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Bio
Jakob Kolb (b. 1992, Deutschlandsberg) is a Vienna-based interdisciplinary artist and musician whose work navigates memory, transformation, and the ephemeral through immersive installations, audiovisual media, and sculptural forms. His practice explores themes of otherness, nostalgia, myths, and the interplay between natural and artificial systems, drawing from personal narratives, cultural memory, and speculative futures.
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Kolb's creative process often begins with drawings, evolving into paintings, sculptures, and spatial installations. He experiments with organic and synthetic materials, shaping forms that merge symbolic and historical contexts. His works frequently bring paintings into dialogue with sculptural and architectural elements, creating immersive environments that invite open-ended interpretation.
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In addition to his artistic practice, Kolb is an active musician. Under the moniker On Bells, he is producing, mixing, and mastering music productions on the Austrian and international scene. He has composed soundtracks for performances, theatre productions, short films, documentaries, and sound art installations.
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Say Something, Premierentage 2024, Innsbruck, Austria
this could be the answer, this may be a nightmare, Klanglicht 2024, Graz, Austria
Stages, On Bells, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Austria
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2023
Strange Days, Diploma Show, Mehrzwecksaal Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
2022
Reception, Slade School of Fine Art, London
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2018
Heal Me, Wienstation,
Head Over Heels, Artist Statement at Parallel Vienna 2018, Vienna, Austria
2017
Beachmon, Kaeshmaesh, Vienna, Austria
2016
Blalala, Olivart Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Lovers, Jordi Miguel Galeria D'Art, Barcelona, Spain
Group Exhibitions
2024
Wanderlust Warenhaus, Thomas Verstraeten, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Intimate Assemblages: #1 Ecologies, Kevin Space, Vienna, Austria
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2023
I'm A Mess, Burggasse 98, Vienna, Austria
Mechanisms of Occupant Ejection, Lotus Eclat S1, Former Postgaragen Graz, Austria
Steiermarkhof, Graz, Austria
Schloss Grad, Grad, Slovenia
Academy of Fine Kink, Semperdepot, Austria
Rundgang 2023, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
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2022
Klasse Daniel Richter at Parallel Vienna 2022, Vienna, Austria
Where is the body? I, Mehrzwecksaal Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
Where is the body? II, Narva Art Residency, Narva, Estonia
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2021
Volver a empezar, La Cera 13, Barcelona, Spain
alles was im schatten wächst, Kunsthaus Weiz, Austria
2020
Klasse Daniel Richter at Parallel Vienna 2020, Vienna, Austria
Mitte V. Akt, Notgalerie, Vienna, Austria
Cruel Summer Camp, Exile Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Prospektive, Kunsthalle der HFBK, Dresden, Germany
Coloring Quarantine, Exile Gallery, Vienna, Austria
New Horizons, Sala Meteoro, Barcelona, Spain
Klasse Richter, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Rundgang, Vienna, Austria
2019
Your Delicious Dreaming, Salon Goldschlag, Vienna, Austria
Prospektive, Mehrzwecksaal Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
PAT PAT PAT, Mehrzwecksaal Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
AK46 at Parallel Vienna 2019, Vienna, Austria
Vertical River, AK46, Vienna, Austria
Amour Armour Cruise My Vault, The Real White Rabbit, Vienna, Austria
PAT PAT PAT, Galerie der HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
2018
Goodbye Albrechtsfeld, Bäckerstrasse4-plattform für junge kunst, Vienna, Austria
Tête-à-Tête, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Rundgang, Vienna, Austria
Night Trumpets, KRÆ syndikatet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tod und Auferstehung, Villa Weiss, Ligist, Austria
2017
Amorf Etern, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain
4 Mataos, Brick 5, Vienna, Austria
Repetition, Brick 5, Vienna, Austria
