Jannie is Head of Exhibitions and Senior Curator at Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), and since 2015 part of the management and the development of this new institution since its start up at the Paper Island in the inner harbor of Copenhagen – and with the continuation in a new venue at Refshaleøen in June 2018. She has a MA in Modern Culture and cultural dissemination, first years of study in Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen and completed a diploma in Culture Management from University College Zealand in 2016.
Jannie has worked as a curator since 1995 at various art institutions in Denmark, among them Gl. Strand, Danish Arts Foundation, and the Faurschou Foundation.
She has written and lectured on globalization and the new internationalism in the international art world in the past decades with the emergence of the many biennials outside the West, on postcolonialism, cultural theory and relational aesthetics.