An entire room is in motion

The wall installation by Peter Kogler at the Kunsthaus Zug takes the viewer to new dimensions.

His Illusionist-styled wall and interior designs have made Peter Kogler (born on 1959) internationally known. The Austrian artist works on the principle of repetition: he generates patterns that are usually based on a specific, basic geometric form. The calculated distortion creates an illusion of movement for the eye that is perceived spatially.

Kogler prints the digitally created patterns on foils or paper. Fixed to the wall and ceiling, a room-filling formation, a three-dimensional, so-called ‘illusionist spatial labyrinth’ is created.

Rectangles become a line formation
A typical work of Kogler can currently be found in the Kunsthaus Zug. Simply called "Wall installation", the work occupies the entire space of the cafeteria, apart from the floor and the window front. The geometric basis of the installation is a rectangle with diagonals, which line up to each other, with each one then distorted according to a specific algorithm. The arrangement of these thousands of rectangles simultaneously creates a concise line formation, and sets the entire space in motion. As a wave-like construction, it creates a fascinating effect of depth– the strictly rectangular space in its basic form is completely dissolved on four sides - it lives, it moves. The viewer feels drawn into another dimension. Peter Kogler specially created the "wall installation" for the thematic "Line. From outline to action" exhibition in 2010. and was specifically designed for the cafeteria.

Rectangles and lines are distorted: The wall design by Peter Kogler in the Kunsthaus-Caféteria dissolves the rigidity of walls and ceilings.

This is not the only legacy of this important Austrian artist in Zug, however: in 2001, Kogler was responsible for the large-scale, multi-storey wall design inside the commercial education centre on the Aabachstrasse. It is a network of straight and oblique lines with different powers, whose arrangement also presents a three-dimensional effect.