Ida Freya Köhn

Photo credit: Astrid Grosser

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.

During her residency, Köhn will record terrestrial and environmental sounds in the Reindalen area, including those from the surrounding landscape, the cabin and daily fieldwork. With a particular focus on soil acoustics, she will monitor how sound dynamics shift during the seasonal transition from spring to summer, developing new sound compositions that explore listening as a way of sensing ecological change.

Read more about the Tarandus project here.