Peter Reichet

Was born in Odessa (USSR) in 1953 in the family of prominent Russian artist Victor Reichet.

1971—1977 he was a student of professor Victor Oreshnikov at the Russian Academy of Arts (Art institute named after Repine).

From 1976 to 1987 he was a member of 3 arctic expeditions to Franz Joseph Land, North Land and Bennett Island. Starting in 1976 he participated in over 200 exhibitions in Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Estonia, the Netherlands, Japan, the United States and Canada.

Member of the Geographic society of Russia since 1984.

Member of the Russian Union of Artists since 1980.

Member of the International Artists Federation since 2002.

Member of the 56th Russian Antarctic Expedition 2010—2011.

14 September 2013, tragically perished in his last expedition to the North Pole, “Yamal-Antarctica-2013”.

Personal exhibitions

• 1976 — “Franz Joseph Land”, Exhibit hall at the Beaux Arts Academy, Institute Repine, Leningrad, USSR
• 1986 — Yunost Magazine, Moscow, USSR
• 1987 — “Bennett Island”, Russian Artists Union, Leningrad, USSR
• 1988 — “Bestiary: The Last Whale”, Russian Artists Union, Leningrad, USSR
• 1988 — Great Exhibit Hall City of Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk, USSR
• 1989 — “The Last Whale”, traveling exhibit in a hall the shape of a whale 35 meters long, Aarhus (Denmark), Göteborg, Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland), Leningrad, Moscow, USSR
• 1990 — “Exhibitionism”, Architects Union, Moscow, USSR
• 1990 — “Russian Painting 1960—1990”, Karlsrue, Germany
• 1990 — Volvo Corporation Exhibit Hall, Göteborg, Sweden
• 1990 — “7 Russian Artists”, Nellemann and omsen, Aarhus, Denmark
• 1991 — Gallery 10/10, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1991 — Grenen Museum of Modern Art, Skagen, Denmark (catalogue)
• 1993 — “Blu”, Palitre Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1995 — “Paintings and Sculpture”, Banegaarden, Aabenraa, Denmark
• 1996 — “The Last Whale”, Central library of Karslrue, Germany
• 1997—1999—2000—2002 — Palitre Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1998 — Artist Union of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1999 — “Iconolatry”, Aalborg, Denmark
• 2001 — Venemaa Kultuurfondi, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2003 — Diaghilev Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2004 — “Erotic Icons”, Gallery Mailletz, Paris, France
• 2004 — Beijing, China
• 2005 — International Federation of Artists (FIA), St. Petersburg, Russia (70 paintings)
• 2005 — Knud Grothe Charlottenlund Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2005 — Beniksgaard Gallery, Graatsen, Denmark
• 2005 — “Painting, Sculpture, Objects”, International Federation of Artists (FIA), St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2006 — “Erotic Icons”, Jacob K. Javits Center, New York City, USA; Queen City Gallery, Charlotte, USA
• 2006 — “The North” (painting, drawing), Tretyakov’s Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2009 — “Leisure” (drawing), the Blue Hall, Russian Artists Union, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2009 — Art-cafe “The Stray Dog”, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2009 — “Rusty Metal Solo”, StArt Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2009 — “Leo Tolstoy Escape”, Mart Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2011 — “Antarctic”, 56th Russian Antarctic Expedition, Bellingshausen Station, King George Island
• 2011 — “Under Captain Drake Sign”, the Blue Hall, Russian Artists Union, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2012 — “Gallery Reinert”, Karlsruhe, Germany
• 2013 — “Two Poles of the Earth”, Italian Hall, Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia

Public collections

Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; collection of the Ministry of Culture, Moscow, Russia; Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia; St. Petersburg History Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Arctic and Antarctic Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Collection of the Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia; Fine Arts Museum, Arkhangelsk, Russia; Arkhangelsk Regional Museum, Arkhangelsk, Russia; Art Gallery, Vologda, Russia; Novgorod Museum of Art, Novgorod the Great, Russia; Grenen Museum of Modern Art, Grenen, Skagen, Denmark; Modern Art in Axile Museum, Jersey City, NJ, United States.

Private collections

Denmark: Collection of the Royal Family, Mads Friis, Per Anders, Helle Dalgaard, Kristian Kaer. Germany: Kurt Dechler, Eugen Faas, Gunter Glaubitz. Estonia: Victor Cherichevski. Russia: Nikolai Blagodatov, Dubrovich, and others in Russia, United States, Japan, France, Great Britain, Italy, Holland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.