Kirsten

Justesen

Kristen Justesen was born 1943, today she lives and works in Copenhagen.Her work embraces a range of topics, from body (body art) and performance to sculpture and installations. Justesen was part of the avant-garde scene of the 1960s, where she was a pioneer in the three-dimensional artistic expressions that incorporate the artist's own body as material. These experiments led her to feminist art, which explored traditional gender roles in the 1970's. Her later work addresses broader exploration of the relationship between body, space and language.
 

Selected exhibitions include:
 

2011 Uro-Imo Projects/Copenhagen, My New York Map Gallery 5/Middelfart,
Merging grounds performance festival The Free Udstillingsbyging/ Copenhagen, Human Patterns Art Hall Oslo, Lenses Skulpturi/Denmark 
 

2010 ARCHIVE: Kirsten Justesen FAMA Museum of Contemporary Art/ Roskilde, Human-Mamac Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain/Nice
Art & Food Harry Ruhe Collection/Amsterdam Photographs The National Gallery of Denmark,Ting Skulpturi/ Denmark, Fall Out  Gl.Holtegaard & Malmo Konsthall
 

2009 REBELLE Art & Feminism (1969 -2009) Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem,There must be more focus on female artists Interview,
What ever happened to sex in scandiavia? OCA/Norway, Life Bill Eder - Kvindesyn Dronninglund Art Center,WACK! Vancouver Art Gallery,
 

2008 Art as idea Museum of Visual Art/Brandts, Figure Lauritz Kunsthal,
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution PS1 New York & Vancouver Artgallery,WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art/Los Angeles
 

2007 Art as idea The National Museum of Photography, Melting Time # 16 Archivio Emily Harvey/Venice, Faces, scavening Identity ZONE Contemporary Arts/NYC, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution MOCA/ Los Angeles and National Museum of Women in the Arts/ Washington.
 

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