JESPER JUST

Born 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Lives and works in New York, USA

Education

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

 

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2024 Interferes, Gallerie Perrotin, New York, USA
Exhibition and Screenings, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
2023 Interfears, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Interfears, macLYON, Lyon, France
Interfears Galerie Perrotin, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Seminarium, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, Italy
2021 Corporealités, ARS FENNICA exhibition at Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna, Finland
Seminarium, Gl. Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark
Seminarium, Galerie Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Corporealités, Galerie Perrotin, New York, USA
2019 This Nameless Spectactle, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Servitudes, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Servitudes, MAAT Museum of Art Architecture & Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Cadavre Exquis (play), Revolver, Østerbro Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Circuits (Interpassivities), Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Continuous Moments, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Coordenadas, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Jesper Just, EYE Collection Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Continuous Monuments, Arcade #1, West, Den Haag, Hague, The Netherlands
Continuous Monuments (Interpassivities), Perrotin, Hong Kong
Performance – Interpassivities, Corpus, Det Kgl. Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 Servitudes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Servitudes, Performa15, Times Square, New York, USA
Jesper Just, Various Small Fires (VSF), Los Angeles, USA
2014 A Ruin in Progress, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jesper Just: This Is a Landscape of Desire, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
This Is a Landscape of Desire, MMCA, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
Appearing / Intercourses, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
Jesper Just: This Nameless Spectacle, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
2013 Jesper Just, The Danish Pavilion, The 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
This is a Landscape of Desire, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
This is a Landscape of Desire, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
2012 This Nameless Spectacle, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
This Nameless Spectacle, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
This Nameless Spectacle, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011 This Nameless Spectacle, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
A Vicious Undertow, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
John Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia
This Nameless Spectacle, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Photo Spring, Beijing, China
MAP, Mobile Art Production, Stockholm, Sweden
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
This Nameless Spectacle, MAC/VAL, Val-de-Marne, France
2010 ARTscape: Denmark – Jesper Just, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lithuania
Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA
2009 Invitation to Love, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Jesper Just, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigao – Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Jesper Just, Tromsø Gallery of Contemporary Art, Norway
2008 Romantic Delusions, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Romantic Delusions, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Romantic Delusions, U-turn / Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
A Voyage in Dwelling, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Jesper Just, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2007 A Vicious Undertow, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA
Jesper Just, Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna, Austria
Jesper Just, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Jesper Just, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jesper Just, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
Jesper Just, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
No Man is an Island II, Bliss and Heaven, Something to Love, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
2006 Jesper Just – Something to Love, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
It Will All End In Tears, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
It Will All End In Tears, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA
It Will All End In Tears, Special viewing during Frieze Art Fair: ArtProjx presentation in Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK
Black Box: Jesper Just, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
Jesper Just, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Something to Love, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 True Love is Yet to Come, Performa 05, Weiss Studio, New York, USA
Something to Love, Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2004 Jesper Just, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA
No Man Is an Island II, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Bliss And Heaven, Gallery Maze, Torino, Italy
A Fine Romance, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, USA
A Fine Romance, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 The Man Who Strayed, artnode.dk / Den Anden Opera, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Group exhibitions (selected)

