Aernoudt Jacobs is a Belgian artist working primarily with the medium of sound. His work is both phenomenological and empirical. It has its origins in acoustic and technological research and investigates how sounds can trigger sonic processes that will affect the observer's scope of perception.
His work focuses on a central question: how can the complexity, richness and stratification of our direct, daily environment be translated into something that can really be experienced.

His work has been exhibited widely at Bergen Art Museum (NO), Macba (ES), ISEA (GER), Singuhr Hoergalerie (GER), Netwerk (BE), NIMK (NL), STUK (BE), Vooruit (BE), Kaaitheater (BE), deSingel (BE), Le Bon Acceuil (FR), Lydgalleriet (NO), Tschumi Paviljoen (NL), Palais de Tokyo (FR) and Hermitage (RU)

In addition to his artistic practice Jacobs co-directed Overtoon, a platform and production facility for sound art based in the centre of Brussels until october 2022.

Projects

• EAP 2014
• Photophon 2013
• PVDF piezo research 2016
• Contact 2020
• Infraultra 2020
• Heliophone 2015
• Induction Series #4.2 - Horseshoe 2015
• Induction Series #4.3 - Tin Space 2015
• Heliophone Drawings 2015
• Color Of Noise 2015
• The Photophon Principle 2014
• Induction Series #4.1 - Beam 2014
• Photophon 2013
• Induction Series #1 2012
• Induction Series #3 2012
• Sikuvalliajuq 2012
• Glaz-Maton 2011
• Miniatuur 2011
• Permafrost 2009
• Phantom Melodies 2006
• Leslie/History 2006
• Lecture
• The Art of Listening

Presentations

• festival Hypersonica 2022, FILE Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2022
• open studio Open House Hacktiris, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
• special event Animated Matter, Q-O2 & Overtoon, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
• group show Audiosphere. Sound Experimentation 1980-2020, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 2020
• web event Helicotrema 2020, Helicotrema, Modena, Italy, 2020
• performance Infraultra, Centre Henri Pousseur / Journées Du Patrimoine, Liège, Belgium, 2020
• festival Hypersonica 2020, FILE Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2020
• group show Glass and Concrete. Manifestations of the Impossible, Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford, Germany, 2020
• open studio Open Atelier Overtoon, Overtoon, Brussels, Belgium, 2020
• open studio Private Showcase Werktank and Overtoon Overtoon, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
• group show Tendencies - The Sound Edition, BOZARLAB, Brussels, Belgium, 2018
• symposium Sound in Visual Art - round table, CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium, 2017
• group show Où sont les sons? Where Are Sounds?, CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels, BELGIUM, 2017
• group show WEATHER OR NOT, MU Gallery, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2016
• group show Sound of Silence Festival van Vlaanderen, Kortrijk, Belgium, 2016
• solo show Soundseeing VI, DA - Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany, 2016
• group show λ, Le bon Acceuil / Festival Maintenant, Rennes, France, 2015
• symposium Heliofoon Symposium, STUK, Leuven, Belgium, 2015
• solo show Heliophone & Photoacoustic Prototypes, STUK, Leuven, Belgium, 2015
• solo show Once also this was a mutation, Kristiansand Kunsthal, Kristiansand, Norway, 2015
• festival Ear To The Ground, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium, 2015
• festival Interstice 10, Interstice Festival, Caën, France, 2015
• group show Aandacht! Aandacht!, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium, 2015
• group show Kontinuum, IM ERSTEN, Vienna, Austria, 2015
• group show SKAN II, University of Riga, Riga, Latvia, 2014
• solo show Lydgalleriet, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway, 2014
• group show Sense Of Sound, z33, Hasselt, Belgium, 2014
• group show Artefact - The Prehistory of the Image, STUK, Leuven, Belgium, 2014
• solo show Cause And Nature Of Sound, Le Bon Accueil, Rennes, France, 2014
• group show Resonance, Intro in Situ, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2013
• group show One of a kind, Galerie Fortlaan, Ghent, Belgium, 2013
• group show Overtoon, iMal, Brussels, Belgium, 2013