Peter Bremers

Studied at the Sculpture Department at the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ABKM), Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1976–1980. Postgraduate studies at the Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, 1986–1988. He received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, the Netherlands, 1999. He taught Product Design at the ABKM in 1999–2006.

Since 1989 he has participated in more than 70 individual exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad, including: Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, the Netherlands, 2005; Etienne Gallery, Oisterwijk, the Netherlands, 2009, 2011, 2014; the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, USA, 2014.
He has also participated in more than 200 group exhibitions, including: the Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague, the Czech Republic, 2008; SOFA Chicago with Litvak Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2010–2014; the Habatat Galleries, the International Glass Invitational Award Exhibition, Royal Oak, USA, 2013–2014; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA; and the Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China, 2014.

His works are represented in several museums and collections, including: Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen; the Contemporary Glass Art Museum of Arcorcon, MAVA, Madrid, Spain; Ernsting Stiftung, Glasmuseum Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld, Germany; Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, Ebeltoft, Denmark; and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, the Netherlands.

Recently, he has been working on a series called The Inward Journey. He attempts to capture the process of change that one experiences by travelling. The objects pay tribute to mankind and its never-ending journey to a deeper understanding of oneself and each other.

Fascination with our planet’s cultural and natural diversity is one of his greatest inspirations
in his art.