2024 Interfears, RAY Triennale, Frankfurt, Germany
La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
2021 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 Servitudes. Universe Society Being, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, South Korea
2019 Nordic Impressions. Contemporary Art From Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, And Sweden, Scandinavia House, New York, USA
Feel the Sun in Your Mouth, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
2018 Tak i lige Måde. Contemporary Art from Denmark, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Hollywood and other Myths, The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Music for the Eyes, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
2017 You Are In My Wave, Lothringer13 Halle, München
The Darkened Mirror: Global Perspectives on Water, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York Cool
calm and collected, ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
Generation 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 IN THE SHADOW/ OF A SPECTACLE/ IS THE VIEW OF THE CROWD, PERFORMA, New York, US
Chercher le garcon, Musee d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
City Walks, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Obey!-!Obedece!, M100 – Centro Culturtal 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 – Begegnungen Zwischen Kunst Und Kino, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2014 #1: Cartagena, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
HPB14, Helsinki Photography Biennial, Helsinki, Finland
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 – Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, 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
Real Emotions: Thinking in Film, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Bikuben, UMOCA Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah, USA
High Performance, The JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION as guest at the ZMK. Time-based Media Art sine 1996, ZMK, Karlsruhe, Germany
Performance Now, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, USA
2013 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
2012 PINK CAVIAR, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2011 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 Body/Space Mechanics, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Emporte-moi / Sweep me off my feet, Musee d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, 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
2009 Code Share: 5 Continents, 10 Biennales, 20 Artists, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
Angli – Heart, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
Mia Vida, From Heaven to Hell, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion – Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
Play – Film and Video, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
It’s Raining Men…!, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Damaged Romanticism, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, USA
Swing Time Free Style, Charlotte Fogh Contemporary, Aarhus, Denmark
Popisme, Episode IV – Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
Emporte-moi/Sweep Me Off My Feet, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada
Kurs: Torvet, Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Sounds And Vision, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2008 Unknown Pleasures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Dance, Dance, Dance, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fluid Street – Alone, Together, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Filmprogramm, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Carnegie Art Award, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
Two-Fold Faction, PKM GALLERY, Beijing, China
56º N, 10º E, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
Intimacy, ACCA – Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
Worlds on video – international video art, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Florence, Italy
OVERCOMING, Ernst Museum Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Stop.Look.Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
Carnegie Art Award, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden
Locked-in, The Image of Humanity in the Age of Intrusion, Casino Luxembourg, Luexembourg
LCPH, Malmöfestivalen, Malmö, Sweden
Romantic Delusions, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Damaged Romanticism, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA
UNCLASSIFIABLE, Overgaden, Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Ciclo Video, CGAC (Galician Centre of Contemporary Art), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
DanskDjävlar – en svensk kanon, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Angli, Heart – Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
Swing Time, Beaver Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
(LOVE) WILL TEAR US – OPTION LIEBE, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria
BodyBerserk, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Unclassifiable Video, Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada
Carnegie Art Award, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 Carnegie Art Award, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
Beijing Center for Creativity, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Drake, Toronto, Canada
CRACK THE SKY, Biennale de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Timer 01, intimitá/intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy
I’M ONLY HUMAN, Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
MoA (Museum of Art), Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Gaze.space.desire, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Moore Space/Moca, Miami, USA
Eternal Beautiful Now, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Argos, Brussels, Belgium
KölnShow 2, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
5-Year Anniversary Show, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
KunstFilmBiennale7, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Stop. Look. Listen: An Exhibition of Video Works, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, USA
Existencias, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Léon, Spain
Delicatessen, Schmidt Center Gallery & Ritter Art Gallery, Boca Raton, USA
Replaying Narrative, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Novelle (Not Yet Another Story), Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany
An Interpersonal Journey – Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
IMAGES OF MAN today – ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Borderline/Moving Images 2007 – Borderline, Beijing, China
I Love Malmö, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa, Finland
Contemporary Scandinavian Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art – SMoCA, Scottsdale, USA
Love Addiction: pratiche video dal ’61 ad oggi – GC.AC – Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy
OPEN ev+a 2007 – ev+a, Limerick, Ireland
Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession Subversion – Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
I Love Malmö: Works from Malmö Art Museum, Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland
MediaArtLab Museum, Moscow, Russia
2006 Dreamlands Burn, MÛCSARNOK | KUNSTHALLE BUDAPEST, Budapest, Hungary
Empathetic Temple Gallery, Old City, Pennsylvania, USA
EXPORTABLE GOODS – Danish art now, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Artprojx, Prince Charles Cinema, Frieze Art Fair Event, London, UK
The Big Scene: Emotionality in Recent Video Art, Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Hot/Cold? Summerloving?, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Empathetic Temple Gallery, Old City, Pennsylvania, USA
Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
LIAF 06 Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway
Biennale du Havre, Le Havre, France
Ars 06 Sense of the Real, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Trial Balloons, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Spain
Bühne des Lebens – Rhetorik des Gefühls, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BENT: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art, International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Naivism in Contemporary Art – ARKEN’s Collection – ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
MONITOR – DUNK!, Copenhagen, Denmark
Something More Than Feelings, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, USA
Globos Sonda – Musac – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Léon, Spain
Amazing Friends, Galleria Maze, Turin, Italy
COPENHAGEN – SAN FRANCISCO, Scandinavian Short film Festival, ATA, Sam Francisco, USA
Another Worlds, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2005 Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
Collection Lambert, Musée d’art contemporain, Avignon, France
The Final Floor Show, Objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
Grønningen, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gender Bender, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Matisse & August, Royal Musem of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Something to Love, Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark
The Final floor Show, Objectif_exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
2004 I Feel Mysterious Today, Palm Beach INC, Miami, USA
No one else can make me feel the colours that you bring, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
MALM I, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Altered Spaces, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, USA
Fabulation, VOX, Montreal, Canada
3rd Momentum 04, Nordic Festival of Contemporary A rt, Moss, Norway
Video Killed the Radio Star, Migros Museum fur Gengenwarts Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2003 Survival Strategies for Untrained Ones, Adlershof, Berlin, Germany
Something about Love, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Rosebud, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Exit, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Man Who Strayed, Den Anden Opera & Artnode, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 The Island And The Aeroplane, SparwasserHQ, Berlin, Germany
ALIBI, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Brøl, Copenhagen Zoo, Copenhagen, Denmark
BIG Social Game, GAM, Turin, 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

