Jan Christensen - Artist Info

About Jan Christensen

  • Biography

    At the Basel Museum Night 2006, Jan Christensen, who was born in 1977 in Copenhagen and lives and works in Berlin, exhibited his installation Exit Basel, with its illuminated sign, in an outdoor setting at Kunsthaus Baselland in anticipation of his first solo show in an art center.

    After obtaining a scholarship from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Inc. in New York, the Ingrid Lindbäck Langaard Foundation in Oslo, as well as his artist-in-residence periods at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin und FRAC des Pays de la Loire in Nantes, Kunsthaus Baselland now puts on the first comprehensive show devoted to this artist entitled Forward Momentum.

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