Anne Kolbe

About

My work blends performance, sculpture, and installation to explore the dynamics between the body, space, and objects. I transform the near-at-hand furnishings of daily life into performative elements, to explore their ‘mute’ insistence: their capacity to demand, resonate, and echo through form and texture. My work is grounded in questions of how we relate: across bodies with different capacities (human and non-human), across spaces, and through material entanglement. In my work, camouflage often slips. What remains is the outline of a desire that knows its failure is already form, perhaps leaving behind a softer and stranger shape.

Support

My practice is currently supported by the Mondriaan Fund.

Education

2016-2018 Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam (NL)
Fine Art (MFA)

2008-2013 St. Joost Breda/Den Bosch (NL)
Fine Art (BFA)

2009-2011 University of Utrecht (NL)
Dutch Language and Culture (BA)

2019-2021 Hogeschool Urecht (NL)
Teacher Education in Dutch (BEd)

Related activities

2023-now: Teacher
St. Joost School of Art & Design
Breda/Den Bosch (NL)

2023/2024/2025: External expert
Willem de Kooning Academy
Rotterdam (NL)

2022: Guest teacher
Willem de Kooning Academy
Rotterdam (NL)

2019: Lecture & workshop
Kunstinstituut Melly, formerly known as
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art
Rotterdam (NL)

2018: Guest teacher
Willem de Kooning Academy
Rotterdam (NL)

Activities (selection)

  • (coming up) 2025 Anonymous
    TAC, Eindhoven, NL
  • 2024 Sunflower Blue
    Nieuw Charlois, NL
  • 2024 Green is Furniture
    37PK, Haarlem, NL
  • 2024 Kaapstad
    public space, Tilburg, NL
  • 2024 You Are Your Home
    Villa Zebra, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2023 Witte Rook
    Stadsgalerij, Breda, NL
  • 2022 My Ornamental Body
    AITW-HUBSA-AIR, Goes, NL
  • 2022-now Outdoor sculpture
    Bergselaan, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2022 Borderless Point
    ATM Festival, Seoul, KR
  • 2022 Wild Summer of Art
    Brutus, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2021-2022 Plant-based radio
    WORM, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2021 Publieke werken
    public space, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2020 Trumpets of the Apocalypse
    public space, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2020 Raak-award
    Commissioned by SIA, Leiden, NL
  • 2020 Descart
    public space, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2020 Flag Gazing: an Exercise
    MELLY, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2020 Other Ways of Watching Together
    Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2018 Tripping Autonomy
    Piet Zwart Institute, 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 With a rising and falling motion
    Ruimte Caesuur, Middelburg, NL
  • 2016 Guestroom #32
    Code Rood, Arnhem, NL
  • 2016 Welcome to the Jingle
    Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2015 Hyper Hyper
    Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
  • 2015 Blocks blocks blocks
    Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, NL
  • 2015 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/St. Bavo church, Haarlem, NL
  • 2015 Reductiv.nl
    Tatranska Gallery, Poprad, SK
  • 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
    with Marjet Zwaans, Het Langhuis, Zwolle, NL
  • 2014 Greyscale
    St. Elizabethziekenhuis, Tilburg, NL
  • 2013 Glow Festival
    Huize de Laak, Eindhoven, NL
  • 2013 Niet van Gisteren
    De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, Helmond, NL
  • 2013 Once more, unto the breach, dear friends, once more
    Lokaal 01, Breda, NL
  • 2013 Leerling-meester: Raum
    Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL
  • 2011 The Company of Humor
    Lokaal 01, Breda, NL
  • 2011 Apart
    Lokaal 01, Breda, NL