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   2025    Lacuna, met werk van Diederik Boyen, Karl Brabants, Georges De Decker, Trui Demarcke,
               Jean De Groote, Ann Grillet, Maja Jantar, Frie J. Jacobs, Ine Lammers, Shelley Meert,
               Franky Michielsen, Bart Vandevijvere en Kelly Willems, De Bijl, Zoersel, Belgium

2024 Silence, Noir de Noir Concept Gallery, Ostend, Belgium
2024 influENSORed III, al dan niet over Roze(n), Noir de Noir Concept Gallery, Ostend, Belgium

2024 influENSORed II, al dan niet over Roze(n), Noir de Noir Concept Gallery, Ostend, Belgium

2024 influENSORed, Noir de Noir Concept Gallery, Ostend, Belgium

2023 Art Meets Nature, Meise, Botanic Garden, Belgium

2022 M.ARS, Galerie Charlie, Mechelen, Belgium

2022 Lined up, YOC, Galerie Dessers, Hasselt, Belgium
2022 Expo #02, Noir de Noir Concept Gallery, Ostend, Belgium

   2021    In touch, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
   2021    Drawing Challenge XVII, online project, Jason McCoy Gallery, NY, USA
   2020    Suffrage and struggle: feminist art and the 19th Centennial amendment

(collaboration Amy Bassin) - Dorrance H. Hamilton Gallery, Rhode Island USA,

curated by Jan Howard, chief curator at RISD Museum

2020 Through Walls, YOC, Galerie Dessers, Hasselt, Belgium

2019 1st Feminnale of Cotemporary Art, Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Kyrgyzstan

2019 .../CC01, Multiplied & In The End Books?, Tique art space, Antwerp, Belgium

2018 'Encontro de Rios',Espaço Espelho D'Agua Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal,
Amy Bassin (USA), Sonia Gil (Brazil), Jana Hunterova (Czech Republic), Frie J. Jacobs (Belgium),

Aditi Kulkarni (India), Uma Ray (India),

Hidemi Shimura (Japan)

2018 'Buiten - Land', cultuurhuis de Bijl, Zoersel, Belgium

Nele Tas, Frie J. Jacobs, Hans Vandekerckhove, Stefan Peters, Greet Van Autgaerden,

Bruno Van Dijck en Fik van Gestel

2017 Ellipse, Replika, Chloe Brenan (IE), Freya Copeland (UK/NZ/DE), Karl Dieter Schmid (DE),

Rita Gaspar Vieira (PT), Frie J. Jacobs (BE), Taizo Matsuyama (JP), Jacintha Murphy (IE/DE),

Ainsley O’Connell (NZ), Ben Pearce (NZ), Nuno Vieira Sousa (PT), Toyah Webb (NZ),

Berlin, Germany

2015 #Brusselpoetryfest, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium

2015 Kunstenfestival Watou "In de luwte van de tussentijd", Watou, Belgium

2014 The First Brussels International Underground Poetry Fest, Brussels, Belgium

2013 ... verzamelt werk. Guy Van Bossche, Michaël Borremans, Frie J. Jacobs,

Mark Luyten, Roeland Tweelinckx and others. (Woot), Antwerp, Belgium

2013 Anonymous Drawings at the Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2013 Anonymous Drawings - Leipzig Selection @ Galerie Delikatessenhaus Leipzig, Germany

2013 Anonymous Drawings 2013, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany

2012 Dialoog, duo-expo Zazah G. Van den Broeck & Frie J. Jacobs, Berchem, Belgium

2011 The Light Show, Juicyhead, online exhibition

2011 The Boston Biennial Project, 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

2011 Differences? Similarities!, Urban Dialogues, De Bijl, Zoersel, Belgium

2010 Fluxface in Space, FluxMuseum, Exhibition in the Space Shuttle Discovery, Space

(Fluxface in Space exhibition website)

2010 "What Matters Most?", curated by Amy Lipton, Exit Art Underground, NYC, USA

2009 Anonymous Drawings N°10, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2009 Ladenkastproject, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2008 Art Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Dagmar De Pooter Gallery)

2007 Subject matterS, Dagmar De Pooter Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2006 Verloren Werkelijkheid, De Bijl, Zoersel, Belgium

