Jakob Kolding
Jakob Kolding’s works enable possibilities of re-negotiating and re-viewing physical, political, and social space. In often humorous ways, they emphasize viewing these different spatial categories as inseparable parts of each other, weaving together new possible landscapes and narratives. He has created collages that revolve around different aspects of town planning and life in the city and in suburbia. Juxtaposing suburban blocks, images of dj's, hip hoppers, graffiti, Starwars, computer games, malls, public art works and single-family house areas, the works examine the complex socio-economical and political conditions of city life. He has also created a large-scale installation composed of individual sculptures that together create a playful but precarious atmosphere, as if the exhibition itself is trying to keep a hold of its own balance. In his works, Kolding presents space not a static physical construct, but as movement, process and interrelations with no fixed viewpoint.
Jakob Kolding has had solo exhibitions at UMMA at University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Studio Dabbeni in Lugano, Team Gallery in New York, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere Onlus in Rome, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Copenhagen’s Institute for Contemporary Art. His work has also been shown at institutions such …
Jakob Kolding’s works enable possibilities of re-negotiating and re-viewing physical, political, and social space. In often humorous ways, they emphasize viewing these different spatial categories as inseparable parts of each other, weaving together new possible landscapes and narratives. He has created collages that revolve around different aspects of town planning and life in the city and in suburbia. Juxtaposing suburban blocks, images of dj's, hip hoppers, graffiti, Starwars, computer games, malls, public art works and single-family house areas, the works examine the complex socio-economical and political conditions of city life. He has also created a large-scale installation composed of individual sculptures that together create a playful but precarious atmosphere, as if the exhibition itself is trying to keep a hold of its own balance. In his works, Kolding presents space not a static physical construct, but as movement, process and interrelations with no fixed viewpoint.
Jakob Kolding has had solo exhibitions at UMMA at University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Studio Dabbeni in Lugano, Team Gallery in New York, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere Onlus in Rome, Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Copenhagen’s Institute for Contemporary Art. His work has also been shown at institutions such as Wien Museum, South London Gallery, De Appel in Amsterdam, Apexart in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris the 50th Venice Biennale.
Courtesy of Galleri Nicolai Wallner
