Contact
Jacob Dahlgren
+46 707 43 24 59
mail@jacobdahlgren.com
Andréhn-Schiptjenko Stockholm
Linnégatan 31, Stockholm, Sweden
114 47 Stockholm
+46 (0)8-612-00-75
ANDRÉHN-SCHIPTJENKO PARIS
56, rue Chapon
75003 Paris, France
+33 (0)1 81 69 45 67
info@andrehn-schiptjenko.com
WORKPLACE
50 Mortimer Street, London
W1W 7RP, UK
info@workplace.art
+44 20 7631 3497
Galerie Anhava
Fredrikinkatu 43
00120 Helsinki
+358 9 669 989
galerie@anhava.com
About
Jacob Dahlgren (b. 1970) lives and works in Stockholm Sweden. He studied between 1994-99 at The Royal Institute of Fine Art Stockholm and he received his M.F.A. 1999.
Jacob Dahlgren’s work is concerned with a dialogue between the authoritative singularity of pure formal abstraction and its position within a variable, complex and social shared culture. Dahlgren’s repetitious collections of ubiquitous and ordinary objects, often domestic, industrially manufactured; stand in their gestalt form as proxy for High Modernist Abstract Painting and for all of the ideological territory that Twentieth Century Art Theory has staked out for it. The contributing objects, however, signify a collective and human aspect of society, each representing an individual choice, to be used or consumed in a unique way by its consumer. Together these objects stand for the group or community, and as such they become democratic rather than authored.
Among other exhibitions KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (2013, 2011, 2010), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2010, 2013), Collective Gallery Edinburgh (2013), Galleri Andrehn-Schiptjenko Stockholm (2013, 2009), Galerie Anhava, Helsinki (2013, 2009, 2002), Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago (2012), Workplace Gallery Gateshead UK (2012, 2011), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2010), Schirn,Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011), Daimler Art Collection, Berlin (2010) Bielefelder Kunstverein (2009), Momentum, Galleri F 15 Moss (2009) 52nd Venice Biennale di Venezia (2007), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York (2006) Kunsthalle Budapest (2006), October salon, Belgrade (2006) Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2006), Malmö Konsthall (2005),Tramway, Glasgow (2002)