Peter Klare is an adventurous painter pushing the boundaries.
He studied painting at the Munich Arts Academy and at the University of California in Los Angeles were he received his MFA in 1998.
His way of painting is a critical method of reinterpreting the common concept of world and to debate its perception.
Building sculptural paintings and large installations he usually sticks to the classical means of painting - oil paint on streched canvas. In doing so his work always keeps the character of a projection while giving volume and shape to thoughts and emotions.
1969 | born in Jena, East Germany |
1974 | family escapes to West Germany |
1987-88 | studies in Maldonado, Uruguay |
1996-02 | Los Angeles |
2002 | lives and works in Berlin |
2020 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
EDUCATION | |
1996-98 | MFA, University of California, Los Angeles |
1992-96 | Meisterschüler, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich |
1991 | studies with Hugo Longa, Montevideo, Uruguay |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
2022 | ’Shapes’, kunstraum friesenstrasse, Hannover |
’Collagen’, Galerie Springer, Berlin | |
2021 | ’Of Well Known Origin’, Hilbert Raum, Berlin |
2019 | ’Faux Fur’, Berlin Weekly, Berlin |
2019 | ’Klare Botschaft’, Botschaft Uferhallen, Berlin |
2018 | ’blindfolded’, Ortner&Ortner DEPOT, Berlin |
2017 | ’Silver’, Galerie Springer, Berlin |
2015 | ’Spiegelbilder’, Nachtschicht at hettler.tullmann, Berlin |
2014 | ’plein air’, invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin |
’Golden State of Mind’, Design-Mai at hettler.tullmann, Berlin | |
2013 | ’Nieve en el Jardin del Eucalipto’, Casamalia, Montevideo, Uruguay |
’Peter Klare/Tilbert Oelke’, Luckenwalder Str. by Pano Merianos, Berlin | |
’Pinturas del Frio’, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | |
’Sonntag am See mit Milchreis’, Swamplands, Mühlenbeckerland, Germany | |
2011 | ’Like Paint’, Dan Hayes and Peter Klare, a LoBe project by Olivia Reynolds, Berlin |
’Home Show - Mattresses’, Badstr. 35, Berlin | |
2010 | ’Flatlands’, Ulf Saupe Galerie, Berlin |
’Wet Paint in the Woods’, Swamplands, Mühlenbeckerland, Germany | |
2009 | ’Tocando Bosques’, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain |
’Sünny Days’, Galerie Scala, Berlin | |
2007 | ’rain or shine’, Open Forest, Berlin |
’rain or shine’, Kunstverein Weiden, Weiden | |
2006 | ’Mountain Paintings’, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain |
’Schnee’, Ateleir CardenasBellanger, Paris | |
shop van reimersdahl, Berlin | |
’-15°C’, Invaliden 1, Berlin | |
2005 | ’Miles End’, Private View M.O. Drescher, Berlin |
’The Canyon Paintings’, c/o Black-Dragon-Society, Los Angeles National Forest | |
2004 | Union Gallery, London |
2003 | ‘Golden State’, Galerie Herzer, Munich |
‘Foreground Makes the Picture Healthy‘, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | |
2002 | Black-Dragon-Society, Los Angeles |
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | |
2001 | Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain |
2000 | Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, L.A. Projects, Los Angeles |
‘nature & comfort‘, Galerie Herzer, Munich | |
1999 | ‘Falsch & Decke’, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich |
‘Flying Carpets, Black-Dragon-Society, Los Angeles | |
1998 | ‘Home Furnishings’, Deitch Projects, New York City |
‘Expanded View’, Derek Eller Gallery, New York City | |
1996 | ‘Camouflage’, Fotoinstallation Hauptbahnhof, Munich |
‘Wohnung‘, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich | |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
2023 | ’architectura’, kunstraum friesenstrasse, Hannover |
2022 | ’Tasty Painting’, kursiert von Zuzanna Skiba, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin |
’Departure-TXL-Räume 3’, Flughafen Tegel, Berlin | |
’On Equal Terms’, kuratiert von Sophia Gräfe & Arkadij Koscheew, Uferhallen, Berlin | |
2021 | ’Out NOW’, kuratiert von Isabel Parkes, Uferhallen, Berlin |
2020 | ’Manifest’, kuratiert von Isabelle Meiffert, Uferhallen, Berlin |
’Sports & Localamneties’, curated by Olivia Reynolds, LoBeBlock Berlin | |
