About
Jakob S. Boeskov is an artist based in New York. He has written and directed the films Empire North and Roy Camera, and has written for Lettre International and DIS Magazine. His art has been shown at New Museum, Stedelijk Museum, The Danish National Gallery as well as other venues around the world. Jakob S. Boeskov’s music is available on all streaming platforms.
Books
Vance, 320 pages, A Mock Book, 2024 (fiction) COMING.
Face Jagger, 112 pages, A Mock Book 2016 (non-fiction)
ID Sniper, 96 pages, A Mock Book 2015 (non-fiction)
Films
Roy Camera (78 min, fiction) Ada Lauder Film 2022
Empire North (58 min, fiction) Interpretation Productions, 2011
Music
Abstract Money Hole EP, 2022. TapeLore
Lord Algorithm, 2022, TapeLore
Symbolic And Real Police, 2017, TapeLore
Think I Scan EP (with TImothy DeWit) 2010, Pork Salad Press
Awards
Danish Dox Award, 2011, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
Lectures
National Arts Club, New York
Lisa Cooley, New York
Architectural Association, London
Städelschule, Frankfurt
Moscow State Academy Art Institute, Moscow
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Science Politiques, Paris
The Thing, New York
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Published Texts
Collapsed Signal, Kunstkritikk / Il segnale è crollato (in Italian), Not Magazine, 2021
Face Jagger, DIS Magazine, 2016
Guds Penge, Lettre International, 2006
My Doomsday Weapon, Black Box Magazine, 2002
Megasuckers, Virus, 2000
Collapsed Signal, Kunstkritikk, 2021
Face Jagger, DIS Magazine, 2016
Guds Penge, Lettre International, 2006
My Doomsday Weapon, Black Box Magazine, 2002
Megasuckers, Virus, 2000
Solo exhibitions
2019
Computer Mafia, MoMA Downtown New York
2017
Post Domination, Scandinavian Institute, New York
2015
Map Car Man, R/L Window, New York
2014
Fuck The Singularity, Mulherin + Pollard, New York
2013
Simulation Day Chaos, Hurrala!, Los Angeles
2012
Weekend Futurology, Mulherin+ Pollard, New York
2011
Thule, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2010
Dr. Cruel, Creative Time, New York
2009
Siggimund, National Gallery, Copenhagen
2007
Dad, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
2006
Monster Mirror, Otto Dix Haus Gera, Germany
2005
Coup de théâtre, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2004
My Doomsday Weapon, The Thing, New York
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Sintesi, LFA Art, Napoli
2022
Social Photography, Carriage Trade, New York
2021
Technoshamanism, HMKV, Dortmund
2020
Very Public, Xi Bing Plaza, New York
2019
The Stimulation Vortex, MoMA Downtown, New York
Vinter i KA, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus
2018
Rencontres Internationales Paris/ Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Paris / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Autonomics, Scandinavian Institute, New York
2017
Shadow Cabinet, Cuchifritos Gallery & Project Space, New York
2016
Breaking News, Art 21, Lagos
Solvang, Copenhagen
Psychic Phones, Ada Gallery, Richmond
The Kingdom, Scandinavian Institute, New York
2015
ID Theft, Scandinavian Institute, New York
Survivalist Toolshed, X and Beyond, Copenhagen
2014
Psycho Futurism, Scandinavian Institute, New York
Holbaek art, Copenhagen
2013
Social Goth, Scandinavian Institue, New York
This is our music, this is our art, Gallery David Risley,Copenhagen
2013
Tournament d’objet, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Reality & Fiction, Villa Schoeningen, Berlin
2012
Textual Pleasures, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
Sunshine & demented minds, Mulhellin- Pollard, New York
Tonight we won't be bored, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2011
Daydreaming Animals, Mulhellin- Pollard, New York
What is he doing in there? Fuse Gallery, New York
2010
To The Road less travelled, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
The Alphabet Show, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2008
The destruction of Atlantis, Union Gallery, London
The Lords, David Lawrence Gallery, Beverly Hills
From Thought to Action, Roskilde festival, Copenhagen
Paper Trails, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
The Flowers Of Evil Still Bloom, Cueto Projects, New York
2007
LA is on fire, David Lawrence Gallery, Beverly Hills
Love/Sex/War, ExitArt, New York
Eyesore, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Cabaret Tribunale, Judson Memorial Church, New York
The Activist Way, Cueto Projects, New York
Paper Trails, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
2006
Regarding Denmark, Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens
2005
Screening War, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Ersatz Stadt, Volksbühne, Berlin
Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Frankfurter Kunstverein, CAC, Vilnius
Museum of modern Art, Architecture and Design Oslo
2004
Desire, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen
Socle Du Monde, Herning Kunstmusum, Herning, Denmark'
A Guide To The Tourist Gaze, K1, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2003
Electric Currents, Hermitage, Sct. Petersburg
Multiples, Project, Dublin
Turmsturm, Nikolaj Kirke, Copenhagen
Between the lines, Apex art, New York
Betrug, Loop, Berlin
Imposture, Console/Science Politique, Paris
Playschool, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen
2002
Rent-a-bench, Public Art exhibition, Los Angeles
Bodydeluxe, Ionic Gallery, London 2002
Artgenda, Hamburg 2002
2000
Datablood (w. Chicks On Speed), Sonar Festival, Barcelona
Pervert Gallup, Momentum, Nordic Festival For Contemporary art, Moss
1999
Pop-Op, Holstebro Art museum, Holstebro
The Party, WMF Club, Berlin
Credo. Gallerie Am Rathaus, Munich
Le Grand Premiere Opening Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Exhaust Tiger, Xart Hybrid, Copenhagen
If it was me who had come to a foreign place, Public Art, Aarhus 1998
1996
Update, Turbinehallerne, Copenhagen 1996
Toons, Galleri Cambells Occasionally, Copenhagen
Press (selection)
“It takes a weapon from the future to grasp the wars of today",
Nikolaj Heltoft, Politiken, 06.24.2016
“The man with the masks”
Claus Rothstein, Weekendavisen, 06.18.2016
"How a dane tricked the weapon lobby"
Thomas Hillenbrand, Der Spiegel 03. 24.2005
"High tech, high art"
Dean Olsher, New York Public Radio, 04.12.2009
"Wake up, postmodern zombies"
Mette Sandbye, Weekendavisen, 04.12.2009
"Love/sex/war"
Village Voice, 04.11.2007
"The ID Sniper"
IDG Media, Japan, 04.28.2004
"The ID Sniper"
Newshour, BBC, 04.28.2004
"Signals, Statistics & Social Experiments"
Brian Holmes, Viper Conference Paper, Basel, 22.11.04
"Hot art"
Lars Bang Larsen, Politiken, Denmark, 16.02.03
"The ID sniper as immanent critique"
Dissertation paper, Dept. of politics and philosophy
Bent Meier Sorensen, Copenhagen Business School, 0303.2004
"Misinterpretations"
K. Olegsky, Membrana, Russia ,16.02.05