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Paul Kolling is an artist based in Berlin, and co-founder of terra0 and its latest continuation Autonomous Forest. 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.
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| Group exhibitions |
| 28.05 – 30.08.2026 | Power Lines — Mercedes-Benz Art Collection in Budapest
Merlin Theater, Budapest |
| 04.05 – 22.11.2026 | Strange Rules*
Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture, Venice |
| 28.03 – 06.09.2026 | Multispecies Members Club*
MGGU - Giersch Museum of the Goethe University |
| 06.12 – 22.12.2025 | もつれのパターン / Patterns of Entanglement*
NEORT++, Tokyo |
| 29.11.2025 – 19.04.2026 | Grund und Boden — Wie wir miteinander leben*
K21 | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
| 13.09.2025 – 13.03.2026 | ¿ Ya es de mañana para ti? Poema colectivo de solidaridad / Is it morning for you yet? A Collective Poem of Solidarity*
Nuevo Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (NuMu), Guatemala City |
| 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 |
| 29.11.2025 | Learn, Dig, Build — Panel discussion*
K21 | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
| 08.11.2025 | Autonomous Forest: Infrastructures of Belonging — Rethinking Participation through Decentralised Architectures*
Holzmarkt, Berlin Science Week |
| 07.11.2025 | Autonomous Forest: Who Owns the Means of Regeneration?*
Holzmarkt, Berlin Science Week |
| 06.11.2025 | Autonomous Forest: Launch Event*
CANK Berlin |
| 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 |
| Press & features |
| 22.04.2026 | Autonomous Forest shortlisted for the LVM-Kunstpreis 2026*
LVM Kunstpreis |
| 19.12.2025 | 37: terra0—What the "(Autonomous) Forest" Wants with Peter Bauman*
Le Random |
| 24.11.2025 | Ja, NFTs existieren noch – und in Brandenburg ermöglichen sie gerade den ersten „autonomen Wald“*
1E9 Magazin |
| 01.06.2024 | Paul Kolling: Nadir | Ausstellungsbesprechung von Katrin Bauer
Camera Austria |
| 01.04.2024 | Eye in the Sky: Aerial politics with Henrietta Williams and Paul Kolling
koozArch |
| 14.03.2024 | Paul Kolling at Kunstverein München e.V. / Munich
Daily Lazy |
| 07.03.2024 | Paul Kolling at Kunstverein München
Contemporary Art Library |
| 06.03.2024 | Nadir
KUBAPARIS |
| 05.03.2024 | Was läuft in der Kunst?
Süddeutsche Zeitung |
| 29.02.2024 | Paul Kolling, Nadir: Die Vermessung der Welt von oben
artline> |
| 26.02.2024 | Paul Kolling “Nadir” at Kunstverein München
Mousse Magazine |
| 16.02.2024 | Paul Kolling's Nadir Unlocks a Bird's Eye View
Frieze |
| 02.02.2024 | Im Zenit — Paul Kolling im Kunstverein München
gallerytalk.net |
| 01.09.2023 | The Work of Artists by Linda Rocco*
ART Monthly |
| 23.02.2023 | Simon Denny & terra0 in conversation*
Outland Magazine |
| 12.01.2023 | A tree is one of the most important works in the Carnegie International*
NEXT Pittsburgh |
| 11.01.2023 | Out on a limb: Carnegie International project seeks legal personhood for a tree*
WESA NPR |
| 12.12.2022 | terra0’s Self-Owning Forests*
FRIEZE |
| 26.10.2022 | Paul Kolling at 14a / Hamburg
Daily Lazy |
| 23.09.2022 | This tree owns itself—and is fighting for its own survival*
Fast Company |
| 23.09.2022 | The Carnegie International takes on the era of US superpower*
The Art Newspaper |
| 20.09.2022 | Paul Kolling: Strukturversagen
Arts of the Working Class |
| 25.05.2022 | Everything You Need to Know About NFTs*
GQ Magazine |
| 19.05.2022 | Proof of What? 三檔區塊鏈主題展覽在歐洲*
CLABO |
| 03.05.2022 | Kunst-Auszeichnung des BDI: Ars-Viva-Preis 2023 verliehen
Monopol |
| 25.04.2022 | VCA Curatorial Picks – Week 25th April, 2022*
VerticalCrypto Art |
