Peter Riss

1962 born in Kaufbeuren (Germany), lives and works in Munich (Germany)
My spatial works and installations comment on the dual nature of mankind. Smooth, shiny surfaces hint at influences of cubism and minimalism and modernism proficiency. However, the apparent order is disrupted by the organic, raw shapes and textures of stuffed animals, resin, horns, and bones. The natural upsets the culturally constructed order. The contrast between smooth and raw, order and chaos, culture and nature is inherent to mankind. We carry a ‘dark companion’ within ourselves. In my sculptures I represent this tension between co-existing forces that clash and complement each other at the same time: an inner conflict between light and dark ,in each individualss as an microcosmos, as well as in our society as a macrocosmos.

1997 – 2001 Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Düsseldorf (Prof. Gerhard Merz)
1993 – 1994 Studium der Kunstgeschichte, LMU München
1985 – 1993 Studium der Medizin, Universität Tübingen und München
1990 Schweißausbildung, Schweißtechnische Lehranstalt München

Grants
2003 KSK Anhaltinisches Kunststipendium,
1992 Arbeitsstipendium, Real Utopie, Prag

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 ART ROTTERDAM, solo exhibition with gallery Zerp, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2017 Peter Riss, "sich auflösen wäre auch eine Lösung", Weltraum, Munich, Germany
2015 Peter Riss, DS Galerie, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 Peter Riss, Cool Fool Mr. Brown, Gallery POP//OFF/ART, Moscow, Russia
2011 ...., side, of, the dings, Haus 10, with Fabian Hesse, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Peter Riss , Gallery Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
Peter Riss, d´ont remember me, Kunstverein Landshut, Germany
Peter Riss, dark snow, Gallery Pavillon, Bad Gastein, Austria
2010 system of duplicity, with Bo Christian Larsson, Weltraum, Munich, Germany
so lovely, with Hakan Evcin, E324 artspace, Munich, Germany
2009 Peter Riss, connect, Kunst am Bau, Vollrath & Walz, Munich, Germany
2005 Peter Riss, PARASIT, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany
2003 Peter Riss, UNTER VERSCHLUSS, Museum für konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, Germany
2002 Peter Riss, SEPTIC GREEN, Kunstraum Traunstein, Germany
Peter Riss, SCHÖN-SCHÖN, Kunstsammlung Reuschl Bank München, Germany
2000 Courbets und Mondrians Strandurlaub, Deutsches Museum München, Germany
1999 reset, resource, result, Kunstraum Sudhaus Tübingen, Germany
1998 Take the black way, Kunstbunker ...