About
Peter Miller /// Artist ///
Born in Burlington, Vermont, Peter Miller is an artist specializing in film and photography based in Essen, Germany and Paris, France. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and apprenticed to be a silversmith. His film and photographic works are preoccupied with magic and generally investigate the phenomena of the cinema and its constituent, irreducible elements: lens, light, flicker, audience, projection, etc.
His works are in numerous private collections as well as public collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA; the Innogy Stiftung, Essen, Germany; and FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, France. His films have been screened at festivals including the Berlinale, Viennale and the Toronto, London and Rotterdam International film festivals and are distributed by Light Cone in Paris and Arsenal in Berlin. His work has been shown in international reviews such as the 57th Biennale of Venice and the Biennale of Contemporary Photography as well as online by Kottke.org, Boing Boing and Gizmodo. He is represented by Galerie Crone in Berlin and Vienna and since 2018 is Professor for photography and time-based media at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany.
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Shows
Solo Shows
2022 Fuck it, Photography! Setareh X, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021 Dear Photography, C/O Berlin, Berlin, DE
2020 Peter Miller & Natascha Schmitten, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
2015 Aktinität, Galerie Crone, Vienna, Austria
2015 Miraculeux, Section Pigalle, Paris, France
2014 Die Ausstellung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014 Hard Rain, Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany
2014 Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2013 Photuris, Crone Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2011 Sleight, Crone Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2011 Means to See, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2010 Leads to Gold, Mikro Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 Performative Images, Glassmoog, Cologne, Germany
2009 Light and Weight, Standard/Deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland
Selected Group Shows
2023 Visiones Expandidas. Fotografia y experimentacion, Caixo Forum, Madrid, ES
2023 Himmel, die Entdeckung der Weltordnung, DZ Bank Kunststiftung, Frankfurt, DE
2022 Sensorama, [M|A|N] Museo d'arte Provincia Nuoro, Sardinia, IT
2021 It Never Ends - Part 2, Kanal - Centre Pompidou, Brussels, BE
2020 Subjekt und Objekt, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, DE
2020 This is not a photo, Galerie Mitte, Brehmen, DE
2019 Snap + Share, curated by Clément Chéroux, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
2019 Next Generations, curated by Heide Häusler and Stefanie Kreuzer, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
2017 The Biennale for Contemporary Photography, Mannheim, Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen, Germany
2017 La Biennale di Venezia - 57th International Art Exhibition, curated by Christine Macel, Venice, Italy
2017
M.O.P.M., with Marcel Odenbach, Galerie Crone, Vienna, Austria
2016 You are what you are, Galleria Mario Iannelli, Rome, Italy
2016 Process, Performance, Presence, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
2015 Alain Verre, with Moritz Wegwerth, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 Small good things..., curated by Nina Slejko Blom & Conny Blom, in Võru, Estonia
2015 Änderungen Aller Art, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2014 SpotOFF, OFFspace, with Vesko Gösel, Vienna, Austria
2013 AURA, Photo performance, Le Bal, Paris
2013 La Méthode Jacobson (curated by Marc Bembekoff), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2013 Past Future (curated by Cecile Bourne Farrell), Biennale d’Anglet, France
2013 Time Based Exhibition, Le Phénix Scene National, Valenciennes, France
2013 24/12, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
2013 Escapist Adventures, BBK im Stapelhaus, Cologne, Germany
2012 The Reality of the Unbuilt, Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Germany
2012 Im Abklatsch, Boutique Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2012 Vom Photo, Museum of Photography, Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
2012 1969-1972 (with Robert Smithson, Charles Duke, Christos Dikeakos), Volker Bradke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 The Second Act, Festival on Photography, Amsterdam, Holland
2011 Vom Photo, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
2010 Smoke & Mirrors, Lightwell Gallery, Norman, OK, USA
2010 Salon XV, Month of Photography, Vienna, Austria
2010 Post-Photography, Cologne, Germany
2010 BLEK, Leipzig & Cologne, Germany
2010 Sugary Photographs, Festival of Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
Selected Screenings
2021 Video Art at Midnight, Babylon Kino, Berlin, DE
2020 Time Machine, Parma, IT
