Peter Bauhuis takes a thieving delight in breaking with craft traditions in his work, questioning our visual habits with subtle humour. With a family background of several generations of watch makers, the environment of a workshop has always been both familiar and important to the Munich-based jewellery maker and metal sculptor. “Following an apprenticeship as a jeweller at the Hanau Zeichenakademie was a very good training to optimise my technical skills. But it took the further step of studying at the Munich Art Academy to get where I wanted to go,” he explains. Today his work includes jewellery, equipment, objects, installations, films and several books. By linking and interconnecting different approaches, he arrives at a multi-layered body of work that expresses his artistic curiosity.
Peter Bauhuis