This is the new site of visual artist Frans Jacobi

I am slowly re-tooling the site to include all updated activities + an ever expanding archival section

Frans Jacobi is a visual artist (b. 1960). Lives and works in Bergen, Norway. Jacobi works with performance, film, installation, text and images. His performances and installations are often large-scale scenarios with multiple participants adressing a range of political and societal issues. Using a kind of urgent aesthetics, the temporality and presence becomes a point in itself.

Jacobi is professor in timebased media / performance at Faculty of Art, Music & Design at University of Bergen since 2012. He completed his phd ‘Aesthetics of Resistance’ at Malmö Art Academy/Lunds University in 2012.

Since 1982 Jacobi has exhibited and performed at a variety of international art institutions; i.e. Volksbühne/Grüne Salon, Berlin Germany; The Performance Project, New York USA; Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Norway; Anthology Film Archives, New York USA; Open Performance Festival, Beijing China; The Rose Art Museum, Waltham Massachusetts USA; Nationalgalerie in Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Germany; Århus Kunstmuseum, Århus Denmark; de Appel, Amsterdam; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart Germany; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel Germany; Louisiana, Humlebæk Denmark.

VERDEN + Hendelser i Vann

Exhibition at Geilo Kulturkire, Norway with Frans Jacobi & Gitte Sætre

18.1. – 28.2. 2026

VERDEN, a4, watercolor, acrylic and pencil on paper, 2023

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