Jacob Gils

Jacob Gils is a Danish contemporary art photographer known for his work in a multiple exposure technique called "Movement". His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, art fairs and museums around the world.

Early life

Jacob Gils was born in Gentofte, Denmark in an artist family. His mother is the painter Merete Hansen, and his father was the painter Ove Gils.

Jacob Gils graduated from the Copenhagen School of Photography in 1989, where he assisted the Danish photographer Leif Schiller. In his early career he worked as a commercial photographer and established the prestigious photo studio Gils Fotografi. In 2001 he transitioned to a fine art practice and started to experiment with different techniques and expressions of photography.

Collaborations Ballet Folklórico de México

In 2024, he collaborated with the Ballet Folklórico de México Amalia Hernández to produce the series Spirits of Mexico, a multidisciplinary project that merges contemporary visual art with traditional Mexican dance. The series explores the intersection of movement, color, and national identity by portraying dancers from the Ballet Folklórico in emblematic locations across Mexico, such as historic plazas, colonial architecture, and natural landscapes. Through this collaboration, the artist seeks to reinterpret Mexican cultural heritage from a modern perspective, blending his distinctive artistic techniques with the vibrant aesthetics and symbolism of folkloric performance.

Awards 2024 Zona Maco ZONA Maco art fair and Erarta foundation "Highlight of the Show" 2015 Px3 Prix de la photographie Paris in the category "Fine Art Nudes" 2012 Px3 Prix de la photographie Paris in the category "Fine Art Altered Images" claims that his photography is something new and full of creativity because he paints with his camera. Fredrik Haren, "The Creativity Explorer", called this for his experience exploring about human creativity and writer about the subject, talked about the balance between Gils' "curious research mode" and the "focused execution mode".

Limit to your love

The series Limit to your Love is Gils' nude experiment with a Polaroid camera. He has won two awards for this series. Virginie Lorient from Bettina Von Arnim's Gallery asserts that the transfers of colours of this technique may vary, but Gils does not modify the natural colours of the picture. Switch Magazine Gente di Fotografia Gente di Fotografia Gente di Fotografia The eye of photography Bo Bedre. Erick Rimmer Interview to The creativity Explorer. Fredrik Hansen Grazia, El artista danés Jacob Gils, fotografía al Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández | Grazia México y Latinoamérica

Permanent exhibitions Stockholm: Fotografiska Museum of Photography Norway: The National Museum of Photography Oslo Bogotá: Museum of Modern Art MAMBO Copenhagen: The Danish National Museum of Photography China: Nanjing Institute of Visual Arts Beijing: Danish Cultural Institute in Beijing Boston: Boston Properties offices Copenhagen: LEGO A/S Copenhagen: TRH Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary Palace Milan: Loro Piana Collection Copenhagen: Maersk A/S Shanghai: Thomas Shao Collection