Art Sale Exhibition, Kaeshmaesh, Vienna, Austria
2016
Out of the Cave, Charlotte Art League Gallery, Charlotte, NC, USA
Synthesis for Survival, thefloor.bcn, Barcelona, Spain
LOOP Festival, Olivart Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2015
Silhouettes, Villa Weiss, Ligist, Austria
Contact
Education
2017 - 2023
Expanded Pictorial Space, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria
Prof. Daniel Richter
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2022
Slade School of Fine Arts (as part of the Worldwide Exchange Programme), London, UK​
Prof. Katrina Palmer
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2013 - 2016
Escola Massana, Mural Arts, Barcelona, Spain
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Awards, Scholarships & Residencies
2024
Fieldwork workshop, The Institute for Postnatural Studies, Dennis Dizon & Klasse für Alle, Intimate Assemblages: #1 Ecologies
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2023
Residency, Boca de Fosc, Alt Empordà, Catalunya
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2022
Kunstraum Steiermark Stipendium 2023/2024
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2020
Emanuel und Sophie Fohn-Scholarship
2017
Residency in Albrechtseld, Galerie Bäckerstrasse4, Austria
Stein Residency, Stein, Austria
2016
Workshop, Drawing and Nature, Lectures from Isabel Banal, Josep Mañà, Fina Miralles and Perejaume, Montseny
2015
Residency, Post Residency Haus, Villa Weiss, Austria
Curatorial
2024
Escape. Resonance, KUNSTRAUM STEIERMARK, Vienna Contemporary, Vienna
SURFER, Schaumbad, Collective group show of Schaumbad, Graz
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2023
Stealing Catgold Together, Steiermarkhof, Hanna Besenhard, Eiko Gröschl, Nanna Kaiser, Jakob Kolb, Ramsko, Graz
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2021
alles was im schatten wächst, Kunsthaus Weiz, Hanna Besenhard, Tobias Ehrhardt, Sofie Fatouretchi, Nanna Kaiser, Jakob Kolb, Patrick Winkler, Friedrich Becke, Nora Köhler, Marco Mühlhans, Titus Probst, Weiz
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2019
Vienna Art Week 2019, AK46, Vienna 2019
AK46 at Parallel Vienna 2019, Jakob Kolb, Jose Manuel Perez Ferrandez, Raul Paez, Vienna
Vertical River, Jakob Kolb, Yein Lee, Rini Mitra, Shuvo Rafiqul, Kanako Tada, AK46, Vienna
Links, Media Coverage (Selection)
​Munchies Art Club
https://www.munchiesart.club/jakob-kolb-promising-emerging-artist-on-bells-music-austria-profile/​
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Les Nouveaux Riches
https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/interview-with-jakob-kolb/
https://www.les-nouveaux-riches.com/alles-was-im-schatten-waechst/
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Artfaces Portrait - Kunstraum Steiermark
https://www.kultur.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/12920889/166298072/
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O Fluxo
https://www.ofluxo.net/mechanisms-of-occupant-ejection-group-show-at-postgarage-graz-austria/
https://www.ofluxo.net/alles-was-im-schatten-wachst-group-presentation-at-kunsthaus-weiz-weiz-austria/
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Kubaparis
https://kubaparis.com/alles-was-im-schatten-wachst/
https://kubaparis.com/submission/324868
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EXILE
http://exilegallery.org/exhibitions/cruel-summer-camp/
http://exilegallery.org/exhibitions/coloring-quarantine/
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Art Viewer: Cruel Summer Camp at EXILE
https://artviewer.org/cruel-summer-camp-at-exile/
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Block Magazine
http://blokmagazine.com/your-delicious-dreaming-at-goldschlag-70/
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Daily Lazy
http://www.daily-lazy.com/2019/12/your-delicious-dreaming-at-salon.html/
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Art Mirror
http://artmirror.org/exhibitions/429-your-delicious-dreaming
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Kunst-dokumentation.com
https://www.kunst-dokumentation.com/archive/2019/11/18/ak46-atelier-kolb-film-screening-show-vienna-art-week
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Website design and development by Jakob Kolb
Typography design by Franz Tiefenthaler
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