions. He is a truly global citizen. He emigrated to Switzerland with his family aged only four, in 1957, studied and taught at the University of Zurich and Purdue University, Lafayette, IN, USA, as well as Rotterdam, Florence, and Vienna, before making his home in New Zealand in 1995. Peter is also the founder of the Kaipara Foundation, awarding residencies in Switzerland to New Zealand artists.

Education
1980
University of Zurich, Master of Arts (German Language and Literature, Art History)

 

Selected Exhibitions

2021

‘Re-Flections’, Artis Gallery, Auckland, NZ

2019

‘8th Beijing International Art Biennale’, National Art Museum of China, Beijing

‘Skulpturen und Installationen Gruppenausstellung’ Kultuort Höfli 7, Schaffhausen, Herblingen

‘Mayday’, Artis Gallery, Auckland, NZ

‘Taksu 30 Years’, TAKSU Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

‘20/20’, Karin Weber Gallery anniversary exhibition, HK

‘White & Black: Black & White’, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia

‘A Colourful World and a Shared Future’, Beijing International Art Biennale, China (representing New Zealand)

‘This is Dope!’, Taksu Gallery, Singapore

The Vivian Gallery, Matakana/Auckland, New Zealand

Artis Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2018

Taksu Gallery, Singapore

The Museum of Modern Art ARTETAGE, Vladivostok, Russia

Mangawhai Art Coop

2017
‘Surface and Beneath’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
The Vivian Gallery, Matakana/Auckland, New Zealand
‘Surface and Beneath’, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sydney Contemporary, Australia

VIlla Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Stuttgart, Germany
2016
Group Show, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Art Central, Hong Kong
Art Fair Auckland, Bath Street Gallery
Pah Homestead, Wallace Arts Center, Auckland, New Zealand

Museum Baviera, Zuerich
2015
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Australia
Art Malaysia Expo, Kuala Lumpur
Group Show, Galerie Lukas Feichtner, Vienna, Austria
Avid Gallery, Wellington (with Tatjana Panyoczki), New Zealand
Group Show, The Vivian Gallery, Matakana, New Zealand
Group Show, Conny Dietschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2014
‘The Invisible Visible’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
‘Particle Meditations Part III’, Galerie am Schillerplatz Vienna
‘Particle Meditations Part II’, Global Art Source, Küsnacht / Zürich
2013
Art Fair Auckland
‘Particle Meditations’, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Global Art Source, Küsnacht / Zürich
2012
‘Light Revealed’, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2011
‘MATTERS’, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Art Fair Auckland

2010

Hauptbahnhof (Main Station), Zürich, Switzerland

‘Peter Panyoczki – New Works’, Galerie Werner Bommer, Zurich

‘New Zealand Artists’, Pataka Museum, Wellington

2009

‘Nature Morte – Still Life’, Bath Street Gallery Auckland, NZ

‘Zunehmend Undeutlich’, Vebikus, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan

Art Fair Auckland with Bath Street Gallery

2008
‘Verscheinungen – Dis – Emergences‘, Radical Gallery, Zug, Switzerland

2007

Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2006

Group show, Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Red Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand

Gallery M.-L., Wirth, Zurich

Performance: ’3 Poems’ with Michael Renhart (NZ) and Georg Kohler (CH) at Auckland City Art Gallery and Gallery M.-L.Wirth, Zurich

2005

Group Show at Nadine Mectaff, Beirut, Lebanon

Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Mahurangi Group, Guest artist, Mahurangi, New Zealand

2004

Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich

Swiss Art Miami, USA – (1st prize for painting)

‘Approximations’, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania

Bath Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2003

Gallery Global Art Source, Feldmeilen-Zurich, Switzerland

Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Galerie Leupi, Ascona, Switzerland

2002

Art Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Galerie Felchlin, Zurich, Switzerland (with Brett Graham, NZ)

2001

Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Galerie du Projet, Geneva, Switzerland

2000

‘Horizons‘ , Halaszbasztya (Fischerbastei), with Tatjana Panyoczki, Budapest

‘Peter Panyoczki New Works’, Brigitte Diserens, Geneva, Switzerland

Japan Airlines, Narita, Japan

1999

‘Transit 4’, Galerie Frederic Sagot, Paris, France Galerie Frederic Sagot, Paris, France

