Stine Marie Jacobsen
Stine Marie Jacobsen is a conceptual artist who practices participatory art. Jacobsen does not create self-contained 'works' but rather directs situations. Most of her projects are games, instructions, manuals, and training modules that help participants explore society and their own role in it.
- 03–09–2025
Stine Marie Jacobsen
Particularly important in her practice are educational programmes that the artist develops in collaboration with teachers, lawyers, researchers, and other experts.
In 2012, for example, Jacobsen launched the long-term project 'Direct Approach,' in which she invited schoolchildren to describe and analyse a particularly violent scene from a film — and then reshoot it, playing the aggressor, victim or witness of their choice. And in 2018, she ran the ‘Pidgin Tongue’ programme, in which children from Riga, a bilingual city, created a new language dictionary based on Latvian and Russian.
Stine Marie Jacobsen was born in 1977 in Denmark. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. The artist has had solo exhibitions in London, Berlin, Copenhagen and Galway, Ireland. Jacobsen has participated in many international biennials, including Manifesta 2020. She lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.
Teobaldo Lagos Preller is a curator and art researcher. His doctoral thesis focused on the relationship between art and society in Berlin after the city's reunification. His other research interests include Latin America. In 2021, Preller co-curated the ‘Museum of Democracy’ exhibition at the Berlin gallery Neue Gesellschaft für Kunst, which explored democracy as a vanished phenomenon, like an extinct animal or a bygone culture, using examples from Latin American history.
Preller has curated several of Stine Marie Jacobsen's projects, including ‘Law Shifters’ in Chile in 2023 and 2024. In this outreach-style program, participants conceive and formulate new laws. ‘Law Shifters’ has taken place in several countries, but is particularly relevant to Chile, as much of the country's legislation is a legacy of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
Teobaldo Lagos Preller was born in Chile in 1978. He studied Communication Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, and History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the University of Barcelona. He lives and works in Berlin.