Peter Zimmermann
Peter Zimmermann (born 1956 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German painter, sculptor, object artist and university professor. Life and education Peter Zimmermann studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1978 to 1983. Since then he has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums both within Germany and abroad. He works as a painter, sculptor and object artist. He was a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne between 2002 and 2007. Work Zimmermann's work is extremely diverse. At the end of the 1980s he created his "Book Cover Paintings," in which the covers and titles of atlases, art books, travel guides and dictionaries were represented on canvas using epoxy. Through his cardboard objects he works with the spatial distortion of the written word and thus questions the relationship between text and image. The colourful motives in his epoxy resin images arise from digital templates, such as photos, film stills or diagrams, which he distorts by means of graphical algorithms and transfers onto the canvas in numerous transparent layers of epoxy resin. Since 2014 he has increasingly realised this conceptual approach through the medium of oil painting. Questions concerning the relationship between the original and its depiction as well as an engagement with the concept of the surface lie at the centre of his creative output. Zimmermann's work is to be found in numerous private and public collections, for example the Bundeskunstsammlung in Bonn, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artist lives and works in Cologne. Exhibitions solo exhibitions (selection) 2016: Museum für neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany 2016: Museum gegenstandsfeier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany 2015: CMYK, dirimart Gallery Istanbul, Turkey 2015: Nunu Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 2014: sur le motif, Gallery Perrotin, Paris, France 2013: Undertones, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, United States of America 2013: Johyun Gallery Busan, Korea 2013: crystal & fruits, Gallery Michael Janssen, Singapore 2012: Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal 2012: drop, Gallery Perrotin, Hong Kong 2011: Panorama, Kunstforum and Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Germany 2009: Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Germany 2008: currents, cma, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America 2007/2008: wheel. Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany 2006: Capas de gelatina / Layers of jelly, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga, Spain 2004: Before After. Delaware Center of Contemporary Art, Delaware, United States of America 2003: x-pollination. with Claus Carstensen, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark 2002: Zipp, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany 2001: Flow, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany 2001: Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany 1998: Eigentlich könnte alles auch anders sein, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany 1998: "Kisten & Plakate", Städtische Galerie Donaueschingen, Germany 1997: Otto-Dix-Haus, Gera, Germany 1996: "Remixes", Icebox, Athens, Greece 1996: "Öffentlich / Privat" (with Thomas Locher), Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany 1992: Kunstverein Münster, Germany group exhibitions (selection) 2013: To Open Eyes – Kunst und Textil vom Bauhaus bis heute, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany 2013: Happy Birthday, Gallery Perrotin / 25 Years, Tripostal, Lille, France 2012: The slide show,