Artist Peter Wächtler: Between Precision and Play | Louisiana Channel

"I'm pro entertainment."
In this interview, the artist Peter Wächtler shares insights into his creative process, which involves experimentation, humor, and deconstruction. He embraces trial and error, allowing the unpredictability of materials and techniques to guide his artistic process. Peter Wächtler works in various media, including drawing, sculpture, video, and writing.
"I work with these over narrative formats. I'm interested in comforting or discomforting narrations, educational narrations, like illustrations for school books or for historical books." Wächtler's art is characterized by its narrative quality. He frequently depicts animated states of animals or human figures. He draws inspiration from everyday life, bourgeois domesticity, and labor, creating works that mix humor and pathos.
"I always wanted to be more in a reactive state and not in a planned state."
Wächtler's studio is a space of constant experimentation. He shares his techniques for creating watercolor and chalk drawings, often layering oil and other materials to achieve a unique texture and depth. His process involves embracing the unpredictability of art. "It's almost like deconstructing more than putting things together," he explains, highlighting his fascination with the interplay of structure and chaos.
"I like to emphasize the silence of sculpture." Peter Wächtler describes how sculpture naturally possesses a quiet, enduring quality - a "gravestone DNA" which he contrasts by shaping sculptures in the form of sound amplifiers.
Peter Wächtler, born in 1979 in Hannover, Germany, is an artist living and working in Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Simian, Copenhagen; Culturgest, Lisbon; dépendance, Brussels; Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York City; The Power Station, Dallas; Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen; Foundation Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin.
Peter Wächtler was interviewed by Signe Boe at the Danish Art Workshops in Copenhagen in September 2024.
Camera: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Edited and Produced by: Signe Boe
Editor-in-Chief: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2024 Louisiana Channel is supported by Den A.P. Møllerske Støttefond, Ny Carlsbergfondet, and C.L. Davids Fond og Samling.
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[@marymc9601]

It took me a while to warm to him as it seemed all over the place at first. And then his personality started to shine through and then I could hear him speaking more from his heart. Then it got interesting. So creative and different. Strange ideas but not from a rigid mindset. Well maybe softened with time. Thankfully. I really enjoyed this different perspective in art making. TY

[@moscitra]

I love how he's taken wood floor and converted it into a canvas, it does gives much more structure but also to the painting itself.

[@hassanh4512]

Very cool thanks for this great content

[@greazy_gsus8134]

Anyone know where can I find some of his video works?

[@victorinusbythner4332]

What language is he speaking???

[@CommanderMinecraft69]

Euro English

[@TheKunstlich]

mhmm

[@jeandupas-q2k]

lot of sentences, not a lot of insights, the randomness feel is strong in this young Jedi or maybe i'm that dumb that i didn't get his work...