Jacob Dahlgren - Retrospektiv Kommersiell: Live in Your Head: Stockholm

 

Drawing on works from various periods of his practice, the exhibition highlights recurring ideas that Jacob Dahlgren has developed, reinterpreted and occasionally reworked over time. Although shaped by a wide range of projects, the works converge here in a coherent and expanded reflection on abstraction, participation and the everyday.

 

Jacob Dahlgren’s work bridges art and audience, inviting participation and shared experience regardless of prior familiarity with contemporary art. Drawing from everyday life and the urban environment, he transforms ordinary objects—clothing hangers, pencils, scales—into precise, rhythmic compositions that oscillate between sculpture, painting and assemblage. By emphasizing aesthetic form over function, his works reveal new ways of seeing the familiar. Through abstraction, Dahlgren uncovers the patterns, symbols and imaginative potential embedded in the everyday.

 

Jacob Dahlgren (b. 1970, Stockholm) lives and works in Stockholm. He received his MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in 1999. His work has been exhibited widely, including recent presentations at Kiasma, Helsinki and Setouchi Triennale, Japan. In 2007, he represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale.