Jacob Dahlgren
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. This is evident in Dahlgrens’s social practice – a series of performance events around the world involving local communities – as well as in the large-scale sculptural installations in the public space for which he is well known.
This relationship with everyday life is one of the pillars of Dahlgren’s practice. Dahlgren constantly seeks geometric and abstract patterns in the surrounding world and processes the mundane and quotidian into art. His own life is inseparable from his work in a tangible way, for his project Peinture Abstraite he has worn striped t-shirts for the last fifteen years and plans to do so for the rest of his life, as a living and on-going exhibition, sometimes with external curators invited for a couple of weeks.
Dahlgren was born 1970 in Stockholm where he lives and works. He received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in 1999. He has exhibited widely in institutions such as Stavanger Kunstmuseum 2020-2021, Copenhagen Contemporary 2019 Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch (2017), MAGASIN – Centre National d’Art Contemporain (2016), KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2013, 2011 and 2010), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2010, 2013), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2010), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2006). In 2007 he represented Sweden at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
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Jacob Dahlgren - Units of Measurements
Paris 11 Dec 2021 - 5 Feb 2022We are delighted to present Units of Measurements, Jacob Dahlgren’s first solo-exhibition in France. The opening will take place Saturday December 11, 5-8 pm and the exhibition runs through February...Read more -
JACOB DAHLGREN - Not and Or
Stockholm 22 Aug - 28 Sep 2019Andréhn-Schiptjenko has the pleasure of announcing the opening of the Stockholm fall season with Not and Or, a solo-exhibition by Jacob Dahlgren. The opening will take place Thursday August 22,...Read more -
Jacob Dahlgren - Painting into Space and the Meaning of Construction
Stockholm 14 Nov - 22 Dec 2013Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present Jacob Dahlgren’s second solo show at the gallery. Dahlgren constantly seeks geometric and abstract patterns in the surrounding world. He regards himself and his striped...Read more
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view "Not and Or", Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view "Not and Or", Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
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Jacob Dahlgren"Art is Life", installation view at Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, 2019
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Jacob Dahlgren"Art is Life", installation view at Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark, 2019
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view Public Commission, Helsiniki, Finland, 2019
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view "Quality Through Quantity" at Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany, 2017
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Jacob DahlgrenConstructing a new world, 2017
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view "Briser la Glace" at MAGASIN-CNAC, Grenoble, France, 2016
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view "Briser la Glace" at MAGASIN-CNAC, Grenoble, France, 2016
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view, Stripes and Coloured Circles, Art Museum Centre Sinkka, Kervo, Finland, 2015
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view, Stripes and Coloured Circles, Art Museum Centre Sinkka, Kervo, Finland, 2015
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view, Stripes and Coloured Circles, Art Museum Centre Sinkka, Kervo, Finland, 2015
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Jacob DahlgrenUnits of Measurments South Dublin Art Centre, 2014
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Jacob DahlgrenUnits of Measurments South Dublin Art Centre, 2014
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view, On Balance, Fabrica, Brighton, UK, 2014
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Jacob DahlgrenPermanent installation in Hornstull, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Jacob DahlgrenNo Conflict no Irony (I Love the Whole World), 2013. The making of a 100 meter long banner and the walk to Salisbury Crags on 17 October 2013, Sweden
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallations view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallations view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallations view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013
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Jacob DahlgrenTetris
Commission för Jönköpings nya domstolsbyggnad, Jönköping, Sweden, 2012
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Jacob DahlgrenTetris
Commission för Jönköpings nya domstolsbyggnad, Jönköping, Sweden, 2012 -
Jacob DahlgrenPrimary structure
Permanent installation at Wanås Foundation, Knisslinge, Sweden, 2011 -
Jacob DahlgrenPrimary structure
Permanent installation at Wanås Foundation, Knisslinge, Sweden, 2011
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
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Jacob DahlgrenInstallation view, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
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Jacob DahlgrenForward, Back, Right, Left
Commission for Skanstullshallen, Sweden, 2011
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Heaven is a Place on Earth, 2021
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Units of Measurements (Triangle), 2021
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Units of Measurements (Wave), 2021
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I, 2019-2021
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I, the world, things, life, 2019
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Not and Or 20, 2019
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Not and Or 21, 2019
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Not and Or 23, 2019
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Not and Or 26, 2019
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Not and Or 27, 2019
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Not and Or 30, 2019
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Abstract Space, 2019
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Units of Measurements (I), 2018
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Model for understanding the world (VIII), 2018
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Model for understanding the world (XIX), 2018
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Third Uncle, 2016
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Third Uncle, 2016
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The World of Abstraction, Constructivist Version, 2015
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Concretist also developed rules for form and colour, 2015
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Self portrait of inner turmoil, 2014
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Horizontal rectangles and the awareness of perfection, 2014
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Work as Method, 2013
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Body of Colour, 2013
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Peinture Abstraite, 2013
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Portland 1948, 2012
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Item 14; Subject of Art, 2012
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Item 15; Subject of Art, 2012
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Item 17; Subject of Art, 2012
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Item 24; Subject of Art, 2012
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Endless cut, 2012
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Neoconcrete Space, 2012
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Primary Structure, 2011
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Best before 11, 2009
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From art to life to art, 2009
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Caracas 1977, 2008
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Untitled (2), 2007
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I, the world, things, life, 2007
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Demonstration 5th December 2007 Stockholm, Sweden, 2007
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Sydney, 2006
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Heaven is a place on Earth Edition of 5, 2006
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Item 7; public prosecutor1/3, 2004
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Peinture abstraite numéro quatre-vingt dix huit, 2002
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Jacob Dahlgren at Sergels torg, Stockholm, Sweden
Public work 27 Apr - 31 May 2022On view in the very city center of Stockholm is Jacob Dahlgren's The Flag Project. In the ongoing project he invites groups (this...Read more -
Andréhn-Schiptjenko at FIAC
Art Fair 20 - 24 Oct 2021Andréhn-Schiptjenko is pleased to present works by Dana-Fiona Armour, Uta Barth, Jacob Dahlgren, Elisabeth Frieberg and Siobhán Hapaska. We look forward to welcoming you...Read more -
Jacob Dahlgren at Paradise Kortrijk 2021, Belgium
Group exhibition 26 Jun - 24 Oct 2021From 26 June to 24 October 2021 the second Kortrijk Triennial will take place: Paradise Kortrijk 2021. Paradise Kortrijk 2021 is the successor to...Read more -
Andréhn-Schiptjenko at FIAC Online Viewing Rooms
Art fair 2 - 7 Mar 2021We are delighted to announce our participation in the first edition of FIAC Online Viewing Rooms, which will take place from March 4 to 7,...Read more -
Jacob Dahlgren at Kunsthalle Göppingen.
Solo-exhibition 13 Sep - 15 Nov 2020Brightly colored flags with geometric shapes are spread across the city of Göppingen – the starting point and center is the exhibition The Flag Project...Read more -
Jacob Dahlgren in Helsinki, Finland
Public work 19 Jun 2019The new public sculpture will bring colour and playfulness to the Kalasatama residential district. Early One Morning, Eternity Sculpture by Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren is...Read more