Aftermath. Henrik Plenge Jakobsen. August 15 - September 13, 2025

The works in this exhibition are all aftershocks of something I observe in our time and don't quite know what to do with. There are three reverberations, three works.

Decades ago, a narwhal was harpooned in the sea between Greenland and Canada. The tusk was then separated from the animal's body. Two casts of the spiral-twisted tooth have now been joined together into one. Recreated in the form of a weapon and its own doppelgänger.

In an underground auditorium in Paris, a few hundred people gathered before summer to listen to a remastering of a popular electronica release from 2000. The test pressing was played on a turntable from an empty stage. We sat on the floor, some lying down, most with their eyes closed, all enveloped in coloured light. Perhaps sky blue, lavender, and pale yellow can be more than an imaginary defence.

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 exhibitions include: Centre Pompidou (Paris), Den Frie (Copenhagen), Arken Museum of Contemporary Art (Ishøj), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf), 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). 

The exhibition is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation

Aftermath. Henrik Plenge Jakobsen. August 15 - September 13, 2025

The works in this exhibition are all aftershocks of something I observe in our time and don't quite know what to do with. There are three reverberations, three works.

In an underground auditorium in Paris, a few hundred people gathered before summer to listen to a remastering of a popular electronica release from 2000. The test pressing was played on a turntable from an empty stage. We sat on the floor, some lying down, most with their eyes closed, all enveloped in coloured light. Perhaps sky blue, lavender, and pale yellow can be more than an imaginary defence.

The exhibition is supported by The Danish Arts Foundation