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Karlsruhe Paul Kolling Ilsestr. 15 12053 Berlin web (at) paulkolling.com paulkolling.com Press-kit with exhibition views: paulkolling.com/press-kolling (as solo artist) paulkolling.com/press-terra0 (with terra0) As of |
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A short CV can be accessed here: paulkolliing.com/cv-short. |
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Paul Kolling is an artist based in Berlin, and a founding member of terra0. His solo practice examines the social and spatial politics of infrastructure. In his work, Kolling conjures new perspectives and ways of reading the visual field, cultivating questions about the very nature of mediated perception. Often fusing analog and digital technologies, he works across film, video, installation, and sculpture to explore how particular perspectives and realms of possibility are foregrounded or obscured through the functioning of complex infrastructure. What is made visible via the ways of seeing afforded by new — or old — technology? What imaginaries are made real through depictions of the world? These considerations touch on both natural and man-made environments, emphasizing the ways in which perception, recording, and classification are sites where the struggle of power and agency can unfold. Kolling's work has been presented at the 58th Carnegie International, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal, The Shed New York City, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Weltmuseum Wien, Kunsthalle Zürich, Francisco Carolinum Linz, Chronus Art Center Shanghai, Furtherfield Gallery London, and Schinkel Pavillon Berlin among others. |
| *Entries marked with an asterisk are created, exhibited or published as terra0. |
Education |
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| 2021 – 2022 | BPA// Berlin program for artists |
| 2018 – 2020 | Master of Fine Arts, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (with Simon Denny) |
| 2019 | SIMA at China Academy of Art Hangzhou, Zhejiang (with 姚大钧 – Yao Dajuin) |
| 2013 – 2017 | Bachelor of Arts, Berlin University of the Arts (with Joachim Sauter and Jussi Ängeslevä) |
Prizes and awards |
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| 2022 | ars viva prize 2023 of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft |
| 2020 | Encouraging New Talent Award (one-year scholarship), HFBK Hamburg |
| 2019 | Art School Alliance Scholarship, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. and Karl H. Ditze Stiftung |
Work |
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| 2020 – 2022 | Teaching position Künstlerische Werkstattleitung Mechatronik, Berlin University of the Arts |
| 2018 – ongoing | Co-founder of terra0 collective, Berlin |
| 2018 | Research associate, Design Research Lab, Berlin University of the Arts (with Gesche Joost) |
Current/upcoming events | |
| 29.11.2025 – 19.04.2026 |
Grund und Boden — Wie wir miteinander leben*
(group show)
K21 | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Solo exhibitions & installations | |
| 01.03 – 24.05.2025 |
Merit 47m Leipzig |
| 27.01 – 22.04.2024 |
Nadir Kunstverein München |
| 28.10.2022 – 05.03.2023 |
Westwärts Kunsthalle Memmingen |
| 25.09.2022 – permanent |
A tree; a corporation; a person (public sculpture)* Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| 21.09 – 05.11.2022 |
Strukturversagen Galerie 14a |
| 01.08.2020 – permanent |
WB190621 (permanent installation) The Palace and Maritime Silk Road Museum, Fujian |
| 27.06 – 19.07.2020 |
Break of Gauge Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof |
| 31.05 – 01.09.2018 |
Flowertokens* Trust, Berlin |
Group exhibitions | |
| 22.11.2024 – 11.01.2025 |
kinship KIN Brussels |
| 31.10 – 10.11.2024 |
Digital Arts Zurich Festival - DA Z* Schule Für Gestaltung, Zürich |
| 18.05 – 05.11.2024 |
Survival in the 21st Century Deichtorhallen Hamburg |
| 16.12.2023 – 08.04.2024 |
Cryptomania. Promises of the Blockchain* Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen |
| 01.07 – 30.09.2023 |
Schöne Neue Arbeitswelt* Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof |
| 06.05 – 10.07.2023 |
Holy. Energy. Masters. ars viva 2023 Haus der Kunst München |
