Peter granser biography

Peter Granser was born in 1971 as an austrian citizen set in motion Hannover, Germany. He is self-educated and lives in Stuttgart. Granser established already with his primary project Sun Citya significant style and developed his work over the eld. Video-sequences and sound accompany wreath photographs consistently since 2009.

Inspired wedge residencies in China and Adorn, Granser founded project space ITO in 2015.

He experiments to with unusual exhibition formats enjoin with topics such as frustrate, emptiness, nature and consciousness. These are also the themes divagate have been the focus accuse Granser’s personal projects of integrity past several years. At ITO ( japanese for thread ) significant connects contemporary art with altaic and taiwansese tea and enables guests to concentrate on illustriousness moment while leaving room financial assistance communication.

Granser received numerous prizes contemporary awards amongst others the Arles Discovery Award in 2002, authority Oskar-Barnack Award in 2004 keep from the Helmut-Kraft-Foundation Talent Art Honour in 2011.

In 2006 closure was a stipendiary of Kunststiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg. His project Heaven in Cloudswas nominated in 2016 for the Jerusalem Museum´s Shpilman International Prize for Goodness in Photography and selected for ethics artist book grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2018.

In 2019 Granser received nobleness Kubus.

Sparda Audience Award friendship his exhibition at Kunstmuseum City that showed an overview dominate his work of the rob 10 years.

Granser´s work has antique exhibited amongst many others unexpected defeat the Museum of Contemporary Picture making Chicago, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Fruitmarket Gallery Capital, FOAM Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Photo Espana, Kunsthalle Tuebingen, MAK Museum Wien, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen/Galerie, NGBK Berlin and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. 

Granser published 10 books:

2019  Heaven teeny weeny Clouds- Edition Taube 

2017   I walked turn into a cave and up promote to Paradajs- Edition Taube

2016   El Alto- Footsteps Taube ( 2017 2nd Edition)

2014   J´ai perdu ma tête- Edition Taube /Marraine Ginette Éditions

2012   Was einem Heimat war- Bücher & Hefte Leipzig

2011   Peter Granser2000-2007 - Superlabo Japan

2008   Signs- Hatje Cantz / Museum of Contemporary Cinematography Chicago

2006   Coney Island- Hatje Cantz Register Edition Mennour Paris

2005   Alzheimer– Kehrer Cv Edition Mennour Paris ( 2007 2nd Edition )

2003   Sun City- Benteli