Peer Kriesel

Artists from Berlin

Peer Kriesel, born in Berlin in 1979, is a visual artist and designer with
over 20 years of experience at the intersection of art and design.

In his work, he explores identity and values in the age of digital transformation.
What defines us as human beings when digital technologies fundamentally change our identity and values? What distinguishes us from the machine?

Kriesel examines the order of seemingly chaotic information, the acceleration and transformation of communication, and human originality in the age of digital change. His works are characterized by surrealistic hidden-object images in which grimaces and mythical creatures condense into a multi-layered cosmos.

Typical of his work are the “Grimaces” and FRTZNABSTRCTN, the surrealistic hidden-object images and overpaintings, as well as the Me So Small installations.

Portfolio/Artist info

Exhibitions

2026
paper positions berlin, Galerie Martin Mertens
From gesture to construction – works on paper across time, group exhibition, Schlieder Contemporary/Galerie Raphael, Frankfurt
Art On Paper AmsterdamGallery Martin Mertens

2025
Art2Sea on MS Europa2, solo exhibition, Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel x Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg (November), Hamburg, Lakeside Gallery, CH + Schlieder Contemporary
“My point of view”, group exhibition, Schlieder Contemporary, Frankfurt
Update II, solo exhibition, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
solo exhibition, Galerie Bovistra, Stuttgart
Art KarlsruheGallery Martin Mertens + Schlieder Contemporary
Art On Paper AmsterdamGallery Martin Mertens

2024
paper positions vienna, Vienna, Gallery Martin Mertens
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Hamburg, Lakeside Gallery, CH
Peer Kriesel + Tim David Trillsam, Galerie Bovistra, Villingen
Summer Blossoms II, Group show, Gallery Martin Mertens, Berlin
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
Summer Blossoms, Group show, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
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

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

Ausstellung Update II - Galerie Martin Mertens

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

Ausstellungsansicht - Schlieder Contemporary

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

Galleries

GALERIE MARTIN MERTENS
Linienstraße 148
10115 Berlin (DE)

SCHLIEDER CONTEMPORARY
Berliner Straße 32
60311 Frankfurt am Main (DE)

Other current gallery collaborations:

Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, DE

Thole Rotermund Kunsthandel, Hamburg (DE)

LAKESIDE GALLERY, Zug (CH)

UM Gallery, Beijing (China)