Peter Friese (born 23 March 1952, Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland), is a German art historian and curator.
Friese studied art history, archaeology and philosophy at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
His professional life began 1975 at Kunstmuseum Bochum, 1978 at Museum Folkwang and 1980–1984 at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
As artistic director of the Kunstverein Ruhr he curated a great number of one-person exhibitions, among others with Werner Ruhnau, Gary Hill, VA Wölfl, Christian Boltanski, Ingo Günther Lawrence Weiner, Terry Fox, Timm Ulrichs, Gerhard Richter, Anna und Bernhard Blume, and Tony Cragg.
[3] Other seminal exhibition projects, all of them originating at the Weserburg museum, include “Kunst nach Kunst” (Art After Art),[7] “After Images”,[8] 2004 “Farbe im Fluss" (Color in Flux)[9]”, 2001; “Ohne Zögern (Without Hesitation)[10]” und 2008 bis 2010 “Go for it!”[11] (Collection Olbricht); "Say it isn't so",[12] 2007.