| 01.04 – 07.08.2023 |
The Educational Web Kunstverein Hamburg |
| 18.03 – 28.05.2023 |
The Accursed Share* Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh |
| 03.12.2022 – 15.01.2023 |
BPA// Exhibition 2022 KW Institute for Contemporary Art |
| 21.10.2022 – 31.03.2023 |
How is Life?* Toto Gallery・MA |
| 08.10.2022 – 15.01.2023 |
DYOR* Kunsthalle Zürich |
| 24.09.2022 – 02.04.2023 |
58th Carnegie International* Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| 22.09.2022 – 28.02.2023 |
Beijing Art and Technology Biennale (BATB)* CAFA Art Museum (Beijing) |
| 16.09 – 02.11.2022 |
ars viva 2023 Goethe Institut Paris |
| 14.09 – 29.10.2022 |
Soft Machines* Hua International (Berlin) |
| 27.08 – 28.08.2022 |
Spoiler Alert BPA// Raum |
| 13.07 – 31.07.2022 |
Unfinished Camp* Pivô, São Paulo, Brasil |
| 03.06 – 17.07.2022 |
Seeing Stones and Spaces Beyond the Valley Biennale Warszawa 2022 |
| 09.03 – 13.03.2022 |
Seed Capital #1 curated by Fingerprints DAO* Art Dubai 2022 |
| 03.12.2021 – 03.05.2022 |
Staub & Seide. Steppen- und Seidenstraße Weltmuseum Wien |
| 10.11 – 10.12.2021 |
The Ethereal Aether. An Exhibition of Digital Art* The State Hermitage Museum |
| 02.11.2021 – 24.04.2022 |
A Section of Now* Canadian Centre for Architecture |
| 24.09 – 26.09.2021 |
Unfinished Camp* The Shed NYC and HEK Basel |
| 04.09 – 14.11.2021 |
Proof of Stake Kunstverein Hamburg |
| 10.06 – 15.09.2021 |
Proof of Art* Francisco Carolinum Linz |
| 03.06 – 10.06.2021 |
Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale* Sotheby's New York, Hong Kong and London |
| 03.06 – 10.06.2021 |
Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale* Sotheby's Decentraland |
| 22.05 – 21.11.2021 |
2038, German pavilion* 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia |
| 01.04 – 01.06.2021 |
SynchroniCities* B-Part, Berlin |
| 12.02.2021 – permanent |
Klasse Denny Group Show 2021 the-engine.space |
| 11.12.2020 – 20.02.2021 |
Mein Vater, meine Nachbarn, meine Freunde, und deren Freunde* haubrok foundation FAHRBEREITSCHAFT |
| 05.12.2020 – 07.11.2021 |
Steppen & Seidenstraßen MARKK Hamburg |
| 19.09 – 20.09.2020 |
Graduate Show 2020 HFBK Hamburg |
| 27.06 – 25.09.2020 |
加密_流形 (crypto_manifold)* Chronus Art Center (新时线媒体艺术中心), Shanghai |
| 29.02 – 06.09.2020 |
Survival of the Fittest* Kunstpalais Erlangen |
| 28.11.2019 – 02.02.2020 |
Goodbye Cruel World, It's Over* Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf |
| 10.10 – 18.10.2019 |
25th International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)* Maribor, Slovenia |
| 18.06 – 22.06.2019 |
Open Studios Art School Alliance Studios, Hamburg |
| 18.06 – 20.06.2019 |
Sovereign Nature Exhibition* Kraftwerk, Berlin |
| 14.06 – 07.07.2019 |
Blocumenta* Artspace, Sydney |
| 28.05 – 31.12.2019 |
VIENNA BIENNALE* MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien |
| 27.05 – 31.05.2019 |
Romantic Limits Galerie der HFBK Hamburg |
| 11.04 – 16.06.2019 |
Digital Dilemma - The Architecture of Trust* Bureau Europa, Maastricht |
| 21.03 – 22.04.2019 |
ME YOU NOU – Créons un terrain d’entente* Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne |
| 03.02 – 25.02.2019 |
Befriending Hyperobjects* NAVEL, Los Angeles |
| 24.11.2018 – 03.03.2019 |
Forest. Enter. Exist.* MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen |
| 15.11.2018 – 11.01.2019 |
{PERFECT & PRICELESS} - VALUE SYSTEMS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN* Kate Vass Galerie, Zürich |
| 07.09 – 20.12.2018 |
Proof of Work* Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin |
| 05.09 – 10.09.2018 |
Crypto-economics: Infrastructures & Artefacts* Ars Electronica, Linz |
| 22.08.2018 |
Crypto-economics: Infrastructures & Artefacts* Festival Alpbach |
| 25.07 – 29.07.2018 |
Gray Area Festival* San Francisco |
| 07.06 – 11.06.2018 |
Exhibition #11: Dark Habitats Dark Ecology* Spektrum, Berlin |
| 19.05 – 25.06.2018 |
New World Order* Furtherfield Gallery, London |
| 15.02 – 09.03.2018 |
New World Order* Drugo More, Rijeka |
| 11.01 – 09.02.2018 |
New World Order* Aksioma, Ljubljana |
| 08.11 – 09.11.2017 |
PROOF-OF-BURN: Burning Money. Burning Value. Burning Trust.* Future of Demonstration Festival, Wien |
| 10.05 – 14.05.2017 |
