Peter Zimmermann

Peter Zimmermann studied at State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Cologne. Employment is recorded with Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Work by Peter Zimmermann is recorded in the collections of ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

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.

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.

• 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

• 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, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France • 2011: Farbe im Fluß, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany • 2011: Hirschfaktor "Die Kunst des Zitierens" ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany • 2009: Reloaded, Kunstmuseum Bonn • 2009: Extended, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany • 2008: There is Desire left (Knock, knock) Werke aus der Sammlung Mondstudio, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany • 2008: Vetrautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in & über Deutschland – collector's choice, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany • 2007: Moscow Biennale • 2006: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, Germany • 2005: Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Rupertinum, Austria • 2003: Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany • 2003: Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany • 2002: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt/M • 2002: Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Institutional cataloguing adds that peter Zimmermann is recorded with the occupation sculptor. Recorded with the occupation painter. The same evidence establishes that peter Zimmermann is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation object artist. Recorded as a citizen of Germany. Recorded with the gender male. It is also recorded that peter Zimmermann was born on 1 January 1956. Institutional cataloguing adds that peter Zimmermann worked at Cologne.

• Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France • Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France • Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France • Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France • FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France • Centre Georges Pompidou (Amis du musée national d'Art moderne), France • FRAC Aquitaine, France • Filmoteca universitaria de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain • Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States of America • New York Public Library, New York, United States of America • Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France • New Orleans Museum of Modern Art, New Orleans, United States of America • Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany • Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States of America • Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany • Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany • LB Baden-Württemberg, Germany