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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Jesper Just
- Jesper Just (born 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish artist, who lives and works in New York, NY.
- From 1997 to 2003 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
- Jesper Just uses film technology and installation strategies as vehicles to create work that addresses complex contemporary issues through open-ended visual narratives rich in detail and metaphorical import.
- Using a mixture of multiple video channels, sound installations, live performance and sculptural and architectural interventions.
- Just has works in over twenty-five museum collections internationally, such as Guggenheim Museum New York, Tate Modern London and MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York. Just works exclusively in film, shooting on a variety of film stock, including 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm.
- His works which date from 2003 and before were recorded in digital video.
- All of his later works were shot on film and then transferred to HD video.
- The resulting images are dense and atmospheric.
- Their prominent soundtracks are conceived specifically for each film in cooperation with different musicians. His works have been shown throughout Europe and the United States, including: the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2005), the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (2007); and the Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2007).
- His most recent exhibitions include: Romantic Delusions at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, U-Turn, the Copenhagen Quadrennial in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Liverpool Biennial in Liverpool, UK.
- His latest exhibition titled Servitudes was on show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France from June 24th until September 13, 2015.
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