Amalie Jakobsen
Amalie Jakobsen works with the interplay between form, space, color and time. In her sculptural practice, she curiously examines both the concrete and abstract spaces we, as human beings, inhabit and move in - whether this is through precise geometric shapes or poetic and speculative comic landscapes. In all cases, as a spectator, one is always forced to move in a specific and particularly conscious way when sharing a space with Amalie Jakobsen's sculptures and sculptural formations.
In Jakobsen's works, space and work are necessarily an inseparable unit. Jakobsen's significant geometric sculptures in clear, and often primary colors, map and measure the surrounding space and occupy it as alternative and hyper-conscious bodies. Bodies that through their shape and fullness define a special spatiality and presence in themselves. All superfluous elements are omitted in these of Jakobsen's works, which both push and send greetings to a minimalist tradition and artists such as Richard Serra, Robert Morris and Frank Stella. Jakobsen's works are also characterized by a minimalist idiom that is expressed through her use of hard, industrial materials. Steel, magnets and aluminum often form the basis for the sculptures' bodies, but in Jakobsen's practice they are also paired with softer materials such as latex and marble, which helps to give her works a contrast-filled and at the same time rigorous tactility.
Marble is also the basic material in parts of Jakobsen's recent works; small transformed meteorites that, like sculptural objects, examine the significance of the space industry for our human lives today and in the future. With these sculptures, Jakobsen creates spaces and carefully choreographed landscapes that, together with animated films and performative robots, put a spotlight on human exploration of outer space, and put the future perspectives of space technology into play in both poetic and disturbing ways. In particular, two overarching themes are to be found in these works: on the one hand a fascination with the increasing human presence and colonization of space as a technological achievement, and on the other hand the urgent and predictable threat that its by-products pose to the earth with mining, space debris and accumulation of satellites. Thus, Jacobsen's practice reflects a climate consciousness and questions us as a society, seen in a larger and universal cosmic perspective.
Amalie Jakobsen was born in 1989 in Denmark. She lives and works in Copenhagen and in London. She is a graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and Goldsmiths University of London. Her works have been exhibited both in Denmark and abroad, including at solo exhibitions at Gl. Strand (DK), in TwilSharp Gallery in Johannesburg (ZA), Feral in Mexico City (MX) and STCFTHOTS in Leeds (UK). Amalie Jakobsen is part of the 2015 publication, Nordic Contemporary - Art from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, published by Thames & Hudson Ldt.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
Amalie Jakobsen: Solo exhibition 'Cosmic Coastline' at Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand
Fool's Gold
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Amalie Jakobsen
Born 1989, Denmark
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
2014
BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2010
Kunsthoejskolen paa Aeroe, DK
Upcoming
2022 Group exhibition ‘Climate of Concern: Burning Out in the Age of Fossil Expressionis’ at RADIUS — Center for Contemporary
Art & Ecology, Delft, NL
2022-2023
Public commission at Ringe Prison, DK
2022
Solo exhibition at Gether Contemporary, DK
Solo/duo Exhibitions (selected)
2021
‘Cosmic Coastline’ Solo exhibition at Gl. Strand, Copenhagen, DK
2021
‘Orbital Harvest’ Solo exhibition at Future Gallery, Berlin, DE
2020
Solo exhibition ‘Carrying Capacity’ at Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, DK
2019
Solo exhibition ‘Fool’s Gold’ at Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2017
‘BLACK REVOLTS BLUE’, Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago, US
2017
‘WRONGDOERS’, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2017
‘Genes and Molecules’, duo exhibition with furniture designer Hans Jakobsen, Grenå Windmill, DK
2016
‘PROOON’, Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago, US
2015
‘DKUK Salon’, London, UK 2015 TwilSharp Gallery, Johannesburg, ZA
2015
‘Stronger’, Galería Breve, Mexico City, MX
2014
‘Food Face’, Curated by Louise Chignac, London, UK
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2021
‘The Owls Are Not What They See’ Group exhibition at Andrehn Schiptjenko, Stockholm, SE
2021
‘LIFE TRAILS’ Group exhibition at ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, DK
2021
‘STUDIO BERLIN’ at Berghain organised by Boros Collection, Berlin, DE
2021
