Jens Haaning

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Jens Haaning (born 1965) is an artist living and working in Copenhagen. Jens Haaning focuses on how society is composed and how power is expressed and communicated within it. As levels of immigration have increased so has racism become more prevalent, Haaning is one of relatively few Scandinavian artists to have confronted such issues in his work but in a way that acknowledges the complexities of cultural assimilation on both sides. Immigrants often quickly become an underclass and appear to the host culture to have few characteristics other than their obvious foreignness.^[1]

He has recently had solo exhibitions at Institut d’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne (France); Secession in Vienna; Galleri Nicolai Wallner in Copenhagen; Goodwater Gallery in Toronto; Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. Group exhibitions include Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen; Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux (France); Apexart in New York; Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (MoMA) in New York. He participated in the 9th International Istanbul Biennial, Documenta 11 in Kassel (Germany), and the 2006 Gwangju Biennial.