Peter Zimmermann

German artist Peter Zimmerman (b. 1956) was born in Freiburg im Breisgau and is based in Cologne. He received his art education at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Zimmermann's diverse oeuvre has ranged from the "Book Cover Paintings" he created in the late 1980s, in which he transposed covers and titles of atlases, art books, travel guides, and dictionaries on his epoxy on canvas works. Zimmerman's cardboard works explore the written word's spatial distortion and thus question the relationship between text and image. His chromatic epoxy resin images derive from digital templates, such as photos, film stills, or diagrams, which Zimmerman distorts through graphical algorithms and transfers onto the canvas in numerous transparent layers of epoxy resin. Since 2014 he has built upon this conceptual approach through oil painting. Questions concerning the relationship between the original and its depiction and an engagement with the concept of the surface lie at the center of his creative output.

Zimmerman’s exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at Nunu Fine Art (Taipei, Taiwan), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum (Düren, Germany), Dirimart (Istanbul, Turkey), and CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, (Málaga, Spain). His work has been included in group shows including the Biennial of The South in Panama 2013 (Panama City) and at institutions such as the Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany) and Centre Cultural Sa Nostra (Palma de Majorca, Spain). Zimmermann's work is in numerous private and public collections, including Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.