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1938
Born September 1 in Copenhagen
1957
Studies geology at the University of Copenhagen
1958
Participates in an expedition to Narssak, Greenland, which is followed by further expeditions in the 1970s to Greenland, Central America and the Arctic
1962
Studies at the Experimental Art School in Copenhagen; works
at the school in painting, graphic arts, eight millimeter
films and performance pieces
1964
Graduates from university; first exhibition of drawings and
collages
1965
First one-man exhibition in Den Frie Udstillingsbygning,
Copenhagen; receives a three-year scholarship from the
State Art Foundation; publishes his first book of poems
1966
Publishes a volume of poems titled “Copyright”;
performances with Joseph Beuys, Bengt af Klintberg, Henning
Christiansen, Björn Nörgaard and others; travels to New
York
1967
Performances in New York with Nam June Paik, Charlotte
Moorman and others; publishes his first novel “2,15”;
performances with Immendorff and Nörgaard in Aachen
1968
Publishes a volume of poems and collected essays about art
titled “Billedforklaringer”
1971
Travels to Central America and studies the art and
architecture of the Maya
1973
Finishes the first brick sculpture in Ikast, Jutland
1974
First exhibition in the Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne;
publishes “Fliegende Blätter”
1975
Retrospective of works on paper in the graphic department
of the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Copenhagen; exhibition of
drawings in Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikod¬den, Norway
1976
Venice Biennale
1977
One-man exhibition in the Museum Folkwang, Essen, with
paintings, brick sculptures and books
1978
Professorship at the Academy of Art, Karlsruhe
1979
Kunsthalle Bern, Kunstmuseum Aarhus; purchases a house on
the island Laeso in the Cattegat
1980
“A New Spirit in Painting”, London; Venice Biennale; “Après
le Classi¬cisme", Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, St. Etienne
1981
Volume of essays “Bravura”
1982
Guest artist of the DAAD, Berlin; one-man exhibition in the
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Documenta VII, Kassel;
membership in the Danish Academy of Literature
1984
“Munch-Jorn-Kirkeby”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven;
“von hier aus”, Dusseldorf; “An International Survey of
Recent Paintings and Sculpture”, Museum of Modern Art, New
York; “Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert”, Basel
1985
Den Frie Udstillings-bygning, Copenhagen; A. R. Penck
publishes the volume “Krater und Wolke”, dedicated to Per
Kirkeby, with drawings by Kirkeby
1986
Travels to Australia
1987
“Skulptur Projekt”, Münster; Museum Ludwig, Cologne;
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Zurich; Kunstverein Freiburg; Museum
Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1988
Publishes books of essays on Delacroix, Manet, Picasso;
Schloss Sophienholm, Lyngby; Himmerlands Kunstmuseum, Aars;
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Mary Boone/Michael Werner, New York
1989
Professorship at the Städelschule in Frankfurt a.M.; Pamela
Auchincloss Gallery, New York; Galerie Ulysses, Vienna;
Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Galerie Lelong, Zürich
1989/90
IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia
1990
Art Prize of the NORD/LB; Städelsches Kunstinstitut,
Frankfurt; Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris; Galerie Kaj
Forsblom, Helsinki; Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt a.M.;
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Galerie
Michael Werner, Cologne; Retrospective in the Lousiana
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
1991
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen;
Galerie Lelong, Zurich; Galerie Philippe Guimiot, Brussels;
Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding; Gamarra Garrigues, Madrid;
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; Galerie Beaumont,
Luxembourg
1991/92
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; M.I.T. List Art Center,
Cambridge
1992
Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Centre National d'Art
Contemporain de Grenoble; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne;
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton; University Art Museum,
Berkeley; Städtische Galerie Goppingen; Goteborgs
Konstmuseum; Galerie Borkowski, Hannover
1992/93
“Border Crossings: Fourteen Scandinavian Artists”, Barbican
Art Gallery, London; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne;
Documenta IX, Kassel
1993
Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg; Skissernas Museum, Lund;
Galerie Springer, Berlin; “ARS FENNICA 1993”, City Art
Museum, Helsinki; Waino Aaltonen Art Museum, Turkey;
Moderna Galerija Ljubljana; Indianapolis Art Museum,
Indianapolis; Venice Biennale, Venice; Laura Carpenter Fine
Art, Santa Fe
1993/94
Galerie Lelong, Zurich; Obalne galerije, Piran
1994
Publishes “Feldbuch” with Michael Werner; Galerie Meyer-
Ellinger, Frankfurt a.M.; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen;
Portikus, Frankfurt a.M.; National Gallery, Palai
Sternberk, Prague; Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Museum
Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Bienal de Sao Paulo
1994/95
Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Galerie Michael Werner,
Cologne; Haus der Kunst, Munich
1995
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Busche Galerie, Berlin;
Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg; Musée des Beaux-Arts de
Nantes; Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldehouwkunst Middelheim,
Antwerpen; “Carnegie International”, Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh; Frick Art Historical Center, Pittsburgh;
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
1996
Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Galerie Michael Werner,
Cologne; Winner of the Coutts Prize, Vienna; Maison des
Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France; Stadtgalerie
Sundern, Sundern; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj; “Views
from Abroad”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York; “Hendrik-Steffens-Preis”,
Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S., Hamburg
1996/97
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
1997
L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles; Venice Biennale; Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas; Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt;
Galerie Riis, Oslo; Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen; St.
