Archiv Peter Piller

In the mid 1990s the German artist Peter Piller worked at a Hamburg press agency while studying art. His job was to collect clippings and monitor where and how the paid ads of advertising clients actually appeared in print. Peter Pillar discovered particular photographs while daily surveying the press, which he then set aside and organized into categories. Over the years he compiled his Archive Peter Pillar, now comprising over 7000 images, which the artist continues to investigate by sorting and arranging the images into different thematic series. The authors debate the idea of the archive and position Piller's work in thematic areas such as war, bureaucracy, pornography or art history.