Opening Thursday March 7 at 18:00. At 19:00 – a conversation between Frans Jacobi and poet CA Conrad on despair and birds.

Frans Jacobi, professor at the The Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, is now presenting his first retrospektive; a selection of artworks as far back as the first sculptures that was part of his admission to studies at the Royal Danish Art Academy up to the performance  Are You Ready? Made in Ethiopia in january 2019 by the Green Hijab Movement. The exhibition consists of sculptures, photos, text-works and film, unite by the wish to tell stories, often with a social or political engagement.

Each work in the exhibition is presented with a personal, descriptive text; these 12 texts constitutes a first, fragmented attempt at a total survey of the work of the artist.

The birds appear in several works, while the despair is a premise for the work of Jacobi as such. This dismay is turned upside down in the latest works, that proclaim a new world order with surprising optimism.

The exhibition opens on Thursday, march 7th at 18h with a conversation between Frans Jacobi and the American poet CA Conrad. The opening will also contain a book-launch of Jacobi’s last 2 books, Aesthetics of Resistance and 2061 Inmoral Lidos, the last made in collaboration with Benedicte Clementsen and Discoteca Flaming Star.