CV Jakob
Robertsson
Born 1971, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
Education
1993–1997 M.F.A. Konstfack, University College of Fine Arts, Sweden
Professional
Experience
2003 Design, Rörstrand, Lidköping, Sweden
Public Commissions
2014 "Frimurarvägen", förskola
2013 "Stångholmsbacken", förskola
Selected
Exhibitions
2015– Konst på kulturministerns tjänsterum, Rosenbad,
Stockholm
2015 "Örnsbergsauktionen 2015" Galleri Bon, Stockholm
2014 "Sputnik-auction" Tokyo, Japan
2011 "A Moment in Time", (solo) Eskilstuna konstmuseum, Eskilstuna
Represented
2006 The Swedish National Museum, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Grants
2005 The Arts Grants Committee, Visual Art Fund, one year work grant
Selected
Publications
Books: Craft in Dialogue: Six Views on a Practice in Change, 2005
TV: Bästa formen, SVT 2006#2 & 2004#6
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A Moment
in Time
Gustavsbergs
konsthall, Gustavsberg, Sweden / 16 oktober 2010–9 januari 2011
Jakob Robertsson’s
ceramic art has many resonances. Stylistically it is often reminiscent
of the direct and forceful imagery of comics but behind this seemingly
light-hearted surface there is a deeply serious aspect. Death, Love,
Bamse the little bear, those who are vulnerable and lonely – they
have all played their parts in Jakob Robertsson’s art. For his
exhibition at Gustavsbergs Konsthall, he has been working with a new
series of ceramic sculptures. He comments on the exhibition in his own
words: “It is about what is good in life: the events and moments
of contentment that act as a sort of blessed release from all that is
laborious or dull. It deals with the large and genuine emotions and
the positive element in being pathetic…”
Jakob Robertsson
has been an active member of the group known as WeWorkInAFragileMaterial
for many years and has taken part in numerous exhibitions. A Moment
in Time is his first solo exhibition since 2002. His return to the Swedish
crafts scene is one that many people have looked forward to.

Kebaburnor
(Kebab
Urns)
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden / 15. 11. 2006—11.
02. 2007
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"Under
sina besök i Skoklosters slott har han slagits av dåtidens
fascination för det exotiska och orientaliska, bland annat
gestaltat i kinesiska och japanska urnor parvis placerade på
byråar och skåp, liksom i kryddorna på barockens
bord.
- Fascinationen går vidare men tar sig
andra uttryck i dag, säger Jakob och berättar om hur
kebabrullar kan bli keramikurnor och om hur främmande matkulturer,
för tillfället den libanesiska, alltid framstått
spännande. Kebabrullar som urnor kan på så vis
påminna oss om vår nyfikenhet på andra kulturer,
samtidigt som kebabens vanlighet är ett tecken på hur
det en gång främmande kan bli del av vår vardag."
/Maria
Perers
Texten
är ett utdrag från katalogen; WWIAFM at skoklosters
slott. |
"The noblest clay, the most
costly marble, man, is here kneaded and cut, and to the chisel strokes
of the Dionysian world artist rings out the cry of the Eleusinian mysteries:
"Do you prostrate yourselves, millions? Do you sense your Maker,
world?"
Links:
DN
Arkiv
FORM,
recension,pdf
WWIAFM
Gustavsbergs
Konsthall
Superfido
Seemann

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