Biography
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Jakob Kukula is a Berlin-born multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the shifting relationships between humans, ecology, and emerging technologies.
Moving between sculpture, painting, audiovisual installations, design, and research-driven practice, he investigates how environmental systems can be understood as active agents that shape our cultural and planetary imaginaries.
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Educated at the Bauhaus University Weimar, with formative periods at Pratt Institute in New York and Studio Drift in Amsterdam, Kukula later spent two years working at Studio Olafur Eliasson before completing his MA at KHB Weißensee.
His practice builds on this diverse background, interweaving material experimentation, ecological inquiry, sonic exploration and speculative approaches to perception and storytelling.
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As founder of the SpreeBerlin Initiative and Symbiotic Lab, Kukula develops projects that probe the entanglements between natural and technological worlds. His installations, sensory audio-visual environments, paintings, and collaborative tools invite audiences to reconsider their role within broader ecological systems, proposing new forms of attention, responsibility, and care.

‍Awards, Press & Publications

‍MetaMorphosis
→ Metamorphosis Publication, ENTKUNSTUNG X Symbiotic Lab
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SpreeBerlin
→ ZDF - Heute Journal (ab min 3:54) ↗
‍ → All in for Berlin Fund, ECOSIA 2023→ STARTS Prize, Finalist
→ New European Bauhaus, Finalist, 2022
→ GDG Design Kultur Award, 2021
→ Hochschulwettbewerb - Bioökonomie 2021
→ Transforming Cities
→ Circular Society Forum Berlin

Made of Rock
→ bauhausstudio100
Designing Sustainable Interventions at Dutch Design Week 2017
→ Dezeen
→ Interview on Dutch Design Week 2017

‍Awards, Press & Publications

‍MetaMorphosis
→ Metamorphosis Publication, ENTKUNSTUNG X Symbiotic Lab
‍‍
SpreeBerlin
→ ZDF - Heute Journal (ab min 3:54)↗
‍ → All in for Berlin Fund, ECOSIA 2023→ STARTS Prize, Finalist
→ New European Bauhaus, Finalist, 2022
→ GDG Design Kultur Award, 2021
→ Hochschulwettbewerb - Bioökonomie 2021
→ Transforming Cities
→ Circular Society Forum Berlin

Made of Rock
→ bauhausstudio100
Designing Sustainable Interventions at Dutch Design Week 2017
→ Dezeen
→ Interview on Dutch Design Week 2017

Berlin, Germany
info@jakobkukula.com
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