Jakob Steen
Based in Præstø Denmark, inter-disciplinary artist Jakob Steen (b. 1986) works across painting, sculpture and installation.
Showing a specific interest in the symbiotic relationship between sensation and state of mind, Steen's works often evoke lush vegetative forms and the hot damp atmospheres that are conducive to their flourishing. In his practice Steen adopts the pre-conscious experiential logic of dreams and demonstrates a long-standing interest in how sensory cues can be adapted to nourish and stimulate the feeling individual. In his paintings Steen strikes a careful balance between figuration and abstraction; surreal and ambiguous hybrid animals are often positioned within intensely radiant colour fields to give the impression of a slightly removed transcendent plane of existence.
Steen has also developed a signature repertoire of materials and his preference for a tactile fish glue medium when painting, is complemented by his use of thick hand-mixed scagliola in the more sculptural elements of his work. Building up his compositions across all media through a process of meticulous layering, Steen's work is both time-based and meditative in its insistence on the importance of establishing certain mental conditions before anything else can follow.
Recent exhibitions includes: Here Come The Suns at Bark Gallery (Berlin DE 2021), Genklang at C4 Projects (Copenhagen DK), Soil. Sickness. Society at Rønnebæksholm (Næstved DK, 2021), Am I Not Here to Be Your Mother at Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen DK, 2021), Group show at Alice Folker (Copenhagen DK, 2020), "Rammet af Solen" at Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen DK, 2019) and Tiger Wonder: Om Mani Padme at Collaborations (Copenhagen DK, 2018).
The artist lives and works in Præstø, Denmark
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Jakob Steen – Lite Galbi
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 - What Is Figurative?
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
Group show Dec 8 - 22, 2019 -
Jakob Steen
Rammet Af Solen Nov 8 - Dec 7, 2019