Peter Land
Born: 1966
Hometown: Aarhus, Denmark
Lives and Works: Copenhagen, Denmark
Education:
Goldsmith College, London, England, 1995
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994
About The Artist
Peter Land is a Danish performance artist, filmmaker, photographer, and painter. He is known for video installations that depict the artist in absurd situations portraying himself or a character drawn from diverse cultural sources ranging from Charlotte Brönte’s Wuthering Heights to Monty Python. His tragicomic compositions often investigate the sense of powerlessness and confusion one feels attempting to fit into society’s pre-determined roles.
Land’s work frequently deals with dark themes, such as suicide, abandonment, and failure, with a wicked sense of humor. His Men in Bed series (2009) depicts stuffed dolls with long, Gumby-like limbs in repose on wire-framed beds, and The Road Home (2011) is a series of pastoral watercolor landscapes consisting of an infinite number of pathways leading to nowhere.
Land’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, including solo shows at Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark; the New Museum, New York, NY; and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Land represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 2005.
Galleries
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy
Select Permanent Collections
Arken, Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Copenhagen, Denmark
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Fondazione Sandretto ReReBaudengo, Torino, Italy
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Fonds National d'art Contemporain, Paris, France
Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark
Works by the Artist
