Jesper Just

Who is Jesper Just?

Jesper Just is a Danish artist, and living and working in New York, NY. From 1997 to 2003 he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Just works exclusively in film, shooting on a variety of film stock, including 8 mm, 16 mm and 35 mm. Works dating from 2003 and before were recorded in digital video. All later works are shot on film and then transferred to HD video. The resulting images are dense and atmospheric. Their prominent soundtracks are conceived specifically for each film in cooperation with different musicians.

His works have been throughout Europe and the United States, including: the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, the Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL; and the Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His most recent exhibitions opened in September 2008; they include: Romantic Delusions at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, U-Turn, the Copenhagen Quadrennial in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Liverpool Biennial in Liverpool, UK.