# Jane Jin Kaisen

Jane Jin Kaisen (born 28 May 1980) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

## Biography

Kaisen was born in Jeju Island, South Korea and adopted to Denmark in 1980. She is a Professor at the School of Media Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She received her Ph.D. from University of Copenhagen, her MA in Media Art and Art Theory from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from The University of California Los Angeles. She also participated in The Whitney Independent Study Program.
Spanning the mediums of video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Kaisen’s artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research, artistic collaborations, and engagement with diverse communities. She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, she activates the field where lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories. www.janejinkaisen.com
She represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale with the film installation Community of Parting (2019) alongside artists Hwayeon Nam and siren eun young jeong in the exhibition History Has Failed Us, but No Matter curated by Hyunjin Kim.
Her narrative experimental film The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger (2010) made in collaboration with Guston Sondin-Kung explores the gendered effects of war and militarism by tracing a genealogy between three generations of women.
In 2011 Jane Jin Kaisen began the multi-channel video installation Reiterations of Dissent for which she was awarded the Montana ENTERPRIZE. The piece has been exhibited widely and in multiple formats, among others at Asia Culture Center (KR), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art (KR), Aarhus Kunstbygning (DK), Kunsthallen Brandts (DK), Sonoma County Museum (USA), and The Jeju April 3 Peace Park (KR).
Jane Jin Kaisen is the co-founder of the artist unit itinerant with Guston Sondin Kung and together they have organized and curated a series of art exhibitions and events. She is also co-founder of the artist groups UFOlab (Unidentified Foreign Object Laboratory) with Anna Jin Hwa Borstam, Charlotte Kim Boed, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen and Trine Meesook Gleerup) as well as the artist group Orientity along with Natsue Haji OH, Kimura byol-nathalie lemoine, Adel KsK, Raymond Hahn, Naomi K. Long. The artist group Orientity has exhibited together in Kyoto Art Center (2004), in Hong Kong at Fringe Club (2005), in Montreal at Galerie La Centrale (2007), in Grenoble at la Maison Internationale (2008), in Lille at Maison Folies (2009) and at Art Space C, Jeju Korea (2021).
Jane Jin Kaisen has also curated exhibitions and events. She was a curator of the 10th Open International Performance Art Festival in 2009 in Beijing, China, which included performance artists from many different countries.

## Selected solo exhibitions

2023 Halmang esea contemporary, UK
2021
Community of Parting, Art Sonje Center, Korea
Parallax Conjunctures, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, United States
2020
Of Specters or Returns, Gallery damdam, Korean Cultural Center, Germany
Community of Parting, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, Seoul International New Media Festival, Korea
Of Specters – or Returns, Inter Arts Center, Sweden
2015
Of Specters – or Returns, Astrid Noack's Atelier, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sites of Translation, Yonsei University, Underwood International College, Korea
Loving Belinda, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
2013
Jane Jin Kaisen – Reiterations of Dissent, Jeju April 3 Peace Park, Korea
Jane Jin Kaisen – Solo Exhibition, Art Space C, Korea
Revolution is not a Bird's Ete View..., Officin, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012
Dissident Translations, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
2011
The Woman, The Orphan, and the Tiger w. Guston Sondin-Kung, Vox Populi Gallery, USA

## Selected group exhibitions and film screenings

2021
After Hope – Voices of Resistance, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, United States
2020
Pan Austro-Nesian, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan
Frequencies of Tradition, Times Art Museum, China
Negotiating Borders, Foundation Fiminco, France
Community of Parting, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Korea
Community of Parting, 8th Diaspora Film Festival, Korea
Our World is Burning, Palais de Tokyo, France
Born, A Woman, Suwon Museum of Art, Korea
Time Share, Performa Radical Broadcast, United States
History Has Failed Us, but No Matter, Arko Art Center, Korea
Screening of Community of Parting co-presented with GYOPO, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, United States
Precarious Life – Silence, Memory and Fictions, Onsugonggan, South Korea
2019
History Has Failed Us, But No Matter, 58th Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion, Italy
Neither black/red/yellow nor woman, Times Art Center Berlin, Germany
Screening of Tale of One or Many Mountains, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Korea
Zero Gravity World, SeMA Nam Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
2018
Counter Memory & Reconstruction of Body Movement, Seoul International NewMedia Festival, Seoul Art Cinema, South Korea
10th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
Decolonizing Appearance, CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics, Copenhagen, Denmark
Film screening as part of Haegue Yang's exhibition Voices of Dispersion, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Jeju 4.3 is Now Our History, National Museum of Contemporary Korean History, South Korea
Post Trauma: The Special Exhibition of the 70th Anniversary of the Jeju Massacre, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea
Forged from the Collective Memory, ArtSpace C / Artspace IAa Gallery, South Korea
Forum Expanded: A Mechanism Capable of Changing itself, 68th Berlin International Film Festival
2017
Border 155, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Today's Yesterday, 1st Anren Biennale, China, Today's Yesterday
Does Europe Exist? V2.0, ARTos Foundation, Cyprus
Tiempos Migratorios, Biennial ASAB, Columbia
The Promise and Compromise of Translation, Four Boxes Gallery, Denmark
Tourism, Jeju Biennale, Jeju Museum of Art, South Korea
Asian Diva: The Muse and the Monster, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Art Center at the Jim Thompson House, Thailand
2 or 3 Tigers, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany
2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, China
Nordic Delights, Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
The Time Share Project – The Real DMZ Project: The Aarhus Edition, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, ParaSite, Hong Kong
Melancholia: Archipelago Journal screening of The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, Enclave, United Kingdom
Rough Trade, 68 Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nordic Delights, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Film screenings: The Woman, The Orphan, and the Tiger & Reiterations of Dissent, New York University, United States
Film screenings: The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger & Reiterations of Dissent, University of California San Diego, United States
House of Memories, Glasmoog, Raum Für Kunst & Diskurs, Cologne, Germany
Korea Film Archive, Feminism Video Artivist Biennale 2016, South Korea
Crossing the Line: Contemporary Art From Denmark, Critical Distance Center for Curators, Canada
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Philippines
Vulnerability Matters Laboratory, Rauma Biennale Balticum, Finland
For More Than One Voice: performative reading with Stina Hasse, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
ArtSpectrum, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, South Korea
Nordic Delights, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, New York University, Department of East Asian Studies, USA
2015
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark
A Feminist Culture Reader, Danske Grafikeres Hus, Denmark
Interrupted Survey: Fractured Modern Mythologies, Asian Culture Center, South Korea,
Glocal Panorama, Seoul International NewMedia Festival, South Korea
Los Archivos del Cuerpo, Emerson College Huret & Spector Gallery, United States
Reiterations of Dissent, Raindance Film Centre, London, United Kingdom
Reiterations of Dissent, AAS Film Expo, Chicago, United States
Rencontres Internationales video archive, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany
Arkiv over Hvidme, The National Gallery of Denmark – The Royal Cast Collection, Denmark
2014
Reiterations of Dissent selected as opening film, Seoul International NewMedia Festival, South Korea
Exclusion + Possibility, Gallery Zandari, South Korea
Camelia Has Fallen: Contemporary Korean Artists Reflect on the Jeju Uprising, Sonoma County Museum of Art, United States
2013
Women Commentators, Center for contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Poland
Tell Me Her Story, Coreana Museum, South Korea
The Beginning is Always Today: Contemporary Feminist Art in Scandinavia, Sørlandet Art Museum, Norway
War Baby/Love Child, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience & DePaul Art Museum, United States
Visualising Affect, Lewisham Arthouse, United Kingdom
Strom Festival, Kunsthaus Rheania, Germany
The Nordic Model, Malmo Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Dear Curator, Curate Me, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Indonesia
War Baby / Love Child, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, United States
Korean American Film Festival New York, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York, United States
2012
7 Generous Gestures, Galleri Lars Olsen, Denmark
Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984–2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
ENTER II, Kunsthallen Brandts, Denmark, ENTER II
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
FOKUS Video Art Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark
IN THE ACT, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, IN THE ACT
ACTS, Roskilde Museum for Contemporary Art, Denmark
3 films by Jane Jin Kaisen, Øst For Paradis Cinema, Aarhus, Denmark
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Ars Cameralis, Poland
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Scotland
Videonale13 Festival for Contemporary Art, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
Korean American Film Festival New York, United States
Jeju International Women's Film Festival, South Korea
Island of Stone shown as closing film, Seoul Human Rights Film Festival, South Korea
2010
Crossing the Sea, Jeju National Museum, South Korea
MFA2010, The Wight Gallery, UCLA, United States
Infr’acton Festival International d’art Performance, Sete, France
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival, Taiwan
The Dialogic Imagination, IASPIS, Sweden
2009
2nd Incheon Women Artists Biennale, South Korea
EXIT09, Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Boarding Bridges, Kring Gallery, South Korea
Migrations, Municipal Art Gallery of Kalamata, Greece
Borders, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, New York, United States
2nd Asian Women's Film Festival Berlin, Germany
25th International Asia Pacific Film Festival Los Angeles, United States
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
2008
Breaking Out, Gana Art Gallery New York, United States
The last Book Project, Buenos Aires National Library, Argentina
2nd Deformes Biennial, Gallery Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
Unnamable Name, Tompkin's County Public Library, New York, United States
Privilege Walk, Lilith Performance Studio, Sweden
This is not a Koreanobela: a film trilogy, The Green Papaya Gallery, Philippines
2007
Traces in Photography, The National Museum of Photography, Denmark
Orientity Exhibition, Gallery La Centrale, Montreal, Canada
Exquisite Crisis and Encounters, New York University, United States
Visions from the Periphery, Kyunghee University Art Museum, South Korea
2006
South Korea as part of UFOlab: UFOlab Banana Power, 6th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, The Faroe Islands National Art Museum
Alternative Art Fair, Gallery Pixel, Denmark
Global Alien Television, Ssamzie Space, South Korea
International Indonesia Performance Art Event, National Gallery, Indonesia
4th DaDao Live Art Festival, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China
International Film and Video Festival, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
Malmo International Film Festival, Sweden
2005
Accent, Museum for Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark
Skin Deep, Echo Park Film Center, United States
Bandits-Mages International Media Festival, Bourges, France
2004
AREUM Vessel, Kyoto Museum of Art, Japan
Orientity Exhibition, Kyoto Arts Center, Japan
Our adoptee, Our Alien, Keumsan Gallery & Dongsanbang Gallery, South Korea
Minority Report, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark

## Awards

In 2008, she received the AHL Foundation Visual Arts award at Gana Art NY.
In 2011, she received the award Montana Enterprize at Kunsthallen Brandts.
In 2014, she was the recipient of the Mads Øvlisen PhD scholarship from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
In 2021, Jane Jin Kaisen's exhibition Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg was awarded "Exhibition of the Year 2020" by AICA - International Association of Art Critics, Denmark.