Peter Burchia

Alongside his visual practice, he developed a strong relationship with folk music, both as a soloist and as a member of various groups, including Shanti Powa. This multidimensional background strongly informs his artistic language. Burchia’s painting is characterised by sharp graphic signs, highly personal textual and numerical acronyms, expressive distortions and intense colour contrasts. He combines different techniques and materials, often drawn from everyday life or even discarded objects. This raw, direct and at times defiling attitude places his work in dialogue with the legacy of Expressionism as well as with experimental movements such as Dadaism, Art Brut, CoBrA and Fluxus. Biographical and existential approaches associated with Informel also resonate within his practice.


A central aspect of Burchia’s creative process is the principle of surrealist automatism, which manifests itself in the diary-like, serial and swirling manner in which he develops his image cycles and engravings. His painting also shows a strong affinity with graffiti art, sharing its techniques, materials and visual languages, and extending painting to architectural scales. Particular importance is given to his recent works realised on an architectural scale. In his murals, Burchia experiments with the ancient technique of sgraffito, in which layers of paint are scratched away to reveal underlying surfaces, creating depth, texture and a strong physical presence.


The exhibition in Berlin marks the first time Peter Burchia presents his work in the German capital. He shows, among other works, new sgraffito pieces as well as works created for a triptych produced especially for the event series “Culture Against Forgetting.” With this presentation, Burchia expands his geographical sphere of activity while simultaneously making a strong artistic statement against forgetting and in favour of collective memory. As an important artistic and cultural driving force in the province of South Tyrol, Peter Burchia has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and continues to shape the contemporary art scene through his experimental and interdisciplinary approach.

• Exhibition opening: Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 7 p.m.
  
• Thursday - Sunday, by appointment only
  
• Exhibition until the end of May