Peter Friese (born 23 March 1952,

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), is a German art historian and

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Life and education

Friese studied

art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...

and philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. His professional life began 1975 at Kunstmuseum Bochum, 1978 at

Museum Folkwang Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patr ...

and 1980–1984 at

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Düsseldorf. Building The present art centre was built in 1967 in Brutalist architecture by the architects Konrad Beckmann and Brockes. They used commercially available preca ...

. He was a co-founder and curator of the "Kunstraum Wuppertal". Since 1988 he has continued his curatorial work at Kunstverein Ruhr in Essen. In 1992 Peter Friese became curator at Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen and since 2007 he served as chief curator und deputy director. In 2015 he became the museum's director. Since 1994 he lectures on art history and cultural sciences at Bremen University.

Curatorial Work

As artistic director of the Kunstverein Ruhr he curated a great number of one-person exhibitions, among others with Werner Ruhnau,

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, VA Wölfl,

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, Ingo Günther

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, Timm Ulrichs,

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, Anna und Bernhard Blume, and

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. As chief curator of Neuen Museums Weserburg Bremen he conceptualized and realized his most successful exhibition project “MINIMAL MAXIMAL”http://www.weserburg.de/index.php?id=166&tx_ttproducts_pi1 roduct54 (1998-1999), covering

Minimal Art Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or co ...

and its impact on contemporary art of the 1990s. The exhibition travelled to

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, Spai
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea
and in 2001 to Japan to three museums
the Chiba City Museum of Art
Japan
MoMAK

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan. This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). History The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK) was initially created as the Annex Museum of the Nationa ...

and th
Fukuoka City Museum of Art
Fukuoka, Japan. In 2002 th
National Museum of Contemporary Art
in Seoul showed the exhibition. The catalog was published and translated into five languages. Other seminal exhibition projects, all of them originating at the Weserburg museum, include “Kunst nach Kunst” (Art After Art), “After Images”, 2004 “Farbe im Fluss" (Color in Flux)”, 2001; “Ohne Zögern (Without Hesitation)” und 2008 bis 2010 “Go for it!” (Collection Olbricht); "Say it isn't so", 2007.

Publications

* "MINIMAL MAXIMAL, Minimal Art and its influence on international art of the 90s". with Thomas Deecke, Gregor Stemmrich, Stephan Schmidt- Wulffen, Margrit Brehm and others, Catalog Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Heidelberg, Germany 1998, * "Ohne Zögern, Die Sammlung Olbricht Teil 2", catalog published by Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen *FÜNFZIG JAHRE, Kunstverein Ruhr - Tatkreis Kunst der Ruhr, with Oliver Scheytt, Claudia Heinrich, Anita Ruhnau, Friederike Wappler, Dieter Eberle, Werner Filthaut, Essen 2000, * "After Images", Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, 2004, * "Kunst nach Kunst", Exhibition Catalog, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, with Guido Boulboullé, Thomas Deecke, Raimar Stange, Gregor Stemmrich and others. Edited by Peter Friese, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Hauschild Verlag, 2002,

References

External links

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Die Kunst der offenen Fragen
TAZ, 27. Nov 2013

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