As a child, Peter Miller tried his hand at magic. In his artistic work, he immerses himself in the world of illusion, but also in the technical universe of film and photography: he experiments with camera, light, negative, chemicals, screen, and projector. In this way Miller creates photograms, luminograms, Polaroids, short films, and photo collages. In his video Set, for example, the artist arranged approximately 10,000 photographs of sunsets into a single quasi-filmic sequence. For his contribution to the 2017 Venice Biennale, he manipulated a 16mm film projector so that the projector lamp cast its self-portrait onto the screen. On the occasion of Miller's first major survey show at the C/O Berlin Foundation, a comprehensive monograph will be published that brings together Miller's work to date and presents the oeuvre of this extraordinary artist.

PETER MILLER (*1978) studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now lives in Essen and Paris. His photo and film installations have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, SFMOMA, the New Museum, New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Berlinale, the Venice Biennale and many other renowned institutions and film festivals. He teaches at Folkwang University Essen as a professor of photography and time-based media.

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PETER MILLER (*1978) studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and now lives in Essen and Paris. His photo and film installations have been shown at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, SFMOMA, the New Museum, New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Berlinale, the Venice Biennale and many other renowned institutions and film festivals. He teaches at Folkwang University Essen as a professor of photography and time-based media.

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Als Kind versuchte sich Peter Miller als Zauberer. In seiner künstlerischen Arbeit taucht er jetzt in die Illusionswelt, aber auch in das Technikuniversum von Film und Fotografie ein: Er experimentiert mit Kamera, Licht, Negativ, Chemikalie, Leinwand und Projektor. So erzeugt Miller Fotogramme, Luminogramme, Polaroids, Kurzfilme und Fotocollagen. In seinem Video Set zum Beispiel arrangierte der Künstler circa 10 000 Fotografien von Sonnenuntergängen zu einer einzigen quasi-filmischen Sequenz. Für den 35-Millimeter-Film Projector Obscura nahm er Kinosäle mithilfe der dort installierten Filmprojektoren auf. Indem er einen alten Kronleuchter mit Fotopapier umwickelte, inszenierte er dessen eigenes Selbstporträt. Aus Anlass von Millers Teilnahme an der 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2017 erscheint nun diese Monografie, die Millers bisheriges Schaffen bündelt und das Werk dieses außergewöhnlichen Künstlers vorstellt.