This week I chose to research the artist Peter Kogler. Peter was born in 1959 in Innsbruck, Austria. He was mostly inspired by the 1970s where that was a period of growth in the arts. He is internationally known, holding exhibitions all over the world such as: Galerie Sylvane Lorenz, Paris, Galleriea dell’Ora in Rome, and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Videnna.
Peter is widely known for his hypnotic room installations, taking architecture and creating it into surreal environments. He uses paints and projections to create his own wallpaper on spaces that are often forgotten, like stairwells, corridors, and entrance halls. He states in a 2014 interview, “I have always been very interested in the question as to how far my visual or artistic idioms can be transformed by technological developments and moves to different media”. His concepts create optical illusions that play with time and space.
I enjoy his work because it’s interactive. I feel that any work or installation that allows the viewers to interact, or be a part of it, help engage them more. It’s as the audience is a piece of the work. The rooms would feel incomplete if no one was able to walk around them.