Per Kirkeby – Winter (1985)

Exhibition poster with the work, Winter (1985) by the Danish artist, Per Kirkeby (1938-2018) in connection with the exhibition with Kirkeby in Louisiana in 2008/2009. Per Kirkeby's works form one of the focal points of Louisiana's collection, and with this exhibition the museum offered a retrospective encounter with all the genres the artist has moved through.

No other Danish artist in the 20th century—perhaps with the exception of Asger Jorn—has explored the geography of art as widely and deeply as Per Kirkeby.

With his background as a trained geologist and later as a central member of the Danish artist group, Eks-skolen, Kirkeby has created an impressive body of work that covers virtually all genres: Poetry, writing, film, scenography, architecture, painting, sculpture and graphics.

The international recognition is indisputable—both in the wider art world and among artist colleagues, where Kirkeby appears in many respects today as an artist's artist.

Louisiana has previously—among other things with the exhibition of the artist's early pop art-inspired works on masonite in 2002—exhibited Kirkeby to the Danish public, and a number of the artist's larger works are almost permanently exhibited in the museum's collection.