Peter Bonde

Peter Bonde is a Danish artist who lives and works in Copenhagen. He studied (1982) and taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Art and represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Bonde was the recipient of the Eckersberg Medal in 2003 and was awarded Statens Kunstfond’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Since the 1980’s, Bonde has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Denmark and abroad and he is represented in all major Danish art museums including The Danish National Gallery, ARoS, and the art museums Trapholt and Esbjerg. Outside of Denmark, his work is represented in public and private collections including StatensMuseum for Kunst, Copenhagen; ARKEN Museum for Modern Art, Ishøj; Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg; Can Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Turkey; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; and Turku Art Museum, Finland. His work has also been exhibited at numerous galleries internationally.  

 

Peter Bonde’s practice spans a variety of mediums with experiments ranging from painting, collage, video, and installation work. He has explored the use of unconventional materials including perishables and pre-printed photographs. Bonde’s recent works have been explorations of oil painting on ultra-reflective mirror foil, asserting the idea of the reflection as an object in its own right, rather than a mere representation of the thing(s) being reflected. Bonde’s colorful strokes are in constant interchange with the ultra-reflective foil, which incorporates both space and viewer inside the painting through the reflection.

Peter Bonde (b. 1958, Denmark)

 

Education

1982 The Danish Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen, DK

1996 Professor, The Fuenen Art Academy, Odense, DK

2005 Professor, The Danish Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen, DK

 

Select Solo Exhibitions

2024 Mirror Paintings (Brussels Version), Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, BE

2024 New Works, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2024 It’s Good Enough for Nansy, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany, DE

2023 Please Use The Other Door, Motherfuckers, Martin Asbæk, Copenhagen, DK

2021 Mirror Man, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US

2021 Unclaimed Baggage Will Be Destroyed, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK

2020 Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2020 Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne, DE

2016 Peter Bonde, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US

2016 New Works, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2014 Peter Bonde, Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne, DE

2013 Peter Bonde, SOD Space of Drawings, Copenhagen, DK

2013 Peter Bonde, Six Sculptures and Forty-Seven Drawings, Marie Kirkegaard

Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2011 Peter Bonde, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane, AU

2011 Peter Bonde, Mirror Foil, Andersen’s Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK

2008 Peter Bonde, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, NO

2007 Peter Bonde, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, DK

2006 Peter Bonde, Danish Contemporary Painting, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst,

Ishoj, DK

2006 Peter Bonde, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, NO

2004 Peter Bonde, Wake up the Sun is in your Face, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, DK

2003 Peter Bonde, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, DE

2003 Headless Tour – Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE

                                    – Trapholt, Kolding, DK

                                    – Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2001 Peter Bonde, DCA Gallery, New York City, NY, US

2000 Peter Bonde, Malerei/Installation – Brigitte March International Contemporary Art,

Stuttgart, DE

1999 48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia – La

Biennale di Venezia, The Snowball, Venice, IT

 

Select Group Exhibitions

2024 Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2023 Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2022 Winter Presentation, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2021 Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2020 Five Year Anniversary Show, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US

2020 All Together Now, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, DK

2020 Décollage II, Ringsted Galleriet, Ringsted, DK

2019 Before the Fall of the Wall, ARoS Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus, DK

2018 Flesh, RØM, Valby, DK

2018 Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2017 Grey and Beige Portfolio, Elgiz Museum of Art, Istanbul, TK

2017 Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2017 Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, DK

2017 Some Old Bullshit, Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen, DK

2016 Summer in the City, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, DK

2016 Berliner Bahnhof, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES

2015 Peter Bonde y Javier Tapia, D21 Proyectos de Arte, Santiago, CH

2015 Javier Tapia Y Peter Bonde: Bicéfalo, Double Headed South, Museo Nacional de

Bellas Artes, Santiago, CH

2015 This Sticky Mess Will Get Us There, Nordic Contemporary, Paris, FR

2015 Fra Samlingen, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, DK

2014 Trace 14, Proje4L, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, TK

2013 As We Perform It, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, US

2010 Peter Bonde & Jason Rhoades, Half Snowball, Andersen’s Copenhagen, DK

2009 Die Welt als Bühne, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE

2009 Folkstone Prism, Casino Metropolitano, Mexico City, MX

2007 Selection 2007, Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, TK

2007 At the End of the Rainbow, Bm-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, TK

2006 20th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2006 Boisterous loud and energetic, Andersen’s, Copenhagen, DK

2005 Morrow Complex Summer Party, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2004 Nordic Art, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, DE

2003 Die Nacht des Jägers …(the Night of the Hunter…), Brigitte March International

Contemporary Art, Stuttgard, DE

2002 STARS and BRIGHTS, Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE

2002 What about Hegel (and you)?, Brigitte March International Contemporary Art,

Stuttgart, DE

2001 Gaba, Marzouk, Sooja, Bonde, Kusolwong, Hadjithomas And Joreige, Institute of Visual

Arts, Milwaukee, WI, US

2000 Monochromes, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, AU

1998 The Louisiana Exhibition, New Art from Denmark and Scandinavia, Louisiana Museum

of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK

1997 On Painting (On the Edge of Painting), SCA Gallery, Sydney College of the Arts,

Sydney, AU

1990 Ponton Temse, SMAK: Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, BE

1990 The Readymade Boomerang, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU

 

Select Public & Private Collections

ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj, DK

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, DK

Axa Northern Stern, Cologne, DE

Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, TK

Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerb, DK

Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, DK

Kunsten, Ålborg, DK

Kunstmuseet Køge Skitsesamling, Køge, DK

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE

National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, DK

Randers kunstmuseum, Randers, DK

Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, DK

Statens Museum for Kunst, (Danish National Gallery), Copenhagen, DK

Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst, Kolding, DK

Wolfsburg Museum of Art, Wolfsburg, DK

 

Select Bibliography 

2016 G. Leddington, “Peter Bonde at MIER Gallery, Los Angeles,” Mousse Magazine

2003 WAX IN MY INNER EAR, Catalogue, Trapholt Museum for Moderne Kunst

2002 Peter Doroshenko: “Peter Bonde” in Vitamin P, Phaidon

1999 Jérôme Sans cont. & Paul McCarthy, The Snowball, Hatje Cantz Publishers

1995 Richard Vine: “Peter Bonde at DCA”, Art in America, p. 99, February

Peter Bonde, katalog DCA Gallery – New York, Asbæk Editions, Copenhagen

1994 Peter Bonde, Galleri Jespersen, Odense

1992 Bonde-Carstensen-Frandsen, katalog Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki Ane

Hejlskov Larsen: “Peter Bondes Billedkatalog, i Peter Bonde, Entertain Us!,Kunstmusee

Featured Artwork

Past Exhibitions

20th Anniversary Group Exhibition
2007 Dec 19 - Jan 16
Morrow Complex Summer Party 2005
2005 Jul 14 - Aug 07

Publications

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