*1993 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
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

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)

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

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

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

Press & features

01.06.2024 Paul Kolling: Nadir | Ausstellungsbesprechung von Katrin Bauer, Camera Austria
23.02.2023 Simon Denny & terra0 in conversation*, Outland Magazine
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
23.09.2022 This tree owns itself—and is fighting for its own survival*, Fast Company
20.09.2022 Paul Kolling: Strukturversagen, Arts of the Working Class
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
09.10.2021 Bettina Steinbrügge on New Forms of Coexistence, The New Institute
07.06.2021 terra0, enabling the forest to become an autonomous economic agent*, CLOT Magazine
14.01.2021 Zug und Trug: Über Paul Kollings Filminstallation Break of Gauge, Raphael Dillhof, Springering, Heft 4/2020
11.07.2020 Ein gerader Schnitt durch die Welt, Radek Krolczyk, taz am Wochenende
16.03.2020 Survival of the fittest. Nature and high-tech in contemporary art*, we make money not art
28.09.2019 Handlungsmacht im Zeitalter der Dezentralisierung*, ARCH+ 236: Posthumane Architektur
10.04.2019 terra0 – Autonomy of Ecosystems*, REALTY-V by T. Zolghadr, C. Roth, Space Time TV
26.07.2017 An Essay on the German Forest by Tabea Rossol & Pujan Karambeigi, translated by Pierre Schwarzer*, warehouse.industries