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Per Kirkeby

Nov 13, 2025 – Apr 6, 2026
Kong Christians Alle 50, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark

The multifaceted Danish artist Per Kirkeby, who died in 2018, was fiercely against Conceptualism. “I’m a painter and have painted a painting,” he stated, “and really, I don’t want to say anything more about it.” Kirkeby sought to capture the light and patterns of his homeland. In the 1950s, as a young man, he trained as a geologist before joining Copenhagen’s Experimental Art School. Like so many artists, he was captivated by Abstract Expressionism. His quasi-figurative landscape paintings see bright yellows and oranges shining through aggressively thick strokes of earthen color. This exhibition examines Kirkeby’s entire career. —Elena Clavarino

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