Artist in Focus - Kirsten Justesen

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    Learn about Danish artist Kirsten Justesen - a pioneer in body art and feminist artistic practices

  • Justesen is a pioneer in body art and has used her own body as her art’s primary tool for more than 30 years.

    Kirsten Justesen, born 1943

    Justesen is a pioneer in body art and has used her own body as her art’s primary tool for more than 30 years.

  • With Sculpture II Justesen introduces her own naked body as her main motif and artistic tool

  • Sculpture II is Justesen’s first and now iconic work within body art

    Kirsten Justesen: Sculpture II, 1968

    Sculpture II is Justesen’s first and now iconic work within body art

  • Read the story about how body art and feminism in the 1960s and 1970s often have convergent agendas

  • From the outset, body art was closely related to feminism

    Pussy Power and body art

    From the outset, body art was closely related to feminism