Peter Piller
Biography
Born in Fritzlar, Germany, 1968
Lives and works in Hamburg and Leipzig, Germany
Peter Piller constructs his work collecting photographic images culled from print and digital media. Piller´s world map as a pictorial archive devotes itself to immediate proximity. For years now he has been engaged in a collection conducted off the beaten track but rooted ultimately in the familiar and trivial. He has created his own “Archive” which is now consisting of thousands of clipped out photographs. Piller groups his images in self-defined categories, after scrutinizing them repeatedly for a long time and finding visual or structural paralelisms among them. In large scale installations he then rearranges and recombines these groups with his own inkjet-reprints on the wall. He is not interested in the aesthetic dimension of photography, but much rather in the often non-professional and stereotyped language of the picture manifested in the gathered material.
Selected Texts
- 2014Christy LangeFrieze Magazine
- 2007Elwyn PalmertonPeter Piller: Archive Peter Piller
- 2005Catrin LorchFrieze Art Magazine
- 2004Ludwig SeyfarthThe Advantages of the Unintentional
Exhibitions
- 26 November 2022 — 21 January 2023
Since the late 1990’s, Peter Piller (Fritzlar, Germany, 1968) has been interested in the interaction between images of different sources. Photographs and drawings, archive pictures and exhibitions have formed a corpus of work, a space to bring ideas together, to prompt questions that sometimes lead to useful answers, or that just open up to more questions. The idea of Piller’s collecting has, thus, never been intended to be completed. His approach is rather an unfinished completeness that according to him, makes the process more lively, more active. In this sense the title of his new exhibition at ProjecteSD, Loose Ends, captures fully the essence in his work.
- 29 February — 14 April 2012
- 17 March — 30 April 2016
- 01—28 February 2023
- 10 September — 14 November 2020
- 30 August — 16 September 2017
News
- 11 March — 4 June 2023
SOLO SHOW: KUNSTHALLE, DÜSSELDORF
- 12 March — 28 August 2022
GROUP SHOW: Kunstn Haus Wien, Austria
- 23 July — 14 November 2021
Solo show: Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst
- 19 June — 31 October 2021
Duo exhibition: Wuserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst
- 12—21 July 2019
GROUP SHOW: KLEINE HUMBOLDT GALERIE, BERLIN
- 19 June — 25 August 2019
GROUP SHOW: CENTRE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, GENEVE
- 29 March 2019 — 4 January 2020
GROUP SHOW: WESERBURG - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, BONN
- 23 September 2018 — 6 January 2019
SOLO SHOW, MUSEUM MORSBROICH
- 8 June — 23 September 2018
GROUP SHOW, HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE