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until 18.04. | #4976ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger Berlin shows from Saturday, 14. March 2026 the exhibition „31 952“ by the artist Peter Dreher.
The exhibition brings together various groups of works that the artist has created over a period of half a century.
“The empty glass somehow symbolises the beginning of something and the end of something. Peter Dreher’s series Tag um Tag guter Tag (Day after day, good day) does not show a real glass (see Magritte), but a rather good, almost photorealistic representation of a glass. External forces push their way into the picture and are thrown back at the viewer. The curvature of the glass offers no opportunity to observe the artist painting. He is there, but then again he is not.”
Excerpt from Towards an Empty Glass by Jonathan Monk
Peter Dreher, Day after Day, Good Day (Day) 1983, 2006, oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm. Photo: RMJ
Peter Dreher was fascinated by Andy Warhol’s desire to be a machine. Although his American colleague was surrounded by something like a royal court or a bee colony around its queen, he himself remained strangely untouched and deeply detached from it all. Peter Dreher had a retreat where he could devote himself to his painting undisturbed. It seemed to appeal to his inner self: Thou shalt not question me. He, the happy Sisyphus, ritualised his daily routine and reduced his artistic output by painting only a few carefully selected objects or repeating his chosen motif a thousand times in order to realise the unlimited possibilities of painting through radical limitation.”
Excerpt from ‘Der Mut des Weglassens’ (The Courage to Omit) by Irene von Neuendorff
Opening: Saturday, 14. March 2026, 11 am–2 pm
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14. March– Saturday, 18. April 2026
To the gallery
Bildunterschrift: Peter Dreher, St. Märgen, Nov 1972, 1972, oil on cardboard, 24 x 33 cm. Photo: Oliver Roura
Exhibition Peter Dreher – Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
