Peter Spanjer Nigerian, b. 1994

Peter Spanjer is a Nigerian filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist, currently living and working in London. Using immersive and mixed media that combine experimental filmmaking, sound and text, Peter’s work is an intersection that weaves together ideas surrounding identity, sensuality, and reimagining the way we view the black body.

 

Peter Spanjer (b.1994 Bremen, Germany) lives and works in London, UK. His artwork has been exhibited and screened at Cob Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, York Art Gallery, The Turner Contemporary, 180 Strand, Somerset House, White Cube, Goldsmiths CCA, Circa, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Division of Labour,  Kristin Hjellegjerde, amongst other galleries. He held his debut solo show at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2020) and has since completed other solo shows held at Cob Gallery, inter.plc Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark, Shoreditch Arts Club, London and Screw Gallery in Leeds.

 

EDUCATION

2020 MA in Contemporary Art Practice: Moving Image, Royal College of Art, UK 

2015 BA in Fashion Promotion, University for the Creative Arts, UK 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2026 Sebastian, Cob Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)

2024 SWIM, Cob Gallery, London, UK 

2024 Salon, West Palm Beach FL, US 

2023 Flood of Memory, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK 

2021 In Order for it to Change, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK 

2021 What do you desire, inter.pblc, Copenhagen, Denmark 

2020 The Tingle That You Feel On Your Tongue, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2025 Aesthetica Art Prize, York Art Gallery, UK 

2024 ASVOFF Film Festival, Dover Street Market, Paris, France 

2024 Movements from the Margins: Diasporas Now, Turner Contemporary, UK 

2023 Where The Wild Roses Grow, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloess Gerne, Germany 

2023 Diaspora Now - Reference Point Lates, 180 Strand, London, UK 

2023 A-Z – The Voice of a Tempest Act III, Somerset House, London, UK 

2022 The London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 

2022 Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK 

2021 Facing The Sun, Kristin Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Schloss Goerne, Germany 

2021 Regroundings, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK 

2021 Resisting The Trouble: Moving Images in Times of Crisis, Lo Schermo Dell’arte, Florence, Italy 

2020 TRANSMISSIONS, Season 3, online, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art 

2020 Tomorrow London, White Cube 

2020 Royal College of Art/Slade Graduation Show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK 

2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 

2020 20:20, Moving Image shown at Piccadilly Lights, Circa, London, UK 

2019 Togetherness, Assembly Point, London, UK 

2019 A—-Z: Gaze on the UNKNOWN, PAF Festival, Olomouc, Czech Republic 

2019 A—-Z: Gaze on the UNKNOWN, Mimosa House, London, UK 

 

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2025 Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2025 for SWIM

2024 Cob Gallery, Residency, London