 

Articles/reviews (selected)

2017 “Uncomfortable Gaze: Profile of Jesper Just”, Ysabelle Cheung, ArtAsiaPacific, October 10, 2017
“Interpassivities: Jesper Just”, Mousse Magazine, September, 2017
“17 Artists Share the Films That Influenced Them”, Scott Indrisek, Artsy, August 24, 2017
2015 “Videokunst nu!”, Merete Møndrup, Magasinet Kunst #2, March, 2015
“En udvidet undersøgelse af det moderne vildnis”, Kristian Handberg, kunsten.nu, May 1, 2015
“New York artist Jesper Just commandeers Paris’ Palais de Tokyo with a spectacular multimedia show”, Ali Morris, wallpaper.com, July 20, 2015
“Experience Jesper Just’s haunting audiovisual installation Servitudes in Paris”, Michael Slenske, Architectural Digest, June 30, 2015
“At tage rummet tilbage – Jesper Just”, Maria Bordorff, kopenhagen.dk, July 8, 2015
2014 “Ugens kunstner – Jesper Just”, Pernille Taagaard Dinesen, kunsten.nu, September 24, 2014
2013 “Biennale de Venise: Ai Weiwei, DSK et Prada sur la Lagune”, Les Echos, June 1, France
“Jesper Just on his Immersive, Cinemativ Takeover of the Danish Pavilion”, Artsy, May 31, New York, USA
“Just, Arrived: With Three New Ambitious Films, Just Explores the Poetry of Place”, GalleristNY, USA
“Jesper Just”, Wall Street International, May 29, New York, USA
“On View: Jesper Just’s Paradoxical Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale”, The New York Times, T Magazine, May 28, New York, USA
“A Work That’s Site Unspecific”, The New York Times, June 2, New York, USA
“In the studio: Jesper Just”, Art + Auction 60,300, USA
“Meet Me Someplace Else: Jesper Just at the Venice Biennale”, Art in America, May 28, USA
“En video-kunstners rejse”, Martin Burcharth, Information, February 13, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Jesper Just: In Denmark for Jesper Just’s solo exhibition”, Alessia Rosini, vogue.it, L’Uomo Vogue edition, February, Milan, Italy
“Just So”, Felix Burrichter, W Magazine, February 7, New York, USA
“Verdenskunst pa den jyske hede”, Thilde Nyborg, Politiken, February 8, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp.14-15
“Han saetter minoriteterne i centrum”, Maria Juel Glasius, Jyllands-Posten, February 10, Aarhus, Denmark, pp.22-23
2012 “Jesper Just”, David Frankel, Artforum, December Issue, New York, USA
“Jesper Just”, Christopher French, ARTnews, November Issue, New York, USA
“Jesper Just: This Nameless Spectacle”, Mette Garfield, Thalo, October 7, New York, USA
“15 Questions for Danish Video Artist Jesper Just”, Julian Halperin, Blouin Artinfo, Issue for October 8, New York, USA
“Cinematic Crises: Q+A with Jesper Just”, Faye Hirsch, Art in America, September 25, New York, USA
“Jesper Just: ‘This Nameless Spectacle’”, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, September 13, New York, USA
“Just, Arrived.”, Susan Michals, New York Observer, September 10, New York, USA
“Denmark Picks Jesper Just for 2013 Venice Biennale”, GalleristNY, May 23, New York, USA
“Nuances that Carry Weight: Jesper Just at James Cohan”, Kris Scheifele, Artcritical, September 16, New York, USA
2011 “Jesper Just: The Human Touch”, Richard Rhodes, Canadian Art, December 1, Toronto, Canada
2010 “Tampa Museum of Arts features Jesper Just video art exhibit”, Lennie Bennett, St. Petersburg Times, May 16, St. Petersburg, Russia
“An observer of the Undercurrent”, Catherine Y. Hsieh, NY Arts Magazine, New York, USA
“Stills from Sirens of Chrome”, Objektiv, no. 1, April Issue, Oslo, Norway, pp.72-76
“Omer Fast at Postmasters and the Whitney; Anthony McCall’s ‘Leaving’; Josh Dorman’s ‘New Works'”, Robert Shuster, The Village Voice, January 12, New York, USA
2009 “Art That Leaps Off the Canvas”, Carol Kino, The New York Times, October 29, New York, USA
“Jesper Just: A Vicious Undertow”, Stephane Aquin, The Magazine of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September Issue, Montreal, Canada
“Interview: Jesper Just – Arkens Rejselegat 2009”, kopenhagen.dk, March 24, Copenhagen, Denmark
“A Touch of Romanticism”, Everett Daquino, Artslant, February 19, Los Angeles, USA
“Urovekkende dragsug”, Hanne Hammer Stien, Billedkunst, February 10, Oslo, Norway
