Glossary
an alternative means to navigate through my works/thoughts/texts/guided meditations/finds/etc (under construction and always in- and overly complete)
A
Artificial green in shopping malls
Artificial boxwood
B
Bugs Bunny’s silhouette
Boxwood
Boxwood balls
C
a curtaining curtain
Capturing echoes of what is gone and hidden
Cast (1. the actors in a film, play, or show; 2.an object made by pouring hot liquid into a container and leaving it to become solid; 3. to send light or shadow (= an area of darkness) in a particular direction)
D
Decorative foil (marble, wood, bricks, pebbles, granite…)
Define and limit movement
Display furniture
E
F
Fake
Flag ceremonies
Folding
Folds
Foldable objects
Front yards
Furniture
G
a gathering around a flagpole
Garden design
Gestures (such as swiping)
H
Handle with care
Hermetic structures
Holes in walls
Hedges
Holes in hedges
Holding
I
Intrigue
Intimacy
Imprint
J
K
L
Living statues
M
Marble (a very elegant, mint and distinctive material)
Matching things in thrift shops
Mimicry
Modes of relations
N
No need for a contextualising apparatus
Non-practical purpose
Non-space
Novelty items
O
an object caring for another object
an object thinking of another object
Object choreographies
Object intimacies
Ornaments
the obstructiveness of a wall
the overlooked
P
Pebbles
Pleats
Plinths
An upside-down rotating, floating pyramid
Q
R
a rostrum on stage waiting for a speaker
S
a surface becoming cluttered with objects
Screens
Scenes on stage
Shapelessness
Skin
Small black symbols indicating multiplication
Something in and of itself
Souvenirs (such as fridge magnets, printed mugs and other novelty items)
Support structures
Surface encounters
the surface of writing
the shape of stones
T
a theatrical sense for drama
Talking things that are understood to be mute
Theatre curtains
Things that hold other things
Things that linger in awkward dusty corners
Two objects on opposite sides of a partition wall
U
V
W
Wall
When words fail to describe things
With a rising and falling motion
X
Y
Z
Contact
info[at]annekolbe[dot]com
Projects / Exhibitions / Events
Upcoming- Cantos Deus + Henrietta Müller + Anne Kolbe
Attent, Rotterdam, NL
Now- 2021 Buxus Concept Store: a Way of Life
Aanschouw, Rotterdam, NL - 2021 Publieke werken
Outdoor exhibit on billboards spread through the city of Rotterdam, NL - 2021 Buxusbitch
Every Thursday 3-4 pm at radio WORM, Rotterdam, NL
Past- 2020 Cantos Deus + Peter Fengler + Anne Kolbe
Livestream from Attent, Rotterdam, NL - 2020 Trumpets of the Apocalypse
(Walkie-Talkie Edition), Voluntary Fire Brigade of the Apocalypse, Euromastpark Rotterdam, NL - 2020 Otje Festival, Rotterdam, NL
- 2020 RAAK-award
Commissioned, SIA, Leiden, NL - 2020 In conversation with (…)
Performance with Eros Chien, Attent, Rotterdam, NL - 2020 Descart
Art route, Rotterdam, NL - 2020 Flag Gazing: an Exercise
Commissioned post,
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL - 2020 Other Ways of Watching Together
Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL - 2019 A focus with Anne Kolbe: Uncomfortable objects
Exhibition walkthrough and workshop,
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL. - 2018 30 jaar Kunst & Complex
Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL - 2018 Haarlemse Herfst
De Vishal op locatie, Haarlem, NL - 2018 Tripping Autonomy
Piet Zwart Institute MFA Graduation Show,
De Kroon, Rotterdam, NL - 2018 Moving Monument
Charlois Speciaal, Rotterdam, NL - 2017 Poses Against Gravity
Studio Omstand, Arnhem, NL - 2017 Foam x Patty Morgan internetcafé
Foam, Amsterdam, NL - 2017 Prospects & Concepts
Mondriaan Fund at Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL - 2016 Sub-marine Jungle: Veteran Party
www.submarinejungle.com - 2016 With a rising and falling motion
Ruimte Caesuur, Middelburg, NL - 2016 Guestroom #32
Code Rood, Arnhem, NL - 2016 Rob de Vries Gallery & Projects: Anne Kolbe
Rob de Vries Gallery & Projects, Haarlem, NL - 2016 Art Rotterdam
Rob de Vries Gallery & Projects,
Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, NL - 2016 MAMA’s X-mas Crib: Welcome to the Jingle
Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL - 2015 Hyper Hyper
Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL - 2015 Blocks blocks blocks
Residency, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL - 2015 De Kersentuin
Kers Gallery at Kunst RAI, Amsterdam, NL - 2015 Beelden in Leiden
Hooglandse Kerkgracht, Leiden, NL - 2015 Reductiv.nl
Vasarely Museum, Budapest, HU - 2015 Bavo Baby
De Vishal and St. Bavo kerk, Haarlem, NL - 2015 Reductiv.nl
Tatranska Gallery, Poprad, SK - 2015 Nieuw
Rob de Vries Gallery and Projects, Haarlem, NL - 2015 Reductiv.nl
Galeria Vytvameho Umeni, Ostrava, CZ - 2014 Art in Redlight
Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, NL - 2014 Reductiv.nl
Galeria El, Elbląg, PL - 2014 Kopstukken
Huis met de Hoofden, Amsterdam, NL - 2014 Beeldentuin Ravensteyn
Heenvliet, NL - 2014 Magma Crowed
Magma Exposities, Antwerpen, BE - 2014 Undo Space
Residency with Marjet Zwaans, Het Langhuis, Zwolle, NL - 2014 Greyscale
Duo with Tijl Orlando Frijns, St. Elizabethziekenhuis, Tilburg, NL - 2013 Glow Festival
Huize de Laak, Eindhoven, NL - 2013 Niet van Gisteren
De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, Helmond, NL - 2013 Eindexpositie AKV St. Joost
Academy building, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL - 2013 Once more, unto the breach, dear friends, once more
Lokaal 01, Breda, NL - 2013 Sub-marine Jungle
www.submarinejungle.com - 2013 Styrhl Bouieng
De Boo, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL - 2013 Leerling-meester expositie # 5 Thomas Bakker: Raum
Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL - 2012 CA-YAC.Z
De Zeeuwse Rozentuin, Kats, NL - 2012 Eindejaarsexpositie Vughterstraat
Vughterstraat 280, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL. - 2011 Interbellum
TenToon, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL - 2011 The Company of Humor
Lokaal 01, Breda, NL - 2011 Apart
Lokaal 01, Breda, NL - 2010 Kamerpoezie
University Library of Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL
Nominations
2016 7th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize, Kunsthuis Syb
Grants
2015/2016 Werkbijdrage Jong Talent / Young Talent Development Grant, Mondriaan Fund
Education
2016-2018 Piet Zwart Institute
Fine Art (MA)
2008-2013 AKV St. Joost Breda / ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Fine Art (BA)