Current Artist:

Jens Koch

Jens was born and raised in Germany. He moved to the US in 2006 and now lives in Evanston, just north of Chicago. He has been a theoretical physicist at Northwestern since 2010, thinking in terms of logic and patterns, and finding a home in the mathematical beauty of nature. Making art and music has grown into a quieter counterpart to Jens’s scientific life- a way to slow down, explore, and connect with something beyond logic and words.

Jen’s artwork moves between drawings, watercolors acrylics, and prints. Some pieces are full of movement and color, others quiet and minimal. Many reflect his interest in nature and patterns and the tension between chaos and order. Some are spontaneous and playful, others more meditative and precise.

Rather than telling a specific story, Jens’s works create spaces for quiet encounters, both with the natural world and with oneself. There’s a gentle, almost mystical pulse running through them-something ungraspable yet deeply felt. The pieces leave the room for the viewer to form their own impressions, offering tiny invitations to pause, to look closer, and perhaps sense something new, just beneath the old surface.