|
|
 |
|
|
| So Help Me Peter… 2005, series of 6 lambda prints, each 70x46,50 cm. |
Biography
|
Peter Brandt was born in Denmark, 1966, and studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and The Royal University College of Sweden, Stockholm. Brandt had also extensive training in classical ballet, movement, acting and voice in London and Copenhagen.
Brandt’s work has been included in several group exhibitions in the last decade: Metabolism, The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Roskilde 1997, Blick, Moderna Museet, Stockholm 1999, My Marilyn, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm 2002, Decembristerne, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen 2005, Art in Public Space, BWA Gallery, Bydgoszcz 2006, The Triangle Project, The Hall, Istanbul 2007, AA Bronson School of Young Shamans, John Connelly Presents, New York 2008, China Shop. State of Emergency, Overgaden – The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen, 2009 Forschungsbericht, Contemporary Concers, Vienna 2009-201 and For Life, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen.
Solo exhibitions include Lifeboat, Overgaden – The Institute of Contemporary Arts, Copenhagen 1997, Marilyn in Latina, Palazzo Della Cultura, Latina 2002, Marilyn & Me, Gallery Projekt, Copenhagen 2004, Peter Super-T- Art, Nikolaj – Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen 2007 and I Died In Italy But No One Knows It, Traneudstillingen, Hellerup, Denmark 2010, traveling to Konstforeningen Aura, Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden in 2011.
Brandt has been awarded grants by The Danish National Art Foundation, The Danish Art Councill, Queen Ingrid Roman Foundation and others.
In 2004 was the catalogue Marilyn & Me published with essays by Bo Nilsson and Lilian Munk Rosing. In 2007 came the monograph Peter Super-T-Art , with essays by Joanna Frueh, Laura Cottingham and Brandt himself. In 2010 came the book I Died In Italy But No One Knows It, a highly personal testimony, as it confronts the viewer with Brandts personal experience with violence and trauma. Brandt has written texts to each of his works and there is an essay by Aukje Lepoutre Ravn, who sets Brandts project into a trauma theoretical context.
|
|
|
