Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Shows

CURRENTLY SHOWING

  • Boreal Dreams, Fondation Beyeler, Basel Switzerland until 25 May 2025

  • Berl-Berl, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich Switzerland until 09 February 2025

  • COMING SOON The Ephemeral Lake in MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art, Mori Museum, Tokyo Japan until 08 June 2025

  • COMING SOON Pscyhosphere, Cisternene, Copenhagen Denmark until 30 November 2025

SOLO PRESENTATIONS

2024

  • The Ephemeral Lake, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Germany

  • Berl-Berl, The Window/Chanel Arts & Culture, London UK

2023

  • Beyond the Glacier, Teylers Museum, Haarlem Netherlands

  • Tongues of Verglas, Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation x World Weather Network

  • Tongues of Verglas, MIRE Project/Chêne-Bourg metro station, Geneva Switzerland

  • Liminal Lands, ICUBE Museum, Beijing China

  • Liminal Lands, Outernet, London UK (public artwork)

  • Catharsis: Surge, Aarhus Vand, Aarhus, Denmark (public artwork)

2022

  • Berl-Berl: The Singing Swamp, ARoS Museum of Art, Aarhus Denmark

2021

  • Berl-Berl, Light Art Space, Halle am Berghain, Berlin Germany

2020

  • Catharsis, Serpentine Galleries, London UK (public artwork)

2019

  • The Deep Listener, Serpentine Galleries, London UK (public artwork)

  • RE-ANIMATED, Pylon-Hub, Dresden Germany

2018

  • RE-ANIMATED, Tranen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen Denmark

  • AQUAPHOBIA, Zabludowicz Collection 360 space, London UK

  • An Imperceptible Affair, Trondheim Art and Science Biennale, Trondheim Norway

  • Closed Circuit Habitat, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York USA

2017

  • Terratic Animism, Midnight Moment Times Square Arts and BRIC, New York USA

  • Paradisiac Ecologies, OK Corral, Copenhagen,Denmark

  • Primal Tourism, Walkthrough, BRIC, New York USA

  • The Extirpation of Animism, NY Media Center, New York USA

2016

  • Primal Tourism, Istanbul Contemporary, Istanbul Turkey

2015

  • A Cartography of Fantasia, Sleep Center, New York USA

GROUP PRESENTATIONS

2024

  • Berl-Berl, in Gwangju Biennale 2024/Panaosri, Gwangju Korea

  • Tongues of Verglas in I Feel For You at Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv Ukraine

  • Catharsis in Wälder/Forests at Senckenberg Natural History Museum, Frankfurt Germany

  • RE-ANIMATED in Group Therapy at Arken Musuem of Contemporary Art, Ishøj Denmark

  • Catharsis in reSOUND at Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul Korea

  • Tongues of Verglas in ARE YOU FOR REAL, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart Germany

2023

  • Liminal Lands at STRP Festival, Eindhoven Netherlands

  • Liminal Lands at ICUBE Museum, Beijing China

  • Catharsis at UBS artist of the year lounge, Shanghai Artfair

  • RE-ANIMATED in World Buliding and Gaming in The Digital Age, Pompidou Metz, Paris France

  • RE-ANIMATED in ‘Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age’, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf Germany

  • Aquaphobia in Amazing Nature, Silkeborg Bad Denmark

  • Primal Tourism in Topologies of the Real, Techne Shenzhen China

  • Liminal Lands in ‘Is This Real’ at FMAV Modena, Italy

  • Liminal Lands in The Interface Between Humanity and the Universe v3.0 at 2023 Intermedia Art Festival of SIMA, Hangzhou China

2022

  • Liminal Lands at Reference Festival x Selfridges, London UK

  • RE-ANIMATED at meta.space, Francisco Carolinum, Linz,Austria

  • Aquaphobia at Skovhuset Kunst & Natur, Værløse Denmark

  • Liminal Lands at Nahmad Contemporary, NY, USA

  • Liminal Lands at Bern Kornhausforum, Bern Switzerland

  • Aquaphobia in Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Shenzhen, China / Hong Kong

  • Aquaphobia in The First Beijing Biennial, Beijing China

  • RE-ANIMATED at Paradys, Arcadia, Oranjewoud Netherlands

  • Terratic Animism in CRYOSPHERE, Epoch Gallery, Online Exhibition
    Seeing the Invisible, Jerusalem Botanic Garden + 12 sites worldwide

  • Catharsis in Utopia, La Foret Magique, Lille France

  • RE-ANIMATED in Trondheim Biennale, MetaMorf, Trondheim, Norway

  • RE-ANIMATED in BioMedia, Centre des arts of Enghien-les-Bains, France

  • RE-ANIMATED in BioMedia, ZKM, Karlsruhe Germany

  • Liminal Lands at VRHAM, Hamburg Germany

  • Liminal Lands at Sonar Festival, Barcelona Spain

2021

  • Liminal Lands in Prelude, La Mécanique Générale, Luma Arles France

  • Shaping the Invisible World, HeK - Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel Switzerland

