About Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Jakob Kudsk Steensen (B. 1987, Denmark) is an artist working with environmental storytelling through video games, VR, sound installations and immersive environments. He creates poetic interpretations about overlooked natural phenomena through collaborations with field biologists, composers and writers. Projects are based on extensive fieldwork in overlooked, rare or transforming ecosystems, where life and spaces are digitized as sound and 3D environments. Key collaborators include Musician ARCA, Composer and Musical Director for the Philip Glass Ensemble Michael Riesman, Ornithologist and author Dr. Douglas H. Pratt, Korean band BTS, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the Natural History Museum Berlin, among others. 

Jakob has recently exhibited with his major solo exhibition “The Ephemeral Lake” at Hamburger Kunsthalle. Prior to this memorable commissions include “Berl-Berl” at ARoS Museum of Art, and in Berlin at Halle am Berghain, commissioned by LAS, and at Luma Arles with “Liminal Lands” for the “Prelude” exhibition. Other notable exhibitions includes “The Deep Listener” and “Catharsis” at Serpentine Galleries in London. He was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize at the 2019 Venice Biennale. His work has also shown at Sundance, TriBeCa, SXSW and at CPH:DOX film festival.

He received the Serpentine Augmented Architecture commission in 2019 to create his work The Deep Listener with Google Arts and Culture. He is the recipient of the best VR graphics for RE-ANIMATED (2019) at the Cinequest Festival for Technology and Cinema, the Prix du Jury (2019) at Les Rencontres Arles, the Webby Award - People’s Choice VR (2018), and the Games for Change Award - Most Innovative (2018), among others.