Jakob Steen
Jakob Steen is an multi-disciplinary artist working across different mediums such as painting, sculpture, and installations. Steen's paintings have a soft expression that blurs the lines between figuration and abstraction, with surreal and ambiguous figures set against intensely colorful backgrounds, adding a sensory element. Intrigued by the symbiotic relationship between sensory impressions and memories, Steen draws inspiration from various personal experiences and emotional states.
Using the pre-conscious experiential logic of dreams, Steen's work reflects a long-standing fascination with the ways in which sensory cues can be adapted to nourish and stimulate the feeling individual. Steen has also developed a signature material repertoire, with his preference for a tactile fish glue medium when painting supplemented by the use of thick hand-mixed scagliola in his more sculptural work. Through a process of meticulous layering, his work is both time-based and meditative in its insistence on the importance of establishing certain mental conditions before anything else can follow.
Jakob Steen (b. 1986) is a Danish artist living and working in Præstø (DK). He began his career in 2015 and later moved to Puerto Rico to find both peace and inspiration to create. Steen has since exhibited his work both internationally and in Denmark, most recently Scorpio Medicine w. Bricks Gallery at Oremandsgaard Gods (Præstø, DK, 2024), Lite Galbi at Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen, DK, 2023), and Runde 2 a duo show with Jakob Oksbjerg at Gisselfeld Kloster (Haslev, DK, 2022).
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Jakob Steen | Scorpio Medicine
Apr 6 - May 4, 2024 -
Art Herning 2024
Jan 26 - 28, 2024 -
Enter Art Fair
Aug 24 - 27, 2023 -
JAKOB STEEN – LITE GALBI
Online May 17 - Jun 17, 2023Bricks Gallery is delighted to present Lite Galbi, an online exhibition by Jakob Steen In Lite Galbi the imaginary and the real merges together in a unique combination of mono-types...Read more -
TWENTYFOUR III
Group show Nov 25 - Dec 23, 2021 -
JAKOB STEEN - AM I NOT HERE TO BE YOUR MOTHER
May 7 - Jun 12, 2021 -
TWENTYFOUR II
Group show Dec 1 - 23, 2020 -
TWENTYFOUR I
Group show Dec 8 - 22, 2019 -
JAKOB STEEN - RAMMET AF SOLEN
Nov 8 - Dec 7, 2019