2019 Millennium Film Journal, NY, USA
2018 PLUFF, Biennale d’architecture de Venise, Lido, IT
2018 Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido, JP
2018 Conférence UNIL, Cinematheque Suisse, Lausanne, CH
2017 Curtas Vila do Conde, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 Berlinale, Berlin, Germany
2016 Viennale, Vienna, Austria
2015
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Holland
2015 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
2015 Screening the Speculative, New Museum, NY, NY
2014 Carte Blanche, Program of films from Lightcone, Paris France
2014 À l’envers, à l’endroit… expanded, CPIF, Paris, France
2014 Oberhausen Film festival (Film Without Film), Oberhausen, Germany
2013 Viennale, Vienna, Austria
2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2013 Edinburg Film Festival, Edinburg, Scotland
2013 Media City, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2014 Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2013 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
2013 Edinburg Film Festival, Edinburg, Scotland
2013 Media City, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2013 Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2013 International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
2012 London International Film Festival, London, England
2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2012 Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2011 25fps Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Zagreb, Croatia
2011 EXiS, Experimental Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2011 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2011 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2010 IDFA, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Holland
2010 Leeds Film Festival, Leeds, England
2010 25fps Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Zagreb, Croatia
2010 Scratch Expanded, Paris, France
2010 T.R.A.C.E.S., Paris, France
2010 Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010 Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2009 EXiS, Experimental Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2009 Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2009 International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
2009 Full Frame Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
2008 25fps Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 International Experimental Film Exhibition, Colorado
2008 Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2008 25fps Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2008 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2008 Full Frame Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
2008 Media City, Windsor Ontario, Canada
2007 Iowa City Experimental Film Festival, Iowa City, Iowa
2007 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2006 25fps Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia - Grand Jury Prize
2006 EXiS, Experimental Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2006 Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Awards
2018 Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2017 Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 Föderkoje, Art Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
2016 Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 Participant, Newroots Foundation Lissie Habie Residency, Antigua, Guatemala
2015 FNAGP Grant, for the production of a film in Paris, France
2013 Participant, VISIO Workshop, Lo schermo dell'arte, Florence, IT
2012 Participant, Le Pavillon at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, F
2012 Resident, Visit, RWE Stiftung, Essen, D
2011 Artist's Residency at PACT Zollerein, Essen, D
2010 Artist's Residency, WORM Filmwerkplaats, Rotterdam, N
2010 Resident Arts Fellow at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne D
2009 Seven Below Artist Residency at the Barn, Vermont
2008 DAAD postgrad arts fellowship with Matthias
Müller at the KHM, Cologne D
2008 Artist's Residency at
the Bemis Center
for the Arts, Omaha, NE US
2007 Artist-in-Resident at FotoK in Vienna A
2006 Grand
Prize, 25fps presented by Takahiko
Iimura, Zagreb HR
2006 Fulbright
Fellowship with Peter Tscherkassky in Vienna A
2005 Scholarship to study bronze casting at Ox-bow, Saugatuk, MI USA
2004 Hayward Prize with Valie Export at the Int'l Summer Academy, Salzburg A
Selected Press
EIKON 93, International Magazine for Photography and Media Art, 2016
Beaux Arts, Residence Palais de Tokyo, June 2012
Monopol: Watchlist. Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind, Antje Stahl, March, 2012
Tagesspiegel Berlin, 10th of December, 2011
Der Trickster
FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG, 26. JUNI 2011, NR. 25
Jetzt gleich und bitte fuer immer und ewig
Das letzte Bild zerreißen, von Damian Zimmermann
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, December 30, 2009
Films by Peter Miller, by Fred
Camper,
Chicago Reader, July 21, 2006, critics choice award