2005 Galerie Link, Ghent, Belgium

2004 Soorten van blindheid, Het noodzakelijke zwijgen, St. Lucas Passage, Antwerp, Belgium

2003 Fortstraat 100, Het noodzakelijke zwijgen, Mortsel, Belgium

2003 WCT, art project of Trechter 5, ‘De Kleuren van het Lage Land’, Goes, The Netherlands

2002 Praktisch niet theoretisch, videoproject, Annex, Antwerp, Belgium

2002 Kunstgrepen, Westende, Belgium

2002 Albert Grisarstraat 19, Het noodzakelijke zwijgen, Antwerp, Belgium

2001 Rudolfstraat 30, Het noodzakelijke zwijgen, Antwerp, Belgium

2001 De Lichtende Ruimte, Fort Napoleon, Oostende, Belgium

2001 De Belgen Komen, Galerie Bij de Boeken, Ulft, The Netherlands

1999 Overbruggen, Boom/Klein-Willebroek, Belgium

1999 Kunst uit Huis, De Bond, Brugge, Belgium

1998 Kunst is niet eetbaar, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium

1993 Galerie Annick Ketele, Antwerp, Belgium

1992 Laureaat De Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst/Jeune Peinture Belge (today Belgian Art prize)
- PvSK (Bozar), Brussels, Belgium

1992 Galerie Annick Ketele, Antwerp, Belgium

1991 Magentas Art Garden, Kalmthout, Belgium

1991 MOS 91, Galerie Magenta, Kalmthout, Belgium

1991 Sfinks-X, Boechout, Belgium

1990 De Gevolgen, De Krabbedans, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1988 Verdwenen Aarde, Sint-Bernardusabdij, Hemiksem, Belgium

✓ Performances of visual scores

2014 Colophonium (etude for strings) by Frie J. Jacobs, bow

2018 Isolated by Frie J. Jacobs, keyboard (harp, cello, clarinet, bells)

2022 Atemwende by Maja Jantar, voice

2023 Cradle us to life by Geertje Van Genechten, voice, percussion and Frie J. Jacobs, soundscape

2024 Theme for the dancing goat by Floris De Rycker, lute

Rain in the ears, drizzle in the eyes by Floris De Rycker, theorbo

Music for wind by Floris De Rycker, renaissance guitar

How to dance on the wind by Sebastian Enriques, accordion

Etude on how to listen tot the sound of frogspawn by Barbara Ardennes, accordion

and Maja Jantar, voice

The crying rust by Barbara Ardennes, accordion and Maja Jantar, voice

Music for wind by Barbara Ardennes, accordion and Maja Jantar, voice

Slippery waltz by Maja Jantar, voice

Back to the roots var. no 1 by Barbara Ardennes, accordion and Maja Jantar, voice

Taraxacum - nocturne by Maja Jantar, voice

✓ Bibliography (selection)

2024 Tracing Stillness - visuele partituren

tekst: Frie J. Jacobs, Annemarie Peeters, Jelle Dierickx

grafische vormgeving: Pieter Geerts

boek: hard cover, full color, 100 pagina’s, ISBN 9789464988901 - beschikbaar
Stille wenken: de grafische partituren van Frie J. Jacobs, Annemarie Peeters (voor Musica Divina)

Briesjes van verbeelding in visuele partituren , Jurjen K. VanderHoek

2023 ‘Unfinished’, een expo vol harmonieuze contrasten tussen Paul Gees en Frie J. Jacobs,
TheArtCouch online, 13/04/23 by Marleen Scevenels

2022 Maintenant 16, a journal of contemporary Dada writing & art,

publication: Three Room Press, NYC. My contribution: ‘OUCH’

2022 Chaos, petrichor #8, uitgeverij petrichor, The Netherlands

2022 De gebrande verstilling in het werk van Frie J. Jacobs, Jurjen K. VanderHoek

2022 ‘Stiltenisse’ Frie J. Jacobs, text Inge Braeckman, Jelle Dierickx,

graphic design: Pieter Geerts
book, hard cover, full color, 96 pages, ISBN 9789464518498 - available

2021 ‘Isolated’ published in Global insides, the second phase by Debra Leea Glasheen, USA,

ISBN-13 : 979-8581607718 - English - 241 pages

2021 Kunstletters, De keuze van Penelope Deltour, January 2021

2020 Soundest 6, a quarterly zine dedicated to celebrating al forms of sounds art

and sound in the arts, Helsinki - www.aigrayson.com/soundest

2019 .../CC01, Multiplied & In The End Books?, Tique art space, leaflet, Antwerp, Belgium

2017 Real Realism: An Art Manifesto for the Disenchanted by Mark Blickley and Frie J. Jacobs,

published in Dodging the rain, Ireland, December 1

2017 Maintenant 11, a journal of contemporary Dada writing & art,

publication: Three Room Press, NYC. My contribution: 'this is not a pair of glasses'

2017 Kunst staat nooit los van de werkelijkheid, review GVA, February by Frank Heirman

2017 'A lesser life' Frie J. Jacobs, introduction Mark Blickley, book, ISBN 9789090301600

