Gallery Owner
Peer Kriesel
Peer Kriesel was born in Berlin in 1979. He came into contact with art at an early age through his father, also a visual artist. At the same time, he became increasingly fascinated by digital technology, so that after graduating from high school in 1999, he began studying computer science. However, he quickly swapped this for self-study in HTML, Java Script and Flash etc. and thus entered the creative industry, where he first worked as a graphic designer and later, after studying communication design, as an art director and designer specialising in digital media.
With his theme ‘Identity and values in the age of digital change and digital society’, he is constantly developing his work in a visually intermedial and interdisciplinary way - from drawing/painting (analogue and digital) to sculpture and ‘media art’ (object, video/animation, JavaScript). His work is about the structuring and ordering of seemingly chaotic information, the acceleration and transformation of communication and the re-evaluation, originality and identity of people.
Typical of Peer Kriesel's work are his ‘grimaces’ and FRTZNABSTRCTN, surrealist hidden object images and overpaintings as well as the Me So Small installations.