P. K. ECHO

24 Danish and international artists meet in thematic dialogues around themes that defined Per Kirkeby's art.

Alongside Asger Jorn (1914–1973), Per Kirkeby (1938–2018) is Museum Jorn’s most significant artist. With several thousand works, his oeuvre constitutes a major focal point within the museum’s collection. His practice extends outward to numerous other artists represented in the collection—existing not only through his own works, but also as an echo.

In an exhibition consisting of 12 dialogues between selected artists from the collection, Museum Jorn maps Kirkeby’s artistic network and its aesthetic and thematic intersections. Although no works by Kirkeby are physically present, the exhibition’s dialogues take as their point of departure a series of themes that defined his artistic expression.

The pairings bring together 24 Danish and international artists from Kirkeby’s own generation:

Georg Baselitz and Jens Birkemose; Markus Lüpertz and Ursula Reuter Christiansen; Lene Adler Petersen and Richard Winther; Annette Messager and Hans Bellmer; Peter Louis-Jensen and Henning Christiansen; Hermann Nitsch and Bjørn Nørgaard; Martha Jungwirth and K.R.H. Sønderborg; Paul-Armand Gette and herman de vries; Stanley Brouwn and Hans-Peter Feldmann; Poul Gernes and A.R. Penck; John Davidsen and Jörg Immendorff; and Tom Krøjer and Katharina Sieverding