Henrik Plenge Jakobsen

Henrik Plenge Jakobsen's artistic work is based on conceptual sculpture, installation, performance and art in public space. He works with universal themes in economics, history and politics as well as basic existential phenomena such as anxiety, alienation and coexistence. Henrik Plenge Jakobsen (DK, 1967) is educated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Institute des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris (1994). Past and upcoming exhibitions include: Arken Museum of Contemporary Art (Ishøj), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), South London Gallery (London), SMK - The National Gallery of Denmark (Copenhagen), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Taipei Biennial (Taiwan), FRAC - Ile de France (Paris), Portikus (Frankfurt am Main), and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk). Plenge Jakobsen is the recipient of the Eckersberg Medal (2015) ...