Peter Wüthrich was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1962, and he still lives and works there.
His imagination focuses on the “book”, maniacally taken as the subject and constitutive unit of all his creations. For Peter Wüthrich, the book has an esthetic value: abstract (identifiable through colors and the rational exaltation of the surface of books), plastic/sculptural (when the artist considers the book as a consistent physical presence, at times, aerial) or Pop (when the book becomes the object of consumption) as well as a literary and conceptual value. The artist is attracted by the atmosphere created when the observer perceives the strong relationship among book, history and work of art. In this way, the book becomes the metaphor of the world.

Among Wüthrich's most important recent presentations, it's worth mentioning the exhibition at the Kunstverein of Friedrichshafen in 1998, another at the Kunstverein of Freiburg in 1999 and still another at the Kunstverein of Bremerhaven in 2000. In 2001, he presented an important exhibition in Spain, at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea of Santiago de Compostela and at Galleria Christian Stein in Milan whereas in 2003, his one-man show was presented at the Kunsthalle of Winterthur. Still in 2003, he participated in the exhibition entitled Collections sans frontires at Galerie National d’Art Zacheta of Warschau. Wüthrich's relationship with Galleria Fumagalli began in 2004, when the gallery presented his one-man show and cured the publication of a volume, with texts by Bruno Corà, which documented Peter Wüthrich's last series of works: le Literary Towers. Both the exhibition and the book publishing were accomplished in cooperation with Galleria Christian Stein of Milan.