Peter Land

Peter Land (* 1966 in Aarhus ) is a Danish artist. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1988 to 1994 and at Goldsmith College in London from 1994 to 1995 and works in the fields of installation , performance , video and graphics. Since 1993 he has had numerous international exhibitions.

Land's early works deal with a burlesque representation of male failure. In one of his earliest video works ("Step Ladder Blues"), Land climbs up a ladder again and again to paint the gallery in his Copenhagen gallery, only to fall off the ladder again and again. In more recent works, especially the drawings and installation sculptures, surreal (nightmarish) dream scenarios and imagery reminiscent of Little Nemo or Alice in Wonderland predominate. Peter Land lives in Copenhagen.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2013: Peter Land , Absolute Perfection, Kunstpalais Erlangen , Erlangen, Germany
• 2011: Peter Land , Holstebro Art Museum, Holstebro, Denmark
• 2011: Two collectors , Deichtorhallen , Hamburg, Germany
• 2009: BRAND NEW. Acquisitions 2007 - 2008 , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria
• 2008: Sound of Art. Music in the Visual Arts. , Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
• 2008: Socle du Monde , Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark
• 2007: Passion for Art , Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, Austria
• 2007: IMAGES OF MAN today , ARKEN Museum for Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
• 2007: her (his) tory , Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
• 2006: Nothing But Pleasure , BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
• 2006: Sip My Ocean , Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
• 2005: When Humor Becomes Painful , Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Zurich, Switzerland
• 2005: Venice Biennale (the Danish Pavilion), Venice, Italy
• 2004: Beyond Paradise- Nordic Artists Travel east , National Art Gallery Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 2003: The Ride , Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
• 2000: Kunsthaus Glarus , Switzerland
• 2000: An Introduction to my Videoworks , The Lux, Center for Film, Video & Digital Arts, London, England
• 1997: Vienna Secession , Vienna, Austria

Web links

• Peter Land at artfacts.net
• Portrait Peter Land (Danish)
• Peter Land at Galleri Nicolai Wallner
• Biography of Peter Land, Essl Museum