Residency Dates: January 21-27, 2013
Jan Christensen (http://www.janchristensen.org/) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1977. He studied at the National College of Art and Design (KHIO) in Oslo, Norway, 1997-2000. Since then he has been partly based in Berlin, Germany and traveled and exhibited extensively in Europe, the US and the Far East Asia, with several longer periods of residence in South-Korea. Over course of his career, he has curated several shows and he has collaborated with many artists, architects, designers and musicians on select projects. His works span a wide range of techniques and ways of installation, and express a general interest in art as an imaginary space and a place for alternative thinking.