Peter Freund Projects

Adversorecto is an artist collective based in Barcelona, Spain, founded in 2020 by Peter Freund and Werner Thöni.

There is no single correct procedure for the artist collective to follow. There are two: All or nothing. One and zero. Verso not recto. Practice despite theory. Word but image. Sight as blindness. Start unless finished. It began two years ago between two Barcelona-based artists, non-native outsiders Peter Freund and Werner Thöni. The two met at sunrise (or was it sunset?) – anyway on the cusp of light and dark to live (and die?) in creating artistic projects out of their opposite tendencies happily ever after.

Barcelona, 2022

Exhibition Proposal #1

Adversorecto: Round One (pdf). The proposal was realized in a 2025 exhibition in collaboration with Portuguese artist/professor Vitor Magalhães, which ran May 30 - October 30 at the MUDAS Museum of Contemporary Art in Madeira, Portugal. See link for more details: «Round 1.1: A Hairy Decalogue».

Exhibition Proposal #2

Adversorecto: Round Two (pdf). We are currently seeking collaborative partnerships to develop and transform this project. The proposed exhibition, comprising ten works of various mediums, investigates an expanded notion of «Schadenfreude», ranging from the psychological to the social and political senses of the term. The body of work includes the documented video-sound installation, «Agony: You Can Go Whenever You Want» and the multi-directional booklet «L’Auca d’en Felix» (see both below), and eight other works.