Peter Bonde
1958
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark

1976-82
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

1996-05
Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007
I Know No "Work" As My Work-Pissing in Pools, Shitting in Cans, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark

2006
Retrospective, Arken – Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway

2004
Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany
WAKE UP THE SUN IS IN YOUR FACE, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003
Chromosome-Galerie und Centrum für Internationale Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
HEADLESS TOUR 2003, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany
HEADLESS TOUR 2003, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada
HEADLESS TOUR 2003, Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark
HEADLESS TOUR 2003, Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart, Germany

2002
The Table, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen

2001
DCA Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconcin, Milwaukee, U.S.A.

2000
It's a Beautiful Day Remix (German version), Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart, Germany
It's a Beautiful Day, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen
The Snowball (w. Jason Rhoades), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

1999
The Snowball (w. Jason Rhoades), The Danish Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale, Italy
The Orange Show, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany

1998
The Birthday Party, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rachel's Car. Flags in Slow Motion. Flags in Real Time, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark

1997
Christopher Cutts Gallery (with Claus Carstensen), Toronto, Canada
David Pestorius Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

1996
Bonde, Carstensen, Donaldsen, Nixon, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

1995
Patricia Correia Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Galeria José Maria Valenzuela - Espacio D', Bubion (Granada), Spain

1994
DCA Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark

1992
Galerie Patricia Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark

1991
Show Room, Vesterbrogade 107 B, Copenhagen, Denmark

1990
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany

1988
London Bar, Barcelona, Spain

1987
Tegninger, Sorø Kunstmuseum, Denmark

1986
Galleri Specta, Aarhus, Denmark
Galleri Prag, Copenhagen, Denmark

1985
Paintings and Sculptures, Eks-Skolens Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark

1984
Galleri Sub-Set, Copenhagen, Denmark

1981
Rådhuskælderen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2008
Elgiz Collection in Ca' Pesaro, Museum of Modern Art in Venice

2007
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part II, Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

2006
Art on Campus 1, University Art Museum, brisbane, Australia
Boisterous - Loud and Energetic, Andersen_s_Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2004
Nordic Art, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
Sven Dalsgaard og tidligere elever, Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Denmark

2003
Fra Objektiv til Objekt, Den Fri Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen

2002
Stars and Brights, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
What About Hegel and You?, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany

2001
START!, Centro Cultural Andratx, Majorca, Spain
8th International Cairo Biennale, Egypt
IAOFT: The Empire Strikes back, Hallo!, Copenhagen

2000
Monochromes, University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Come in and find out (vol. 4), Podewil Contemporary Art Center, Berlin, Germany
Art Frankfurt 2000 (Galerie Brigitte March), Germany
De glade givere - Museernes bedste billeder, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

1999
Cities on the Move 4, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark

1998
Farvel til 80'erne, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

1997
New Art from Denmark and Scania, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark
Display, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Kropsnær, Vestsjællands Art Museum, Sorø, Denmark

1996
Grosse Kunstaustellung, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Baltic Sea Biennale 1996, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany

1995
Drawing in Tongues, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
Kölner Kunstmesse, Cologne, Germany

1994
Europa 94, München, Germany
Choix de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
Ten Years After, Roskilde, Denmark

1993
INFERNO, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Black Box, Copenhagen, Denmark
Straw Dogs, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
EC-Young Painters, Seoul, Korea

1992
New Danish Art, Galleri Jespersen, Odense, Denmark
The Commitments, Galleri Specta, Aarhus, Denmark

1991
Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany
Transparencia Azul 1991-92, Sweden, South America, Portugal.

