Jessie Kleemann CV
b.1959 in Upernavik, living in Copenhagen since 2002.

Exhibitions:

2026 Survival Kit 17, Riga

2026 Udvidet Slægtskab (Elective Affinities) Kunstpakhuset Ikast

2026 Nauro Pavilion, La Biennale satelite Signal to the Future, Castel Belasi

2026 Kamiit, 16 th Gwangju Biennale Kalaallit Illuutaat Pavilion, Sydkorea

2026 International Bienal de Curitiba, BR

2026 La Biennale Quèbec : Breaking the Ice/Splitting Ice

2026 Bringing in the Tide, Wadden Tide 2026 Empathic Environments

gruppeudstilling

2026 Forbindelser, gruppeudstilling Dk-Grl, Spinderihallerne Vejle

2026 CC Fire and Ice, gruppeudstilling Cph

2026 QILLANIQ, international arctic exh. National Gallery of Canada, OTTAWA

2025 Til Vægs: VI Autopoiese, aug-oct ’25, CPH Soloudstilling

2025 Vandets Fortællinger, Rønnebæksholm 24.05.- 31.08.2025

2025 Heartland Festival, ILULIAQ

2024 DEN FRIE gruppeudstilling ( june -aug ) 2024

2024 – 25 Group exh COMMON THREAD, MoCNA, Santa Fe NM

2024 Henie Onstad Kunstcenter, Oslo, HAVET group exhibition

2023 SMK – solo exhibition aug- nov ’23

2023 Rønnebæksholm – soloudstilling

2023 Reykjavik Living Art museum udstilling NORTH

2023 Umeå Bildmuseet udstilling NORTH

2023 Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena EXPOSURE: Native Art and Political

Ecology

2023 El Paso Muesum of Art,TX, EXPOSURE: Native Art and Political Ecology

2022 Marshall M. Frederick’s Sculpture Museum, EXPOSURE: Native Art and

Political Ecology

2022 Atlantikumi/Atlanterhavet, Nordatlantens Brygge, København

2022 NORTH, Portland Museum of Art, Maine, USA

2022 INUA, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg,CA

2021 Atlantikumi/Atlanterhavet, Comissioned work by Nuuk Art Museum

2021 Grønland i kunsten gennem 300 år - Museet for Religiøs Kunst

2021 Värsta scenario Worst case scenario Lunds Kunsthall, SE

2021 Performancevideo (2019), performance Nuuk Nordic Festival, Nuuk

Kunstmuseum. 

2021-22 IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM

2021-22 Kunsthall Trondheim, Sex Ecologies, Trondhjem, Norge

2019 ROOTZONES Hanstholm Artspace

2018-19 Faces//Kiinnernerit Upernavik, Upernavik Museum

2018, Perler på snor, en arktisk historiefortælling, Nordatlantens Brygge, Kbh

2018 The Weather Diaries, Nuuk Kunstmuseum,

2017 Faces //Kiinnernerit, udstilling og performance Nuuk Kunstmuseum

2017 The Weather Diaries, the ASI, Minniapolis, USA

2015 Anchorage Museum, AK, ” Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations” 2016-17

2015 Katuaq, Nuuk, textbased works and video works.

2014 The Pleasure of negative Emotions, KNIPSU Gallery, Bergen

2014 The Weather Diaries, NFB, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt

2014 Kiruna Konstgilde. Pathhway- Polku, Rovaniemi Artmuseum, Oulo Artmuseum

2012 HORIZONIC, sound – video art, Island, Sverige, Frankrig,

2012 Liverpool Biennial, City States, UK

2012 solo udstilling ASSAK, Aarhus Kunsthal

Performanceworks and works in video:

2025 Performance HKW, Berlin

2025 Teatro Oficina, Sao Paolo

2025 Šuvva, OCA/Tromsø Kunstforening

2023 Running Time/Løber Mod tiden ( 4 channel video, 8 min.loop)

2024 Performance Centre Phi, Montreal, Inuit Futures

2023 MASK ( 7:15 min loop)

2023 Lone Wolf Runner, SMK; ORSOQ, SMK; Solen i korset, Korset i Solen, Bornholm.

2022 Performance at the New Red Order, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (dansen med

skibskiks)

2022 Performance Louisiana Literature ( plastikblomster visner aldrig)

2021 When the ravens turn white (7 min.)

2019 Arkhticós doloros ( 10 min.) performed and filmed at glacier Sermeq Kujalleq,

Ilulissat ;

2019 Nuuk Kunstmuseum (don’t touch me! olie og amuletter; without consent with

consent)

2018 Orsoq in Numbers, (lyd- og performanceværk) til EARTHBOUND, Aarhus

2017 Highlight Arctic, Summerhall, Edinburgh;

2016 Performances, Freeword Center, London; Meter art space CPH,

2015 ORSOQ; subarctic sushi!) KULSTOF 15, Kunsthal NORD

2012 SASSUMA ARNAA, video and performance Kunsthal Aarhus

2003 VIDEO POEM

1991 VIDEO Spirit Host Join the elements

1988 KINAASUNGA (12 min.)

Other: 2024 Album Running Time with composer Søren Gemmer; Public art NAB,

commissioned by the Danish Parliament (2024). Interview book ´Samtaler med

Jessie Kleemann´(Stine Lundberg Hansen, 2023); Book of poetry – Arkhticós

Dolorôs (2021, ARENA) ;Monograph “QIVITTOQ” (edit by Iben Mondrup, 2012). Book

of poetry- TAALLAT-DIGTE-POEMS(1997)

Awards & Grants: 
Danish Art Counsil, life long honary Award, 2026
Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl Nielsens Honoray Award, 2024
The Eckersberg Medal, 2024
Danish Art Counsil / Statens Kunstfond 3-year grant, 2023

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