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07/04/2025
Keynote

Welten, Werte und Wünsche teilen
Lernen in selbstorganisierten Netzwerken

Keynote by Sarah Kolb within the conference Let’s talk about … sharing!
University of Art Linz, AT

kunstuni-linz.at

18/04/2025
Open Call

Mycelial Space invites local exhibition spaces and projects to submit contributions to the Vienna Fungi Festival (October 6–12, 2025).
Curated by Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier

mycelial-space.net

01/06/2025
New Publication

Making Kin with/through Fungi
Collaborative Learning in Entangled Environments

Article by Sarah Kolb in The Aesthetic Journal of Education, Vol. 59, No. 2: Cultural and Natural Geographies –Proposal for Kinaesthetic Didactics, eds. Eva Cronquist and Anja Kraus, The University of Illinois Press (summer 2025), 94–113. DOI: 10.5406/15437809.59.2.07 (forthcoming)

press.uillinois.edu

01/06/2025
New Publication

Ästhetik der Transformation
Bildtopologie nach Henri Bergson und Marcel Duchamp

By Sarah Kolb, dissertation, revised version
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag

transcript-verlag.de

06–12/10/2025
Festival

Wiener Pilzfestspiele

Various events by Mycelial Space / Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier within the Vienna Fungi Festival 2025

pilzfestspiele.at

 


Archive

07/02/2025
Workshop

Delving into Mycelial Space

Workshop by Sarah Kolb / Mycelial Space within the MushRoom Winter Edition
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, CH

@mush_room_zurich

20/12/2024
New Publication

Logik des Imaginären. Diagonale Wissenschaft nach Roger Caillois
Vol. 2: Spiel/Raum/Kunst/Theorie

Edited by Anne von der Heiden and Sarah Kolb, with an introduction and a catalog raisonné by Sarah Kolb
Berlin: August Verlag

augustverlag.de

01/12/2024
New Publication

Reduktion, Variation und Exzess. Zu Franz Türtschers Archiv der Wechselwirkungen
Reduction, Variation, and Excess. On Franz Türtscher’s Archive of Interplays

Catalog text by Sarah Kolb, in: Franz Türtscher, Erweiterte Malerei / Extended Painting, Vienna 2024
German version: 4–8 / English version: 9–13 (trans. Christopher Hütmannsberger)

franztuertscher.at

22/11/2024
Conference participation

Parliament of Lines

Workshop by Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier within the ELIA Biennial Conference 2024 »Arts Plural«, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, IT

elia-artschools.org / naba.it

06/11/2024
Open House

Co.Lab Mycelial Space

Open house within the Co.Lab Day 2024, University of Arts Linz, AT

kunstuni-linz.at

04/11/2024
Kickoff event

Get ready! Wiener Pilzfestspiele 2025

Kick-off event for the Vienna Fungi Festival 2025, organized by MyPilz in cooperation with Mycelial Space
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna, Austria

viktoria.wien

13–15/06/2024
Conference participation

Making Kin with/through Fungi. Sensing, Sharing and Caring in Entangled Environments

Lecture within the Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics
University of Iceland & Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, IS

nsae.fi / heimspekistofnun.hi.is

10–26/05/2024


Exhibition & Workshop

Becoming Mycelial

Curated by Mycelial Space / Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier
KH7 Artspace, Aarhus, DK

kh7artspace.dk / mycelial-space.net

04/05/2024
Filmscreening

Dizzy Izzy | The Beauty of Becoming

Screening of the Animation Film Dizzy Izzy within the Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz
Moviemento Linz, AT

crossingeurope.at / kunstuni-linz.at

30/04/2024
Lecture

Human-Fungal Relations of the Past, Present, and Future

Lecture by Peter McCoy, organized by Mycelial Space / Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier in cooperation with MyPilz / Wiener Pilzfestspiele
Viktoria, Vienna, AT

viktoria.wien / mycelial-space.net / pilzfestspiele.at

15/04/2024
Workshop

Parliament of Lines

Workshop by Mycelial Space / Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier within the symposium and exhibition project Let’s talk about connecting
splace, University of Arts Linz, AT

kunstuni-linz.at / mycelial-space.net

08–21/03/2024
Exhibition & Symposium

dancing within, dancing without

Exhibition and symposium with contributions by Lisa Großkopf, Marwa Abou Hatab, Anna Krumpholz, Sara Lanner, Naa Teki Martey Lebar, Flavia Mazzanti, Viktoria Morgenstern, Guilherme Pires Mata, Anna Carina Roth and Ruth Sonderegger, curated by Guilherme Pires Mata and Sarah Kolb
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design Vienna, AT

viktoria.wien

01/03/2024
New Publication

Abtrünnige Objekte und magnetische Signale. Caillois’ Schlüssel zum diagonalen Wissen / Objets transfuges et signaux magnétiques. Les voies de Caillois vers une connaissance diagonale

in: Regards croisés. Deutsch-französische Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft und Ästhetik / Revue franco-allemande d'histoire de l’art, d’esthétique et de littérature comparée 13: Roger Caillois (December 2023), 12–23, DOI: 10.57732/rc.2023.1.102660 / 24–34, DOI: 10.57732/rc.2023.1.102661

revue-regards-croises.net

08 & 09/01/2024
Preview & Film Premiere

Dizzy Izzy

Film project by alt narratives | Cinematic Communication Of Scientific Research based on the FWF research project Topologies of Artistic Research by Sarah Kolb, University of Arts Linz