1990
Ponton Temse, Temse, Belgium
8th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Gallery Rick Urmel (with Claus Carstensen), Gent, Brüssels, Belgium

1989
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany

1988
Denmark 88, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Ten Years After, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany

1987
Det Skandinaviske Hus, Reykjavik, Iceland
Det Skandinaviske Hus, the Faroe Islands

1986
Limelight, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vild med Kunst, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Kobberstiksamlingen, Statens Museum for kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

1985
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Eks-Skolens Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vesterbrogade 116 C, Copenhagen, Denmark

1984
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tranegaarden, Gentofte, Denmark
Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
T-Show, Galleri Specta, Aarhus, Denmark
Esbjerg Kunstpavillon, Esbjerg, Denmark
Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
In/out the flat no. 4 (with Claus Carstensen), Galleri Kongo, Copenhagen, Denmark
Japan in Hvidovre, Hvidovre Medborgerhus, Hvidovre, Denmark

1983
Kunstforeningen Gl. Stand, Copenhagen, Denmark
The workshop Vaerst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
In/out the flat no. 3 (with Claus Carstensen), Galleri Specta, Aarhus, Denmark
Bonde, Carstensen, Ellegaard, Jensen, Nielsen, Ravn, Morsø Kunstforening, Nykøbing Mors, Denmark

1982
Tranegaarden, Gentofte Denmark
Karlsvik 10, Stockholm, Sweden
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark

1981
4 attempts on freedom (the great illusion of sense and meaning) in/from the flat, Galleri St. Petri, Lund, Sweden
5 Sessions (with Claus Carstensen) in/from the flat, Copenhagen, Denmark
In/from the flat no. 2 (with Claus Carstensen), Copenhagen, Denmark

1979 Myths-Myths, Gallery St. Petri, Lund, Sweden

1977 Randers Kunstmuseum, Randers, Denmark


OTHER ACTIVITIES:

1989
IAOFTF No....The musicians paint, The painters play music and the poets shut up, concert in Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

1988
Drawings, the publishing firm "Arme og Ben", Copenhagen, Denmark

1987
CAC IAOFTF No. 6 (Record with Amber Atkinson, Ruby Atkinson, Terry Atkinson, C. Carstensen, Jill Pianna Dahl, Per Tuno Jacobsen, Tom Jeppesen and Thomas Ortved Larsen)
CAC IAOFTF NO. 6 ( Record, single with Claus Carstensen, Jill Pianna Dahl, Per Tuno Jacobsen and Thomas Ortved Larsen)

1984
In/out the flat no. 5 (16 mm film with Claus Carstensen, direction: Steen Møller Rasmussen)
Music for in/out the flat no. 4 (MC with C. Carstensen, Thomas Bruun, Aldo Flensborg, Jens Gammelgaard, Ulla Jacobsen and Line Starck)
Music for in/out the flat no. 5 (MC with Claus Carstensen and Vagn Erik Olsson)

1981
Cyklon-Anticyklon (record, single with Per Tuno Jacobsen and Thomas Ortved Larsen)


ART PRIZES:

2004
Rewarded by The Danish Arts Foundation for the show Wake up the sun is in your face, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark


COMMISSIONS:

2003 Church in Vestre Fængsel (State Prison), Copenhagen

2000 Hilton Airport Hotel, Copenhagen

1999 Unibank (Nordea) Headquarter, Copenhagen


REPRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS:

PROJE 4L – Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
AROS - Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Arken – Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
Kastrupgaardsamlingen, Kastrup, Denmark
Kobberstiksamlingen, Statens Museum for kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Køge Kunstmuseum, Køge, Denmark
Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding, Denmark
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Axa Nordstern, Cologne, Germany


BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected):

WAX IN MY INNER EAR, catalogue, Trapholt, 2003
Peter Doroshenko: "Peter Bonde" in Vitamin P, Phaidon 2002
Jérôme Sans: "The Oval Interview", catalogue The Snowball, Hatje Cantz Publishers 1999
Richard Vine: "Peter Bonde at DCA", Art in America, p. 99, February 1995
Peter Bonde, catalogue DCA Gallery - New York, Asbæk Editions, Copenhagen 1995
Peter Bonde, Galleri Jespersen, Odense 1994.
Bonde-Carstensen-Frandsen, catalogue Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki 1992
Ane Hejlskov Larsen: "Peter Bondes Billedkatalog", i Peter Bonde, Entertain Us!, Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding 1992