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Get matched →Birgit Jensen presents herself as a candidate for the Düsseldorf Arts Commission (Kunstkommission Düsseldorf) 2021. She articulates her position on public art and its role in urban space, emphasizing that art can designate places, assign meaning, foster communication, integrate communities, improve the quality of urban spaces, and strengthen identification with locations.
Born 1957 in Würzburg/Main. Studied at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) 1976–82. Residencies in Milan/Italy (1982 DAAD Fellowship) and London/UK (1989–90). Lives and maintains a studio in Düsseldorf since 1985. Recipient of the City of Düsseldorf Advancement Award (1992) and Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn Fellowship (2000).
Solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich (2020); Museum Ratingen (2015); Villa Wessel, Iserlohn (2014); Kunstverein Linz am Rhein (2012); Kunstverein Duisburg (2011); Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr (2007); Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck (2002); Kunstverein Arnsberg (1997) and others.
Participations in Kunstmuseum Solingen; Kulturspeicher Würzburg; art & culture, Maebashi, Gunma, JP; Haus der Kunst, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo; Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten; Städtische Galerie Gladbeck; ZKM Karlsruhe; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim; Kunsthalle Rostock; Städtische Kunsthalle, Sofia, BG; Kunsthalle zu Kiel and others.
FLUGBLÄTTER (2017–present); LADEN – GEDAN at Künstlerverein Malkasten (2007–10, with Jung-en Huh); WG/3ZI/K/BAR (2003–12, with Markus Ambach) and others.
Kunst am Bau projects at SIT Fraunhofer Institut Darmstadt (2014); Justizzentrum Neubrandenburg (2002); Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Plenarsaal, Berlin (2002); Arbeitsamt Meschede (2001); IGS/Fridtjof-Nansen-Schule Flensburg (2000).
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