Michael Pendry

Michael Pendry was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He grew up in Munich and partly in England, where his father comes from; his mother is from Bayreuth/Germany. Pendry studied interior design, stage and set design at the FH Rosenheim and, for several projects, at the art academy in Munich. Das apokalyptische Weib for the Long-Night-of-Museums in 2006 and the light and video installations Sacre Coeur and Störung’ (Disturbance) have been some of the highlights in the career of this multimedia artist to date and showed his great innovative talent in finding new means of multimedia expression and catching the interest of thousands of people. Lighting the rotor blades of a nearly 100-metre high wind wheel just outside Munich in 2010 with Star of the South was definitely one of his most ambitious projects. With this project he also attained a new level in his public profile in the national press and media, even in France and Spain. Two of his latest installations, Les Colombes and Urban Paradise in 2014, also became popular successes and were reviewed throughout the media.