Peter B. is an artist and visual generalist based in Graz, Austria. His work moves between photography, performance, fetish, staged and unstaged realities, and the exploration of spaces that usually remain hidden, temporary or inaccessible.

For more than ten years, he has been developing the long-term project DERBAUPOLIER — a performative alter ego and artistic identity that dissolves the boundaries between lived experience, sexual fantasy, risk and documentation. Through photography, video and installation, he explores construction sites, underground garages, temporary workers’ spaces and other charged environments as places of projection, desire and transformation.

His artistic practice is rooted in a fascination with traces: used materials, clothing, architecture, smell, labour, masculinity, danger and the atmosphere of places shortly after people have left them. Rather than creating fully staged scenes, Beck often works with real situations and found spaces, allowing tension, uncertainty and physical presence to become part of the image.