SMK to present the first exhibition of Jessie Kleemann at a Danish museum

From 24 August to 26 November 2023, the SMK presents the first-ever Jessie Kleemann (b. 1959) solo show at a Danish museum.

Source: SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) Image: Jessie Kleemann, “Arkhticós Doloros”, 2019. © Jessie Kleemann

For three decades now, Kleemann has been a significant figure on the contemporary art scene with her original and expressive approach to video art, experimental theatre, feminism, the body and performance art. The exhibition shows a selection of installations and video works as well as two entirely new performance works created especially for SMK.

Jessie Kleemann has spent most of her life traveling back and forth between Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), where she was born, and Denmark, where she lives and works today. Based on complex relationships and exchanges between cultures, her practice examines how the Greenlandic identity and tradition, the country and its language all change over time.

About the National Gallery of Denmark

Established in 1896, the collections of the National Gallery of Denmark include approximately 240,000 works of art. Among the most famous works in the museum are Andrea Mantegna’s “Christ as the Suffering Redeemer”, 1495-1500; Peter Paul Rubens’ “The Judgement of Solomon”, (1617); and Henri Matisse’s “Portrait of Madame Matisse (The green line)”, 1905, and “Le Luxe II” (1907-08)