Jane Jin Kaisen 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 received 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 WhitneyIndependent Study Program. Working with film, video installation, photography, performance, and text, Kaisen's artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities. Recurring themes involve memory, migration, and translation at the intersection of personal and collective histories. Through non-linear layered montages of image, sound, voice, and archive, she creates distinct modes of storytelling that gesture towards sites of emergence and embodied memories that linger at the margins of the seen and the said. Her narrative experimental filmThe Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger 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, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Kunsthallen Brandts, Sonoma County Museum, and The Jeju April 3 Peace Park. 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 as well as the artist group Orientity along with Natsue Haji OH, , Adel KsK, Raymond Hahn, Naomi K. Long. The artist group Orientity has exhibited together in Kyoto Art Center, in Hong Kong at Fringe Club, in Montreal at Galerie La Centrale, in Grenoble at la Maison Internationale and in Lille at Maison Folies. 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.
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.
