Jakob Kukula is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, audiovisual installation/performances, sound, painting, design, and research-driven practice.
His work explores the shifting relationships between humans, ecology, and emerging technologies, investigating how environmental systems can be understood as active agents shaping cultural, social, and planetary imaginaries. Through light, frequency, and sound, he studies how perception, consciousness, and transformation unfold between body and environment. Moving fluidly between disciplines, Kukula’s practice bridges sensorial experience, material experimentation, and speculative inquiry.

He studied at Bauhaus University Weimar, with formative periods at Pratt Institute in New York and Studio Drift in Amsterdam, before spending two years working and learning at Studio Olafur Eliasson and completing his Master’s degree at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. Born in Berlin, Kukula has been deeply influenced by the city’s art and club scenes.
These experiences inform a practice grounded in the creation of immersive installations, artworks and experiences that engage with ecological systems, sensory awareness, and processes of transformation, where art, design, and science intersect.

As the Co-founder of the Symbiotic Lab, Kukula develops a long-term platform dedicated to reimagining human–environment relationships through artistic research and participatory design. Through these initiatives, he creates artistic experiences and collaborative tools that invite audiences to reconsider their role within broader ecological systems. His work proposes new forms of attention, responsibility, and care, often operating at the intersection of environmental sensing, multispecies narratives, and social transformation.

His work has been presented in publications and exhibitions at institutions and festivals including the Humboldt Forum, MAC – Museum of Modern Art Lisbon, MK&G Hamburg, SKD Dresden, Park Branitz in Cottbus, Waking Life Festival in Portugal, Funkhaus Berlin, Reethaus Berlin, 47m, Ocean Space, School of Commons, Digital Digital Art Festival, SOAM, and Art Biesenthal. Projects such as SpreeBerlin have received recognition from platforms including the New European Bauhaus, the STARTS Prize (finalist), and the GDG Design Kultur Award, and have been covered by media such as ZDF Heute Journal and rbb.