| 06.04.2022 | Francesco Garutti speaks with Paul Kolling and Paul Seidler about the new notion of ownership in relation to nature, and especially the forest.*
Canadian Centre for Architecture |
| 01.04.2022 | Forest Governmentality and the Struggle for More-Than-Human Sovereignty by Daniel Jacobs & Brittany Utting*
The Avery Review |
| 12.03.2022 | Art Dubai mit neuer Sektion für digitale Kunst*
Tagesspiegel |
| 10.03.2022 | Insider look at Carnegie Museum of Art’s prestigious 58th Carnegie International*
NEXT Pittsburgh |
| 18.02.2022 | What Are NFTs Anyway?*
Right Click Safe |
| 03.12.2021 | Jahresgaben 2021 Kunstverein Hamburg: Nord, Ost, Süd und West
Kunstverein Hamburg |
| 15.10.2021 | The Green Room Exhibition*
V.O Curations London |
| 09.10.2021 | Bettina Steinbrügge on New Forms of Coexistence
The New Institute |
| 01.09.2021 | SCHLOSSMUSEUM LINZ PROOF OF ART – A short history of NFTs, from the beginning of digital art to the metaverse*
Distanz Verlag |
| 21.06.2021 | Episode 28 - Two Degrees by Terra0, NFTs Are 4 Ever Podcast*
Spotify |
| 10.06.2021 | Plant(e)tecture: Towards a Multispecies Media Architecture Framework for amplifying Plant Agencies*
QUT Design Lab, Queensland |
| 07.06.2021 | terra0, enabling the forest to become an autonomous economic agent*
CLOT Magazine |
| 31.05.2021 | 気温上昇により自動焼却されるNFT「Two Degrees」、サザビーズにて出品 by 呉心怡*
あたらしい経済 / neweconomy |
| 30.05.2021 | 苏富比拍卖NFT“Two Degrees”，将在全球气温升高2°C后自行销毁*
8BTC |
| 30.05.2021 | Ce NFT s’autodétruit si les températures globales augmentent de 2 ° C*
BlockBlog |
| 29.05.2021 | This NFT Self-Destructs If Global Temperatures Rise 2°C, Ekin Genç*
Decrypt |
| 29.05.2021 | Этот NFT Самоуничтожится, Если Глобальная Температура Поднимется На 2° C*
block-chain24 |
| 26.05.2021 | 从即将上拍苏富比的28件NFT艺术品中，我们看到了加密艺术的过去、现在与未来*
Zhuanlan Zhihu |
| 26.05.2021 | 從即將上拍蘇富比的28件NFT藝術品中，我們看到了加密藝術的過去、現在與未來*
BlockBeats |
| 25.05.2021 | 2038.xyz: terra0, A model for nature to regulate and govern itself*
Google Arts & Culture |
| 20.05.2021 | Two Degrees (2021) by terra0 in Natively Digital: A Curated NFT Sale*
Sotheby's |
| 04.04.2021 | Hinter Scheiben, Die Kunst ist da - wir dürfen sie aber nicht besuchen*
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung |
| 28.01.2021 | Paul Kolling, Break of Gauge
rundgang.io |
| 14.01.2021 | Zug und Trug: Über Paul Kollings Filminstallation Break of Gauge, Raphael Dillhof
Springering, Heft 4/2020 |
| 15.12.2020 | Jahresgaben edition Clouds over WB190621 No. 1-21
Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof |
| 08.12.2020 | HFBK Graduate Show 2020: Künstlerische Abschlussarbeiten von Leyla Yenirce und Paul Kolling*
HFBK Hamburg |
| 10.11.2020 | Decision Trees, Jason Rhys Parry*
Real Life Magazine |
| 01.11.2020 | Goodbye Cruel World, It’s Over Erdlings Geschichten, Janine Blöß, Hörner/Antlfinger*
Verlag der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln |
| 21.09.2020 | Pressemitteilung: Stipendium zur Förderung des künstlerisch-wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses
HFBK Hamburg |
| 20.09.2020 | Encouraging New Talent Award
HFBK Hamburg |
| 17.07.2020 | Paul Kolling at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof
Contemporary Art Daily |
| 16.07.2020 | Digitalisierte Reflexionen Zum Klimawandel, Roland Schöny*
PARNASS Kunstmagazin |
| 14.07.2020 | Salvare la natura: la tecnologia aiuta?, Niccolò Lucarelli*
Artribune |
| 11.07.2020 | Ein gerader Schnitt durch die Welt, Radek Krolczyk
taz am Wochenende |
| 01.07.2020 | terra0 workwear jacket edition*
left.gallery |
| 27.06.2020 | Paul Kolling - Break of Gauge
art-in.de |
| 07.06.2020 | Agency in the Age of Decentralization James Bridle in conversation with Michaela Friedberg and Olaf Grawert*
