Judit Kristensen
(°1990, BE)
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
“Judit Kristensen’s works places the viewer in the position of a spy to emotionally charged narratives that plays out in the intimacy of private domestic space. The subject matter circulates around mundane existence, she tells fairy tales about not leaving the apartment in two weeks and about building stacks of stumps when depression devolves to boredom, or about lying awake in a too hot bed on a summer night listening to a drunk man through the open window while thinking about a memory of a joyful love affair.
Her works invites to an inner world with dark and light fantasies as much as an outer world with Netflix, Coca Cola bottles, Cheerio bowls and Iphones. Even though there seems to be a auto biographical line, the works does not seem like depictions of surroundings but rather like implemented or staged envisions built to create a visual outcome or an emotion evoking atmosphere. This draws connections to contemporary painters working with visual autofiction, such as Salman Toor, Jill Mulleady and Felix de Clerqc. Kristensen currently works on a project called Corona Quarantine, which derives from the experience of claustrophobia, social deprivation, days and nights rolling into one, boredom, and isolation.
Judit Kristensen has a master in fine art from Umeå Art Academy, and has previously been part of group exhibitions in Eighteen Gallery in Copenhagen, PLUS‐ONE gallery and Sofie Van de Velde Gallery’s Wunderwall in Antwerp, Golsa Gallery in Oslo and the Hole Gallery in New York, and had solo exhibitions at Alta Art Space in Malmö, Galleri Syster in Luleå and Galeria Centofiorini in Civitanova Marche. She has been awarded grants from Eva and Hugo Bergman Foundation through Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, KiK through Örnsköldsviks Konsthall, Samartbete through Galleri Syster, and Umeå Municipalitys grant of Culture and Travel. Judit Kristensen’s works are part of public collections through Skellefteå Municipality, Luleå Municipality and through the Public Art Agency of Sweden.”
Description of two works, Watching Television, 2018, and Night White, 2019.
Text Viktor Mattsson
(°1990, BE)
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
“Judit Kristensen’s works places the viewer in the position of a spy to emotionally charged narratives that plays out in the intimacy of private domestic space. The subject matter circulates around mundane existence, she tells fairy tales about not leaving the apartment in two weeks and about building stacks of stumps when depression devolves to boredom, or about lying awake in a too hot bed on a summer night listening to a drunk man through the open window while thinking about a memory of a joyful love affair.
Her works invites to an inner world with dark and light fantasies as much as an outer world with Netflix, Coca Cola bottles, Cheerio bowls and Iphones. Even though there seems to be a auto biographical line, the works does not seem like depictions of surroundings but rather like implemented or staged envisions built to create a visual outcome or an emotion evoking atmosphere. This draws connections to contemporary painters working with visual autofiction, such as Salman Toor, Jill Mulleady and Felix de Clerqc. Kristensen currently works on a project called Corona Quarantine, which derives from the experience of claustrophobia, social deprivation, days and nights rolling into one, boredom, and isolation.
Judit Kristensen has a master in fine art from Umeå Art Academy, and has previously been part of group exhibitions in Eighteen Gallery in Copenhagen, PLUS‐ONE gallery and Sofie Van de Velde Gallery’s Wunderwall in Antwerp, Golsa Gallery in Oslo and the Hole Gallery in New York, and had solo exhibitions at Alta Art Space in Malmö, Galleri Syster in Luleå and Galeria Centofiorini in Civitanova Marche. She has been awarded grants from Eva and Hugo Bergman Foundation through Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, KiK through Örnsköldsviks Konsthall, Samartbete through Galleri Syster, and Umeå Municipalitys grant of Culture and Travel. Judit Kristensen’s works are part of public collections through Skellefteå Municipality, Luleå Municipality and through the Public Art Agency of Sweden.”
Description of two works, Watching Television, 2018, and Night White, 2019.
Text Viktor Mattsson
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