Jesper Just
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Jesper Just (born 12 June 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|date=August 2021}}
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|date=August 2021}}
Just has also created live performance participating in the Performa Biennials. He presented his opera [http://archive.performa-arts.org/archive/05b-pc-0002 True Love is Yet to Come] in which Norwegian actor Baard Owe performed alongside projections for Performa 05, the first edition of the performance festival. 10 years later, Just presented [http://archive.performa-arts.org/archive/15b-pc-0010 In the shadow /of a spectacle/ is the view of the crowd] at Performa 15.
Films
His film trilogy A Voyage in Dwelling (2008) included performances by Benedikte Hansen, and music composed by Dorit Chrysler.{{cite web|first=Eliza |last=Williams|title=Jesper Just|website= Frieze|date=September 2008|number= 205|url= http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/jesper_just1/}}
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, Ursula Blickle Foundation 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)
- INTERFEARS, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (2023)
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".{{r|nyt2}} In 2008 a different New York Times reviewer described him as a "... still young, abundantly talented and wonderfully original artist".{{r|nyt}}
He received second prize in the Carnegie Art Award at Kópavogur Arts Museum in Reykjavík in 2008,{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} and the Eckersberg Medal in 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.akademiraadet.dk/index.php?id=95|title=Tildelinger af medaljer|publisher=Akademiraadet|accessdate=25 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202093758/http://www.akademiraadet.dk/index.php?id=95|archive-date=2 February 2015|url-status=dead}}
References
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Further reading
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- 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.
- [http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-09-03/art/fall-preview-jesper-just-s-schizo-enigma/ "Fall Preview: Jesper Just's Schizo Enigma. Four Films at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, September 2, 2008"], The Village Voice
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/arts/design/10gall.html?fta=y "Jesper Just"], The New York Times, August 10, 2007
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130320195301/http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/nameless-spectacle-live "Jesper Just and Dorit Chrysler: This nameless spectacle (live)"], video interview by Louisiana Channel.
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Category:Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts alumni
Category:Recipients of the Eckersberg Medal
Category:Danish contemporary artists
Category:20th-century Danish photographers