‘Transit 1’, New Work Studio, Wellington, New Zealand

‘Transit 2‘, Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

‘Transit 3‘, MMG Galerie, Tokyo, Japan

Lopdell House Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1998

Galeria Tres Punts, Barcelona, Spain

Kunst 98 (Art Fair), Zurich, Switzerland

1997

‘Peter Panyoczki – New Work’, Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

‘Peter Panyoczki – New Work’, New Work Studio, Wellington, New Zealand

1996

Gallery Gow Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand

New Work Studio, Wellington, New Zealand

1995

Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

1994

Galerie Union Forum fuer Architektur und Kunst (with G.Damisch,Vienna), Goldach, CH

Galerie Nova, Pontresina, Switzerland (Hommage a Giovanni Segantini)

1993

Galerie Margine, Zurich, Switzerland

Goethe Institut, Budapest, Hungary

1992

Stadtgalerie, Zofingen, Switzerland

Mouson Turm, Frankfurt, Germany

Villa Sassa, Lugano, Switzerland

1991

‘Vanitas’ (in collaboration with HSB,Zuerich and the Culture TV, Zurich) Galerie Baviera, Zurich, Switzerland

Studio Uznach, Presentation of the “Hannibal” project and the video

Galerie Margine, Zurich, Switzerland

1990

Studio Antonio Beneito, Barcelona, Spain

1989

Galerie Madoni, Zurich, Switzerland

1988

Galerie Hodel, Zurich, Switzerland

1987

Gluri-Suter Haus, Wettiingen, Switzerland

Galerie Schottenring (Object and Design), Vienna, Austria

1986

Galerie Atelier 2000, Vienna, Austria

Galerie Commercio, Zurich, Switzerland

1983

Galeria Teorema, Florence, Italy

1982

Galeria Teorema, Florence, Italy

1980

Second Story Gallery, Lafayette, USA

1979

Galerie Saager, Zurich, Switzerland

Commissions In Public Buildings

2016

Kinetic sculpture commissioned by BBS, Zürich and Swiss Life, former Schindler (elevator) area, Emmenbrücke, Switzerland

2006

Raiffeisenbank Cham, Switzerland

2001

Raiffeisenbank Aarau, Switzerland

1997

Winterthur Versicherungen, Head Office Zurich, Switzerland

1996

Sparkasse Waedenswil (bank building), Switzerland

1995

Oberstufenschulhaus Wollerau (school)

1994

Haus der Schweiz in Berlin (House of Switzerland)

CS- Bank Schanzengraben, Zurich

1992

Sparkasse Horge, Switzerland

Sparcassa, Affoltern a. Albis, Switzerland

1989

Model ag, Weinfelden, Switzerland

 

Collections

Erziehungsdepartement Zurich

UBS, Zurich

Credit Suisse, Zurich

Credit Suisse Berlin, Germany

Bank Leu

Schweizer Rueck, Zurich

Nordfinanzbank, Zurich

The City Council of Wettingen, Switzerland

Publicitas, Baden, Switzerland

Zuercher Kantonalbank, Zurich

Wsa- Company, (large collection), Switzerland

Zuerich-Versicherungen, Zofingen, Switzerland

Winterthur Versicherung, Zurich

Trifina AG, (large collection), Zurich

New Zealand Post, Wellington

Swiss Embassy, Wellington

Kunsthaus Richterswil, Switzerland

Firma de kalb, Frankfurt, Germany

Jenny Gibbs Collection, Auckland

James Wallace Collection, Auckland

Raiffeisenbank, Zurich

Julius Baer, Zurich

Bank Von Tobel, Zurich

Bank Cantrade, Zurich

Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Nagako-cho, Tokyo

 

Artist in Residency
2018
Selected by Sir James Wallace Arts Trust for Artist in Residence Program in Vladivostok (June to October)
1993

Art Residence in Budapest

 

Selected Bibliography

T.J.McNamara: ‘Particle Meditations’, Peter Panyoczki’s exhibition at Bath Street Gallery, NZ Herald, 12.Oct. 2013

T.J.McNamara: ‘Nature Morte’, on Peter Panyoczki’s exhibition at Bath Street Gallery”, NZ Herald, 12.Dez. 2009

Barbara Ackermann: ‘Sorgfältige Annäherung‘, Schaffhauser AZ. 4.June 2009

Monica Zahner: ‘Vom Physischen zum Digitalen‘, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, 2. June 2009

‘Peter Panyoczki‘ in: L’OEIL ECOUTE- ecrits sur les artistes et leurs oeuvres. Yusuku Masuda, Japan, 2008. ISBN978-4-901592-47-5

