Aangenaam! Gustav Marcus Lauesen

Who are you?

Hey! Good question! Who am I? God, would I like to know! Let’s start with the basics:
I am Gustav Marcus Lauesen, and I am a Danish actor and theater maker based in the lovely city of Amsterdam. I was born in the summer of 1996, the same summer Wannabe by Spice Girls took the world by storm, and to that soundtrack I entered into existence. 

A brief history of my relationship to performance: 
I spent my childhood putting up circus shows and magic acts.
I spent my teenage years pursuing a dream of becoming a stand-up comedian.
I have devoted my twenties to acting and theater making, and in the summer of 2025 I graduated with a bachelor degree from the Mime Opleiding at the Academy voor Theater en Dans.

When I create and when I perform, I do so from a humble wish of making my audience feel less alone. I believe that theater has a unifying power and that this extraordinary space creates a small strange community for the duration of the performance. My work is deeply personal with an attempt to make it universal and I take inspiration from my immediate surroundings and my own life. I do not believe that myself is special at all and exactly because of that I use my experiences as a tool for creating something universal. We have much more in common than we think, and I find it important to share that through my work. 

To put in the words of Spice Girls:
“You have got to give,
Taking is too easy,
But that’s the way it is” 

Where have we seen you?

I often frequent the cafés around Javaplein, so if you take your coffee the same places I do, you might have seen me there. 

Otherwise you may have seen me on stage. Most recently, perhaps, in ALL TOGETHER NOW! by Suze Milius, which just finished touring around Belgium and the Netherlands. Maybe you have seen me in Gerben Vaillant's Fotoromanza (2021) or in his work A Sense of an Ending (2023), both at Frascati. If not there, you might have seen my work runestones & sudokus (2023) which I proudly presented in the Nieuw en Meer. Or possibly, if you like to go to the nordics, you have seen my performance At Seas for my Sister (2024) at either Skagens Museum or BRASK Gallery Headquarters in Copenhagen. And if you’re not much into theater but prefer museums, you might have seen my face and body as part of the work MAN by Karl-Emil Birkeland that was exhibited in Stedelijk Museum. And if you haven’t seen me before, no worries! We have so much time in the future to get to know each other!
As Sporty Spice, so beautifully says: “If you want my future, forget my past”. 

Where are you going to be in 10 years?

Part of what I find so intriguing about this life that I have chosen, is that it is incredibly hard to grasp. I am constantly surprised about the possibilities that appear for me and I am eternally grateful for being able to live this life. So, if I knew where I am going to be in 10 years, it would take out all the fun, but I do like to dream big. So let’s say this: In 10 years I have sold out shows at Carré, I play in different films by directors that I admire. I am busy, but I have a good work/life balance, so I can be present to the people I love. Next to being a prolific artist, I have a beautiful garden full of fruits and vegetables, with a nice comfortable spot under an apple tree, where I can drink lemonade and read in my book after a long day of work, and where I can host parties that you all (who read this) can join and we can finally get to know one another.