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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 full CV can be accessed here: paulkolliing.com/cv-full |
| *Entries marked with an asterisk are created, exhibited or published as terra0. |
Education | |
| 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 | |
| 2022 | ars viva prize 2023 of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft |
| 2020 | Encouraging New Talent Award (one-year scholarship), HFBK Hamburg |
| 2019 | Project funding of ‘Break of Gauge’, Hamburg Cultural Foundation (Hamburgische Kulturstiftung) |
| 2019 | Art School Alliance Scholarship, Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. and Karl H. Ditze Stiftung |
Work | |
| 2025 – ongoing | Cybersecurity Oversight at Datagraph GmbH |
| 2020 – 2022 | Teaching position Künstlerische Werkstattleitung Mechatronik, Berlin University of the Arts |
| 2018 – ongoing | Co-founder of terra0.org, Berlin |
| 2018 | Research associate, Design Research Lab, Berlin University of the Arts (with Gesche Joost) |
Current/upcoming events | |
| 04.05.2026 – 22.11.2026 | Strange Rules* (group show) Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture, Venice |
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, Hamburg |
| 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 | |
| 04.05 – 22.11.2026 | Strange Rules* Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture, Venice |
| 06.12 – 22.12.2025 | もつれのパターン / Patterns of Entanglement* NEORT++, Tokyo |
| 16.12.2023 – 08.04.2024 | Cryptomania. Promises of the Blockchain* Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 03.12.2021 – 03.05.2022 | Staub & Seide. Steppen- und Seidenstraße Weltmuseum Wien |
| 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 |
| 22.05 – 21.11.2021 | 2038, German pavilion* 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10.10 – 18.10.2019 | 25th International Festival of Computer Arts (IFCA)* Maribor, Slovenia |
| 28.05 – 31.12.2019 | VIENNA BIENNALE* MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien |
| 03.02 – 25.02.2019 | Befriending Hyperobjects* NAVEL, Los Angeles |
| 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 |
| 19.05 – 25.06.2018 | New World Order* Furtherfield Gallery, London |
Talks & workshops | |
| 22.01.2025 | Sparta Lecture Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
| 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 |
| 19.09.2020 | Break of Gauge presentation Conditions of a Necessity at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden |
Publications & texts | |
| 09.12.2025 | The Capital Dialogues: terra0 in Conversation with Paul North and Paul Reitter* Library Stack |
| 15.07.2022 | terra0: Letting the world computer grow roots, branches and leaves (chapter)* Radical Friends – Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts |
| 11.05.2022 | terra0: an introduction in: REALTY: beyond the traditional blueprints of art & gentrification edited by Tirdad Zolghadr* Hatje Cantz |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 01.06.2017 | 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 |