Preview 08/01 7:30 p.m. @ Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna
Premiere 09/01 4 p.m. @ Movimiento City Cinema, Linz

kunstuni-linz.at / OA: mediaspace.ufg.at / review: kijuku.at

11/11/2023
Panel Moderation

Sorgfältig und zufällig experimentieren: Was rauscht und aufblitzt

Moderation within the workshop Zufall & Einfall. Medien der Kreativität in Kunst und Wissenschaft
Katholische Universität Linz, Austria

ku-linz.at / Review

01/09/2023
New Publication

Articulate with me! Zu den Begegnungsräumen Guilherme Pires Matas

Essay by Sarah Kolb in Mentoring-Programm Kunst
Vienna: Academy of Fine Arts 2023, 133–138

akbild.ac.at

19–25/09/2023


Exhibition

Try, feel, fail. Learn. Think. Play. Observe

Group exhibition within the Vienna Fungi Festival, curated by Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier / Mycelial Space
Viktoria Space for Artistic Research and Social Design Vienna

viktoria.wien / mycelial-space.net / pilzfestspiele.at

31/05–02/06/2023


Conference

Gender Topologies
Ästhetiken und Politiken der Nicht-Orientierbarkeit

International conference at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna
In cooperation with Viktoria Space for Artistic Research and Social Design Vienna
Conception by Sarah Kolb and Ilka Becker

ifk.ac.at / viktoria.wien

17–21/04/2023


Workshops & Exhibition

Sympo(ie)si(T)um

Workshops and exhibtion project by Manora Auersperg, in collaboration with Nicole Wiltner and Lilian Wieser, curated by Sarah Kolb
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna

viktoria.wien

17/03/2023


Lecture

re/turning to/duchamp

Lecture within the workhshop WERK_LABOR_22/23: Point of no Return
University of Applied Arts Vienna

dieangewandte.at

03/12/2022
New Publication

Der Mythos und der Mensch

By Roger Caillois, translated and with an afterword by Peter Geble, edited by Anne von der Heiden and Sarah Kolb
Berlin: August Verlag

augustverlag.de / faz.net (Review by Maximilian Gillessen) / vergleichende-mythologie.de (Review by Elmar Schenkel)

09–16/12/2022
Exhibition

Fiona Rukschcio | FiP Pop up Café

Exhibition project by Fiona Rukschcio with homeless people, curated by Sarah Kolb
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna

viktoria.wien

19–25/11/2022
Workshop & Exhibition

Guilherme Pires Mata | Was erscheint jenseits des Horizonts?

Workshop series and exhibition projects with school students by Guilherme Pires Mata, curated by Sarah Kolb, Sylvia Kostenzer and Stefanie Lichtwitz
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna

viktoria.wien

15/11/2022
Workshop

Pilze zwischen den Disziplinen / Fungi Between the Disciplines

Workshop with Ilka Becker, Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier within the event series »Salon Viktoria«
Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design, Vienna

viktoria.wien / mycelial-space.net

20/10/2022


Panel Discussion

Divided/Connected

Talk with Sarah Kolb and Selena Savic within the conference Situiert im Globalen. Konflikte, Kosten, Atmosphären
International Research Center for Cultural Studies Vienna & University of Art and Design Linz

ifk.ac.at / kunstuni-linz.at

13–19/06/2022
Exhibition

Ich und alles um mich herum

Exhibition project with works from the class Design Investigations, University of Applied Arts Vienna, curated by Sarah Kolb, Sylvia Kostenzer and Stefanie Lichtwitz
VIKTORIA Raum für künstlerische Forschung und Social Design Wien

viktoria.wien

16/05/2022
Panel Discussion

Book Launch: Dizziness – A Resource

Panel discussion with Ruth Anderwald, Karoline Feyertag, Leonhard Grond, Katrin Bucher Trantow and Sarah Kolb
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

akbild.ac.at

14/05/2022
Conference Participation

Mycelial Space – Platform Launch

Project by Ilka Becker, Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier within the SARN to conference Traversing Topologies: Imagining Worlds and Knowledge with/through Artistic Research
La Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (Ticino), École de design et haute école d’art du Valais (Sierre) & various sites in the Gotthard region

mycelial-space.net / traversingtopologies.org / sarn.ch

23–29/03/2022
Exhibition

Sarah Sternat | STARTING TO KNOW or how to recompose my father

With edible artworks by Julia Walk, performance by Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir and Veza Fernandez, curated by Sarah Kolb, Sylvia Kostenzer and Stefanie Lichtwitz
VIKTORIA Raum für künstlerische Forschung und Social Design Wien

viktoria.wien / instagram.com

21/03/2022
Project Presentation

Topologien der künstlerischen Forschung.
Relationales Wissen in Kunst und Theorie

