Biografie
Dr. Ronald Kolb (b. 1978), Co-Head of the Postgraduate Programme in Curating.
He holds a PHD of Fine Arts from PHD in Practice in Curating, a cooperation of ZHDK and University of Reading, supported by swissuniversities.
He is Co-Publisher of the web journal On-Curating.org.
www.on-curating.org/
A characteristic feature of his practice is the orchestration of exhibitions and teaching as an exercise in participation in contexts of situated knowledge. This can also be seen in the (co-)organised international symposia and workshops, such as Learning for Life, a festival and workshop programme for the Merz Akademie Stuttgart (2018), Situated Knowledges - Art and Curating on the Move, a digital event with Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK and the Migros Museum (2021), the Summer School Commoning Curatorial and Artistic Education in documenta fifteen (2022) and the workshop Commoning Collective Care in collaboration with TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (2023).
Dr. Kolb’s doctoral dissertation (PhD), titled “Curating as Governmental Practices. Post-Exhibitionary Practices under Translocal Conditions in Governmental Constellations,” critically examines contemporary artistic-curatorial practices through a governmental lens, exploring their dynamics between representational power and participatory operations within both global and situated contexts.
Further commitments
MA in Visual Communications at Merz Akademie, University of Applied Arts, Design and Media, Stuttgart, Germany and runs the bureau of Gestaltung “Biotop 3000” together with Volker Schartner since 2006. The bureau is engaged in publications for various artists and art institutions e.g. Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, ifa (Institut for Foreign Affairs, Germany), Badischer Kunstverein, Donaueschinger Musiktage, ZKM Karlsruhe and so forth.
He was an Associate Professor and lecturer at Merz Akademie, University of Applied Arts, Design and Media from 2009–2015 and is now Scientific Researcher at the Postgraduate Programme in Curating, Zurich University of the Arts.
In addition he works as a filmmaker and editor (i.e. Flux Us Now. Fluxus explored with a camera, www.fluxusnow.net). Since 2014 he works on a long-term project on curatorial practices together with Dorothee Richter.
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