JETTE HYE JIN MORTENSEN Curriculum vitae Born 1980 in Seoul, South Korea. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark www.jettehyejinmortensen.com EDUCATION 2004-2010 MFA - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 2003-2004 Aeroe Art School 2002-2002 IM - Music Education 2001-2001 Billedskolen Art School 2000-2000 Vestegnens Film and Drama School 1999-1999 The Odin Theatre SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2013: solo show at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen 2012 Solo exhibition, Gallery SPECTA, Copenhagen, Denmark "7 Generous Gestures", groupshow at Gallery Lars Olsen, Copenhagen, Denmark "Ego", Aarhus Artbulding Center for Contemporary Art, Denmark Solo project, Torpedo18, Denmark "Catalogue=Exhibition", Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Denmark 2011 "Performance for 3 temporarily depressed sirens", Art Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark "Merging Grounds" Performance Festival, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark "The Sliding Doorway" performance, Copenhagen Queer Festival Copenhagen Photo Festival, ROHDE Contemporary, Denmark "Focus Videoart Festival", Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark Solo Show, Ex- Garage, Maribor, Slovenia "ACT Performance Festival", The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark "Folklore og Folkelighed", Kunsthal Moen 44, Møn, Denmark "Scream", Vestfossen Artlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway Performance, Kunsthal Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark "4 covers of Dalton and Drake", Rohde Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark Bookshow, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark LOOP Video Art Fair, Barcelona, represented by SPECTA
"Tell it the way they tell it", Samtalekøkkenet, Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, Denmark 2010 "Between Cultures", 5th Socle Du Monde Biennial, HEART Museum of Art, DK "Video", Galleri Specta, Copenhagen, DK "LUX INTERNUS: VOX, EMANCIPATION", kopenhagen Contemporary Art Weekend " Cellsbutton #4", New media art festival, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, organized by House of Natural Fiber - "AFGANG 2010", The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Charlottenborg Kunsthal - "Nordic Art Triennial 2010", Eskilstuna Art museum, Sweden curated by Kathrine Bolt Rasmussen - "Astronomical Frontiers", BKS Garage,Henningsen Contemporary, DK co- curator and co- organiser "De mest magtfulde ideologier, som aldrig var så interessante at få skovlen under [og som lå hen i det ubevidste], Gudruns Salon, Copenhagen, DK 2009 - "Boarding Bridges", Kring Art Space, Seoul, South Korea - "Surabaya International Video Work festival", Surabaya, Indonesia, organised by Benny Wicak - IKAA mini Gathering, Adopnation screening, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2008 "U- Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art", Copenhagen, DK "Cast Some Light", screening, Intl. Academy of Art, Ramallah, Palestine "7 Curators/7 Artists/ 7 Days/ 7 Events", Koh- I- Noor, Copenhagen, DK "Yogyakarta International Videofestival", Yogyakarta, Indonesia "Black & White Transcending Partiture", solo show, Wohnung Felix Rehfeld, Bremen, Germany "Cast Some Light", Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Scotland "Adoption - Palimpsest of Identity", Gallery Korea, New York, USA "KAHI International Film Festival", Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu, Hawaii, official selection "LOOP 08", Video Art Festival, Hotel Rambla Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain "The World Oneminutes", The