Born 1975 in Aarhus.
Lives and works in Copenhagen.
Astrid Kruse Jensen is a photography-based visual artist. She studied at The Gerrit Rietveld Académie in the Netherlands and at The Glasgow School of Art, where she graduated in 2002.
Astrid Kruse Jensen’s works are equally specific photographic and distinctly painterly. Interiors and
landscapes are placed in an eternal exchange between a concrete and an abstract reality. She works with
photography’s ability to show us more than the human eye can capture and thus open a space that can
only be depicted by the photographic gaze. The relationship between photography and remembrance is an important drive for Astrid Kruse Jensen, who has worked with memory as a form of shifted reality in her entire oeuvre.
She has exhibited widely both in Denmark and abroad, including solo exhibitions in Slovenia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, France, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, India, Germany, Canada and UK. She has participated in group exhibitions in Europe, USA, Canada, Ghana and China.
Astrid Kruse Jensen’s works can be found in international collections including, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum (DK), The National Photography Museum (DK), Museet for Fotokunst (DK), Kunstmuseet Brundlund Slot (DK), Vestsjællands Kunstmuseum, The Danish Arts Foundation , Ny Carlsberg Fondet (DK), Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art (IS), Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena (I), Artotheque de Caen (F), The John Kobal Foundation (UK), Manchester City Gallery (UK), The George Eastman House (USA), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, (CA) and Moderna Museet in Stockholm (SE).
She has received prizes such as Arkens Travel Grant, Palle Fogtdal Photography Prize, The Niels Wessel Bagge’s Foundation for the Arts Award and received the Anne Marie Telmányi’s honors award for female artists in 2017.
