Peter Vahlefeld

Peter Vahlefeld – ZDF Television, Germany: Studio Berlin

The recent work uses the tactics of bootlegging and expropriation to address issues of economic commercialisation. The artwork is an abstruse commentary on the nature of advertising for art, galleries, auction houses and museums—a practice dedicated entirely to the harnessing of abstract desire and subjective memory to a tangible product, signified but not yet present.

Peter Vahlefeld – Kunst & Konsum

Artist Talk at Bar Giornale Munich with Stephanie Senge and Prof. Wolfgang Ullrich. Hosted by Dr. Stefanie Staby und Kat Schuetz.

Peter Vahlefeld – Exhibition Bar Giornale Munich

Peter Vahlefeld weaves a complex web of images, advertisements and popular elements that superimposes his narrative, layer by layer. He deconstructs not only linear narrative structures but also the divisions between truth and fiction.

Peter Vahlefeld – Shopping at the National Gallery for Miro

The video grapples with reflections over marketing strategies in art. Peter Vahlefeld has recognized that works of art in our culture inevitably are reduced to the condition of commodity. What he does is to short-circuit the process and start with the commodity.

Peter Vahlefeld – Shopping at the National Gallery for a Vincent van Gogh File Label

The video grapples with reflections over marketing strategies in art. Peter Vahlefeld has recognized that works of art in our culture inevitably are reduced to the condition of commodity. What he does is to short-circuit the process and start with the commodity.

Peter Vahlefeld – Shopping at the National Gallery for Vincent van Gogh´s Sunflowers

The video grapples with reflections over marketing strategies in art. Peter Vahlefeld has recognized that works of art in our culture inevitably are reduced to the condition of commodity. What he does is to short-circuit the process and start with the commodity.

Peter Vahlefeld – Shopping at the National Gallery for a Vincent van Gogh Puzzle

The video grapples with reflections over marketing strategies in art. Peter Vahlefeld has recognized that works of art in our culture inevitably are reduced to the condition of commodity. What he does is to short-circuit the process and start with the commodity.

Peter Vahlefeld – Shopping at the National Gallery for a Vincent van Gogh Lens Cloth

The video grapples with reflections over marketing strategies in art. Peter Vahlefeld has recognized that works of art in our culture inevitably are reduced to the condition of commodity. What he does is to short-circuit the process and start with the commodity.

Peter Vahlefeld – Shopping at the National Gallery for a Vincent van Gogh iPhone Cover 6

The video grapples with reflections over marketing strategies in art. Peter Vahlefeld has recognized that works of art in our culture inevitably are reduced to the condition of commodity. What he does is to short-circuit the process and start with the commodity.

Peter Vahlefeld – Shopping at the National Gallery

The video grapples with reflections over marketing strategies in art. Peter Vahlefeld has recognized that works of art in our culture inevitably are reduced to the condition of commodity. What he does is to short-circuit the process and start with the commodity.

Peter Vahlefeld – Artforum

Art's most radical quality is that it's useless. People have used art for lots of purposes throughout history, but artists have to protect its uselessness—it serves as a shield against corruption. Making things with zero utility—and emphasizing that trait—is certainly one way to keep paintings from turning into the creative equivalent of pork bellies.

Peter Vahlefeld – Artforum

Art's most radical quality is that it's useless. People have used art for lots of purposes throughout history, but artists have to protect its uselessness—it serves as a shield against corruption. Making things with zero utility—and emphasizing that trait—is certainly one way to keep paintings from turning into the creative equivalent of pork bellies.

Peter Vahlefeld – Art + Auction

The recent work uses the tactics of expropriation to address issues of economic commercialisation. The artwork is an abstruse commentary on the nature of advertising for art, galleries, auction houses and museums—a practice dedicated entirely to the harnessing of abstract desire and subjective memory to a tangible product, signified but not yet present.