Anne Kolbe

My work blends performance, sculpture, and installation to explore the dynamic relationships between the body, space, and objects. My projects often transform everyday objects into performative elements, creating narratives that interrogate their ‘mute’ qualities and their capacity to demand, resonate, and echo.

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 (BA)

Related activities

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

2023/2024: 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

  • 2024 Sunflower Blue
    Nieuw Charlois, NL
  • 2024 Green is Furniture
    37PK, Haarlem, NL
  • 2024 Kaapstad
    Tilburg, NL
  • 2024 Residency
    37PK, Haarlem, NL
  • 2023-2024 Residency
    Stichting B.a.d, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2023 You Are Your Home
    Villa Zebra, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2024 Whodunnit
    Het Archief, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2023 Witte Rook
    Stadsgalerij, Breda, NL
  • 2023 Door de heg
    Stichting BAD, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2022 My Ornamental Body
    AITW-HUBSA-AIR, Goes, NL
  • 2022-now Outdoor sculpture
    Bergselaan, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2022 Borderless Point
    ATM x Worm Resister, Seoul, KR
  • 2022 Wild Summer of Art
    Brutus, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2021-2022 Plant-based radio
    weekly radio show at radio WORM
  • 2021 Publieke werken
    Rotterdam, NL
  • 2020 Cantos Deus, Peter Fengler, Anne Kolbe
    Attent, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2020 Trumpets of the Apocalypse
    Voluntary Fire Brigade of the Apocalypse,
    Het Park, Rotterdam, NL
  • 2020 Raak-award
    Commissioned, SIA, Leiden, 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
  • 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
    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/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
    Residency 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 Styrhl Bouieng
    De Boo, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
  • 2013 Raum
    Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL
  • 2011 The Company of Humor
    Lokaal 01, Breda, NL
  • 2011 Apart
    Lokaal 01, Breda, NL
  • 2010 Kamerpoëzie
    University Library of Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL

Grants

2023 Kunstenaar Basis/Artist Basic, Mondriaan Fund

2021 Corona-overbrugging kunstenaar, curator en beschouwer/
Corona Bridging Grant for Artists, Curators, Researchers, Mondriaan Fund

2015/2016 Werkbijdrage Jong Talent/
Young Talent Development Grant, Mondriaan Fund