Peter Regli made a name for himself with his Reality Hacking project, a series of temporary and often anonymous interventions in public space, which he initiated in the 1990s and continues to this day.
Peter Regli was born in 1959 in Andermatt (Switzerland). He became known for his Reality Hacking project, a series of temporary and often anonymous interventions in public space, which he initiated in the 1990s and continues to this day. Spanning four continents, Reality Hacking today represents more than three hundred and ninety interventions, with a wide variety of expressions. These include his constellation of twelve snowmen in various stages of melting installed in front of the Flatiron Building in New York (RH No. 320 - Snow Monsters, 2015), his donut-shaped island created artificially in the Reuss delta (Switzerland) from building materials (RH No. 200, 2002), his musical composition of the same name (RH No. 200, 2002), and his work on the same theme (RH No. 200, 2003). 200, 2002), his musical composition created in collaboration with the Ensemble for New Music in Zurich from the sounds of a shelf full of glass objects falling down a staircase (RH No. 202, 2002-2003), or his snowman placed at the southernmost point of the African continent (RH No. 244, 2007).
His work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. Recent solo exhibitions include Reality Hacking No. 324, Art : Concept, Paris (2015), RH No. 314: Sleeping Stone, Karma, Amagansett, New York (2014), Ages of Smoke, Istituto Svizzero, Milan (2014), White Horse Dream, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (2011) and Same Same-But Different, Helmhaus Zurich (2007). Group Show