Esben Holk (b. 1992 Copenhagen) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and programmer exploring virtual existentialism, -identity, and technoscience through digital media, worldbuilding technology, and creative coding. Blurring the lines between the material and the virtual, their work grows an ongoing rhizomatic fiction, referenced in 3D landscapes, memes, collages, and videogames, in which the posthuman digital anatomy is corporeal, play is integral and everything is surrealistically endowed with soft-spoken agency.

As a member of the queer-feminist, absurdist art collective HOUSE OF KILLING, Esben generates art that bridges the self-deprecating personal with the utopian political. Through this hybrid position, they articulate personal experiences with queerness, work, failure and objectification and deploy strategies from the game- and software design in interactive works that turn precarity, emotional polysemy, and ontological uncertainty into tools of resistance.

Mutate material reality with the semiotics of the unreal!
We vehemently want reality to mutate.

Esben Holk @ HOUSE OF KILLING has exhibited across Europe in various institutions, galleries and off-sites such as HKW Berlin, Panke Gallery Berlin, Arebyte On Screen, Green Cube Gallery, Dada Post Berlin, and Museum Human Achievement Texas, and has been included in CTM Festival (2021), Die Digitale (2020) and Transmediale Festival (2019).