Peter Kogler

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Galleria Barovier&Toso (Murano, Venice) returns to Palazzo Barovier&Toso in Murano with a solo exhibition by Peter Kogler, on view from 10 September 2026 to 21 February 2027. The exhibition continues the gallery's programme of inviting internationally renowned artists to engage with glass for the first time, creating new works through a close collaboration with Murano's master glassmakers.

"It was our friend Hans-Peter Wipplinger, Director of the Leopold Museum in Vienna, who first suggested the name of Peter Kogler, during a visit with our gallery's director Dr Mara Hofmann. The idea struck us immediately: Kogler's visual language of endlessly repeating tubes, creating infinite networks, felt like an unmistakable echo of filigrana, one of Murano's oldest techniques, in which fine threads of glass are twisted and drawn into intricate line patterns. We extended an invitation to Peter Kogler, and it is with great pride that Galleria Barovier&Toso now announces this exhibition, bringing his singular vision into dialogue with the glass of Murano for the very first time." – Rinaldo Invernizzi, President, Galleria Barovier&Toso

Born in Innsbruck, Austria, in 1959, Peter Kogler has, since the 1980s, developed one of the most distinctive artistic practices at the intersection of art, architecture, and digital media. His signature installations transform entire interiors into immersive optical labyrinths, enveloping walls, ceilings, and floors in endlessly repeating tubular patterns that visitors move through rather than simply observe.

For his collaboration with Galleria Barovier&Toso, and for the first time in his career, Kogler translates his unmistakable visual vocabulary into Murano glass. Tubes, ants, brains, and globes—recurring motifs throughout his practice that evoke networks, data flows, collective intelligence, and global connectivity—are reinterpreted through some of Murano's most refined glassmaking techniques, including filigrana and murrina. The result is a new body of work in which digital language and artisanal knowledge enter into an unprecedented dialogue.

Kogler's intervention extends throughout the entire gallery, transforming it into a total installation. No surface, object, or threshold remains untouched, suggesting that, in Kogler's world—as in the hyperconnected world we already inhabit—connectivity is not a condition we enter, but a reality from which there is no exit.