Jytte Rex

[1] Born in Frederiksberg, after qualifying as a multilingual correspondent in 1962, Rex studied painting at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1963 to 1969.

At the end of the 1970s, together with other female artists, she gave a political slant to her work, arranging pioneering exhibitions, actions and happenings in support of women's rights.

[1] Her artwork covers a range of techniques from pen and ink drawings in the 1960s, pointed brush works in the 1970s, acrylics in the 1980s and since the 1990s, graphic art combining painting, photography and objects.

Another film, Achilleshælen er mit våben (Achilles Heel is My Weapon, 1972), presents the rituals of a woman's life as well as the sensuality attached to everyday objects.

Later films present biographies of the poet Inger Christensen (in Cikaderne findes, 1998), the graphic artist Palle Nielsen (2002) and the composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen (2007).