2019 | ’Gezielte Setzungen’ Sprengel Museum Hannover |
’Eigenbedarf’, kuratiert von Isabelle Meiffert, Uferhallen, Berlin | |
’Lecker’, curated by Zuzanna Skiba, Atelierhof Kreuzberg Berlin | |
’Schau.....6’ Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, Austria | |
2018 | ’Schau.....5’ Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt, Austria |
’Räume 2’ mit Alina Mann, Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin | |
’Uferlos’ Uferhallen, Berlin | |
’Die!Landschaft’ mit Manfred Peckl, Bar Babette, Berlin | |
’Where is Philadelphia?’ mit Maik Schierloh, Gutshaus Philadelphia, Storkow | |
’SW’ curatiert von Andrea van Reimersdahl, Berlin Weekly, Berlin | |
2017 | ’Le Zoo de Madame Y’, Galerie Benhadj&Djilali, Berlin |
’Mega Bock’, Uferhallen, Berlin | |
’Lift Off’, curated by Martin/Durazo, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, California | |
2016 | ’Liaison’, Uferhallen, Berlin |
’One Fine Day - Charity’, curated by Marie Steinmann and Tom Tykwer, Gallery Sexauer, Berlin | |
’Frohe Botschaft’, Botschaft, Berlin | |
2015 | ’Holy Independent Space’, Kunstverein geh8, Dresden |
’aLL uP’, Draschen, Molis, Peckl, Bar Barbett, Berlin | |
’Match’, curated by Manfred Peckl, Galerie Das Schaufenster, Berlin | |
2014 | invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin |
2013 | ’Concrete Poetry’, Kunstmuseum Bochum, curated by Mario Lombardo for Emscher Genossenschaft, Bochum Germany |
’Das allerletzte Prof. Winkler Stipendium’, Kunstverein Weiden, Weiden, Germany | |
2012 | ’Choses vues à Droite est à Gauche (sans lunettes)’, by l´oiseau présente..., Ballhaus Ost, Berlin |
2010 | ’Sommerutstilling’, Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo, Norway |
’Die Panke’, an off-side LoBe project by Olivia Reynolds, Berlin | |
2009 | ’einundvierziggrad’, Galerie Binz und Krämer, Köln |
’Formation’, curated by MV Stein, Uferhallen Wedding, Berlin | |
Ulf Saupe Gallery, Berlin | |
2008 | Die ersten internationalen Elvistage, New York 2008, Ideal Glass Gallery, New York City |
’Spitzenwerke der Zeichnung aus der Sammlung Abstädt’, Atelier Seitz/Hackel, München | |
2007 | ’Public Park’, curated by John Pearson, Scoops, Los Angeles |
’vierziggrad’, Galerie Binz und Krämer, Köln | |
’Niveaualarm’, kuratiert von Ulli Wulff, Kunstraum Innsbruck | |
’Logiques du rêve éveillé’, Maëlle Dault, Instants Chavirés, Paris | |
Rental ’Oliver Twist’, New York | |
Der Prof.Winkler Romantik-Award, Munich | |
’Incognito’, Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Monica, California | |
’Wasserfarben’, Summa Cum Laude, Berlin | |
2006 | Prof. Winkelmann, Munich |
2005 | Prof. Winkler Kunst- und Literaturtage’, Los Angeles |
’Christmas in August’, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles | |
Prof. Winkler Stipendium Berlin | |
’Incognito’, Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Monica California | |
’Little Things’ Blue 7 Gallery, Santa Monica, California | |
Black Oriental, Berlin | |
2004 | ‘Please Please Your Self‘, Atelier Cardenas, Paris |
Galerie Heinz Herzer, Munich | |
2003 | ‘Faking Real‘, Columbia University, New York City |
‘Light & Spaced Out‘, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris | |
The Glassbox, Paris, | |
Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest | |
‘Von Bergen‘, Schloß Agathenburg, Agathenburg | |
2002 | ‘Der Berg’, Kunstverein Heidelberg, (catalog) |
‘Landscapes’, Derek Eller Gallery, New York City | |
2001 | ‘L.A. loves N.Y.’, Yamagata Studio, Malibu, C.A. |
‘Zick Zack’, VTO Gallery, London | |
‘Mixed Pickle’ Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife | |
2000 | ‘Debütantenball‘, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, (catalog) |
‘Showroom‘, Troy, New York, (catalog) | |
‘2000 Anos Luz’, Museo La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, (catalog) | |
‘Legal Paperworks’, Beyond Baroque, Venice, C.A. | |
1999 | ‘Mozart on Television’, Deitch Projects, New York City |
Black-Dragon-Society, Los Angeles | |
1998 | MFA Exhibition, Wight Gallery at U.C.L.A., Los Angeles |
La Central, San Sebastian, Spain | |
Über-Main Gallery, Los Angeles | |
1997 | Seidel Villa, Munich |
Armand Hammer Gallery, Los Angeles |