Today Art Museum, Beijing, China "Re- Vision Bangkok", 5th ASEF International Art Camp, Bangkok, Thailand "Legend Today", Xian Academy of Fine Arts, Xian, China 2007 "Exquisite Crisis & Encounters", New York Univ. A/P/A inst., USA "New Songbooks", Dygong concert, Literaturhaus, Copenhagen, DK "Le Futurs de l'ecrit", Bandits Mages, Noirlac, France "PULSAR Festival for New Music", The Royal Danish Music Conservatory "Ufolab Jingles Performance", Seoul Race Track, Seoul, South Korea ASK, filmscreening, Seoul, South Korea "The Girl and the Karaokemachine" Dygong concert, Literaturhaus, DK "Machinepower", Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, DK "Distant Visions", Roskilde Museum of History, DK "Adoptee and Alien: Visions from the periphery", Kyunghee University Museum of Fine Art, Seoul, South Korea "Copenhagen Ladyfest", Verdenskulturhuset, DK 2006
"The 6th Gwangju Biennale", Gwangju, South Korea "The Oneminutes Festival", Het Ketelhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Dynamo", Kultorvet, Cph., DK "BanditsMages Video Festival", Bourges, France "The 3rd Biennale of Contemporary Art", Bourges, France "Made in video", Overgaden, Cph. DK "New songbooks", PULSAR Festival for New Music, Cph. DK "New songbooks" concert, Royal Danish Music Conservatory, DK "No Stills", Le Café Central, Brussels, Belgium, "SPRING", Aarhus Kunstbygning, DK "Unge Kunstnere", Palæfloejen, Roskilde, DK "På vej", Galleri NakkeHage, Cph. DK 2005 "Burnvideoartondemand.dk", Culture Box, Cph. DK "BanditMages videofestival", Bonnets D'or jury prize, Bourges, France "Ung Konst 05", Mazetti Art, Malmø, Sweden "Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling",Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Cph. DK "Videodrooome", Edison cinema and public space, Cph. DK "Kunstfragt", YNKB, Stadens Museum of Art, DK "Messhall", Artville, Cph. DK "Kunstfragt Festival", YNKB, co- organiser, Cph. DK "UFOlab", Gallery Pixel, Cph. DK "UFOlab", Gallery Q, Cph. DK "UFOlab", YNKB, UFOlab with korean artgroup MixRice, Cph. DK "Kvindernes Internationale Kampdag", tv tv, Kanal KBH, DK "Pro- Art", Randers Museum of Art, DK "Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling", Aarhus Kunstbygning, DK 2004 "Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling",Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Cph. DK "International Adoptee Gathering 3", Seoul, South Korea "Neo Vessel", Kyoto Museum of Art, Japan "Ung Konst 04", the Jury grant: Gallery Inkonst, Malmø, Sweden Frederiks Bastion, Cph. DK "IntroAveAbstract", Gallery16, Farsoe, DK CURATING & INITIATIVES - Co- founder of the artist collective "UFOlab" (Unidentified Flying Object Laboratory) in 2004 together with artsts Charlotte Kim Boed, Jane Jin Kaisen, Trine Mee Sook Gleerup and Anne Jin Hwa Borstam - Co- organizer of "Astronomical Frontiers" 5 days collective event and text exhibition with international artist and groups. Together with artists: Sonja R. C. Akulinin, Mette Hersoug and Lea Porsager, 2010-3rd Place, joint collective research project on ricefarming and postcolonialism in Indonesia, together with Selina Shah (UK) and Ira Agrivina (Indonesia) - Co- organiser and curator of "ARTgathering 2007" with UFOlab, Sofitel Ambassador Hotel, South
Korea, 2007 - Co- organizer and curator of "UFOlab", international exhibitions, screenings, seminars and artist talks at 3 venues: Galleri Pixel, Galleri Q and YNKB, Cph, 2005 - Co- organiser and curator of the activistic "Kunstfragt Festival" with YNKB, Fragtmandshallerne, Denmark - Tv- productions with YNKB at the independent artist driven channel "tv- tv" in Copenhagen, 2004-2006 - Co- organiser of "Videodrooome", with Florian Zeyfang, activistic screenings of new videoart, Edison cinema and public spaces, 2005 PRIZES & GRANTS 2010 The Bielske Grant The Frimodt- Heineke Foundation The Danish Arts Council- production grant The Danish International Arts Council - travel grant The Danish International Arts Council - project grant 2009 The Danish International Arts Council - project grant 2008 The Danish Arts Council - production grant The Danish International Arts Council - production grant The Danish Arts Council - production grant The Danish International Arts Council - travel grant Asia Europe Foundation - "Re- Vision Bangkok" travel grant Stipendium Wohnung Felix Rehfeld - travel grant The Danish Filminstitute - DOX Connected - production grant 2007 The Danish Filminstitute - DOX Connected - research grant The Danish International Arts Council - research grant The Danish International Arts Council - travel grant 2006 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - production grant 2005 "Le Bonnets D'or", Bandits Mages - Award grant 2004 The Nordic Culture Foundation - exhibition grant The Danish Arts Council - exhibition grant "Ung Konst 04" The Jury Grant - Award grant RESIDENCIES 2008 HONF - House of Natural Fiber, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2008 Stipendium Wohnung Felix Rehfeld - Bremen, Germany
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS "The 5th Socle Du Monde Biennale", Robert Barry, Frieze magazine, 2010 "La douleur de Congo, l'ethnie lnvers..", Nicolai Hartvig, ARTINFO France, 2010 "Multiculti Biennial..", review in Politiken by Trine Ross, 3/6, 2011 "Socle- Success against all odds" article, Anne Krøjgaard, aoib.dk, 2010 "Video", Galleri Specta, review in Politiken by Torben Sangild, 4/6, 2010 "The Sliding Doorway", publication, ISBN 978-87- 994227-0- 8 Interview, 5th Socle Du Monde Biennale, TV midwest, 2010 "Multiculti artists", Trine Ross, Politiken Ibyen, 2010 "The need for conversation", Mathias Hvass Borello, Kunsten.nu, 2010 "Kunsten bliver sprællevende", Uffe Christensen, Jyllandsposten newspaper 2010 "When art is made from ones DNA", Peter Michael Hornung, Politiken, 2010 "The Unfinished ones", Torben Weirup, Berlingske Tidende, 2010 "The new are coming!", Mathias Hvass Borello, Kunsten.nu, 2010 "The professionals", Pernille Albrethsen, Kunstkritikk, 2010 "There is hope", Michael Jeppesen, Information 2010 "Nordic Art Triennial at Eskilstuna Art Museum", Anders Olosson, Konsten, 2010 "Variety, depth and variation at Nordic Triennial", Henrik Holmberg, Folket, 2010 "Nordic Art Triennial", Niels Hebert, Omkonst, 2010 "AFGANG 2010", catalogue 2010 "Nordic Art Triennial", catalogue 2010 "C'est n'est pas un image", Internationalistisk Ideale, Astronomical Frontiers, 2010 "Boarding Bridges", catalogue 2009 "Danish Art" - L'Arte magazine for contemporary art, Luisa Santos, 2009 "Fader Fogh til minne", Vagant - tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik, 2009 "Agenda" DR1, Danmarks Radio, 2009 "Kraftigt Inspireret", Torben Madsen, Politiken, 2008 "Adoption - Palimpsest of Identity, Korea Times, 2008 Reportage, YTN, Korean national tv, 2008 "Song of My Great Grandfather", songbook/partiture, 2008 "U- Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art", catalogue and shortguide, 2008 "On Cultural Translation or the Ongoing Translations of culture", SUM - Magazine for Contemporary Art, Judith Schwarzbart, 2008 "Machinepower"- Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, catalogue, 2008 "Cast Some Light" - Glasgow Festival of Contemporary Art, catalogue, 2008 "Kunst, adoption og banan magt", BKF bladet, Lene Myong Pedersen, 2007 "Adoptee and Alien", The Hankyoreh, interview, Kim Jong Ob, 2007 "Adoptee and Alien", catalogue, 2008 "Når man ikke føler man passer ind", journalist Elisabeth Arnsdorf Haslund, Berlingske Tidende, 2007 "Årsag og Virkninger: Psykiske effekter af Adoption", Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Chingu, Korea Klubbens blad, 2007 "Banana Power - for art, society", Seo Dong Shin, Korea Times, 2006 "Made in Video", Overgaden, catalogue, 2006
"Rasism och Blodsband!" ETC Magazine, Danjel Lindberg, 2005 "New Songbooks" art/song book and DVD film, publication, 2005 "From the far east to the white north", anthology, Truepenny Publications 2006 "Iljas Feministiska Bildalmanacka", Normal Förlag AB Publications 2005 "Spring" P2 DR, Danish national radio, "Lonely Hearts Club" Culture Program, 2005 "O.K.A.Y. book" volume 4, Star- Kim & One- gook Publication 2004 "3 Talents on the move", Art Critic Henrik Broch- Lips, review in AArhus Stifttidende, "Spring", 2006 "Spring 05", reportage, Kristian Handbjerg, aarhus.nu, 2005 "Jette Hye Jin Mortensen - adoptee and artist", TV Midtvest/TV2, 2005 "Pro- Art", event publication and review in Randers local paper, 2005 "Lullaby soundtrack " P2 DR, Danish national radio, "Burnvideoartondemand.dk" "Beyond Identity: Activism in Korean Adoptee Art", by Kim Stoker, 2005 "Burnvideoartondemand.dk", interview, Malene Ratcliffe, Kopenhagen.dk, "UFOlab", Swedish National Radio, Sweden, 2005 "UFOlab i dobbeltcensur", Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Chingu 2005 "KP 2005", Artist Pia Rönnicke to journalist Marianne Pilegaard, AArhus Stifttidende, KP 2005 "KE 2004", journalist Eva Pohl, review in Berlingske Tidende, 2004 TALKS /PANELS Artist Talk at Samtalekøkkenet, Warehouse 9, Copenhagen Artist Talk at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Los Angeles Artist Talk at Southwest Studios, Los Angeles Screening and talk at KUP, Lulitta Invest, Denmark Artist talk, Gudruns Salon, Copenhagen, Denmark Panel organiser/moderator: "Alternatives meet Alternatives", "The Collective and the Individual Geographies", Astronomical Frontiers, with: HONF, son:da, The Artist Village, Instant Coffee, Joen Vedel, Gudrun Hasle, Khaled Ramadan, Judith Hopf, Larissa Sansour, UFOlab, Tengal. BKS Garage, Copenhagen 2010 "IKAA International Gathering", screening, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Adopnation - a filmproject and building of a community" moderating workshop and paneldiscussion, IKAA Minigathering, New York, USA Artist Talk, New Video Art in Scandinavia, Yogyakarta University, Indonesia 3 Performances, "Song of My Great Grandfather" public places/råhuset, Denmark Performance, "Song of My Great Grandfather", U- Turn Quadriennale, Denmark Artist talk and public discussion, *Residency Wohnung Felix Rehfeld, German Artist presentation, ASEF International Art Camp, Bangkok, Thailand Panel discussion moderated by curator Christina Ricupero for the Danish artists exhibiting at the 6th Gwangju Biennale, Kunststyrelsen, Cph. Denmark. Artist talk and presentation at "Le Futurs de l'ecrit", Noirlac, France Artist talk at Koroot filmscreening, Seoul, South Korea Artist Talk at The 3rd Biennale of Contemporary art, Bourges Art Academy, France. Artist Talk at "UFOlab", Galleri Pixel, Galleri Q, YNKB. Artist Talk at Korea Klubbens 15 års jubilæum, Cph. Denmark Coo- Conversations, artistic and theoretical contributions, Le Futurs de l'ecrit, France with: Jean- Claude Moineau, Ewen Chardronnet, Shu Lea Cheang, Fran Ilich, Pablo Georgieff, Jane Jin Kaisen,
Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Beatrice Rettig, Jean- Baptiste Bayle and Isabelle Carlier. Gender Performance with Yoshiko Shimada and Bubu De la Madeleine (Japan)