Throughout his expectation-defying career, Kirkeby has also been a geologist, poet, sculptor, and filmmaker. He has always been allergic to routine and convention. But with his recent painterly interventions on Masonite board, which echo …

The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. will display one of Europe’s most celebrated living artists, Per Kirkeby (Danish, b. 1938) this fall. “Kirkeby’s art does not fit into a single style or movement; he …

Per Kirkeby Retrospective As a trained geologist, Danish avant-garde artist Per Kirkeby has found inspiration in the world around him as much as in the art of others. “Per Kirkeby and the Forbidden Paintings …