Jessie Kleemann

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Jensine Marie "Jessie" Kleemann (born Kristensen ; born November 6, 1959 in Upernavik ) is a Greenlandic artist and poet .

Life

Jessie Kleemann is the daughter of the machinist and fisherman Arĸaluk Kleemann and the seamstress Vilhelmina Qvist Kristensen. On December 20, 1978, she changed her surname from her mother's surname to that of her father. After a divorce, she married the Danish lawyer Claus Roland Andreassen (* 1963), son of Ib Andreassen and the nurse Jytte Holmsgaard on September 10, 1994 in Nuuk.

Jessie Kleemann was trained at Tuukaq Teatret in Fjaltring from 1978 to 1979 and then for a year at the graphic workshop in Nuuk . She then studied in Canada and Sápmi until 1983 . From 1984 to 1991 she directed the Nuuk Art School. In 1991 she co-founded the Greenland Actors' Association. From 1991 to 1993 she was the coordinator of the art project Art from the Arctic . In 1995 she was co-founder and chair of the Greenland Artists Association. She was a member of other cultural commissions and councils. From 1989 to 1991 she wrote articles for Tumit magazine .

In addition to etchings and paintings , Jessie Kleemann is primarily active as a video and performance artist . She often includes drum dance in her depictions and her works are mostly expressive, grotesque, absurd, erotic or poetic. She made her debut as an artist in 1981 and has exhibited throughout the North and in France . She has also published several collections of poetry and illustrates books.

Awards and grants

  • 1983: Knud Højgaards Fund
  • 1983: Scholarship from the Sami Artists' Association
  • 1987: Sorlaks Ungdomspris
  • 1989: Folketingets grønlandske Fond
  • 1989: Nordens Institut i Greenland
  • 1990: USIA
  • 1990: Hjemmestyrets Arbejdslegat
  • 1991: Hans Lynges Mindelegat
  • 1991: Statens Art Fund
  • 1992: Folketingets grønlandske Fund
  • 1992: Hjemmestyrets Arbejdslegat

Works (selection)

  • 1981: Ataataq erninilu (etching)
  • 1988: Kinaasunga (video performance )
  • 1989: Inuit Nipaat (poems and illustrations)
  • 1989–1990: Asanninneq Naliitsoq (theater play)
  • 1991–1993: Spirit Hosts Join the Elements (Video)
  • 1991–1993: Art from the Arctic (Logo)
  • 1991: Illustration for Glamhuller by Ole Korneliussen
  • 1994: Navaranaaq i en drømmetid (performance)
  • 1997: Taallat. Concluded. Poems (poems)

literature

  • Iben Mondrup (Ed.): Jessie Kleemann - Qivittoq . Hurricane Publishing, Vejby 2012, ISBN 978-87-7669-050-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in Weilbach's artist dictionary
  2. ↑ Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 41 .
personal data
SURNAME Kleemann, Jessie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleemann, Jensine Marie (real name); Kristensen, Jensine Marie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic artist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Upernavik