Peter Lind (born 1961) is a Danish photographer,

Contemporary artist Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art i ...

and

New Media Art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robo ...

artist. Peter Lind's work is based on documentary observations, and stands at the crossroads of

conceptual photography Conceptual photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea. There have been illustrative photographs made since the medium's invention, for example in the earliest staged photographs, such as Hippolyte Bayard's ''Self Portrait a ...

, installation and

Narrative structure Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and sometimes specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: ...

. He has been exhibited in : Austria, Australia, Argentina, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, USA, Italy, Spain, Poland, Sweden, Vietnam. Lind was born in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

. He studied

cinematography Cinematography () is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography. Cinematographers use a lens (optics), lens to focus reflected light from objects into a real image that is transferred to some image sen ...

at the Istituto di Scienze Cinematografiche e Audiovisive in

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

, 1983, and

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

1984. His work is permanently represented in several public collections:

Brandts Museum of Photographic Art The Danish Museum of Photographic Art ( Danish: Museet for Fotokunst) is in Odense, Denmark. It is the only national Danish art museum dedicated specifically to photographic art. It was founded in 1987 as part of the Brandts International Center ...

, National Museum of Photography, The

Danish Art Foundation The Danish Arts Foundation ( Danish: Statens Kunstfond) is the principal Danish government funded arts foundation founded by a special Law on 27 May 1964. Statens Kunstfond alongside the :da:Statens Kunstråd (English sometimes State Arts Council ...

(Statens Kunstfond)
Our Art: Art in public spaces in Denmark bought and funded by the Danish Arts Foundation ,

Publications

Film city. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Greenaway Art Gallery, 3–28 February 1999.

The Royal Library Denmark − CD-ROM: From here to here to there to there to here 2001
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The cat lab, by Peter Lind: Documentation of the exhibition, 27. May – 2. July 2016.

Reverse collection. 2018

References

Database of artworks in Danish state-owned and state-subsidised museums (inaccurate and not up-dated)

Database of artworks in Danish state-owned and state-subsidised museums (inaccurate and not up-dated)

External links

Artist's website

(archive.org) Nordic Embassies Berlin - Biography Peter Lind
1961 births Living people Danish contemporary artists New media artists Danish experimental filmmakers Danish photographers 20th-century Danish photographers 21st-century Danish photographers Photographers from Copenhagen {{Europe-photographer-stub

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