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Jesper Just

born in Copenhagen, Denmark

lives and works in New York, USA

Education

1997-2003 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

Exhibitions

2024
Interfears, Perrotin, New York, USA (SOLO)

Exhibition and Screenings, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece (SOLO)

Interfears, RAY Triennale, Frankfurt, Germany

La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France



2023
Interfears, Perrotin, Los Angeles, USA (SOLO)

Interfears, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

Interfears, macLYON, Lyon, France (SOLO)

Fembot, The Hole, New York, USA

2022
Seminarium, Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy (SOLO)

2021
Seminarium, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan (SOLO)

Corporealités, ARS FENNICA exhibition at Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland (SOLO)

Seminarium, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark (SOLO)

Seminarium, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan (SOLO)

THE AUTUMN SHOW, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

Re/Projections: Video, Film, and Performance for the Rotunda, In Between Days: Video from the Guggenheim Collection, Guggenheim New York, USA

Blue Peal of Bells, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, South Korea



2020
Corporéalités, Galerie Perrotin, New York, USA (SOLO)

Blue Peal of Bells, Museum of Contemproary Art Busan, Korea



2019
Servitudes, MAAT - Museum of Art Architecture & Technology, Lisbon, Portugal (SOLO)

Servitudes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

Nordic Impressions. Contemporary Art From Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, And Sweden, Scandinavia House, New York, USA





2018
Circuits (Interpassivities), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

Continuous Monuments, WENTRUP Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)

Coordenadas, Anahuaccali Museo, Coyoacán, DF, Mexico (SOLO)

Contemporary Art from Denmark, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Music for the Eyes, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy 

Hollywood and other Myths, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel



2017
Jesper Just, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SOLO)

Jesper Just: Continuous Monuments, Arcade #1, West Den Haag, The Netherlands (SOLO)

Jesper Just: Continuous Monuments, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong (SOLO)

Performance - Interpassivities, Corpus, Det Kgl. Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

You Are In My Wave, Lothringer 13 Halle, München, Germany

The Darkened Mirror: Global Perspectives on Water, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, U.S.A.

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York, U.S.A.

Cool, calm and collected, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark

Generations Loss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany



2016

Habile beaute - L'Art comme processus, FRAC Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier, France

Love, Devotion, and Surrender, 22 London, Asheville, NC

The People’s Cinema, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg



2015
Servitudes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (SOLO)

Jesper Just, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, USA (SOLO)

In the shadow/ of a spectacle/ is the view of the crowd, (with FOS), PERFORMA 15, New York, USA (SOLO)

In the shadow of a spectacle is the view of the crowd, Performa, New York, USA

City Walks, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Chercher le Garçon. Curated by Frank Lamy, MAC/VAL - Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry sur Seine, France

Obey!-!Obedece!, M100 - Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

Wilderness, New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen, Denmark

Turn On - Time-Based Art from the Julia Stoschek Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Creating Realities - Begegungen Zwischen Kunst Und Kino, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany



2014
Jesper Just: This Is a Landscape of Desire, De Moines Art Center, De Moines, Iowa, USA (SOLO)

This Is a Landscape of Desire, MMCA, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (SOLO)

Jesper Just, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark (SOLO)

Jesper Just, Portland Museum, Portland, USA (SOLO)

Jesper Just, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

All About These... Ladies And Gentlemen, National Gallery of Arts - Tirana, Tirana, Albania

1 + 1 = 1 :  When Collections Collide, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

Drommeland, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark

Impact, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Hindsight, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Imaginare Reisen - von hier ab ins Abenteuer!, Galerie im Marstall Ahrensburg, Ahrensburg, Germany

Bikuben, UMOCA Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah, USA

Knowing Space, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

FRACTURES,The Jerusalem Show VII, Qalandiya International, Jerusalem, Israel

INSIDE, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

#1: Cartagena, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

HPB14, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki, Finland

Real Emotions: Thinking in Film, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

High Performance, The Julia Stoschek Collection as guest at the ZMK. Time-based Media Art since 1996, ZMK, Karlsruhe, Germany

Performance Now, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, USA

2013
The Danish Pavilion, The 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (SOLO)

This Is A Landscape of Desire, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark (SOLO)

