Peter Wüthrich

Peter Wüthrich’s world

Since the 1990’s, Peter Wüthrich’s art has focused exclusively on the medium of the book. It has thus focused on a medium that has generally been seen as standing in contrast to the work of a visual artist. In Wüthrich’s works, books are, in fact, characterized much more by their ambiguity, within which their legibility and their traditional function has been consistently denied without questioning their status as books. In numerous artistic investigations, from wall pieces and installations to photographs and films, Peter Wüthrich circumnavigates the obscure object of his desire. (Short-extract from cataloguetext by Dr. Stephan Berg, Director Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany)

46 Born in Bern/Switzerland, where he did the HKB Academy of Fine Arts. He realized several Solo- and Groupshows at: Kunsthalle & Kunstverein Bremerhaven (GER); PS 1, New York (US); Kunsthaus Zürich (CH); CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela (SP); Kunsthalle Winterthur (CH); Fondation pour l’art contemporain Salomon, Annecy (FR); Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya (J); UMCA, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts (US); Palazzo Zenobia, 54th Biennale di Venezia (IT); 4th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (GR). He lives and works in Bern and Paris.

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