Jesper Just
Jesper Just (born 1974) is a Danish artist, who lives and works in New York. From 1997 to 2003, he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.[citation needed]
He has work in museums including the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.[citation needed]
Films[]
His film trilogy A Voyage in Dwelling (2008) included performances by Benedikte Hansen, and music composed by Dorit Chrysler.[1]
Exhibitions[]
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- A Fine Romance, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul (2004)
- Something to Love, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark (2005) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2006)
- Black Box, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (2006)
- Something To Love, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006)
- Jesper Just, Miami Art Museum, Miami, (2007) and touring Kunsthuis Witte de With in Rotterdam, in Kraichtal, Germany, and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent, Belgium (2007)
- It Will All End in Tears, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, (2008)
- Romantic Delusions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2008/2009)
- Intercourses, Danish Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia (2013)
Reception[]
In 2006 a New York Times reviewer described It Will All End in Tears as "... a beautiful spectacle that dazzles as it happens and then fades away like a puff of smoke".[2] In 2008 a different New York Times reviewer described him as a "... still young, abundantly talented and wonderfully original artist".[3]
He received second prize in the Carnegie Art Award at in Reykjavik in 2008,[citation needed] and the Eckersberg Medal in 2014.[4]
References[]
- ^ Williams, Eliza (September 2008). "Jesper Just". Frieze.
- ^ Holland Cotter (10 August 2007). Art in Review: Jesper Just "A Vicious Undertow". The New York Times. Archived 19 August 2018.
- ^ Ken Johnson (26 September 2008). Cinematic Images of Masculine Vulnerability. The New York Times. Archived 9 December 2011.
- ^ "Tildelinger af medaljer". Akademiraadet. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
Further reading[]
- Amsellem, Patrick, ed. Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions, exhibition catalogue essay by Bill Horrigan. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2008.
- Just, Jesper, ed. "It Will All End in Tears", exhibition catalogue, Texts by Agustin Perez Rubio, Svala Vangsdatter Andersen and Octavio Zaya. Madrid: La Casa Encendida, 2008.
- Von Olfers, Sophie, ed. Jesper Just Film Works, 2001-2007, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2007.
- Knudsen, Gry Høngsmark and Holger Reenberg eds. Something to Love, exhibition catalogue, Herning: Herning Kunstmuseum, 2005.
- "Fall Preview: Jesper Just's Schizo Enigma. Four Films at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, September 2, 2008", The Village Voice
- "Jesper Just", The New York Times, August 10, 2007
- "Jesper Just and Dorit Chrysler: This nameless spectacle (live)", video interview by Louisiana Channel.
- Danish photographers
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni
- Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal
- Danish contemporary artists
- 20th-century Danish photographers
- 21st-century Danish photographers
- Photographers from Copenhagen