Jakob kolding biography sample
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Jakob Kolding
For his first solo museum exhibition in Denmark, Jakob Kolding introduced new elements to his oeuvre. Alongside delicate drawings, posters, and collages, he added large lambda prints of digital collages and fragile, site-specific sculptures that employ strategies of mixing and sampling similar to those of his graphic work. Placed on chipboard podiums and made of paper and little wooden sticks, the sculptures have a constructivist look but do not claim to be complete, thereby thwarting the constructivist impulse to create ideal or fundamental frameworks for social processes. Accordingly, the show’s installation encouraged various ways of seeing: A table presented books, CD covers, and publications on art, architecture, and social studies featuring Kolding’s projects, and posters were stacked on the floor for visitors to take. The show conveyed a sense of Kolding’s work having leapt from two to three dimensions. His dynamic collages with snippets of te
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Vortrag von Jakob Kolding am 08.12.2016: Another world with difficulties.
Do., 08.12.2016, 18:00 Uhr
LfKF, City Passagen, 1. Stock
Wir freuen uns sehr Sie zum Werkvortrag „Another World with Difficulties“ von Jakob Kolding einladen zu können.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.
How do found images function as a way of thinking about construction, de-construction and re-construction of meaning? Images are cut and pasted, re-contextualized and re-positioned, re-posted or re-presented, changing how they can be seen and understood and taking apart existing worlds and (re)making new ones. Images are everywhere every day. They are part of the construction of a physical, digital, psychological, social, economic and political space. Spaces defined by mutual interrelations and ever developing processes. As with images it is impossible to understand one part as isolated from its relationship to the world around it. In that sense re-working and re-positioning found imag
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January 28: The photograph may be regarded as a box, an exhibit, or a museum vitrine.
Tonight Olga Chernysheva launches Cactus Seller & Others, Diehl Gallery, Berlin, while Jakob Kolding opens dislocated discolated, curated by Elodie Evers, tonight at Kunsthaus ACUD Gallery also in Berlin, which is supported by ACUD MACHT NEU artist cooperative.
In a sign of difficulties for artist organisations everywhere, in 2014, the ACUD MACHT NEU collective saved the space from bankruptcy, enabling interdisciplinary projects in art, music, performance and digital media in their Studio, Club and Gallery.
Jakob Kolding (born 1971 in Albertslund, Denmark) has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the United States and this is the artist’s first solo show in Berlin. Best known for his hand made collages sampling art, architecture, literature, theatre, and music, he often remixes the same elements, re-contextualizing them for new meanings and narratives.
Kolding is also a writer