WOODEN STAIRS

Born in 1963 in Dendermonde, Belgium. Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. 

Peter Buggenhout’s unpolished sculptures evoke images of chaos and disorder, of abandoned ruins and archeological findings from a different era. His oeuvre, in which he focuses on the use of abject materials, such as debris, industrial waste, horsehair, blood, intestines and household dust, contains both enormous installations and smaller works that are often presented on pedestals or vitrines. What seems to be a relatively random accumulation of material, is actually a carefully orchestrated chaos. Anonymous and indeterminate. The sculptures appear to be turned inside out; raw and dismantled, repulsive and appealing, bearing a frail and uncomfortable beauty.

His work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen in Germany (2021), the Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro in Mexico (2018), the Neues Museum Nurnberg in Germany (2017), the Museum M in Leuven in Belgium (2015), the Centre international d'art et du paysage - île de Vassivière (2014), the Palais de Tokyo (2013).

His work can be found in several French public collections: the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, the Collection du Centre National des Arts Plastiques, the FRAC -Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine and the FRAC Normandie Caen. And in international collections: The Roberts Institute of Art and the Saatchi Gallery in London, The Margulies Collection and the Rubell Collection Family in Miami.