  • The Last Prophet, Shenzhen Bay Science and Technology Art Festival, Shenzhen, China

  • Generationer - Transformationer, HFKD, Holsterbro, Denmark

  • The Archive to Come Telematic Media Arts. San Francisco, USA

  • "Ultramarin" festival of virtual and augmented reality, German Goethe Cultural Centre. Moscow, Russia

  • Od Arts Festival; Alone with Everybody, OSR Projects. Somerset, United Kingdom

  • Comme un parfum d'aventure, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art MAC Lyon, France

  • "RE-ANIMATED” at Ideal Festival, Mira.MOV. Barcelona, Spain

  • “Aquaphobia” at LEV Matadero. Madrid, Spain

2020

  • Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin, Pompidou Centre, Paris,France

  • How to make a paradise? Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt,Germany

  • Potential Worlds, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich Switzerland

  • Comme un parfum d'aventure, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon France

  • Earth Delight, UM Museum, Seoul South Korea

  • Generationer, Transformationer, Huset for Kunst Design, Holstebro Denmark

2019

  • Extemporary, Art out of Time. NCCA Arsenal, September 14- December 8. Curated by Toke Lykkeberg Nielsen, Novgorod Russia

  • COSMIC EXISTENCE - Unexpected Encounters, possible futures. Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • RE-ANIMATED at the 2019 Venice Biennial for the Future Generations Art Prize exhibition by Pinchuk Foundation
    Speculative Species - VR art in the age of the anthropocene, Espronceda, Barcelona. Curated by Tina Saurlander.

  • Eco-visionarios: Arte para un Planeta en Emergencia, MATADERO, Madrid, Spain

  • Future Generations Art Prize Exhibition, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev

  • Swamp Protocol, Artebyte Gallery, London

  • Animal Charms, Aalto Studios Gallery, Finland

  • Currents New Media, exhibition space, Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • Polarities: Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological, MU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  • Libera Impressa, Milan, Italy

2018

  • Click Festival, Helsingor, Denmark

  • Festival de la imágen, Bogotá, Colombia

  • “AQUAPHOBIA”, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA

  • "I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that", arebyte Gallery, London, England

  • New Ear Festival 2018, Fridman Gallery, New York NY

  • “Re-routing Nature”, Sixty Eight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • “Homeostasis”,The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • AQUAPHOBIA, Jepson Centre for the Arts, Savannah GA

  • Terratic Animism, Times Square, New York USA (public artwork)

2017

  • "GHOST, GHOST, GHOST, MACHINE!", Serpentine Galleries, London, England

  • Isthisit? "Why don't we get a kick-starter going for an ISP?", online group exhibition, http://www.isthisitisthisit.com/why-dont-we-2

  • “FLATLANDS”, curated by Grace Franck, Mana Contemporary at Miami Art week, Miami FL

  • WIRED annual showcase and conference, VR art work by Jakob Kudsk Steensen and Olafur Eliasson, organized by Acute Art, New York NY

  • “AMBIENT OCCLUSION”, GOSSAMER FOG, London, England

  • “Terratic Animism”, SUPERNOVA ANIMATION FESTIVAL, curated by Ivar Ziele, Denver CO

  • “AQUAPHOBIA”, COPENX, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • “Terratic Animism”, Animation Nights New York (ANNY), New York NY

  • “UNCANNY CONDITIONS”, curated by Peer to Space by Tina Sauerlander, whitebox.art, Munich, Germany

  • “The Supernatural”, 21st Museum Hotels, Durham NC

  • “THATISNOTIT”, curated by Alex Czetwertynski, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City NJ

  • “Styles and Customs of the 2020s”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA

  • “Primal Tourism: Island”, Moving Image Immersive Media Fair, New York NY

  • “Sadness”, curated by VNgravity and Janet40, Mexico

2016

  • “Insides Outsides”, Hotel-art.us, Sydney, Australia

  • "Affect Bodies", BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn NY

  • “New Realities”, Moving Image Fair, Istanbul, Turkey

  • “Territories Temporales”, Centro Negra, Blanca, Spain

  • Temple Video Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia PA

  • “Eco-frames”, Botanical Garden, Maynard Sur Seine, France

  • “Tipping points”, curated by Angela Chan, Podium, Oslo

  • BNL, Media Art Festival, MAXXI, Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy

  • “Eco-frames”, CAAM, Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain

  • “Perverse Instantiations”, curated by Carla Gannis, Project Space 184, Brooklyn NY


RESIDENCIES

2022: Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, Stromboli, Italy
2021: Callie’s, Berlin, Germany
2020: Luma Arles Foundation, Arles, France
2019: La Becque Artist Residency, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland
2019: Art_React, Azores, September
2017-2019: Mana Contemporary Art Center, Artist in Residence, Jersey City NJ
2017 - 2018: Member, NEW Inc, New York NY
2018: Harvestworks, New York NY
2017: Artist Alliance Residency, New York NY
2016: Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Omaha NE
2016: BRIC Residency, Brooklyn Media Arts Center, New York NY
2016: The Studios at MASS MoCA, Assets for Artists, North Adams MA
2015: AADK Spain, Aktuelle Architektur Der Kultur, Blanca, Spain

