Peter Vahlefeld

Peter Vahlefeld’s conceptual approach to painting is how advertising and branding influence visual culture. To say that his paintings are mixed media is an understatement. It’s like the difference between a drunk and a sommelier. His time-consuming technique is rich and complex, combining painting, printing and digital manipulation. These artworks built up from several layers, feature different kinds of paints, prints, fabrics, powdered pigments, acrylic and oil paint, different mediums, varnishes, and more. Materials have their own souls—their own chemical properties, gravities, and past lives. Immersion in the process of making is therefore essential, and involves layering, overpainting, erasing and reconstructing the image through physical and digital means. The texture of his paintings is dynamic, with areas of thick impasto of oil paint juxtaposed against flat printed sections, that challenge the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

The strongest aspects of his portfolio is Peter's ability to deconstruct and reconstruct imagery, acting like a narrator, and creating a dialogue between traditional painting and contemporary media culture. It is like a game that consists of changing the code. By reinterpreting moti...

1988 – Grant, Parsons School of Design, Paris
1990 – Honor-Degree, Parsons School of Design, New York
Awards:
1991 – American Illustration 10th Annual Award, New York
2003 – Photoshopaward, Berlin
2014 – ZDF Kultur: Kopf der Woche, ZDF television feature, Studio Berlin

2025
Overpaintings, Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
25 Jahre Kunsthaus Frölich, Stuttgart, Germany (Group Show)
Poliform Interior Design, Hamburg Stadthöfe, Germany
2024
New and Abstract Showroom, Berlin
Uncorporate Image at the Invitation of the Allianz Art Collection, Munich
Collaboration with Fritz Hansen Showroom, Munich, Germany
Poliform Interior Design, Hamburg Stadthöfe, Germany
2023
Sali e Tabacchi, Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
Collaboration with Fritz Hansen Showroom, Munich, Germany
Poliform Interior Design, Hamburg Stadthöfe, Germany
2022
Collaboration with White & Case LLP, Frankfurt (Acquisition)
2021
»Language is a virus from Wuhan« (Groupshow), Salon Privé, Berlin, Germany
»Ich weiß nicht was ein Ort ist, ich kenne nur seinen Preis« Elizabeth Cooper, Berlin, Germany
»The White & Case Collection« until 2022, White & Case LLP, Frankfurt, Germany
»Ästhetik der Inszenierung« until April 2022, LF Consult, Stuttgart, Germany
2020
»Ich weiß nicht was ein Ort ist, ich kenne nur seinen Preis« Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich, Germany
»The White & Case Collection« until 2021, White & Case LLP, Frankfurt, Germany
»Theorie der Malerei« until April 2021, LF Consult, Stuttgart, Germany...