Maria Vogel: ‘Wer ganz genau hinschaut, der beginnt zu sehen‘, Neue Zuger Zeitung, 15.5.2008

T.J.McNamara: ‘The smell of a painted rag’, New Zealand Herald, 8.Oct 2007

T.J.McNamara: ‘Simple shape contains grand visions’, New Zealand Herald, 12. May 2004

‘Distance and Proximity – a monograph on Peter Panyoczki’ with texts by Georg Kohler, Wystan Curnow, Peter Panyoczki, imp.press Auckland, 2004

Martin Kraft: ‘Bummel um die Welt‘, in Tagesanzeiger Zuerich, Zuri-Tip, 22.Nov. 2002

Franzisca Meier: ‘Peter Panyoczki‘ in, DIE SAMMLUNG

Cantrade Private Banking AG, Zuerich 2002

Paula Mason: ‘Distance in Concrete’, Sunday Star Times, Wellington, March, 2000

Peter P.Schneider: ‘Im Sog der Kunst‘ , Tagesanzeiger, Zuerich, November 1999

Mark Amery: ‘Works that are ever evolving’, Sunday Star Time, Wellington, September 13. 1998

‘Panyoczki – Monographie‘ , Texts by Volker Schunck, Beatrice Rolli Zinsstag, Georg Kohler, Alois M. Haas and Charles E. Brooks, Benteli Verlag, Wabern -Bern, 1996 ISBN 3-7165-0979-5

T.J.McNamara: ‘Variety and Quality on show’, New Zealand Herald (NZ), 10. April 1996

Stephen Cain: ‘Fusions that produce a weightless freedom’, Evening Post, 20.March, Wellington (NZ), 1996

Juerg von Ins: “Kreativitaet: die Bruecke zwischen ‘ich und Welt’ -Peter Panyoczki-Kunstschaffender” Werbung-Publicite, 11/89, Sondernummer Kreativitaet

Roy Greenspan: ‘Earth Wind and Fire’, Living In Zurich. 10/89

A.Affentranger; ‘Immer wieder zurueck an den Anfang‘, Zuerichsee Zeitung, 8.Nov.1989

Juerg von Ins: ‘Begegnung mit einem Kuenstler: Peter Panyoczki‘ , Alpina 4/1988

Roy Grenspan: ‘Chiffre zu Sein‘, Living in Zuerich, 4/88

‘Malend nachdenken ueber Sein und Bewusstsein‘ Der Zuercher Oberlaerlaender, 15.Mai 1986

‘Peter Panyoczki’ Quaderni monografici a cura di Roberta Fiorinilo, Scaffale di Eco d’arte moderna, Il Candelaio edizioni, Florence, September 1983

Conradin E.Wolf: ‘Peter Panyoczki – angoscioso percorso della figurazione all’astrattismo e vice versa’. Eco d’Arte Moderna, No/ 41-9/10, Florenz, 1982

Suzann Mcintyre: “Visiting Swiss Filmmaker adapts Samuel Beckett’s Novella ‘First Love’”, the Purdue Exponent, Vol.96,No.69, 24.April, Lafayette IN- USA, 1980

 

Filmography
Peter Panyoczki, in Neighbourhood, NZ TV ONE, 2014

‘Peter Panyoczki’, New Zealand TV, 2013
‘Peter Panyoczki- Artist’, Lituanian TV (Lietuvos Televizija) an interview, “STILIUS” 27.Feb.2005

‘Peter Panyoczki, Artist’, Cultural TV Vilnius, Lithuania, 2004

Kleinzeit, Video for a music performance

Peter Panyoczki, Artist, Kulturfernsehen, Zurich, 1991

Peter Panyoczki, Project Vanitas, on “Hannibal”, Kulturfernsehen, Zurich, 1991
‘Peter Panyoczki- Artist‘, Schweizer Kulturfernsehen. A documentary with interview, 1990

‘Hannibal- ein Versuch zur Vanitas’, ca. 50min. ,Schweizer Kulturfernsehen. : a visual journal on the „Hannibal Project“ written, directed and filmed by Peter Panyoczki, 1990

‘First Love’, 1980, 50min, Purdue University USA. : an adaptation of Samuel Becketts Novella, Sony Umatic, written and directed by Peter Panyoczki, 1980

 

 

 

Exhibitions

'The Invisible Visible'