Manfred Pernice was born in 1963 in Hildesheim (Germany). He currently lives in Berlin.
Since the mid-1990s, Manfred Pernice has been developing a body of work that challenges the categories of sculpture, design and architecture. Using found elements and simple materials, in heterogeneous assemblages of concrete, metal, cardboard, photographs, texts and other graphic marks, his works take the form of objects of uncertain status or open, modular installations. Often, the work integrates - or even disappears beneath - the very device of its display, through mischievous games with notions of pedestal and frame, through processes of concealment and revelation. Drawing on the resources offered by our urban environments, Pernice creates situations that question our use of public space and our everyday relationship with objects.
His work is represented by Galerie Neu (Berlin), Mai 36 Gallery (Zurich), Anton Kern Gallery (New York), Galerie nächst St. Stephan (Vienna), Konrad Fischer Galerie (Berlin, Düsseldorf), and Regen Projects (Los Angeles).
