In fall 2026, Kai Art Center will present for the first time in the Baltic States the large-scale video exhibition Island Beyond the Sea by Korean-born visual artist and filmmaker Jane Jin Kaisen. In her work, the artist focuses on the Korean island of Jeju, exploring themes such as memory, migration, and the narration of history through the interrelationship between the island’s nature and its people.
The exhibition will be open from 17 October 2026 to 21 February 2027 and will include seven interrelated films completed between 2022 and 2024: Burial of this Order (2022), Offering (2023), Halmang (2023), Guardians (2024), Portal (2024), Core (2024), and Wreckage (2024). This marks the first time the complete film cycle will be presented together in Europe, as well as the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in the Baltic States.
Jane Jin Kaisen (born 1980 in South Korea, based in Denmark) is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic works through which past and present are brought into relation. Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and translation, she activates the field where lived experience and embodied knowledge intersect with larger political histories.
Kaisen represented Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale. Her exhibition Community of Parting at Kunsthal Charlottenborg was awarded Exhibition of the Year 2020 by International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Denmark. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Beckett-Prize (2023), the New Carlsberg Foundation Artist Grant (2023), a 3-year work grant from the Danish Arts Foundation (2022). Recently she participated in the 13th Seoul MediaCity Biennale 2025, the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art 2025, the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts 2025, the Hawaii Triennial 2025, Korea Artist Prize 2024, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea and Dislocation Blues: Jane Jin Kaisen, Tate Modern, 2023.
Kaisen is professor of Media Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She holds a PhD from University of Copenhagen, an MFA from University of California Los Angeles, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program.
The exhibition is supported by Korea Foundation (KF), Korea Artist Prize Promotion Fund, Danish Arts Foundation and Cultural Endowment of Estonia.