About

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Contact

Erni Art & Photography
Peter Erni
Herdernstrasse 14
CH-8001 Zurich

Switzerland

pgart.switzerland(at)gmail.com

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About this blog

I created this blog on the 3rd of March 2009 to keep track of my art works, ideas and projects. It contains works as photography, movie stills, screenshots, graphic designs, sculpture, drawings, paintings, programming and more. I’m a new media artist, curator and social media manager looking forward to your comments.

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Short Introduction

My name is Peter Erni, I’m an former art student (Bachelor of Arts in New Media Art & Master of Arts in Art Education, Curation and Museum Education) of the Art School Zurich (ZHdK).

Today I work as Curator and Deputy General Manager for an Art Gallery and still run my own business as artist, photographer & graphic designer next to it. Before this job I worked as a Graphic Designer & Photographer at a photo studio for advertisment photography, Project Manager for a Promotion Company and Assistant in a Communication Company.

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Education & Experience

University & Secondary School

• ZHdK / Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
  Bachelor of Arts in New Media Art
  Master of Arts in Art Education (Curating & Museum Education)
  Length of time: Autumn 2007 – January 2011

• HSG / University of St.Gallen
  Assessment semesters 1-2
  Length of time: Autumn 2001 – Winter 2003

• Gymnasium Immensee ’00

Employers

• Nadja Brykina Gallery
  Position: curator & assistant to the manager (Feb. 2007 – Jan. 2011)
  Position: curator & deputy CEO (Feb. 2011 – present)
  Length of time: February 2007 – present
  Description: Nonconformist Russian Art of the second half of the 20th century

• Erni Art & Photography
  Position: owner-manager
  Length of time: January 2006 – present
  Description: art, photography, design, portraiture, etc.

• Serpentine Gallery London
  Internship: assistant to the project curator Janna Graham
  Length of time: August – October 2010
  Description: Centre for Possible Studies (Edgware Road Project)

• Spool AG
  Position: executive manager
  Length of time: July 2001 – June 2007
  Description: Spool is one of Switzerland’s biggest and most successful promotion companies. I worked as freelance executive manager for various promotions for clients as Coke Zero, Heute Newspaper, Concordia Insurance, IKEA, KENT, etc.

• Scheffold.Vizner Photographers
  Position: photography assistant & graphic designer
  Length of time: January 2004 – December 2005
  Description: advertisement photography

• Bohnenblust, Haas Kommunikation
  Position: advertisement assistant
  Length of time: 2003
  Description: communication and advertisement company

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Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

• “Diesseits von Eden”
  Galerie Nordstrasse
  Fr. 26. Jan. – Sa. 17. Februar 2007
  Eveline Ackeret, Peter Erni, Zahida Huber, Roland Koch, Sarah Lloyd, Estelle Obrist, Marion Walz
  Web: www.galerie-nordstrasse.ch

• “Jahresausstellung ZHdK 2009″
  VBK Bildende Künste 1. Stock
  Do. 28. Mai – Do 4. Juni 2009
  Web.: www.zhdk.ch, Das Bilderrauschen

Solo Exhibitions

• “Sex & Murder”
  Dachstock-Galerie @ NG52
  Neugasse 52, 5. OG
  Fr. 29. – So. 31. Mai 2009
  Web.: Sketches & Paintings

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Exhibitions curated or co-curated

@ Nadja Brykina Gallery:

Aug., 2011 | Andrey Krasulin – Material. Prozess. Intuition
Jun., 2011 | Francisco Infante, Severin Infante – Artefacts
Mar., 2011 | Yuri Zlotnikov – Movement. Space
Jan., 2011 | Marlen Spindler – Portraits and Signs
Mar., 2010 | Marlen Spindler – Marlen Spindler’s Russia
Apr., 2009 | Var. Artists – Russian Landscape (realistic to abstract)
Mar., 2008 | Vladimir Sosciev – Retrospective
Dec., 2007 | Mikhail Krunov – Retrospective
Sept., 2007 | Alexei Kamensky – Retrospective
May., 2007 | Vladimir Andreenkov – Retrospective

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Publications

@ Nadja Brykina Gallery:

• Brykina, Nadja (2011): Andrey Krasulin – Material. Process. Intuition. Zurich, Nadja Brykina Gallery AG. ISBN 978-3-9523522-2-9.
  My responsibility: curator of the exhibition and editor, designer as well as photographer of the publication
• Gusev, Vladimir & Yevgenia, Petrova (2011): Unofficial Meeting – from the Brykina Collection, Switzerland. St. Petersburg, Palace Editions. ISBN 978-3-86384-038-9.
  My responsibility: layout & book design, photography, structure and consultant with regard to the contents
• Brykina, Nadja (2009): Valery Yurlov – Diary of an Artist. Zurich, Nadja Brykina Editions. ISBN 978-3-9523523-9-7.
  My responsibility: photography, cover design and consultant with regard to the design and layout
• Brykina, Nadja (2009): Marlen Spindler – Wandering in an Ancient Land. Zurich, Nadja Brykina Editions. ISBN 978-3-9523523-0-4.
  My responsibility: photography, cover design and consultant with regard to the design and layout
• Brykina, Nadja (2009): Marlen Spindler – Behind Prison Bars. Zurich, Nadja Brykina Editions. ISBN 978-3-9523523-2-8.
  My responsibility: photography, cover design and consultant with regard to the design and layout
• Brykina, Nadja (2009): Marlen Spindler – Painting in Freedom. Zurich, Nadja Brykina Editions. ISBN 978-3-9523523-4-2.
  My responsibility: photography, cover design and consultant with regard to the design and layout
• Brykina, Nadja (2007): Vladimir Soskiev. Zurich, Nadja Brykina Gallery. ISBN 3-9523155-8-3.
  My responsibility: photography and consultant with regard to the design and layout

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My Blogs & Pages

Pgart (my blog about my works and projects)
Museum 2.0 (my work-blog for my Master Thesis)
Issuu (my portfolios on issuu.com)
Flickr (my photographs)
Lost & Found (my blog to collect interesting stuff from the web)
Facebook (my personal page on facebook)
Twitter (my twitter account)
Xing (meet me on Xing)
ZuriGo! (a collaborative blog for sports, friends and leisure)