Artist statement
When I examine the world around me I suspect the presence of an underflow of existence that takes things with it, a stream that makes things slip away constantly, remaining intangible and outside of my field of vision. This feeling drives me in creating my work. It is a feeling of constant missing and passing, of continuously not being able to get a grip on things because they are always somewhere else, constantly changing. The space they leave behind in their movement is like a void, a track or a print. For me an extreme openness and attentiveness occur in that space; an intense gaze at what disappeared beyond the horizon. In that complex absence I want to capture the echo of what is gone and hidden. I like to search for the secret of the other that passes constantly and remains untraceable.
Light and space are the foundations for an investigation into (in)visibility. Through my works, in which the material and the skin of objects play a major role, I examine open and hermetic structures.
Contact
info[at]annekolbe[dot]com
Projects / Exhibitions / Events
- Past
- 2017 Haarlemse Herfst
Haarlem, NL - 2017 Tripping Autonomy
Piet Zwart Institute MFA Graduation Show,
De Kroon, 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)