Per Kirkeby
Per Kirkeby was born 1939 in Kopenhagen. As a geology student he travelled widely on expeditions to Greenland, Iceland, Central Asia and Middle America. From the 60s onwards he made himself a name as a performance artist, graphic artist, painter, sculptor, writer, director of films and, in 1995, as an architect. He is one of the most prominent exponents of contemporary Danish art. Kirkeby lives and works in Kopenhagen, on Laeso, in Frankfurt and Italy.Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2009—2010
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2008—2009
Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek
2003
Herbert-Boeckl-Prize for his life work Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1999
Tate Gallery, London; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
1996
Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation. Henrik Steffens Award by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg
1995
Haus der Kunst, Munich. Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes
1990
Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Nord LB Art Prize
1987
Thorvalsden Medal. Ludwig Museum, Cologne
1982
DAAD scholarship for Berlin. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1980
Danish Pavilion at Venice Biennale. Participation in A new Spirit in Painting,
1978—1989
Professorship at the Cologne Academy of Arts
1979
Kunsthalle Bern Museum
1977
Folkwang, Essen
Literature (Selection)
Per Kirkeby—Paintings 1957-77. Catalogue Raisonné, ed. by Ane Hejlskov Larson, Cologne, 2003
Per Kirkeby—Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings, ed. by Troels Andersen, Bern Berlin, 2002
Per Kirkeby—Louisiana 2008, ed. by Michael Juul Holm, Louisiana, 2008
Per Kirkeby—Die Welt ist Material, ed. by Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2010