Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Jakob Kudsk Steensen is an artist working with environmental storytelling through virtual world building, video games, spatial sound and large-scale installations. The artist creates interpretations of overlooked natural phenomena, from newly discovered volcanic deep-sea landscapes, temporary desert lakes and forgotten swamps to songs of extinct birds found in natural history archives. He points towards unaddressed, unrevealed or unspoken narratives surrounding climate change—how it alters our bodies and our minds, plays with our memories and restructures our collective unconscious. His practice is rooted in extensive periods of fieldwork, often developed in collaboration with field biologists, composers, and philosophers.

Steensen’s most recent commissions include Berl-Berl at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2026-27), The Song Trapper at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2025-26), Boreal Dreams at Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2025) and Psychosphere at Cisternerne, Copenhagen (2025). The large-scale installation Berl-Berl, commissioned by LAS Art Foundation for Halle am Berghain in Berlin (2021), was later presented at ARoS in Denmark in 2022, and at the 2024 Gwangju Biennale in Korea.