ARCH+ The Property Issue: Politics of Space and Data |
| 16.03.2020 | Survival of the fittest. Nature and high-tech in contemporary art*
we make money not art |
| 11.03.2020 | Salvare la natura: la tecnologia aiuta?*
Artribune |
| 05.03.2020 | Survival of the Fittest Ausstellung in Erlangen: Gespräch mit dem Künstler Paul Kolling*
kulturLeben BR |
| 01.01.2020 | The Datafication of Forests? — From the Wood Wide Web to the Internet of Trees*
chapter by Jonathan Gray in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel |
| 01.10.2019 | Rise of Blockchain Companies with Hidden Owners – A Horizon Scan of Emerging Global Biological Conservation Issues for 2020*
Cell Press Review |
| 28.09.2019 | Handlungsmacht im Zeitalter der Dezentralisierung*
ARCH+ 236: Posthumane Architektur |
| 01.06.2019 | Terra0: Giving DAO agency to natural resource*
P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival, P2P:Foundation, M. Bauwens, A. Pazaitis |
| 10.04.2019 | terra0 – Autonomy of Ecosystems*
REALTY-V by T. Zolghadr, C. Roth, Space Time TV |
| 14.03.2019 | legislating architecture: architecting after politics’*
A. Brandlhuber, C. Roth, aut. architektur und tirol |
| 01.01.2019 | An Essay on the German Forest: In the Open with terra0*
En plein air – Ethnographies of the Digital by P. Karambeigi, A. Ostertag, T. Rossol, P. Schwarzer, L. Stolz, Spector Books |
| 01.01.2019 | Decentralised Autonomous Organisations nd the Corporate Form*
Nathan Tse |
| 15.11.2018 | Proof of Work, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin*
esse.ca |
| 11.10.2018 | Art and AI: Can AI ever be the Artist? by Devika Thapar*
medium |
| 07.10.2018 | In der Kryptowelt, Philipp Hindahl*
SCHIRN MAG |
| 06.10.2018 | Terraforming via the digital twin of everything’*
Comrade Animal, The habitat beyond anthropocentrism - Parasite 2.0 |
| 17.08.2018 | Ethereum’s Walled Garden: Flower Tokens and Terra0*
BTCManager.com |
| 01.07.2018 | Innovationstreiber Blockchain in Bitcoin und Blockchain – Vom Scheitern einer Ideologie und dem Erfolg einer revolutionären Technik by P. Rosenberg*
Springer-Verlag GmbH |
| 18.06.2018 | Digitalisierte Natur: Ein Wald, der sich selbst abholzt - und verkauft*
Süddeutsche Zeitung |
| 11.05.2018 | What Blockchain Means for Contemporary Art, Michael Eby*
Hyperallergic.com |
| 01.05.2018 | Jahrespublikation*
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Basel |
| 01.05.2018 | Informality In Times Of Blockchain, Volume #52: The End of Informality*
Volume Magazine, May |
| 15.03.2018 | Agenda Setter’*
Communication Director |
| 26.02.2018 | Unlimited Editions*
Real Life Magazine, February 26 |
| 30.01.2018 | Blockchain. La prospettiva degli artisti*
Artribune |
| 20.01.2018 | BitchCoin and terra0: Tokenization as an Art Form*
MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype |
| 11.01.2018 | Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Is Coming: Here's What You Need To Know*
Forbes |
| 31.12.2017 | Art and Finance Report 2017*
Deloitte |
| 26.11.2017 | Why Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Will Reinvent The Industry As We Know It*
Forbes |
| 30.10.2017 | The Possibility Of A Forest: Unsound 2017*
The Quietus |
| 29.09.2017 | To be Frank 3/2017*
WIRED Germany (now GQ) |
| 05.08.2017 | How Science Revolutionises Democracy Work and Nature Using Blockchain*
re:pulica 17 |
| 26.07.2017 | An Essay on the German Forest by Tabea Rossol & Pujan Karambeigi, translated by Pierre Schwarzer*
warehouse.industries |
| 29.09.2016 | The Self-Owning Augmented Forest*
Institute of Network Cultures |
| 03.09.2016 | terra0: art project, self-owned forest*
l’editie |