Mette Kit Jensen
Visual Artist
Studio:
Til Vægs
Lundtoftegade 57,
2200 København K
mettekit@gmail.com
2024–2025
administration of a professorship
Hochschule für Bildende Künste,
Art in Social Space, Institute for Performative Practice, Art and Education
HBK Braunschweig, DE
Education and Background
2004
MA in Art Theory and Communication,
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Thesis: “Art in Social Interaction”
2000–2002
Postgraduate Studies
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
Professors: Franz Erhard Walther and Bernhard Johannes Blume
1995–2000
Diploma in Fine Arts
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
Professors: Henning Christiansen and Franz Erhard Walther
Solo Exhibitions and Projects (Selected)
2025 “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF” (Performance) Til Vægs DK
2024
“ERSATZSTADT” – Projektraum DOSE, (Participant-based Gesamtkunstwerk) Hamburg, DE
2023
“BELIEVE IN YOURSELF” (Exhibition and performance) – Kirsten Kjærs Museum, DK
“BELIEVE IN YOURSELF”, Stateless Mind (Performance) Kunsthal Charlottenborg & Valby Kulturhus DK
2019
“Changing Room” – Skjold Contemporary, DK
Participant-based performance in a changing room, 90 min
“The First Time on the Other Side” – Art Week, DK
Participant-based performance on Copenhagen Canal, Curator: Christina Wilson
2018
“Semi-natural Walk” – Art Week, Frederiksberg Gardens, DK
Participant-based performance, Curator: Robin Frederiksen
2014
“Flâneuse De l’Europe” – MSK, Roskilde, DK
Audioguide in the city of Roskilde and publication. Curator: Sanne Kofod Olsen
2013
“Hot Spot” – NLH Space, DK
2009
“In Someone Else’s Footsteps” – Nikolaj Kunsthal, DK
2007
“Stories from Hamburg” – Westwerk, Hamburg, DE
2003
“Stories from Aarhus” – Aarhus Art Building, DK
3-month participatory project
Duo Exhibitions
2018
“Writing While Walking” – SCOTTY, Berlin, DE
With CY. Frostholm
2008
“BROOOM!” – RACA, Copenhagen, DK
With Pulsk Ravn
Group Exhibitions and Projects (Selected)
2023
Stateless Mind – Performance Festival, DK
TERRA:resonance – Skovhuset Art & Nature, DK
Merchandise, Memorabilia and Money – Skjold Contemporary, DK
2022
The Great Outdoor – Skovhuset Art & Nature, DK
2021
“Transitions #2” – The Round Tower, Copenhagen, DK
2020
“Always Together – Mostly Happy” – Aarhus/Hamburg
“Transition” – KØN, Aarhus, DK
2016
“Three Walls and a Window” – Black Box, DK
2015
“00197 Roma” – Sophienholm, Lyngby, DK
2013
“Reaction!!!” – Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, DK
“Hitparaden” – Live Art, Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, DK
2011
“Feminists in Space” – Warehouse 9, Copenhagen, DK
“Generous Gestures” – Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK
2008
“Fish & Ships” – Kunsthaus, Hamburg, DE
2001
“get that balance” – Hamburg, DE
Public Space Festivals (Selected)
2025
“HOMAGE TO OLDER WOMEN” – Billboard Festival, Copenhagen, DK
2021
“OUT OF ONESELF” – Walking Protocols, LOKALE, DK
2020
Billboard Festival – Istanbul, TR
Wa(l)king Copenhagen – Metropolis Festival, Copenhagen, DK
2018
Performáction Festival – Yaoundé, Cameroon
2015
“Palais Ideal” – Museum Jorn, DK
2007
“Wir sind Woanders” – Hamburg, DE
2005
“Berlin Alexanderplatz, Urban Art Stories” – Berlin, DE
2003
“Women 2003” – Public spaces in Copenhagen, DK
2002
Liverpool Independent Biennale – UK
“Contemplation Room” – Overgaden, DK
Residencies (Selected)
2024 Projektraum DOSE, Hamburg DE
2024, 2020, 2015 & 2011
Danish Institute in Rome, IT
2023
Kirsten Kjærs Museum, DK
2022, 2021 & 2020
Betonsalon, Paris, FR / Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR / Danish State Residency in Paris
2019
ZKU Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin, DE
2015
Klitgården, Skagen, DK
2014
Circolo Scandinavo di Roma, IT
2012
Danish Institute in Athens, GR
2007
Guest Studio Fleetinsel, Hamburg, DE
2003
Künstlerstätte Bleckede, DE (State Fellowship of Lower Saxony)
Writings on (Selected)
2022
Sanne Kofod Olsen: Flâneusen – Mette Kit Jensen’s Performative Works
Teaching (Selected)
2024–2025
administration of a professorship
Hochschule für Bildende Künste,
Art in Social Space, Institute for Performative Practice, Art and Education
HBK Braunschweig, DE
2018
Metropolis Festival – Copenhagen, DK
Workshop and lecture for fellows
2017
The Jutland Art Academy – DK
Performance Lectures – Conversations with students
2016
School of Architecture, Aarhus – DK
Performance Lectures
Bergen Academy of Art and Design – NO
Lecture
Mentorship (Selected)
2021
Mentor for 3rd-year student – Talentskolen, Næstved, DK
2019–2022
Mentor for emerging artists – Danish Visual Artists Association (BKF)
Art Teaching
2002–
Holbæk Art High School – DK
Sculpture, Installation, Art Theory. Guest Lecturer
Two one-year substitute positions as permanent teacher
Dissemination and Curating (Selected)
2021–2024
Board Member/Curator – Skjold Contemporary (Art program of the football club), DK
2018–2019
Member of Jury – Møstings Hus, DK (Appointed by Danish Visual Artists Association)
2012
REaction!!! – Vestjyllands Kunstpavillon, DK
2008
BROOOM! – RACA, Copenhagen, DK
With Pulsk Ravn
2005
Mediation of Danish artists in connection with Berlin Alexanderplatz, Urban Art Stories
2002
Exposure of European underground projects:
Planet 22 (Geneva) and 12 bis 18 (Hamburg). Charlottenborg Autumn Exhibition, DK
2000–2002
Member of curatorial team get that balance – Kampnagel K3, Hamburg, DE
(50 artists worldwide, feminist positions)
Board Memberships
2024–2028
Danish Institute in Rome, IT
2022–2026
Danish Visual Artists Association (BKF), DK
2021–2024
Skjold Contemporary, DK
Grants (Selected)
2024
Anne Marie Telmanyis, Carl Nielsen Foundation
For women over 40
2022
Ole Haslund’s Artist Grant
August Lorange & George Lorange Foundation
Additional grants from the Danish Arts Foundation and several private foundations