Ida Freya Köhn

In residence: May - June 2026

Ida Freya Köhn is a multidisciplinary artist from Germany whose practice centres on sound as both material and method. Working with field recordings from Arctic and remote environments, she creates immersive sound installations that respond to the movement of the audience, encouraging attentive listening as a way of perceiving environmental change. Köhn has an academic background in biogeochemistry and ecology and has spent much of the past decade working in Arctic regions including Svalbard, northern Norway and Iceland.