sven piayda is a visual artist working with photography, video, sound and music as well as computer generated imagery. having studied arts, crafts and design (gestaltungstechnik) at essen university, technology has a fixed role in all pieces by being a carrier of meaning and never ending in itself. his works reflect the possibilities of the medium while evoking media criticism by questioning the abilities and disabilities of the work telling something about the world – or even the viewer.

his pieces often quote art or media history, playing with a postmodernistic idea of remixing or mirroring the process of image production and consumption. appearing simple at first glance, piayda´s work reveals meta-levels in reconsideration.
his works have been shown in galleries, museums, kunstvereine, off-spaces as well as at film festivals mostly in germany and also worldwide. next to making shows piayda also collects art by fellowship artists and works on new ways for enhancing collections and trading artworks. apart from creating work with his studio he has been collaborating with numerous artists and musicians. he also holds lectures on digital art and teaches digital production in sound and vision. in 2016 piayda recieved the ruhrpreis für kunst und wissenschaft (promotion prize) as founded by mülheim an der ruhr, germany.
in 2019 piayda was appointed as director of the art, crafts and design department at zfsl krefeld and in 2021 additionally as director of media design / design technology department. in 2025 he was additionally appointed as director of colour technology / interior design / surface technology and (fine) arts.

next to the visual output, piayda has been recording and playing live with bands and projects of different musical styles like architects of utter destruction, penrose delta, dissident(en) club, the flamma piayda complex, primal scapes, factor-4 feat. general piayda, mmaakkee, renert trio and AESTATE. he has also released solo works as record of tides, Sellafield., xcrmntr (for one track), MCPMF (for a mixtape) and SVEN.
AESTATE´s live performances have been very rare and they were never about reproduction, more about pushing the material forward, about transformation or installation.
in 2015 AESTATE recieved the hungertuch art award in the music category. after a waiting period of twelve years he also released a second album with his solo project record of tides in 2016 and has added a new releases to the catalogue since. recently he focusses his effort on the audiovisual electronica project record of tides in releasing music, doing visual art shows, playing live and (hard)deejaying.
via founding and running zany music, piayda´s music is released and reissued in different formats since 1999, even side projects are made available digitally.

the official site www.svenpiayda.com has become an important basement of his work, it features information and downloads, up-to-date news and a blogesque journal. svenpiayda.com also features the complete and growing portfolio as well as exclusive material and previews via /CAMP.

sven piayda has been represented by ikosaeder gallery in essen and galerie143, dortmund & lörrach, germany. he is without gallery representation but certain works are or have been available from galerie gublia, essen; galerie an der ruhr, mülheim/ruhr and galerie jutta kabuth, gelsenkirchen, superartmarkt, bochum as well as sven piayda studio. piayda releases music via kreislauf.org, pinmusik, crazy language, illphabetik, digital kunstrasen, component recordings and his own label zany music.
he lives and works in mülheim an der ruhr, germany and kirchberg plateau, luxembourg.