Tom Oliver Jacobson
Tom Oliver is a performance artist and curator with a special focus on durational performance works. He creates performances in galleries, theatres and public spaces, often through broad collaborations with artists from different disciplines. His work is often rooted in a speculative dimension, where a situation or state in the ”not-now” is explored through writing, audience engagement and movement scores, often with a durational element. He frequently uses world-building through writing to convey political imaginaries beyond the binaries of utopia and dystopia.
Born in Stockholm, he co-founded the artist-run production house Tlön in Malmö which produced durational performances, clubs and performance festivals in collaboration with local and international artists. Since 2016, he has been a performer in the award winning Danish performance group Sisters Hope, which creates large-scale durational performances in museums, schools and theatres. In 2019 he studied at DAS Graduate School in the program Expanded Curation, graduating 2021.
In 2020, he co-funded the temporary art institute DUST, which is an international network that has a collaborative approach to performance making. Their works and collaborations have been presented in Frascati (NL), Gessneralle (CH), Inkonst (SE), Konsthall C (SE), and in public spaces in Sweden and Netherlands.
Recent works and collaborations
Mimosa (dramatury and technical support)
Sisters Academy (visiting artist, residency)
with support from Konstnärsnämnden
Stockholm Art Week (closing performance)
Do We Dream Under the Same Sky?
(director, performer)
The Week Before (performer)
Comissioned by Trespassing
The Waiting Room (performer)
Frascati Amsterdam (NL)
Theater de Nieuwe Vorst (NL)
Inkonst, Malmö (SE)
Agrigento, Italy (Italian capital of culture)
Stockholm Art Week (SE)
Inkonst, Malmö (SE)
Red Light District, Amsterdam (NL)
Museumnacht, Arti et Amiticae
2025, November
2025, October
2025, May
2025, October-November
2025, May
2025, May
2025, March
2024, November
Performer
Tlön
Collaborations