Peter K. Koch

Hybrid Objects

Peter K. Koch’s works evade categorization within the confines of any commonly accepted genre, depriving the observer of descriptive access and refusing to subject themselves to classical ideas about painting and sculpture.

In terms of formal characterization, his works, which frequently unfold within space and stand in closely correspondence with that space, are more closely related to hybrid objects that exhibit pictorial and sculptural properties – while still remaining on the fringes. Koch uses aspects of painting and sculpture. When conceiving of his works on the basis of prototypes, colorful surfaces are transmuted into spaces. The fragments are alienated via pictorial re-categorization, leading to an independent form, an abstracted concept of space.

Throughout his process of artistic genesis, Koch’s artistic oeuvre, with its recurring hard-edge elements, has successfully transitioned from the pure two-dimensionality of a picture or an object on the wall to spatial constructions located somewhere between minimalism and pop art.

In his artistic “citations,” Koch employs such materials as wood, paperboard and construction paper, often arranged three-dimensionally and, with their cut-outs and cross-sections, calling for the ability to view the work from all sides. The works take on an artificial, almost aggressive colorfulness when petrol, magenta and sky blue are used as glossy paint colors in capturing them. The smooth surface of the applied paint seems to eliminate every trace of personalization, any sort of identifying artistic handwriting.

If at first glance Koch’s spatial installations, such as his »Neuer Turm« (2011) and his geometric works, appear most notably precise and clean, upon closer look, the observer encounters calculated flaws – flaws pointing to the artistic process of creating them. In the Piezo ink prints, Koch consciously juxtaposes the smooth surface structure with a visual disturbance, namely, that upon second glance, the works reveal themselves to be based on photographs of crinkled paper.

In the end, Koch’s creative methods of procedural appropriation – which often contain multiple levels, also in terms of time – lead to an artistic pictorial composition that generates hybrid objects by employing the process of elimination and using deconstruction and destruction as well as playing with conventional perceptions of painting and sculpture and seeking to erupt them spatially.

Gwendolin Kremer · 2012

 

 Solo exhibitions (selection)

2012

»Life Is A Flame«, Salon Rähnitz, Dresden

2011

»Antikontur«, galerie baer

»Nein Nicht Nichts«, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

2009

»shifting ideal«, Modul, Dresden

 participations (selection) 

2013

»The Legend of the Shelves«, Autocenter, Berlin

2012

»Rethinking Reality«, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

»Miniature by Serendity«, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin

2011

»abstract confusion«, Kunstverein Ulm

»inside out«, Kunstallianz 1, Berlin

»abstract confusion«, b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur

»Invisible Spirit«, glue, Berlin

2010

»Abstrakt«, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin

»Unser System«, Kuttner Siebert Galerie, Berlin

»offon«, Galerie Hafenrand, Hamburg

 

 

Vita

1967

born in Cologne

1994-1998

studies design at the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein 

1999

move to Berlin/foundation of Ausstellungs- und Projektraum Maschenmode 

since 2005

artistic assistant at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden 

lives and works in Berlin 

 fellowships/grates

2006

fellowship for a project »Tales from the Travel Journal, Vol. 1«, CCA, Vilnius, Litauen 

2005

project grant of the Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn for the extra verlag publication Brasilia Bangkok Berlin

2003

 project grant of the Goethe-Institiut for Macedonia    

2001

grant of the Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin 

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CV English

Texts

»Hybride Objects« · Gwendolin Kremer · 2012

»Peter K. Koch« · Mathias Siebert · 2010

»Form in No-Form-System« · Melanie Franke · 2008

»Conversation with Peter K. Koch« · Marcus Kaiser · 2007

 

 

 


Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (No-Text 50)« · 110 1/4 x 110 1/4 in (280 x 280 cm) · dispersion on wall · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Lamelle 37)« · 40 x 30 1/3 in (101,5 x 77 cm) · card box, varnish · 2012

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Blaue Umrasterung)« · 52 3/4 x 43 1/3 in (134 x 110 cm) · carton, varnish · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Rosa Positiv)« · 82 2/3 x 19 2/3 x 19 2/3 in (210 x 50 x 50 cm) · card box, wood and varnish · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (No-Text 100)« · 82 2/3 x 27 1/2 x 2 1/3 in (210 x 70 x6 cm) · aluminium, varnish · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Violettes Positiv)« · 52 x 43 in
(162 x 101 x 50 cm) · card box, varnish, wood · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Neuer Turm)« ·
102 1/3 x 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in (260 x 25 x 25 cm) ·
wood, varnish · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Antikontur 3)« · 36 1/4 x 25 1/4 in
(92 x 64 cm) · Inkjetprint (plakatiert) · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Lamelle 44)« · 52 x 43 in (132 x 109 cm) ·
card box, varnish · 2011

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Green Leave)« · 27 1/2 x 23 2/3 x 2 1/3 in (70 x 60 x 6 cm) · card box, varnish, wood · 2012

Peter K. Koch · »o.T. (Mister New Start) · 185 x 100 x 10 cm · cardboard, varnish, wood · 2013