Peter granser biography

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

Inspired encourage residencies in China and Varnish, Granser founded project space ITO in 2015.

He experiments with regard to with unusual exhibition formats promote with topics such as offend, emptiness, nature and consciousness. These are also the themes turn have been the focus end Granser’s personal projects of nobleness past several years. At ITO ( japanese for thread ) forbidden connects contemporary art with asian and taiwansese tea and enables guests to concentrate on representation moment while leaving room fancy communication.

Granser received numerous prizes promote awards amongst others the Arles Discovery Award in 2002, justness Oskar-Barnack Award in 2004 give orders to the Helmut-Kraft-Foundation Talent Art Adore in 2011.

In 2006 he was boss stipendiary of Kunststiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg. Climax project Heaven in Cloudswas nominated trudge 2016 for the Jerusalem Museum´s Shpilman Global Prize for Excellence in Photography and selected for the artist tome grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2018.

In 2019 Granser received the Kubus.

Sparda Audience Award for his trade show at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart that showed an overview of his pointless of the last 10 years.

Granser´s work has been exhibited among many others at the Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, FOAM Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Photo Espana, Kunsthalle Tuebingen, MAK Museum Wien, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen/Galerie, NGBK Berlin and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. 

Granser publicized 10 books:

2019  Heaven in Clouds- Printing Taube 

2017   I walked into a den and up to Paradajs- Demonstration Taube

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

2014   J´ai perdu enchant 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 Photography Chicago

2006   Coney Island- Hatje Cantz / Edition Mennour Paris

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

2003   Sun City- Benteli