Jesper Just


Jesper Just 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.
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.
Just has also created live performance participating in the Performa Biennials. He presented his opera in which Norwegian actor Baard Owe performed alongside projections for Performa 05, the first edition of the performance festival. 10 years later, Just presented at Performa 15.

Films

His film trilogy A Voyage in Dwelling included performances by Benedikte Hansen, and music composed by Dorit Chrysler.

Exhibitions

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". In 2008 a different New York Times reviewer described him as a "... still young, abundantly talented and wonderfully original artist".
He received second prize in the Carnegie Art Award at Kópavogur Arts Museum in Reykjavík in 2008, and the Eckersberg Medal in 2014.