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  • Apr 30, 2025

Up Close: Jane Jin Kaisen

JANE JIN KAISEN, Offering, 2023, still image of single-channel video, 4K, color, stereo sound: 12 min. Courtesy the artist.

A will to psychic reclamation pervades the work of video artist Jane Jin Kaisen, who grew up as a Korean adoptee in Denmark. Now 45 and a professor of media arts at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, she has spent two decades imaginatively processing the cultural ethos of her birthplace. The undertaking has gained her multiple honors, including that of representing South Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. More recently, Kaisen was one of four artists awarded the 2024 Korea Artist Prize from the country’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) and the Seoul Broadcasting System Foundation.


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