Astrid Kruse Jensen

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Astrid Kruse Jensen (born 1975) is a Danish photographer and visual artist. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands and the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Her artistic work is often characterized by its dreamy qualities, blurring the boundaries between memory, consciousness, reality, and illusion.

Astrid Krusen Jensen has been nominated for several awards, and her work has been exhibited extensively in Europe, as well as in America and Asia. Her work is represented in several collections such as The National Museum for Photography, Denmark, The George Eastman House, Rochester, USA, Artotheque de Caen, France, Manchester City Gallery, UK and at AROS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark.

Astrid Kruse Jensen lives and works in Copenhagen.

Early life[]

Born in 1975 in Aarhus, Jutland, Astrid Kruse Jensen began her education as a visual artist in 1995, when she studied at the School for Photography in Aarhus. In 1998, she continued her studies in the Netherlands at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Design in Amsterdam, and in 2002, she graduated after having spent two years at the Glasgow School of Art's Fine Art Photography department.[1]

Astrid Kruse Jensen is represented by Martin Asbæk Gallery in Copenhagen and Wetterling Gallery in Stockholm

Photography[]

The paradox in the work of Astrid Kruse Jensen is her ability to use photography as a means of bringing reality together with the imaginary. She uses her camera as a tool for telling stories. Picking on quite ordinary subjects, she brings us images which suggest more than they actually show, allowing the beholder to interpret their full meaning.[2]

In Fragments of Remembrance, the director of the Frederiksberg Museums Astrid La Cour writes: “Astrid Kruse Jensen's work with photography in recent years has been closely associated with an exploration of the concept of memory as a state of consciousness that bridges time and space. In this state her works are involved in constant motion between disappearance and appearance; between the discreet modelling of darkness and dazzling effacement by light. And within this field Astrid Kruse Jensen allows the chemical origins of photography to penetrate the subject and at one and the same time draw attention to its indispensability in the process of developing and its role as a filter that obscures, affects and forms the subject. The intrusive structures of the chemistry become an active, abstract visual processing of the fragmentary impressions of memory.”[3]

In her recent ethereal series “Disappearing into the Past” and “Within the Landscape”, Astrid Kruse Jensen used an old polaroid camera and expired film to introduce unpredictability into her painterly compositions, creating light-drenched images that veer between concrete and mental landscapes. Behind the choice of imperfection, due to the Polaroid cameras inability to reproduce finer details, and lack of control lies not only a desire to challenge traditional working methods, but also an unmistakable acknowledgement of personal vulnerability, a desire to let go – and relinquish herself to a medium that is impossible to control.

In “Floating”, Astrid la Cour describes how Kruse Jensen's work is “specifically photographic and decidedly painterly. Interiors and landscapes are located in an eternal interchange between a concrete and an abstract reality. She works with photography's ability to record more than the human eye can capture and thus opens up a picture space that can only be rendered by way of the photographic gaze.” In the series, interiors and landscapes are dissolved in abstractions, which opens up an endless borderland or “a metaphysical universe transcending time and space”.[4]

Exhibitions[]

Astrid Kruse Jensen's website provides the following list of solo exhibitions:


2021

Fortiden foran mig, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Floating, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden


2019

Floating, Fotocentrum Raseburg, Karis, Finland

Floating, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark


2018

Memories and Hidden Places, Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland


2016

Reflections, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden


2015

Out of focus, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark

Beauty Will Always Be Disturbed, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Fragments of Remembrance, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark


2014

Within The Landscape, Sven Harrys Kunstmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

Within The Landscape, Johannes Larsen Museet, Kerteminde, Denmark


2013

Astrid Kruse Jensen, La villa Culture, Ganshoren, Belgium

Astrid Kruse Jensen, La Venerie, Bruxelles, Belgium

Astrid Kruse Jensen, De Bourglinster, Luxembourg


2012

Disappearing into the past, Fotoforum, Stadtmuseum Schleswig, Germany

Disappearing into the past, Rønnebæksholm, Næstved, Denmark

Disappearing into the past, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Disappearing into the past, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark


2011

On the other side of twilight, dual show with Elle Kooi, Stedelijk Museum, Holland

Enchanted Spaces, Ruchika's Art Gallery, Goa, India

Parallel Realities, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France

Disappearing into the past, Brundlund Slot, Aabenraa, Denmark


2010

Between the Real and the Imaginary, Maison du Danemark, Paris, France

The Construction of Memories, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Enchanted Spaces, Ganges Art gallery, Kolkata, India

Between the Real and the Imaginary, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany


2009

Between the Real and the Imaginary, Artotheque de Caen, Caen, France

Hidden Places / Enchanted Spaces, The Viewing Room, Mumbai, India  


2008  

Between the Real and the Imaginary, Vestsjællands Art Museum, Sorø, Denmark

Indefinite Spaces, Galerie Mikael  Andersen, Berlin, Germany


2007  

Selected Works, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany


2006  

Hypernatural, Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznan, Poland

Hypernatural, Galleri Hornbaek, Hornbaek, Denmark

Parallel Landscapes, La Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

Power of Place, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada

Hypernatural, Kaunas Photo Days, Kaunas, Lithuania

Parallel Landscapes, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark


2005  

Allusions of Home, Women's Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Hypernatural, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark


2004  

Imaginary Realities, Philips Contemporary Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Imaginary Realities, Galleri Skuggi, Reykjavik, Iceland

Publications[]

  • Beauty Will Always Be Disturbed, 2015. ISBN 978-38-68285-79-6
  • Disappearing into the Past, 2012. ISBN 978-87-88376-38-8
  • Imaginary Realities, Hypernatural, Parallel Landscapes, Indefinite Spaces. Selected works by Astrid Kruse Jensen, 2006. ISBN 87-7603-046-6

External links[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Astrid Kruse Jensen", NIFCA.org Archived October 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 28 February 2010.
  2. ^ "Astrid Kruse Jensen, Between the real and the imaginary". Artothèque de Caen. (in French) Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  3. ^ "Astrid Kruse Jensen". www.astridkrusejensen.com. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
  4. ^ "Astrid Kruse Jensen - Artists - Wetterling Gallery". www.wetterlinggallery.com. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
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