Video still from Jesper Just, The Lonely Villa, 2004, 16mm film transferred to video. Photo courtesy the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York. Video still from Jesper Just, The Lonely Villa, 2004, 16mm film transferred to video. Photo courtesy the artist and Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York.

    Jesper Just lives and works in Copenhagen, where he also completed his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2003. He works primarily with film, staging intensely dramatic scenarios in atmospheric settings ranging from strip clubs to the countryside, in which his protagonists communicate primarily through song. His works in series are tied together by their insistent inquiry into desire and ideas of human coexistence. His characters are primarily male, and break through the repression of societal expectation through the expression of intense emotion.

   Recent solo exhibitions include Jesper Just, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2006); Black Box: Jesper Just, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Something to Love; Herning Art Museum, Denmark (2005); True Love is Yet to Come, ???????New York, (2005); and A Fine Romance; Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN (2004). Group exhibitions include Biennale du Havre, Le Havre, France (2006); BENT: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Art, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2006); Gender Bender, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy (2005); Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, England (2005); 3rd Momentum 2004, the nordic festival of contemporary art, Moss, Norway (2004); Bits and pieces, Royal Museum of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2002); Ornament and Finery; Ruhwald Ruhwald, Copenhagen, Denmark (2001); Nightclubbing, FRAME, Copenhagen, Denmark (2002); and Hard on Storm, Museum of Storm Petersen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

More Information:

http://www.christinawilson.net/template/t04.php?menuId=21
http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/14807
http://www.arken.dk/view.asp?ID=11525
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/109/