2016 Futures Trading, anthology three, Caleb Puckett, Editor, USA

2015 Real Realism: An Art Manifesto for the Disenchanted by Mark Blickley and Frie J. Jacobs,

Long Exposure Magazine

2014 Fragiel en monumentaal tegelijk, review by Anne-Marie Poels, H ART #127, 5 June

2013 2012-1992, een overzicht met tekstbijdragen van Florent Bex, Heidi Brouckaert,

Raf Coenjaerts, Jelle Meander, Philip Meersman, David Ulrichs - Naar video

2008 Het raadsel van de zichtbaarheid, Florent Bex

2007 Prelude by David Ulrichs, April, Berlin, Germany

2007 Gabriela Maciel 'Presence', Frie J. Jacobs 'Prelude', Anne-Marie Poels, H ART 10 May

2005 Frie J. Jacobs, Lapiz, review by David Ulrichs, October

2005 Frie J. Jacobs in Dagmar De Pooter Gallery, Gazet van Antwerpen,

review by Pieter Geerts, 24 September, Antwerp, Belgium

2005 Het gevondene dat zich laat zoeken, text by Heidi Broeckaert, 5 June, Ghent, Belgium

2005 Organisch, Gentblogt, review, June, Ghent, Belgium

2003 Het is wat het is: roet, eM-magazine, review by Frank Heirman 2 September, Antwerp, Belgium

2003 Frie Jacobs toont zwarte zichtbaarheid in Caesuur, PZC, review by Ernst Jan Rozendaal,

19 June, Middelburg, The Netherlands

2003 Kunstroute langs spoor gaat wel door, PZC, photo by Willlem Mieras, 19 June,

’s Heer Henderikskinderen, The Netherlands

2001 De Lichtende Ruimte, publication, Belgium

2001 Kunst in België na 1975 by Florent Bex, Mercatorfonds, Antwerp, Belgium - ISBN 9789061534815

1998 Kunst is niet eetbaar - over verzamelingen en verzamelen, de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium

1994 Frie J. Jacobs observeert de wereld, Gazet van Antwerpen, review by Filip Marsboom,

10 May, Antwerp, Belgium

1992 Organische combinatie, Het Laatste Nieuws, review by Bo Mandevillle, 2 July, Antwerp, Belgium

1992 Verhalen uit het Museum der Gesloten Tuin, Het Volk, by Jo De Ruyck, 26 March, Ghent, Belgium

1992 Het Museum der Gesloten Tuin in het Rivierenhof, Gazet van Antwerpen,

review by Patrick Van de Perre, 26 March, Antwerp, Belgium

1990 Gevarieerde solo-exposities zes Belgen, Eindhovens Dagblad, 10 March,, The Netherlands

✓ Catalogues

2018 Buiten - Land, February, Zoersel, Belgium

2017 Ellipse, Replika, Berlin, Germany

2015 Kunstenfestival Watou "In de luwte van de tussentijd", Watou, Belgium

2014 Oude Landen / Jonge Spruiten, genummerde publicatie op 30 exemplaren

2011 Differences? Similarities! by Urban Dialogues, March, Zoersel, Belgium

2010 Fluxface in Space, The Fluxmuseum, USA

2003 Fortstraat 100, (cd-rom), September, Mortsel, Belgium

2002 Albert Grisarstraat 19, (cd-rom), Antwerp, Belgium

2001 Rudolfstraat 30, Antwerp, Belgium

1999 Overbruggen, Boom/Klein-Willebroek, Belgium

1999 Stil Leven, Belgium

1997 Kunst Uit Huis, Belgium

1992 Sfinks X, Boechout, Belgium

1991 MOS 91, Kalmthout, Belgium

1988 Verdwenen Aarde, Hemiksem, Belgium

Artist books

2019 Body of Work, artists book, published by Project O

collaboration with Amy Bassin (NY) and Mark Blickley (NY)

2018 Saving Face, artists book, published by Project O

collaboration with Amy Bassin (NY) and Mark Blickley (NY)

2018 Not the Sea, artists book, published by Project O

2018 No Head No Pain, artists book, published by Project O

collaboration with Amy Bassin (NY) and Mark Blickley (NY)

2018 Ideas, artists book, published by Project O

2018 No Soot / No Light, artists book, published by Project O

2017 Slaaplied/Sleeping Song, artist's book, published by De kleine arbeid

Video screenings

2023 The Lonely Absence, Film Festival 'To Love a Human', Oświęcim Cultural Center, Poland

2023 The Lonely Absence, 3rd place in the experimental film category, ARSFilm festival, Brno,
Czech Republic - collaboration Jana Hunterova (CZ), Frie J. Jacobs, music (B)

2021 Colophonium, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea

2021 Silenced memories, 3th place at Book the Film festival, Prague, Czech Republic