Peik Elias

Peik was educated at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, where he received a Master of Fine Art in 2022. He has participated in several exhibitions in Norway and abroad, including Østlandsutstillingen, K-U-K, and Könstens Hus in Finland. Amongst others he have had artist residencies at Svalbard and Edvard Munch’s Atelier, and has held solo exhibitions in Oslo and Athens.

Peik engages with oil painting and sculpture within an expressive figurative tradition.

Thematically, his works mirrors a fragmented reality with references to timeless and modern myths. His visual universe reflects life’s contrasts: the heavy and the ethereal, the tragic and the comic.

Central to Peiks process is tacit knowledge. He emphasizes the capacity of images to foster a different kind of reflection than language, viewing artistic visual language as offering an experience rather than an explanation. His point of departure is that logic can’t fully grasp being, and that visual language stimulates reflection inaccessible to words alone.

In addition to his fine art education, Peik holds a master’s degree from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. He has lived and worked in Greece, Italy, Austria, Denmark, and Northern Norway.