’Traces on the Surfaces of the World’ Group exhibition at Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2020
‘Skate works’ Group exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal, curated by Jens-Peter Brask, DK
2020
‘August’ Group exhibition at Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, NO
2020
‘INTERDIMENSIONALE II’ at Gammelgaard Herlev, DK
2019
Group exhibition at Kunstbygningen i Vrå | Engelundsamlingen, Vrå, DK
2019
‘It Growns Between’ Group exhibition at Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago, US
2019
‘Time Matters’ Group exhibition, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2018
‘Rethinking Media’ Group exhibition Gallery Bradstrup, Oslo, No
2017
Group exhibition, FREDERIKSBERGSALONEN, Copenhagen, DK
2017
‘EN GROS – SCULPTURE’ , Skulpturi and PIRPA, Copenhagen, DK
2016
‘The Shape of Things to Come’, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2016
RØM, Copenhagen, DK
2016
Performance at Culture Meeting, Mors, DK
2015 – 2017
Jeune Création Européenne Biennale: France, Denmark, Polen, Latvia, Italy, Spain, Portugal
2015
Bosse & Baum, London,UK
2014
‘Everything is Connected’, Neter Proyectos, Mexico City, MX
2014
BA Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, UK
2014
‘Friction’, DIG, London, UK
2013
A Curator, Team Titanic, Berlin, DE
Art Fairs (selected)
2020
Enter Art Fair with Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2018
Market Art Fair, Stockholm, SE
2018
Zona Maco Art Fair, Efrain Lopez Gallery, Mexico City, MX
2017
CHART Art Fair, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, DK
2017
EXPANDED organised by Gallery Weekend Chicago, US, Efrain Lopez Gallery
2016
EXPO Chicago IN/SITU:”A Break in Code”, curated by Diana Nawi, Chicago, US
2016
Material Art Fair, Efrain Lopez Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Residencies (selected)
2018
Residency at Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris, FR
2016
Residency at Danish Art Workshop, Copenhagen, DK
2015
TwilSharp Studio’s Residency Program, Johannesburg, ZA
2015
Royal Danish Academy’s Travel Grant to Mexico, DK
Press/Publications/Interviews (selected)
2022
‘Inspireret af rumaffald og ødelagte satellitter’, Bobedre, DK
2022
Magasinet Kunst Nr.1, Kunst / Kopi 2022, DK
2021
Jyllands-Posten 19 Nov 2021, DK
2020
Kunsten.nu: Gallerirevy København, 2020
2020
Mellem kosmos og kaos, Politiken, DK
2020
Amalie Jakobsens minimal sculptures warp our perception of shape, space, and dark matter, IGNANT, 2020
2019
Kunsten.nu, Krop, Køn og Kosmos, by Lisbeth Bonde, DK
2019
Børsen Atelier, KUNSTSAMLER MARIA FRIIS ANBEFALER SAMTIDSKUNST, DK
2018
Fagbladet Billedkunstneren NR 2, DK
2018
Best of Zona Maco, Sureface Magazine, US
2018
Mad og Bolig, Nr 3, March
2017
De har kæmpet sig ind i kunstverdenen, dr.dk, DK
2017
Five Scandinavian Artists to Watch at CHART, Artsy
2017
3 møder med Amalie Jakobsen, Kopenhagen, DK
2017
Artist of the week, Kunsten.NU, DK
2017
Børsen, DK
2016
Kunstmagasinet Janus, DK
2016
Art In America, US
2016
New City Magazine, Chicago, US
2015
Nordic Contemporary Art by TransGlobe Publishing, Ltd. and Thames & Hudson
Public Commisions:
2022-2023
Public commission at Ringe Prison, DK
2020
Public commision at Danish Immigration Services Office by Creators Projects, Næstved, DK
2019
Out-door sculpture: Shape Shifter at Næstved Gymnasium of HF, commisioned by Ny Carlsberg Foundation, DK
2019
Mobile: Grenå Gymnasium og HF, DK
Collections:
ARKEN Modern Art Museum, DK
Ny Carlsberg Foundation, DK
The Danish Arts Foundation, DK
Art Museum Brandts, DK
Bech Risvig Collection, DK
Private Collections: Mexico, United States, Norway and Denmark
Grants:
2021
Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Honoary Grant, DK
2021
Danish Art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2020
Danish Art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2018
Danish Art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2017
Danish Art Foundation – Work Grant, DK
2017
Danish Art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2017
Danish Art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2016
Danish Art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2016
Danish art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2016
Danish art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2016
Danish art Foundation – Work Grant, DK
2015
Royal Danish Academy’s Travel Grant, DK
2015
Danish art Foundation – Work Grant, DK
2015
Danish art Foundation – Residency Grant, DK
2014
Danish art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2014
Danish art Foundation – Production Grant, DK
2013
Goldsmiths Annual, Fund, UK
2013
Jutta Bojsen-Møller Minde Grant, DK
2013
Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, DK
2013
Grenaa Craftsman Grant, DK
2012
Grosserer L.F.Foghts Fond, DK
2012
Grenaa Craftsman Grant, DK
2012
Ragnvald og Ida Blix’ Fond, DK
2011Grosserer L.F.Foghts Fond, DK