Professor Jane Jin Kaisen

Jane Jin Kaisen is a visual artist and filmmaker. She was born in 1980 in Korea and currently lives in Denmark. Since 2020, she has been Professor of the School of Media Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Spanning video installation, narrative experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Kaisen’s artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research, creative collaborations, and engagement with diverse communities. She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. 

Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, she activates the field where lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories. Another recurring focus revolves around nature and island spaces, cosmologies, re-framings of myths, and engagement with ritual and spiritual practices. 

Working from the thresholds of mediums and forms, disciplines and sensibilities, her works destabilize linear conceptions of time and hierarchies of knowledge. Negotiating and mediating the means of representation, resistance, and recognition, she is invested in contouring alternative genealogies and sites of collective emergence.