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Stine Marie Jacobsen is a conceptual artist working to decode violence and law both individually and collectively through participatory means. She lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin, graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with an MFA in 2009 and a BFA from CalArts, the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA in 2007.
Some of her notable solo shows have been at Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018, Flat Time House, London, England, 2018, Galerie Wedding, 2016, Berlin, Germany, Overgaden institute of contemporary art, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark, Galway Arts Center, 2014, Galway, Ireland, District Berlin, 2014 and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2012, Berlin, Germany.
Selected group shows consist of Manifesta Biennial 2020, Marseille, France, Momentum Biennale 2019, Moss, Norway, Riga Biennial, Latvia 2018, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2017, France, Momentum Biennale 2013, Moss, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany and Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark, Turku Biennale, 2013, Turku, Finland, The 10th OPEN International Performance Festival, 2009, Beijing, China.
In order to give participants a collaborative and dialogical space, Jacobsen creates open structured sociocultural and participatory projects with clearly defined themes. With a focus in themes such as film, language, gender, violence, death, taboos, anonymity, psychology, the artist conducts performative experiments and creates platforms for critical thinking and new ways of looking at ethics, identity, control, fear and trust.
Over the years Jacobsen has conceptualised and worked on a number of long term participatory and educational projects such as Direct Approach, where people retell from memory the most violent film scene they have watched and choose to play either victim, perpetrator or bystander in a reenactment or projects like Mann beißt Hund (a remake of the Belgian film ‘C’est arrivé près de chez vous’), without actors on screen. Alongside the use of film as a law system, in Law Shifters the artist organises, in collaboration with lawyers, law writing workshops for refugees, immigrants and citizens, and invites them to write their own law proposals.
In 2015, Stine was awarded an innovative educational grant from Node curatorial studies in Berlin and in 2016 she was awarded a peace Fellowship by the Rotary Foundation and won the Berlin Art Prize.
Contact the artist via email: contact@direct-approach.org