Jesper Just, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France (SOLO)

Love me Gender, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Mystery of Tears, MAC Belfast, Belfast, UK

A More Perfect Day: Collection of Mudam Luxembourg, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea

The weak sex, how are pictures the new male, Kunst Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jesper Just, Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

A More Perfect Day: Collection of Mudam Luxembourg, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea

Nordic Outbreak, touring exhibition, New York City, REykjavik, Stavanger, Copenhagen, Nuuk

XIII Cordoba Photography Biennale, Cordoba, Spain

Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin / 25ans, TRIPOSTAL, Lille, France



2012
This Nameless Spectacle, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

This Nameless Spectacle, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA (SOLO)

This Nameless Spectacle, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (SOLO)

PINK CAVIAR, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark



2011
This Nameless Spectacle, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France (SOLO)

A Vicious Undertow, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA (SOLO)

John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia (SOLO)

This Nameless Spectacle, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom (SOLO)

Photo Spring, Beijing, China (SOLO)

MAP, Mobile Art Production, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)

Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal, Canada (SOLO)

TIME AND PLACE Inaugural Exhibition 01, Kunsthalle Detroit, Detroit, USA

Intermission, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China

A Tell-Tale Heart Part 2, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

El Grito, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain

Lust and Last, Swedish National Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

What's He Building in There?, Fuse Gallery, New York, USA



2010
ARTscape: Denmark - Jesper Just, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania (SOLO)

Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA (SOLO)


Body/Space Mechanics, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Emporte-moi / Sweep me off my feet, MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France

I love you, AROS, Aarhus, Denmark

Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

National Gallery of Art Lithuanian Art Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania

Searching Songs, Yebisu International Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Fast Forward 2. The Power of Motion, group show, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, Karlsruhe, Germany

ARTscape: Denmark - Jesper Just, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania

Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions, Tampa Museum of Art, USA




2009
Invitation to Love, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (SOLO)

Jesper Just, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigao - Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (SOLO)

Code share, Contemporary Art Center (CAC) Viltinius, Lithuania

Angli-Heart, Herming Kunstmuseum, Herming, Danemark

Mia Vida, From Heaven to Hell, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary

Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA

Play-Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

It's Raining Men...!, Gallery Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark

Damaged Romanticism, Grey Art Gallery, New York City, USA

Swing Time Free Style, Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Aarhus, Netherlands

2008
Romantic Delusions Brooklyn Art Museum, New York, USA (SOLO)

Romantic Delusions, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (SOLO)

Romantic Delusions, U-turn / Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

A Voyage in Dwelling, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (SOLO)

La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (SOLO)

Romantic Delusions, Liverpool Biennial

Locked-in The Image of Humantiy in the Age of Intrusion, Casino Luxembourg

Glasgow International - Festival of Contemporary Art, Glasgow

UNCLASSIFIABLE, Overgaden. Institut for Samtids Kunst, Copenhagen

Damaged Romanticism, Blaffer Gallery, Houston

Ciclo Video, CGAC (Galician Centre of Contemporary Art), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Dansk Djävlar – en svensk kanon, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen



2007
A Vicious Undertow, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA (SOLO)

La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (SOLO)

S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium (SOLO)

Ursula Blickle videolounge, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria (SOLO)

Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (SOLO)

Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany (SOLO)

No Man is an Island II, Bliss and Heaven, Something to Love, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA (SOLO)

MoA (Museum of Art), Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

Beijing Center for Creativity, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China

MediaArsLab Museum, Moscow

CRACK THE SKY, Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

gaze.space.desire, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Moore Space/moca, Miami, USA

Eternal Beautiful Now, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

The Drake, Toronto, Canada

Timer 01, intimità/intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy

Stejdelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Argos, Brussels

KölnShow 2, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

5 Years Anniversary Show, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen

I'M ONLY HUMAN, Contemporary Video Art, The Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, Greece



2006
Something to Love, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (SOLO)

It Will All End in Tears, Special viewing during Frieze Art Fair: ArtProjx presentation in Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK (SOLO)

It Will All End in Tears, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA (SOLO)

Black Box Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (SOLO)

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA (SOLO)

The 1st at Moderna: Something to Love, Moderna Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)

EXPORTABLE GOODS - Danish art now, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

Empathetic, Temple Gallery, Old City, Pennsylvania, USA

Die grosse Geste/The Big Scene - Emotionality in Recent Video Art, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Switzerland

COPENHAGEN - SAN FRANCISCO, Scandinavian Short Film Festival, ATA, San Francisco

Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea

Hot/Cold? Summerloving, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Die grosse Geste / The big scene - Emotionality in Recent Video Art, Toronto film festivaI, Canada

LIAF 06, June 17th - July 13th, Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway

Another Worlds, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Bühne des Lebens - Rhetorik des Gefühls, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Ars 06 Sense of the Real, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Trial Balloons, MUSACMuseo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain

Biennale du Havre, June, Le Havre, France

BENT: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco

Dreamlands Burn – Nordic Art Show 2006, Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

Artprojx, Prince Charles Cinema, Frieze Art Fair Event, London, UK



2005
True love is yet to come, PERFORMA 05, New York (SOLO)

Something to Love Herning Art Museum, Denmark (SOLO)

Gender Bender, Galleria D´Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Matisse &, August - December, Royal Museum of Fine Art, Copenhagen

Collection Lambert, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Avignon, France

Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art Galleries, London

Grønningen, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Denmark

Something to Love Herning Art Museum, Denmark

The Final Floor Show, Objectif_exhibitions, Antwerpen



2004
No Man is an Island, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada (SOLO)

Bliss and Heaven, Gallery Maze, Torino, Italy (SOLO)

Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA (SOLO)

A Fine Romance, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

A Fine Romance Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, USA (SOLO)

No one else can make me feel the colours that you bring, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

I feel mysterious today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Video Killed the Radio Star, Migros Museum für Gegenwarts Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland

Altered Spaces, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis

Fabulation, VOX, Montreal, Canada

MALM I, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden

3rd Momentum 2004, the nordic festival of contemporary art, Moss, Norway



2003
The Man Who Strayed, artnode.dk / Den Anden Opera, Copenhagen, Denmark (SOLO)

Survival Strategies for Untrained Ones, Kunst und Medienzentrum Adlershof, Berlin, Germany

Something about Love, Casino Luxem bourg, Luxembourg

The man who strayed, Den anden opera & Artnode, Copenhagen, Denmark

Exit, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Rosebud, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark



2002

The Island And The Aeroplane, SparwasserHQ, Berlin

ALIBI, Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark

Brøl, Copenhagen Zoo, Copenhagen, Denmark

BIG Social Game, GAM - Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy

Bits and pieces,, Royal Museum of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

Kunstformkunst, Danmarks Tekniske Museum, Helsingør, Denmark

copkop, Gallery Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark

The harder they come, SparwasserHQ, Berlin, Germany





2001

Henne hos slagteren nede i kælderen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Efterårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Love, OTTO, Århus, Denmark

Multiple, Kopenhagen at Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

Farmands trøst, cultur.com

Agitpop, Massproduced posters distributed in 7 Danish harbour and coastal towns

Ornament and Finery, Ruhwald Ruhwald, Copenhagen, Denmark





2000

The Advent Calender, OTTO Artnode.org

Open Picture Central, Charlottenborgs Efterårsudstilling, ved S. Thorsen og E. -Jørgensen, Denmark

Upside Down, Main Library of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Out There, Kunstkredsen, Flensborg

Nightclubbing, FRAME, Copenhagen, Denmark





1999

The Advent Calendar, OTTO Artnode.org

Openingshow, Nam Nam Beauty, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hard on Storm, exhibition at The Museum of Storm Petersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

AROS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea

Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, USA

Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit, USA

EMMA, Helsinki, Finland

ESSL Museum - Kunst der Gregenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria

FRAC, Fonds Regional D Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, France

Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Herbert F. Johnson Museum, New York, USA

HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark

Honart Museum, Teheran, Iran

Israel Museum, Israel

Kiasma, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki

Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö ,Sweden

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain

Musee d'Art Moderne, Luxembourg

Statens Museum, Danish National Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Statens Kunstfond, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tate Modern, London, UK

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
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