AWARDS

2020
Niio x AI Art Prizes winner, RE-ANIMATED
Danish Working Grant

2019
Cinequest Festival for Technology and Cinema, best VR graphics for RE-ANIMATED
Prix du Jury (Jury price), Les Rencontres Arles, VR Arles

2018     
Future Generation Art Prize, Finalist, RE-ANIMATED
Finalist for Best of Immersive and the Sensible Art and Science Award, Geneva International Film Festival
Webby Award, People’s Choice VR
Games for Change Award, Most Innovative
Telly Award Gold Award, Best of VR
Kaleidoscope x Inception, VR art award, 2nd place

2017
Unreal Dev Grant, Art Director and Lead Developer, TREE VR
Lumiere Awards, best location based VR, Art Director and Lead Developer, TREE VR
Lumen Art Prize, Finalist, Art Director and Lead Developer, TREE VR
Kunststyrelsen Danmark (The Danish Art Foundation)


2016
Kunststyrelsen Danmark (The Danish Art Foundation)


2015
Kunststyrelsen Danmark (The Danish Art Foundation)

FILM FESTIVALS

2022
South by South West, Liminal Lands, Austin TX, USA

2021
BFI London Film Festival, Liminal Lands, London, UK
Geneva International Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland

2020
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, RE-ANIMATED, Paris, France
CADAF, RE-ANIMATED
Resilienze Festival, Kilowatt, RE-ANIMATED, Bologna, Italy

2019
SXSW, Immersive Cinema, Official Selection in the immersive film program, RE-ANIMATED
CPH DOX Copenhagen, Film Festival, Official Selection in the immersive film program, RE-ANIMATED
CPH DOX CopenhagenFilm Festival, Official Selection in the VR art program, AQUAPHOBIA
Cinequest Film Festival, Official Selection, RE-ANIMATED
Anima Mundi, Brazil, Immersive Cinema, RE-ANIMATED
Les Contres Arles, VR Arles, RE-ANIMATED
CURRENTS: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, RE-ANIMATED
VRHam! Immersive Cinema, Official Selection, RE-ANIMATED
Screen City Biennial, Norway”, RE-WILDLING
JI.HVLA Festival, Czech Republic, RE-ANIMATED
Wave of Tomorrow, Jakarta, Indonesia, RE-ANIMATED

2018
Geneva International Film Festival, RE-ANIMATED
Games for Change Festival, RE-ANIMATED, New York
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, TREE VR
Hot Docs Canadian International Film Festival, TREE VR
CPH:DOX Copenhagen, TREE VR

2017
Cannes Film Festival - Art director and lead developer on TREE VR by NEW REALITY CO and The Rainforest Alliance
TriBeCa Film Festival - Art director and lead developer on TREE VR by NEW REALITY CO and The Rainforest Alliance
Sundance Film Festival - Art director and lead developer on TREE VR  by NEW REALITY CO and The Rainforest Alliance

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

2019
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), World VR Forum, ITU, Geneva Switzerland
”Catharsis”, YES Conference, Kiev
”Life Hacked”, Manchester International, UK
”The Deep Listener”, Serpentine Galleries, London
”Making Art in Virtual Reality” talk at SXSW with Christian Lemmerz and Khora Contemporary
“Extinction in reverse”, talk with science journalist Britt Wray and curator Xin Wang, moderated by curator Toke Lykkeberg. Tranen Center for Contemporary Art.

2018
Artist talk, CLICK Festival, Helsingør, Denmark
"Newfangled Realities: Virtual Reality, Video Gaming, and Media Art", Festival International de la Imagen, Bogotá, Colombia
Artist presentation, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah GA

2017
Artist presentation organized by HOTELPROFORMA, Godsbanen Cultural Center, Aarhus, Denmark
”IMAGINATION, TECHNOLOGY, ECOLOGY: World-building in VR”, COPENX Tech and Cultural Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
"The Next Storytelling Frontier: Accessing New Realities with Emerging Technology", moderated by Sarah Wolozin, Director of MIT Documentary Media, Woods Hole Film Festival
”Imagination, Technology and Ecology”, expert talk, The Creative Techweek, New York NY

2016
”Artist Talk: Primal Tourism”, department of Fine Art and Art History, University of Omaha, Omaha, NE

2015
”Future Ecologies”, Tisch School of Arts, NYU, New York NY
”Utopian Tourism”, Dome of Visions, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014
”Aesthetics as the Science of Expressions”, A Symposium on the Dialogic Imagination, Central St. Martins, School of Fine Arts,  University of the Arts London, London, England
”Romantic Media Studies”, POPMODERNISM, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden