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High

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2026, solo exhibition, 5-channel looped sound installation, flatbed print on fabric, hi-fi speakers, copper wire, lashing straps

Exhibition text by Nanna Friis

High, installation view, Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, installation view, Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, installation view, Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #5, mono (tower) Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #1, mono (tower) Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #3, mono (tower) Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #5, Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #4, Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #3, Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #2, Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, View from My Bedroom Window #1,Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

High, detail view, mono (tower), Platform, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, 2026

SHAFTS

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2025, solo exhibition, Inter.pblc
cast rubber, inkjet prints, spotlights

Exhibition text by Nanna Friis

SHAFTS, installation view, Inter.pblc, Copenhagen, 2025

SHAFTS, installation view, Inter.pblc, Copenhagen, 2025

SHAFTS, installation view, Inter.pblc, Copenhagen, 2025

Manhole #2, cast rubber, cast directly from a manhole in the street, 2025

Jacks, inkjet print, reproduction of the staff uniform from Le Palace, Paris, 1978–1980, 2025

Street Cast

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2024, installation, Flatbed prints on glass, cast fibre concrete
Photos made in collaboration with erotic photographer David Johnson

Exhibition text by Mathew Post

Street Cast, installation view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2024

Street Cast, detail view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2024

Street Cast, detail view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2024

Street Cast, installation view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 2024


Christiania Biennale

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2025, biannual exhibition, Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen

“……: The Christiania Biennale. Three days and nights of soirees and sculptures and dancing and dancers, skateboards, costumes, paintings, triphop, vanity and violin, smoke machine and films, graffiti and tears and sound systems and exhibitionism and large shoes to fill. In short: three days of everything Christiania already is and always has been, spiked for the occasion….” Full description

Further documenation and description

Christiania Biennale, opening ceremony, speech by Britta Lillesøe, Christiania, Copenhagen, 2025


Christiania Biennale, performance program at Wonderland Skate Bowl, performance by Lover’s Revenge, Christiania, Copenhagen, 2025

Christiania Biennale, Exactitudes Studio at the laundromat on Pusher Street, Christiania, Copenhagen, 2025

Christiania Biennale, Cabaret by LOLA at Byens Lys, Christiania, Copenhagen, 2025

Christiania Biennale, sculptures by Nina Beier at Woodstock, Pusher Street, Christiania, Copenhagen, 2025

Striptease

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2023, installation, Aluminium cast of costume nose, exhaust pipe, suit jacket, folding chair

Extras, installation view, IMÇ 5533, Istanbul, 2023

Extras, installation view, IMÇ 5533, Istanbul, 2023

Extras, installation view, IMÇ 5533, Istanbul, 2023

CV & Contact

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Mail: johanbechjespersen@gmail.com
Phone: +4523835739

*Born 1991 in Aarhus, Denmark. Lives and works in Copenhagen

EDUCATION

2021–2024 MFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture School

2017–2020 BFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts

2015–2016 BFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 High, Solo exhibition, Platform Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen

2025 StarCut, performance with stylist Gitte Guldhammer, Gl. Strand, Copenhagen

2025 SHAFTS, Solo exhibition, Inter.Pblc, Copenhagen

2025 Landing 2025, Group exhibition, Kongegaarden, Korsør

2025 Lost and Found, Duo exhibition, Ågalleriet, Frederiksværk

2024 Graduation Exhibition, Group exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen

2024 Super Highend Underground, Group exhibition, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen

2023 YIPPIE!!!, Group exhibition, Månefiskeren, Christiania

2023 DEAD LABOUR, Solo exhibition, Galleri Q, Copenhagen

2023 Extras, Group exhibition, IMÇ 5533, Istanbul

2022 Papparazzi, commissioned installation for The Night Club, Den Anden Side, Copenhagen

2022 Bananskolen, Group exhibition, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2021 METANOIA / BUNNYLAND, Duo exhibition with Miriam Kongsted, Arcway Night-Lands Connector

2019 STR ALT, Group exhibition, Bark Gallery, Berlin

2018 The Ferns, Duo exhibition with Thomas Bremerstent, Galleri PODIUM, Oslo

SELECTED PROJECTS

2026 Opening Night, bar and exhibition space, Copenhagen

2026 Ateliers Pusherstreet, new residency in Pusher Street Christiania, made in collaboration with Almene Kunst Klubber, Christiania, Copenhagen

2025 Christiania Biennale, biannual exhibition across Christiania, Copenhagen

2023 Life in Hell and Certain Dinners, performance series created in collaboration with Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Why Words Now, Copenhagen

2019–2022 Co-founder of the artist-run gallery Arcway Night-Lands Connector, Jennifee-See, Amager, Copenhagen

AWARDS

Blixprisen 2024, my graduation piece Streetcast was awarded the blixprisen 2024