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CV

  

Danish visual artist (b. 1960)

 

Studies:

Det Kgl. Danske Kunstakademi, Visual Arts 1982 - 88

 

Positions:

2012 ->          Professor in Timebased Art / Performance at KHiB, Art Aademy of Bergen, Norway

2007 – 2012  Phd at Malmö Art Academy/ Lunds Universitet, Sverige

1997 - 2006   Head of Basic Studies, Visual Arts, Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen,

 

Exhibitions, solo (selected):

2016:             People's Museum, Birzeit, Palestine (with Gitte Sætre)

2014:             TONIGHT :-) SYNSMASKINEN, Rom8, Bergen, Norway

2012:             “Aesthetics of Resistance”, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden

2008:             “69scenes”, Bendixen Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2007:             ’Church of the Poisioned Mind’, Planet22, Geneva, Schweiz

2006:             ’A series of dreams’, Exhibition Hall, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

2003:             ’Edderkopper fra Mars’, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark

2002:             ‘Betonhjertet/Nylonvinden’, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway

                       ‘Nylonvinden’, Museumsbygningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999:             ‘imagine’, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany

                       Schaper Sundberg Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

1995:             ‘lets get lost’, Galleri STRUTS, Oslo, Norway

1994:             Clausens Kunsthandel, Copenhagen, Denmark

                       Galleri von der Tann, Berlin, Germany

                       Niels Borch Jensen Kobbertryk, Copenhagen, Denmark

1992:             Galleri D´Arte, Helsinki, Finland

1991:             ‘Istanbul’, Galleri Slunkariki, Isafjordur, Island

1990:             Ribe Kunstmuseum, Ribe, Denmark

                       Hordaland Kunstcentrum, Bergen, Norway

1986:             Galleri Der Kaiser Ist Tot, Copenhagen, Denmark 

 

Performances (selected):

2018:            Krigsteatret Trident Junction, Den Nationale Scene DNS, Bergen (with Green Hijab Movement & AltGårBra)

                     “2061 Inmoral Lidos”, The Performance Project, New York (with Synsmaskinen & DiscotecaFlamingStar)

                     “LaBorde GRENSELØSE NAVN”, Artistic Research Forum/ KMD, Bergen (with Synsmaskinen & Volve Vokal) 

                     “2061 Inmoral Lidos”, Grüne Salon / Volksbühne, Berlin (with Synsmaskinen & DiscotecaFlamingStar)

                     PERCEPTION CRISIS MACHINE CONGLOMERATE, 4 Talkshows, KMD, Bergen (with Synsmaskinen)

2017:            Performing the DJ,  ‘STEMMER’, September 8th 2017, KODE Museum, Bergen (with Green Hijab Movement)

2017             ‘Green Meditation’, UCI World Biking Championsships, Bergen(with Green Hijab Movement)

                     “2061 Inmoral Lidos”, Research Pavillion, Venice (with Synsmaskinen&DiscotecaFlamingStar)

2016:            Bergen International Performance Festival, Bergen Kunsthal, Norway

                     I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME , Oslo RAM Gallery / KUNST VARDO, Frans Jacobi performs OCCUPY! 

                      ANOTHER ERROR IS NOT POSSIBLE, Porto Alegre, Brazil (with Synsmaskinen & Etcetera)

2015:             Meteor Festival, USF Bergen (with Synsmaskinen)

2012:              "Jeg siger NEJ! Jeg siger ja!, SAK kunstbygning, Svendborg, Denmark

                       “Clone Wars”, Copenhagen City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark

                       “Revolution By Night”, Ungdomshuset Dortheavej, Copenhagen, Denmark

2011:             “Silent Stand”, Samtalekøkkenet, Warehouse9, Copenhagen, Denmark

                       “G13 – GreenRedTurquoiseYellow”, Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden

2010:             “Toubab Baobab Marabout”, ‘Face A Face’, Dak’Art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal

                       “Krigsdans”, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde & Kopenhagen, København

2009:             “Ghost Choir Karaoke”, Open Performance Festival, Beijing, China

                       “Eksisterer Danmark Overhovedet?”, Brorsons Kirke, Copenhagen

2002:             ‘Betonhjertet’, i-n-k og YNKB, Copenhagen, Denmark 

 

Exhibtions, group (selected):

2017:            Nørrekær Biennalen, Nørrekær, Denmark (with Green Hijab Movement)

                     ”Grafik – en sensation”, Danske Grafikere, København

2016:            ‘I WONT DO WHAT YOU TELL ME’, Oslo RAM Gallery / KUNST VARDO

                     'Transgression and Syncretism', Asia Culture Center, Kwangju/South Korea

                      Artic Art Forum, Arkhangelsk, Russia

2013:            REFORM, bureau publik, Copenhagen

2011:            ‘WINTER/SPRING 2011 Brief Histories’, SharjahUniversityCity,UnitedArabEmirates

2010:             tumult, kunstfestival Lolland,Falster, Møn og Vordingborg.

                     ‘Face A Face’, Dak’Art Biennial, Dakar, Senegal

2008:            ’Technically Sweet’, Participant Inc, + Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

                      ‘Kritisk Form’, Skulpturi.dk, Copenhagen

2007:            ’V-Effekten’, Kunsthallen Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005:            ’DreamingNow’, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

2004:            ’Berlin North’, Nationalgalerie in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

                     ‘Home Sweet Home’, Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus, Denmark

                     ‘TANGIBLE exchance’, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design,Costa Rica

1999:            ‘Nur Wasser läßt sich leichter schneiden’, Neumühlen, Hamburg

                      ‘Anarchitechture’ de Appel, Amsterdam

1998:            ‘Out of the North’, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

                      ‘Something is rotten in the State of DK’, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel

1997:            “LouisianaUdstillingen 1997”, Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark

 

 

Books & published matter:

‘Aesthetics of Resistance’, Space Poetry Copenhagen & Revolver Publishing Berlin 2018

‘2061 Inmoral Lidos’, Space Poetry Copenhagen 2018 (with Synsmaskinen & Discoteca Flaming Star)

‘Burst’, Synsmaskinen Bergen 2016 (with Theis Ørntoft, Frederik Jacobi & Frans Jacobi)

‘Je chanterai toujours la musique orientale’, Space Poetry Copenhagen & Revolver Publishing 2010

‘Oprørets By’, Space Poetry Copenhagen 2010 (with LM Salling)

‘Edderkopper fra Mars’, Space Poetry Copenhagen 2003

‘Betonhjertet’, Space Poetry Copenhagen 2004, CD+booklet

‘diskrete betroelser’, Royal Danish Art Academy Copenhagen 2000 (with Torben Christensen)

‘imagine’, Space Poetry Copenhagen 1996

 

 

Web:

www.fransjacobi.net

www.synsmaskinen.net

www.aestheticsofresistance.net

www.instagram.com/green_hijab_movement/

 

 

Address:

Vatnaneset 31, 5471 Mathopen, Bergen, Norway

Hjulmagerstien 14, 3mf, 2300 København S, Denmark

 

Email:

mail@fransjacobi.net

frans.jacobi@uib.no

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