Fiber Festival 2017* Amsterdam |
| 03.05 – 04.05.2016 |
State of DESIGN designtransfer:, Berlin |
| 02.02 – 02.02.2016 |
Vorspiel Transmediale 2016, Berlin |
Talks & workshops | |
| 17.05.2025 |
Artist Talk with Paul Kolling and Janika Jähnisch 47m Leipzig |
| 22.01.2025 |
Sparta Lecture Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
| 12.11.2024 |
Münster Lecture — terra0* Kunstakademie Münster |
| 09.11.2024 |
terra0 im Gespräch mit Thomas Haemmerli* Digital Arts Zurich Festival - DA Z, Kunsthaus Zürich |
| 05.11.2024 |
Survival Finissage & Pre-Election Party — Artist Talks: Wie sieht die künstlerische Arbeit der Zukunft aus? Moderation: Nicolaus Schafhausen Deichtorhallen |
| 19.10 – 20.10.2024 |
terra0: Autonomous Forests 2-day workshop* Deichtorhallen Hamburg |
| 28.03.2024 |
jour fixe Akademie der Bildenden Künste München |
| 27.01.2024 |
Künstlergespräch mit Paul Kolling Kunstverein München |
| 15.12.2022 |
Refractions: terra0 & Sohrab Mohebbi* Carnegie Museum of Art |
| 25.06.2022 |
An Introduction to Autonomous Ecological Agents* Biennale Warszawa 2022 |
| 29.03.2022 |
Artist talk with Paul Kolling and Maria-Katharina Lang about Staub & Seide. Steppen- und Seidenstraße Weltmuseum Wien |
| 03.12.2020 |
Artist talk Class of Angela Bulloch, HFBK Hamburg |
| 19.09.2020 |
Break of Gauge presentation Conditions of a Necessity at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden |
| 19.01.2020 |
Break of Gauge: Research trip presentation Floating Projects, Hong Kong |
| 19.06.2018 |
NFTs and the blockchain collectible paradigm* CrCC at BlueYard, Berlin |
| 27.05.2018 |
Deodands, AI DAOs and Natural System Users* BigchainDB Meetup at BlueYard, Berlin |
| 14.05.2018 |
Natural resources take control* Pre-Work-Talk, IXDS, Berlin |
| 27.04.2018 |
Money: Matters of Life* Moneylab #5, State University New York, Buffalo NY |
| 26.04.2018 |
Extrapolate Nature – (Nonhuman) Governance for Ecosystems* Moneylab #5, State University New York, Buffalo NY |
| 16.02.2018 |
Art & Blockchain* Drugo more, Rijeka |
| 30.01.2018 |
Headless organisation and nonhuman governance* TRUST space, Berlin |
| 24.09 – 26.09.2017 |
The Autonomous Forest: How nature can govern* Impact Startup Fest, Den Haag |
| 19.06.2017 |
Diagrams of Friction #2: observing algorithms* super filme, Berlin |
| 05.06.2017 |
extrapolate everything - Design für eine post-humane Welt* Medien/Zukünfte, TU Braunschweig |
| 15.02.2017 |
Creating Speculative Scenarios* Apart festival K3 and Arkadi Zaides, Hamburg |
| 03.02.2017 |
Becoming Earth: Engineering Symbiotic Futures* Transmediale 2017, Berlin |
Publications & texts |
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| 15.07.2022 |
terra0: Letting the world computer grow roots, branches and leaves (chapter)* Radical Friends – Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts |
| 13.07.2021 |
WB190621 (ZHENGZHOU–HAMBURG) (chapter contribution) Cartographies of the Imagination |
| 01.07.2021 |
Violence of inexorable movement in SPATIAL [RÆUMLICH] GASTGARTEN magazine |
| 12.06.2021 |
The development of terra0: Experiments with autonomous ecosystems* Weird Economies, Bahar Noorizadeh |
| 05.06.2021 |
terra0 chapter contribution* 140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kostas Stasinopoulos |
| 26.05.2021 |
Two Degrees NFT: A conceptual and technical writeup of terra0’s contribution for Sotheby’s Nativey Digital: A Curated NFT Sale* self-published |
| 20.03.2021 |
It's 2038, terra0 essay in 2038 — The New Serenity* German Pavillon at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia, Sorry Press |
| 19.11.2020 |
Unrealised project: LNA 2013 (video game) Catalogue 4.5 edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist |
| 01.06.2019 |
Photographs in CONTACT AVST Magazine |
| 01.06.2017 |
Mediating Matter. Eine Ökologie der Gestaltung Geschichte und Theorie visueller Kulturen |
| 12.03.2017 |
terra0 – Can an Augmented Forest Own and Utilize Itself? chapter contribution* Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Sam Skinner and Nathan Jones, Liverpool University Press |
| 01.06.2016 |
nothing human makes it out of the near future... terra0 Advertisement in Narcissism* Issue #5, Ecocore magazine |
| 01.02.2016 |
terra0 White Paper v1 self-published |