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Jacob Kirkegaard on his work TESTIMONIUM:
The sound art of Jacob Kirkegaard explores ways to reflect on complex, unnoticed or unapproachable conditions and environments. In 1981, at the age of six, Kirkegaard made his first sound recordings and in 1994, he was introduced to the world of sound art. His works have treated themes such as radioactivity in Chernobyl and Fukushima, border walls in global and metaphorical contexts and melting ice in the Arctic. Two of his recent works are immersive acoustic explorations into global waste management and of processes related to when a human being dies. Since 2006, Kirkegaard has also been extensively researching, recording and creating works using otoacoustic emissions; tones generated from the actual human ear. The core element and method of his work derive from the use of sound recordings of the tangible aspects from its intangible themes.
Kirkegaard has presented his works at galleries, museum, biennales and concert spaces throughout the world, including MoMA in New York, Louisiana - Museum of Modern Art and ARoS in Denmark, The Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel in Houston, The Sydney Biennale in Australia, Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, The Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan.
Kirkegaard's work is represented in the permanent collections of Louisiana - Museum of Modern Art and ARoS - Aarhus Art Museum.
Kirkegaard's sound works have been released on labels such as Important Records (USA), Touch (U.K.), mAtter (JAP) and Posh Isolation (DK). He is a founding member of the sound art collective freq_out as well as the non-for-profit arts organisation TOPOS. In 2016, Kirkegaard was the sound-artist-in residency at St. John's College, University of Oxford, U.K.
Mellem Rum, Kunstmuseet i Tønder, 2021
Testimonium, Fridman Gallery (US), 2021
Membran, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2020
Invisible Man, Wood Street Galleries (US), 2019
Black Metal Square, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, 2019
Jacob Kirkegaard - alt & intet, ARoS, 2017
Jacob Kirkegaard, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, 2014
Interview, Mori Art Museum, 2014
Sounding Exhibition, MoMA, Jacob Kirkegaard, 2013
