Anne Kolbe

The Colorful Stab Wound

Project in progress

Uncomfortable Bodies

This performance was executed at TAC, Eindhoven (NL) in 2025.Performing: Simone Schuffelen, Charly van der Eerden, Anne Kolbe

The Mudflat Species

Recorded in the Wadden Sea nature reserve on Texel in 2025 and kindly supported by CBK Rotterdam.The soundtrack is available on SoundCloud: here and hereFull...

Wearables (Kaapstad Tilburg)

Three-day performance during Kaapstad 2024 in Tilburg (NL). Performers: Moene Roovers, Siobhan O’Connor and Klara Mandahl. Photos by Jostijn Ligtvoet.

Green is Furniture

Solo show at 37PK Haarlem (NL), November 2024: an encounter between human, furniture, and plant. The space was transformed into a self-built domestic environment resembling...

Wearables

Planet by Plants

Plant by Plants is speculative magazine for plants and for people, exploring domestic life through vegetal eyes. Interior design, lifestyle products, care routines, spatial arrangements:...

Sculpture in Public Space

A self-portrait as plant, enjoying the local scenery, made for the Bergselaan, Rotterdam (NL). The work was acquired by the Municipality of Rotterdam thanks to...

You Are Your Home

Solo show at Rotterdam’s former Cult Creche in 2023 featuring a ‘living’ room.

Security Plants

These plants were employed by the organizing party of a group exhibition (2022) to protect the exhibition’s spatial planning from a variety of hazards by...

Conifeerfontein

Moving monument for the streets of Charlois (Rotterdam, NL). The coniferous fountain was a temporary sculptural hangout for the neighborhood. It served as a site...

My Ornamental Body

During a residency in Goes (NL) I explored how body and landscape can relate through movement, imbalance and improvisation. Drawing on research into stunt performance...

A Piece of Marble Floats through the Hyperreal

This work was performed during the ATM Festival Borderless Point, in Seoul (KR) in 2023. A marble fragment printed on fabric was animated by a...

Hedge-Headed

A DIY-Performance exercise, that can be done by anyone. It was published on the Concept Bank and carried out over time by multiple hedge fantasists,...

Music

Together with Rowan van As & Aswin van As We created several pop smash hits, each under different band names (Ronnie & Anita, Rowan, Anne...

Botanical Chic

Fashion show and pop-up store, featuring boxwood as a texture to wear.

A Walk in the Park

Documentation of a performance in ‘Het Park’ (Euromastpark Rotterdam, November 2020). Link to the video documentation by Florian Cramer

Flag Ceremonies

A series of flag performances with accompanying ceremonies, using the flagpole as the exhibition site, including site specific works of Tijl Orlando Frijns, Jozef van...

I Am an Object with Many Echoes

Ongoing performance, during Prospects & Concepts at Art Rotterdam 2017: a site with recurring objects, motifs, and unfolding materialities. Bodies in marble-textured suits carried around...