“Love and Other Disappointments”, Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times, February 12, New York, USA
“Jesper Just’s Theater of Exclamation Points”, Christopher French, Art Papers, no. 33.3, May-June Issue, Atlanta, USA, pp. 30-37
2008 “Shiny Art-World Celebrities Turn Out for Performa’s Metal Ball”, Andrew Goldstein, New York Magazine, November 17, New York, USA
“Newest Haggerty exhibit is worth a look, listen”, Molly Gamble, Marquette Tribune, November 6, Marquette, USA
“Validated Vagueness of “Damaged Romanticism””, Troy Schulze, Houston Press, October 16, Houston, USA
“Brooklyn Museum: Jesper Just: Romantic Delusions”, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, October 3, New York, USA
“Jesper Justs personlige U-turn”, Mikkel Mindegaard-Mullertz, kunsten.nu, October 1, Aarhus, Denmark
“Værkerne nedbryder konventionerne”, Julie Hjerl Hansen, Information, October 1, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Just at Hammer Museum in LA”, Hannah Barry, Artslant, September 22, Los Angeles, USA
“Walking in dreams”, Georgia Fee, Artslant, September 9, Los Angeles, USA
“Fall Preview: Jesper Just’s Schizo Enigma. Four Films at the Brooklyn Museum of Art”, Robert Shuster, The Village Voice, September 2, New York, USA
“Cinematic Images of Masculine Vulnerability”, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, September 26, New York, USA
“En haabefuld romantiker”, Matthias Hvass Borello, kunsten.nu, September 11, Aarhus, Denmark
“Jesper Just”, Eliza Williams, Frieze, no. 117, September Issue, London, UK
“Carnegie Art Award 2008 – Den Frie Udstillingsbygning”, kopenhagen.dk, August, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Dansk billedkunstner i stald hos Londons topgallerist”, Line Rosenvinge, Information, June 30, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Jeg bruger et kendt sprog og giver folk noget, de ikke forventer”, Information, Line Rosenvinge, June 30, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Digitale Drømme”, Kristoffer Zøllner, Berlingske Tidende, March 1, Copenhagen, Denmark
“I følelsernes vold” Oliver Stilling, Filmmagasinet Ekko, March/April, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Romantic Delutions”, Lilian Davies, Idoménée, Issue 3, Paris, France
“Videokunstneren, der sætter ny standard”, Ole Lindboe, Magasinet Kunst, Issue 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 “Jesper Just”, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, August 9, New York, USA
“Suspense en subtiliteit in verlaten parkeergarages – Mannen als lustobject in de films van de Deense kunstenaar Jesper Just”, Manon Braat, NRC Handelsblad, January 3, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Interview: Jesper Just”, Torben Zenth, kopenhagen.dk, June 29, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Nordisk Samtidskunst når det er bedst”, Astrid la Cour, Berlingske Tidende, April 29, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Carnegie priser til Just og Kørner”, Informations webredkation, Information, June 30, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Fine Kunstpriser til Danmark”, Torben Weirup, Berlingske Tidende, June 30, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 “Hollywood og hinsides”, Toke Lykkeberg Nielsen, Information, October 30, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Det handler om mænd”, Poul Pilgaard Johnsen, Weekendavisen, October 27, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Nat I New York”, Trine Ross, Politiken, October 23, Copenhagen, Denmark
“It Will All end in Tears”, Jeffrey Kastner, The New York Times, October 20, New York, USA
“Art Films With Hollywood Production Values”, Blake Gopnik, Washington Post, October 17, Washington, USA
“Jesper Just: Love, desire and impersonation; opera, film and masculinity”, Ronald Jones, Frieze, Summer 100th issue, June Issue, London, UK
“Jetzt bloß nicht sentimental werden”, Holger Liebs, Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 7, Munich, Germany
“Crying Time The Films of Jesper Just”, Faye Hirsch, Art In America, February Issue, New York, USA
