The wood collected from nature builds the basis for every sculpure comparable to every lifeform finding their basis in the nature.
Can glass grow like wood? Can it connect with nature and become one with it? Can it radiate out of itself?
Layer after layer purposefully built up and glued. Hour after hour specially processed. Day after day the process is brought to completion
Each sculpture is as unique as it gets. Starting from the wood to the glassstructure and the polishing
I work with what nature has already shaped.
Found driftwood, river stone, antler — materials that have lived, weathered, and been left behind. Into these I bring cold-worked float glass: cut, layered, UV-bonded, ground and polished by hand. No heat. No molds. No shortcuts.
The contrast between organic, transient materials and the precision of glass creates a tension I find endlessly compelling. What is lifeless is not hidden — it is honored, and becomes the foundation for something radiant and new.
My work is about opposites in balance. Past and new. Rough and clear. Death and light. Each sculpture becomes autonomous — a presence in space that changes with every viewpoint and every shift in light.
I make one work per month. Each one takes everything the previous one taught me.
Peter Wiechenthaler was born in 1984 in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, Austria. He trained at the Glas-HTL Kramsach, graduating from the artistic advanced program with a Matura diploma — one of the few specialized glass schools in the world.After more than a decade in a leadership role within the family business, he returned to his original path and devoted himself entirely to art. Since 2022, he has been working from his studio in Brixen, South Tyrol, creating cold-worked glass sculptures that combine laminated float glass with found natural materials — driftwood, antler, and river stone.
His work has been shown at the International Glass Biennale in Bulgaria, Venice Glass Week, and art fairs in Munich, Madrid, and Mallorca. In May 2026, he will present new work at Stroke Art Fair Munich.
Exhibitions & Fairs
2026
Stroke Art Fair - Munich, Germany (May 1–3)
Art World Marbella - Spain (July 30-August 2)
2025
International Glass Biennale - Sofia, Bulgaria
Artlab, Galerie Benjamin Eck - Munich, Germany
Group Exhibition, VAN GOGH ART GALLERY - Madrid, Spain
Art Project "Klaus Wiechenthaler", KinskyArt&Living - Port Andratx, Mallorca
Group Exhibition, Stadtgalerie Brixen - Italy
2024
Solo Exhibition - Brixen, ItalyGroup
Exhibition, Circolo Artistico S. Erardo - Brixen, Italy
2023
International Glass Biennale - Bulgaria
Venice Glass Week - Venice, Italy
This roadmap outlines the Creation of each sculpure. To be clear: No sculpture has the same creation-process. Still there are some steps that cant be left out.
The base is a found piece of wood. Mainly driftwood. Grown over years, dead and processed by the raging river.
In this found driftwood lies the basis of the emerging work of art. Here starts the idea process what can become of it and thus gives the process of creation. How can glass elegantly and gracefully growing connect with it?
Layer by layer, glass plates are cut and glued. They are sanded, glued and cut again until a rough shape of the entire work is created.
The root is plastered, brushed or partially embedded. The rough glass block is ground, chiseled, engraved, sandblasted and polished until the desired fusion is complete.
"Gewachsenes Glas" — Brixner, April 2024
"Der Glaszauberer" — Platzhirsch, Nov. 2023
"Pinzgauer artist makes glass grow with his art" — MeinBezirk.at, Oktober 2023
TV Feature "Gewachsenes Glas" — Südtirol Heute, September 2023
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