Meet Esben Weile Kjær, the Danish Artist Who Constructed a Castle in a Parking Lot in Willamsburg

Yes, Esben Weile Kjær is 6’5” with blue eyes , but he’s a man in fine art rather than finance—and the world is better off for it. The ascent of this 33-year-old Dane has been breathtaking, but the artist, a man at ease with himself, is taking it all in stride.

His latest adventure takes place in a parking lot in East Williamsburg, where, at the invitation of Amant , he constructed Shell, a concrete-covered wooden edifice that Frankesteins together, he explained on the phone, “a castle and a factory and a war bunker and a brutalist playground [and] a Soviet bus stop.” The hollowness of the building is intentional; part of its function was as a proscenium for a one-night only performance. On the far side of Shell, to a soundtrack by fellow Dane Loke Rahbek (known as Croatian Amor),