Judit Kristensen

Judit Kristensen

Judit Kristensen
(°1990, SE)
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.

Even though there appears to be an auto biographical line in Judit Kristensens works, the works does not seem like depictions of surroundings but rather like implemented inner visions or staged scenes, like a stifled theather with pent-up drama and uncertain fate. The works let the viewer peek into uncanny private spheres with an underlying threat, and Netflix, Coca Cola bottles and previous days Cheerio bowls. There seems to be an existential core in the works, and recurring attempts to charge the mundane with emotional tension. The isolationist gloom, the thrembling interiors and psychologically loaded private rooms with an absinth green screen lighting that makes the cold pink vibrate, appears to pick up on a tradition left by Scandinavian modernists such as Edvard Munch, Vera Nilsson and Vilhelm Hammershøi.

Judit Kristensen (b. 1990, Sweden) lives in Antwerp and has a master in fine art from Umeå Art Academy. She has previously been part of group exhibitions in PLUS-ONE Gallery in Ant- werp, Eighteen Gallery in Copenhagen, Golsa Gallery in Oslo, Diskus in Aalst and Bildmuseet in Umeå, and had solo exhibitions at Artipelag in Stockholm, Ponti in Antwerp, Örnsköldsvik Museum of Art in Örnsköldsvik, Alta Art Space in Malmö, Galleri Syster in Luleå and Galeria Centofiorini in Civitanova Marche. She was the 2022 awardee of the Fredrik Roos grant, the highest awarded art grant in Scandinavia, and has been awarded grants from Eva and Hugo Bergman Foundation through Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, the one year working grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, KiK through Örnsköldsviks Konsthall and Samart- bete through Galleri Syster. Judit Kristensen’s works are part of public collections through the Soho House Collection, Trädgården Stockholm, Umeå Municipality, Skellefteå Municipality, Luleå Municipality and through the Public Art Agency of Sweden.

Artworks

Judit Kristensen
Sjalusi / A clean, well-lighted place / Fever dream night club scene, 2023
Oil on canvas
2x 140 x 110 cm

Judit Kristensen
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and realized it was all a chasing after wind, a vanity (Dix and Claesz Heda), 2023
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm

Judit Kristensen
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought and realized it was all a chasing after wind, a vanity, 2023
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm

Judit Kristensen
Vanitas III, 2023
Oil on birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

Judit Kristensen
Hamlet III, 2023
Oil on birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

Judit Kristensen
Angst, 2023
Oil on birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

Judit Kristensen
Kind of seeping in, through the windows and doors in through the pores into the warmth II, 2023
Oil on birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

Judit Kristensen
Nightmare Nightclub Dream, 2023
Oil on canvas
105 x 90 cm

Judit Kristensen
Nightmare Nightclub Dream III, 2023
Oil on canvas
150 x 90 cm

Judit Kristensen
Dementorerna, 2023
Oil on canvas
140 x 100 cm

Judit Kristensen
In a room with a window in a corner, 2023
Oil on canvas
42 x 30 cm

Judit Kristensen
Internet Explorer, 2023
Oil on canvas
120 x 100 cm

Judit Kristensen
Midnight Cowboy, 2022
Oil on marble dust primed birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

Judit Kristensen
Then its Night Once More, 2022
Oil on marble dust primed birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

Judit Kristensen
Vanitas Vanitatum, Et Omnia Vanitas, 2022
Oil on marble dust primed birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

Judit Kristensen
Saskia When She was Six or Seven, 2022
Oil on marble dust primed birch veneer, mounted on ash veneer frame
15 x 12,5 cm
(framed 29,5 x 27 cm)

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