Jacob Dahlgren

In Copenhagen Contemporary’s new hall 4 the Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren presents the exhibition Art is Life. It unfolds like a playscape comprising large-scale sculptural installations co-created by CC’s visitors. The exhibition title, Art is Life, refers to the way Dahlgren observes and involves everyday life in his artistic practice.

Colour has a profound effect on us even though we may not be aware of it. Colour represents, more than any other attribute of our visual experience, a place where both physical properties, personal experiences and mental processes are interwoven in an intimate and enigmatic way. This group exhibition showcases moving image and installation work by artists such as Jacob Dahlgren and Rhys Coren – providing an artistic investigation into and discourse around the kaleidoscopic experience of colour.

Touch is the title of the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition. The display’s overarching theme is humanity at its core.

In the exhibition Abstract – Reflections from the Collection we explore the abstract – as a concept, a method and as a phenomenon. In a playful approach we turn things on their head, which generates unexpected encounters and combinations that open up for new ways of discovering the museum collection....

Kung Fu Panda is a new video work by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren in which he films the reflected ambient light on an adjacent white wall at home, whilst his children are watching the eponymous animated feature film. Filmed in High Definition from a fixed camera position and projected as...

Workplace Gallery is delighted to announce Third Uncle the first solo exhibition of Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren at Workplace London. Third Uncle brings together a series of new abstract paintings made using live electrical cable set into a pristine surface of layered acrylic paint. Oscillating between painting and installation, form...

Curated by Paul McAree.

The exhibition brings together two works by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren, which have been completely re-configured for Fabrica’s unique space. Heaven is a Place on Earth is a large floor work comprising 713 polished bathroom scales in candy-pop colours, ranging from turquoise and lime to cerise and black. The Wonderful...

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 (and frequently, knowingly Scandinavian); stand in their gestalt form as proxy...

Eric Bainbridge Noel Clueit Marcus Coates Jo Coupe Jacob Dahlgren Rachel Foulion Dean Hughes Rachel Lancaster Eftihis Patsourakis