Helga Jakobson

Helga Jakobson (she/her) is a Transdisciplinary Artist living on Treaty One Territory. In 2017, she received an MFA from AKV St. Joost (The Netherlands) in conjunction with courses in the Transdisciplinary New Media program at the Paris College of Art (France). She has exhibited and participated in residencies across Canada and Europe, has given lectures in France, the United Kingdom, Colombia and Canada. She was selected for the Emerging Excellence Award by the Manitoba Arts Council in 2019, has mentored through Creative Manitoba, Video Pool and MAWA. Most recently she exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery for Nuit Blanche, as a part of Oneirophyte through the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, and as a part of Planet Love through the Buhler Gallery. She often works within the realm of new media, with a particular affinity for sound as medium. Her practice focuses on loss, death and ephemerality. Lately her research has centred around this sixth mass extinction that we are living in, as well as how to live on a damaged earth and how to make tangible the almost invisible and inaudible losses that are occurring all around us.