About Peter Vahlefeld
Berlin-based Peter Vahlefeld was born in Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in Hong Kong and Hamburg (Germany), receiving his BFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. His work explores the visible and veiled aspects of the dissemination of images. The paintings are both complex and multilayered, emotive pictorial palimpsests regarding his use of superimposed sources, which carry an iconographic set of references. By painting lushly on top of them he expropriates their surface, language and semantics. Hijacking material from the public domain and obscuring them, Vahlefeld further complicates the everyday transaction of images by taking away the content they are supposed to advertise. All compositions venture into various configurations of spatial expression created by the superimposition of layers of paint and layers of prints. The whole social fabric of our society is used as a point of departure for abstraction and becomes reanimated and supercharged, leaving a picture plane marked by an effortlessly elegant dance of smudges, puddles and saturated strokes. With it’s decisively executed gestural abstraction and delicately caked surfaces, the canvases strongly evoke works by several artists associated with Art Informel, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art including Emil Schumacher, Willem de Kooning, and Robert Rauschenberg. Having two studios, one in Berlin, and one in Munich, Vahlefeld was filmed by the ZDF television channel in Berlin for a project on Robert Mapplethorpe. Most recently his paintings were featured on television and film by the Bavaria Media Production Group in Munich. Peter Vahlefeld’s work can be found in corporate collections throughout Germany as well as in private collections worldwide (United States, Canada, Paris, London, Austria, Norway, India, Ukraine).
Exhibitions:
2018
»Annual Exhibition«, White & Case, Frankfurt
»art Karlsruhe« (International Fair for Classic Modern and Contemporary Art) Galerie Döbele, Mannheim, Germany
2017
»Edition Karbit« Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
»Classics« Galerie Döbele, Mannheim, Germany
»Top of the Pops der Königlich Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen« Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
»The Stolen Image« Galerie Robert Widmann in cooperation with Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
»art Karlsruhe« (International Fair for Classic Modern and Contemporary Art) Galerie Döbele, Mannheim, Germany
»Top of the Pops«, Rubicon Partners, Munich, London, Shanghai
»Top of the Pops«, Condis Management Consulting, Munich
2016
»Green« Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
»Contemporary Art Evening Auction«, Earlybird Venture Capital, Munich, Germany
»Monet–Manet–Money«, Rubicon Partners, Munich, London, Shanghai
»Filmsets« Bavaria Fernsehproduktion, Munich, Germany
»Monet–Manet–Money«, Galerie Döbele, Mannheim, Germany
»Monet–Manet–Money«, Galerie Döbele, Frankfurt, Germany
»Monet–Manet–Money«, Galerie Döbele, Innsbruck, Austria
»Monet–Manet–Money«, Galerie Döbele, Karlsruhe, Germany
»Monet–Manet–Money«, Galerie Döbele, Dresden, Germany
2015
»One Artist Show«, Art Bodensee, Art Fair
»Monet-Manet-Money« Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich
»Benefit Auction«, Sotheby`s, Vienna
»One Artist Show«, art Karlsruhe (International Fair for Classic Modern and Contemporary Art)
»Annual Exhibition«, White & Case, Munich
2014
»Christie`s + Andy Warhol = Everybody Disco«, Earlybird Venture Capital, Munich
»Artist Talk«, Stephanie Senge, Peter Vahlefeld & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich, nurjungekunst, Munich
»Art Bodensee« Art Fair, Galerie Michael Heufelder
»Ist das Silikon in Pamela Andersons Brüsten echt?«, Elizabeth Cooper Gallery, Leipzig
»The Warhol Economy«, White & Case, Munich
»art Karlruhe« Art Fair, (Galerie Michael Heufelder)
2013
»Salon Populaire«, Hamburg, Galerie Michael Heufelder
»Ist das Silikon in Pamela Andersons Brüsten echt?«, Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich
»Salon Populaire«, Arena, Berlin
»Contemporary Art Collection«, White & Case, Munich
»art Karlruhe« Art Fair, (Galerie Michael Heufelder)
2012
»Contemporary Art Auction«, Neumeister, Munich
»New Worxx«, Irmin Beck, Munich (curated by Dr. Stefanie Staby)
»Photography vs. Painting«, White & Case, Munich
»Art Collection Grunwald«, (Galerie Michael Heufelder), Munich
»art Karlruhe« Art Fair, (Galerie Michael Heufelder)
2011
»Kunstindex Berlin«, Arena, Berlin
»Painting vs. Photography«, White & Case, Munich
»Pictures of Pictures« 46 Parachute Purple, New York
»art Karlruhe« Art Fair, (Galerie Michael Heufelder)
2010
»J àdore Cannes oder where`s my fuckin` Gucci shoetree« Kultursalon, Vienna
»Pop-up Gallery«, Ella´s, Vienna
»Photography vs. Painting« Honorarkonsulat Ecuador, Munich
(Galerie Michael Heufelder/Dr.Stefanie Staby)
»J àdore Cannes oder where`s my fuckin` Gucci shoetree« Chloe Savigny, Paris
»J àdore Cannes oder where`s my fuckin` Gucci shoetree« Fiona Alison, London
»art Karlruhe« Art Fair, (Galerie Michael Heufelder)
2009
»El Quitasol Museumshop Prado« Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich
»I shot Andy Warhol« Schlosspavillon Ismaning, Munich (Galerie Michael Heufelder)
2008
»I shot Andy Warhol« Galerie Brennecke, Berlin
»I shot Andy Warhol« Galerie Winkelmann, Düsseldorf
»art-Karlsruhe« Art Fair, (Galerie Brennecke)
2007
»Nur wer den Klatsch der Stadt kennt, findet den Mörder«
Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich
»Nur wer den Klatsch der Stadt kennt, findet den Mörder«
Galerie Winkelmann, Düsseldorf
»Nur wer den Klatsch der Stadt kennt, findet den Mörder«
Galerie Brennecke, Berlin
»art-Karlsruhe« Art Fair, (Galerie Brennecke)
»Liste Köln« Art Fair (Galerie Brennecke)
(Selected until 2007)
