About
Emil Kjerrman (b. 1990 in Copenhagen) is a visual artist based in Leipzig. He works primarily in painting, combining self-made pigments and oil paints with classical techniques to form a contemporary pictorial practice. His works explore materiality, tradition, and visual language within the tension between the raw and the cultivated.
Kjerrman is a diploma student at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (2023–2026, with Ivana de Vivanco; Henriette Grahnert & Franziska Holstein) and previously studied at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design in Bergen (2019–2022, with Lars Lofthus). Before that, he attended Kunstskolen Spektrum in Copenhagen (2018–2019).
He has received grants from the Knud Højgaards Fond (2023) and the Grosserer L. F. Foght Scholarship (2023) in support of a catalogue publication.
His exhibitions include No Parents (Salon Similde, Leipzig, 2023), Deframed (ASPN Gallery, Leipzig, 2023), Ascending Nike (HGB Leipzig, 2024), Art Goes East (Pöge Haus, Leipzig, 2024), a solo presentation at Muusmann Forlag in Copenhagen (2024), the group exhibition De Blide (The Gentle Ones) at Vordingborg Kunstforening (2025), and Grids at Kunstraum Ortloff (2025).
Upcoming exhibitions include De Blide (The Gentle Ones) (Galerie Arden Asbæk, Copenhagen, 2025) and a residency with a group exhibition at the Nordic Contemporary Art Center in Xiamen, China (2026).