Annenmuseum, Lübeck; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne;
“Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20.”, Staatsgalerie,
Stuttgart; “Der Holzschnitt. Biespiele aus 6
Jahrhunderten”, Städttische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main;
“Sammlung Speck”, Kunsthalle, Vienna; Galerie Bismarck,
Bremen; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg; Städtische
Museen Heilbronn
1997/98
Kunsthaus Bregenz
1998
Tate Gallery, London; Städtisches Kunstsammlungen,
Augsburg; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Staatliche
Galerie Moritzburg, Halle; Galerie de France, Paris;
“Visions du Nord”, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de
Paris, Paris; Barmenia VSG, Wuppertal; Städtische Galerie
in Lenbachhaus, Munich; Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus; Michael
Werner Gallery, New York
1998/99
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf; Galerie
Michael Werner, Cologne
1999
Galerie Seitz, Berlin; Flensburger Museum, Städtische
Museen & Sammlungen, Flensburg; Knoedler & Co., New York;
“Swan Lake”, New York City Ballet, New York; Gesellschaft
Für Gegenwartskunst e.V. im Zeughaushof, Augsburg;
Konsthall, Magasin 3, Stockholm; Morat-Institut für Kunst,
Freiburg; Michael Hue-Williams, London; Galerie Doris
Hölder, Ravensburg; Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden;
Bethmannhof, Frankfurt a.M.
2000
Provides 8 monumental bronze sculptures for the
Bundesratsgebäude, Berlin; Morat-Institut für Kunst,
Freiburg; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Färöe Islands
Art Gallery, Torshavn, Färöer Insel; Städtischen Galerie,
Karlsruhe; Collection d'Art, Amsterdam; Niels Borch Jensen,
Berlin; Galerie Zulauf, Freinsheim; Galerie Beaumont,
Luxembourg; “Pablo Picasso. Nu couché 24.10.67. En
Betragtning af Per Kirkeby”, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen;
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe; Galerie Borkowski,
Hannover; Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris; “Wilhelm
Hansen Fondenshaederpris”, Copenhagen for his stage
production of “Swan Lake”
2001
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Galerie Michael Werner,
Cologne; Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Galerie Meyer-
Ellinger, Frankfurt a.M.; Deutsche Bank Luxembourg,
Luxembourg; Galerie Holm & Wirth, Zürich; Galleri Riis,
Oslo; Sabine Knust, Munich; Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri
Island
2002
University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth; Opal Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv; Galerie
Noah im Glaspalast, Augsburg; Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk;
Städtische Museen, Jena; Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen;
Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
2003
Galerie Carinthia im Stift, Ossiach; Galerie Michael
Werner, Cologne; Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg v.d.H.
2004
Galerie Kugler, Innsbruck; Galerie Gabriele von Loeper,
Hamburg; Deutsche Akademie, Villa Massimo, Rome,
Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Singen
2005
"ARS FENNICA 1991-2003", Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland; Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris; Museum für religiose Kunst, Lemvig; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne and Michael Werner Gallery, New York; Gallerie Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen; L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA;
The Faroe Islands Museum, Faroe Islands; “Triebkräfte der Erde. Marc, Klee, Winter, Beuys, Kirkeby”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; “Recent Aquisitions”, Kunsthandel Weber, Köln
2006
Kunsthalle im Emden, Emden; DS Art Galerie, Frankfurt am
Main; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel; Aargaouer Kunsthaus, Aarau;
“Homage to Chillida”, Guggenheim, Bilbao; “Black and White:
Drawings for Summer”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York;
“Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples / 1960 to Now“,
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007
Designs settings and costumes for “Romeo and Juliet”, New
York City Ballet; first major exhibition in China at
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; “Per
Kirkeby”, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago; “Per Kirkeby: Neue
Bilder”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne and Julius Werner
Berlin, Germany
2007-08
“Per Kirkeby: New Paintings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Per Kirkeby. Skulpturen, Arbeiten auf Papier, Originalgrafik 1979 – 2006, Galerie Noah, Augsburg
2008
"Per Kirkeby". Kristinehamns Konstmusum, Sweden; “Per
Kirkeby Retrospective” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Denmark; “Serial Works on Paper”, Julius Werner, Berlin;
“Series Drawings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Per
Kirkeby: Tavler & Skulpturer”, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard,
Copenhagen; “Black Swan: A Sculpture Show”, Michael Werner
London, London
2009
“Per Kirkeby Retrospective”, Tate Modern, London
Per Kirkeby currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Laeso, Frankfurt am Main and Italy.