“Varför alla dessa män, Jesper”, Erica Treijs, Svenska Dagbladet, January 2, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 “17 Days of Nothing You’d Ever Beheld”, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, December 25, New York, USA
“Future Greats”, Adam Budak, ArtReview, December Issue, London, UK
“Forførende, flygtige hologramer”, Mette Garfield Mortensen, Magasinet Kunst, November Issue, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Performance Art Gets Its Biennial”, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, November 3, New York, USA
“Styrtblødende skønhed”, Maria Gadegaard, Politiken, November 20, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Det maskuline fængsel”, Anders Haarh, Information, November Issue, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Jesper Just”, Torben Weirup, Dansk Kunst 06, November, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Videokunstneren Jesper Just om rum og fortælling”, Rie Lykke, Danske Scenografer, September, 1:25, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Jesper Just”, Michael Wilson, Artforum, March Issue, New York, USA
“Something to Love”, Svala Vagnsdatter Andersen, Kvinfo, March 8, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Reflections in a Glass Curtain”, Andrea Bellini , Flash Art, January/February Issue, Milan, Italy
2004 “Jesper Just”, Caroline Corbetta, Flash Art, November Issue, Milan, Italy
“Jesper Just”, Raphael Gygax, Tema Celeste, November/December Issue, Milan, Italy
“Jesper Just”, Noah Chasin, Time Out, Issue No. 481/482,December 16-29, New York, USA, p. 102
“Jesper Just”, Julia Morton, NYPRESS, vol. 17, no. 46, November 17-23, New York, USA, p. 55
“Critic’s Picks”, Brian Sholis, Artforum, November/December, New York, USA
“Shortlist”, Kim Levin, The Village Voice, November 17-23, New York, USA, p. 45
“Jesper Just”, Max Andrews, Frieze, June/July/August Issue, London, UK
“Review of Midway Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Kris Douglas, ArtUS, No. 3, June–August Issue, Los Angeles, USA
“Jesper Just”, Aron Van Dyke, Rearview Mirror, May-June Issue, Rome, Italy
“Kunstrevy”, Mette Sandbye, Weekendavisen, Febuary 6–12, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Fortællinger om kærlighed”, Kristine Kern, Politiken, January, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Mand og mand imellem”, Rune Gade, Information, January 14, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Essays

“Jesper Just”, Hannah Barry, 2006
“Melodrama for Modern Men”, Gry Hoengsmark Knudsen, 2005
“Something to Love”, Gry Hoengsmark Knudsen and Holger Reenberg, 2005
“En feminisme for menn”, Joergen Lorentzen, 2004
“Everyone changes be my friend”, Caroline Corbetta, 2004
“Man Stripped Bare by Stories of Love”, Jacob Lillemose, 2004
“Passionate Glance”, Kristine Kern, 2003

 

Publications/catalogues

Jesper Just. It Will All End in Tears, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, 2008
Jesper Just, Romantic Delusions, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2008
JESPER JUST, Film works 2001-2007, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007
Bent: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art, University of Washington Press, Washington, Seattle, USA, 2006
Bühne des Lebens – Rhetorik des Gefühls, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, 2006
Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK

 

Public Collections

Arario Gallery, South Korea
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, USA
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
EMMA, Helsinki, Finland
FRAC, Fonds Regional D’Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, New York, USA
Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington, USA
Honart Museum, Teheran, Iran
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kiasma, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmo, Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Musac, Leon, Spain
Musee d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg
Statens Kunstfond, Copenhagen, Denmark
Statens Museum, Danish National Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tate Modern, London, UK

 

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