Peter Piller
Irrläufer (group 2), 2017
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Set of 34 digital prints 42 x 29,7 cm each
Ed. 1 + 1APIrrläufer (group 2), 2017
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Set of 34 digital prints 42 x 29,7 cm each
Ed. 1 + 1APIrrläufer (group 2), 2017
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Set of 34 digital prints 42 x 29,7 cm each
Ed. 1 + 1APInstallation view: Don’t Hate the Player. Hate the Game at ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain
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Photo: Roberto RuizInstallation view: Don’t Hate the Player. Hate the Game at ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain
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Photo: Roberto RuizBereitschaftsgrad #1, 2015
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Archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
Framed: 50 x 66,5 cm
Ed. 2/6Bereitschaftsgrad #8, 2015
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Archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
Framed: 50 x 66,5 cm
Ed. 2/6Bereitschaftsgrad #10, 2015
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Archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
Framed: 50 x 66,5 cm
Ed. 2/6Bereitschaftsgrad #7, 2015
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Archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
Framed: 50 x 66,5 cm
Ed. 2/6Umschläge #23, 2011 – 2012
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Archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
Framed: 64 x 86 cm
Ed. 1,4/6Umschläge #21, 2011 – 2012
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Archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
63 x 84,5 cm
Ed. 4,5/6Umschläge #9, 2011 – 2012
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Archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
Framed: 64 x 86 cm
Ed. 4,5/6nstallation view: Peter Piller: Don’t Hate the Player. Hate the Game, 2016, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
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Photo: Roberto RuizBlicke, 2016
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Set of 3 archival pigment print on Alu-dibond
Framed: 61.3 x 41.2 cm each
Ed. 5/6Afghanistan Field Research, 2014
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Set of 9 digital prints, several formats
55x45, 61x45 , 63x45, 63x45, 51x45, 64x45, 65x45, 65x45 cm
Ed. 6Installation view: Immer noch Sturm (Still Storming), ProjecteSD, Barcelona, 2012
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From the serie Immer Noch Sturm (Still Storming), 2011 (Group #3)
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6 Pigment prints on archival paper
52 x 79 cm; 52 x 80 cm; 52 x 72 cm; 52 x 68; 52 x 80 cm; 52 x 80 cm .
Ed. 1/6From the serie Immer Noch Sturm (Still Storming), 2011 (Group #3) (Detail)
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Untitled (Periphery Walk Barcelona), 2011
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Set of 6 drawings, ink on paper
21 x 29’6 cm each
Measures with frame: 23,6 x 32,5
UniqueUngenutzte flächen (Useless planes), 2011
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Pencil on paper cm
21 x 29,6 cm
Framed: 23,6 x 32,4 cm
UniqueNimmt Schaden / Takes Damage, 2007
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Set of 60 pigment prints
50 x 75 cm each
Ed. 6Nimmt Schaden / Takes damage, 2007
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Pigment print
57,5 x 75 cm
Ed. 6Nimmt Schaden / Takes damage, 2007
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Pigment print
57,5 x 75 cm
Ed. 6Ungeklärte Fälle 1 und 2 (Unresolved cases 1 and 2) Archiv Peter Piller, 2000-2006
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Installation View „Aesthetics and Boredom“ Kunsthaus Glarus, 2007Ungeklärte Fälle / Unresolved cases. Archiv Peter Piller, 2000 – 2006
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Pigment print
48 x 51 cm
Ed. 6Ungeklärte Fälle / Unresolved cases. Archiv Peter Piller, 2000 – 2006
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Pigment print
57 x 72 cm
Ed. 6Ungeklärte Fälle / Unresolved cases. Archiv Peter Piller, 2000 – 2006
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Pigment print
33 x 47 cm
Ed. 6Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2006
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Installation View: "Aesthetics and Boredom“ Kunsthaus Glarus, 2007Löcher blicken 1 (Looking into holes 1). Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2004 (Detail)
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Set of 8 prints
Pigment print, 30 x 37 cm
Ed. 6Regionales Leuchten 2 (Local Glow 2) Archiv Peter Piller, 2000 – 2005 (Detail)
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Set of 8 copias pigment prints
Ed. 6Installation view: Arrows, ProjecteSD, 2006
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Pfeile # 2 (Arrows) Archiv Peter Piller, 2000 – 2006 (Detail)
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Set of 10 pigment prints
Ed. 6Suchende Polizisten (Searching Policemen). Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2004
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Installation view: The Logic of Association, PS1 Moma, New York, 2010Suchende Polizisten 1 (Searching Policemen 1). Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2004 (Detail)
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Set of 8 prints
Pigment print, 59 x 70 cm
Ed. 6Suchende Polizisten 1 (Searching Policemen 1). Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2004 (Detail)
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Set of 8 prints
Pigment print, 45 x 54 cm
Ed. 6Dauerhaftigkeit (Perdurability). Archiv Peter Piller, 2005
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24 Ink-jet prints and C-prints
Various formats
Ed. 2From series Dauerhaftigkeit (Perdurability), 2005
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21 b/w photographs
24 x 30 cm each
Ed. 6From series Dauerhaftigkeit (Perdurability), 2005
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21 b/w photographs
24 x 30 cm each
Ed. 6Nijverdaal
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24 Ink-jet prints and C-prints
Archiv Peter Piller 2005-2006
Various formats
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Installation view: Peter Piller Archives, Witte de With Art Center for Contemporary Art, RotterdamInstallation view: Cars and Houses, ProjecteSD, 2004
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From Autowäsche 2 (Car Wash 2) Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2004
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C-print
25 x 25 cm.
Ed. 6Schlafende Häuser 2 (Sleeping Houses 2). Archiv Peter Piller, 2000 – 2004 (Detail)
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Set of 9 C-prints,
25 x 25 cm each
Ed. 6Installation view: Cars and Houses, ProjecteSD, 2004
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From Fotografenauto (Photographer´s car) Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2006
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Pigment print on paper
47 x 65 cm
Ed. 6From Unangenheme Nachbarn (Unpleasant Neighbours) Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2006
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Pigment print on paper
51 x 80 cm
Ed. 6From Unangenheme Nachbarn (Unpleasant Neighbours)
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Pigment print on paper
Archiv Peter Piller 2000-2006
80 x 51 cm each
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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