Peer Kriesel

Peer Kriesel was born in Berlin in 1979. After more than 15 years as a creative mind in the agency and advertising world, he now works primarily as an artist and freelance designer in Berlin.

In his work, he deals with the topic of identity and values in the age of digital change and the digital society.

Peer Kriesel’s work is characterized by the changes brought about by constantly evolving digital technologies, which have a strong influence on us humans and are changing society. They increasingly confront the artist and us with the question of what makes us human, what separates us from the machine.

His work is about the structuring and ordering of seemingly chaotic information, about the acceleration and transformation of communication and about human values, originality and identity.

Typical of Peer Kriesel’s work are his “grimaces” and FRTZNABSTRCTN, surrealist hidden object pictures and overpaintings as well as the Me So Small installations.

Portfolio/Artist info

Peer Kriesel / artist information – an overview and background (PDF-Download – 9MB)

Peer Kriesel / CV (PDF-Download – 3MB)

Exhibitions

2025
SehStücke, (Art2Sea/MS Europa2), Solo Show, Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel x Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg (November), Hamburg, Lakeside Gallery, CH + Schlieder Contemporary
“My point of view”, Group show, Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt
Update II, Solo show, Gallery Martin Mertens, Berlin
Solo Show, Gallery Bovistra, Stuttgart
Art Karlsruhe, Gallery Martin Mertens + Schlieder Contemporary
Art On Paper Amsterdam, Gallery Martin Mertens

2024
paper positions vienna, Vienna, Galerie Martin Mertens
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Lakeside Gallery, CH
Sommerblüten II, Group show, Gallery Martin Mertens, Berlin (DE)
LE NOUVEAU BIEDERMEIER, TickTack, Antwerp (BE)
paper positions berlin, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
Art On Paper Amsterdam, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
FRTZNABSTRCTN, solo show (until 8.6.), Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt (DE)
November, we met in Germany / 11月，相聚在德國, UM Gallery, Beijing (China)

2023
AFIH, UM Gallery, Beijing (CN)
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Lakeside Gallery, CH
The Dissolution of Things
Kunstverein Schlachtensee/Galerie Kairos (DE)
8th Floor/ArtNight
, Pullman Schweizer Hof, Berlin (DE)
Mixed vegetables, group exhibition, die HO, Magdeburg
NFT special show, POSITIONS, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin (DE)
POP KUDAMM
Pop Up Exhibition, Berlin (DE)
Art Karlsruhe
Gallery Martin Mertens, Karlsruhe (DE)
paper positions berlin
Gallery Martin Mertens, Berlin (DE)
NEW PERSPECTIVES, Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt (DE)

2022
ARTISTS ÜBERSCHAU #07 Contemporary Show Room, Berlin (DE)
into the unknown (NFT) (Group show), despace.berlin, Berlin (DE)
Encounters – John Franzen + Peer Kriesel
Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt (DE)
friends (Group show), m3, Berlin (DE)
NFT Special Show, Positions, Berlin (DE)
Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Martin Mertens, Karlsruhe (DE)
Discovery Art Fair, BLNAC (C10), Cologne (DE)
Update (Solo Show)
Gallery Martin Mertens, Berlin (DE)

2021
PAN AMSTERDAM, Gallery Martin Mertens, Amsterdam (NL)
Beyond Time And Space (NFT), TingDAO, New York (USA)
Affordable Art Fair Brussels, BLNAC GALLERY, Brussels (BE)
POSITIONS Berlin, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin (DE)
paper positions berlin, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin (DE)
Keep Cool, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin (DE)
NFT Group Show (NFT), TingDAO, Beijing (China)
Homage to the line, Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt (DE)

2020
It’s a wrap!, Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt
Discovery Art Fair, Schlieder Contemporary/dieHO Gallery, Frankfurt/Main
ARTMUC, Munich (DE)
paper positions berlin, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
Art/Center, the HO, Magdeburg
KUNST SPONTANEOUS – Made in Germany, LAKESIDE GALLERY (CH)
Art Innsbruck, BLNAC GALLERY, Innsbruck (AT)

2019
Advent barbecue, dieHO Gallery, Magdeburg
Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt
Paper connection, Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt
In dialog – Horst Janssen and Peer Kriesel, upstairs project by Galerie und Verlag St. Gertrude & Galerie Lippmann, Hamburg
Art/Center, Magdeburg
Contemporary Basel, Basel (CH)
Art MUC, Munich
Discovery Art Fair, Cologne
Art Innsbruck, BLNAC GALLERY, Innsbruck (AT)
New drawings (solo show), Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main

2018
Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt am Main
Schöneberger Art, maia zinc studio, Berlin
Art MUC, Munich
Cologne List 2018, Cologne
Revealing (solo show), mz project room maia zinc, Berlin

2017
Scheinwelt (group show with David Lehmann), greskewitz | kleinitz | gallery, Hamburg
Berlin List 2017, Berlin
REVALUE (solo show), okazi gallery, Berlin
OpenAirGallery Berlin, Berlin
Asia Contemporary Art Show, Hong Kong
Fashion Week New York 2017, Julianna Bass, New York City, USA

2016
Small and Whole – Miniatures of Contemporary Art, Galerie Forum Amalienpark, Berlin
Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg
NEONCHOCOLATE Festival, Berlin
OpenAirGallery Berlin, Berlin
FACES (group show), Haute Presents, Berlin
Fashion Week New York 2016, Julianna Bass, New York City, USA

2015
POP-UP EXHIBITION “WE ARE ALL HUMAN” (group exhibition), WE ART BERLIN, Galerie Blond & Blond Contemporary, Berlin
Berlin List 2015, Berlin
Pillango Gallery, Berlin
Temporary Gallery-Berlin, Berlin
OpenAirGallery Berlin, Berlin

1999-2015
Various solo / group exhibitions at home and abroad
Annual solo exhibition at the Pillango Gallery

Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Update II, 2025, Foto: Peer Kriesel

Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt, Exploring The Intersection Of Art And Design, 2023, Photo: Ingmar Kurth

Galleries

GALLERY MARTIN MERTENS
Linienstraße 148
10115 Berlin, DE

SONGS CONTEMPORARY
Berliner Strasse 32
60311 Frankfurt am Main, DE

LAKESIDE GALLERY
Artherstrasse 3
CH-6300 Zug