Esben Weile Kjær

b. 1992

Esben Weile Kjær was born in Aarhus, Denmark and currently lives and works in Copenhagen. Having graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2022, he has performed at several European venues and at a number of major Danish art institutions and festivals. He works across sculpture, video, and performance to explore the community impact of pop culture and generational anxiety. Influenced by artists of the 1990s including Sarah Lucas and Wolfgang Tillmans, his recent work has been described by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist as ‘always surprising’.

Weile Kjær’s shows include: ‘I Want to Believe’, Albion Jeune, London (2023); ‘BURN!’, National Gallery, Copenhagen (2022) and the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2022); ‘HYPER!’ Museum Tinguely, Basel (2022) and BFI Miami, Miami (2022); and ‘Hardcore Freedom’ Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen (2020).

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