Within the event series “Lunchtime Lectures” of the PhD program Kunst.Forschung
University of Art and Design Linz

ufg.at

11–12/03/2022
Workshop

Soziokratie Basics

Introduction to the basic concepts of sociocracy with Florian Bauernfeind
Viktoria – Raum für künstlerische Forschung und Social Design

viktoria.wien / soziokratiezentrum.org

23/02/2022
Panel Discussion

Beige Kitchen Talk

Talk with Jacob Wamberg and Sarah Kolb within the exhibition Treatise on Beige Objects of Jette Gejl Kristensen
KH7 Artspace Aarhus

kh7artspace.dk

01/2022
New Publication

»Verzögerung in Glas«.
Perspektiven zur Kunst der Verschleierung

Essay by Sarah Kolb in Fort – Da. Imagination und Religion
Edited Anne von der Heiden, Vienna: Sonderzahl 2022, 78–97

sonderzahl.at

25/09/2021
Lecture

Topologies of Artistic Research.
Notes on the Transformative Turn in Art

Lecture at the conference Traversing Topologies: Imagining Worlds and Knowledge with/through Artistic Research
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

sarn.ch / traversingtopologies.org

20–25/09/2021
Workshop & Conference Participation

The Lure of Mycelial Space.
Sharing Knowledge with/through Mushrooms

Project by Ilka Becker, Sarah Kolb and Jutta Strohmaier within the SARN to conference Traversing Topologies: Imagining Worlds and Knowledge with/through Artistic Research
Biosphere Entlebuch & Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

traversingtopologies.org / sarn.ch / ufg.at / vimeo.com

13–23/07/2021
Exhibition

Jette Gejl Kristensen | To Knot or Not to Knot

Participative exhibition project by Jette Gejl Kristensen
Curated by Sarah Kolb, VIKTORIA Art & Research Space, Vienna

viktoria.wien

02–08/06/2021
Exhibition

Beige Matters. Jette Gejl Kristensen & Company

Participative exhibition project by Jette Gejl Kristensen in cooperation with students
Curated by Sarah Kolb, WHA Gallery, University of Art and Design Linz

ufg.at

01/06/2021
Workshop

EINS GANZ FREI. Konkrete Relationen als Medien der Kunst

Workshop with Hanne Loreck, Guilherme Pires Mata, Jette Gejl Kristensen, and Sarah Kolb
Organized by Sarah Kolb, University of Art and Design Linz

ufg.at

01/04/2021


Project Start

VIKTORIA Art & Research Space

Participative art & design project in Vienna

viktoria.wien

15/03/2021
Workshop

Treatises on Beige Objects

Online workshop with Jette Gejl Kristensen, organized and moderated by Sarah Kolb
Department of Artistic Knowledge Practices, University of Art and Design Linz

ufg.at

19/10/2020
Panel Discussion

Book Launch: Dizziness – A Resource

Panel discussion with Ruth Anderwald, Karoline Feyertag, Leonhard Grond, Katrin Bucher Trantow, and Sarah Kolb, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (cancelled due to COVID19)

akbild.ac.at

07/10/2020
New Publication

Beyond the Ready-made. Duchamp in the Fourth Dimension /
Jenseits des Ready-made. Duchamp in der Vierten Dimension

Essay by Sarah Kolb in Marcel Duchamp: Die Erfindung der Gegenwart / Inventing the Present
Edited by Gerhard Graulich and Kornelia Röder, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje-Cantz 2020, 102–115

hatjecantz.de

06/10/2020
Opening Speech

»Es hat mich erblickt / Und macht ein saures Gesicht / Die alte Kröte«

Opening speech by Sarah Kolb at the exhibition The Voids that Images Leave Behind. Martin Bilinovac & Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Künstlervereinigung MAERZ, Linz

maerz.at

19/09/2020
Artist Talk

About Loosing the Overview Intentionally 

Artist talk with Jette Gejl Kristensen and Sarah Kolb in the exhibition The Ignorant Schoolmaster
Curated by Mikkel Elming, Kunsthal Aarhus, DK

kunsthalaarhus.dk

07/09/2020
Project Start

Topologies of Artistic Research.
Relational Knowledge in Art and Theory

FWF Elise Richter Senior Postdoc Project
University of Art and Design Linz

ufg.at / eliserichter.net

24/03/2020
Workshop

Art Diagrams in Context. Diagrammatik und Wissensrepräsentation

Workshop with Gerhard Dirmoser, organized and moderated by Sarah Kolb
University of Salzburg (cancelled due to COVID19)

universitaet-salzburg.ac.at

16/10/2019
Lecture

Denkfiguren der Diagrammatik am Beispiel der Baum-Diagramme

Lecture by Gerhard Dirmoser, organized by Sarah Kolb
University of Art and Design Linz

ufg.at

19/09/2019
Lecture

Das Bild als »Quellpunkt der Poesie«.
Imagination nach Bergson, Duchamp, Benjamin und Lacan

Lecture by Sarah Kolb at the workshop Time.Image / SOPhiA Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy
University of Salzburg

s-p-o-t.weebly.com

21/06/2019
New Publication

»There is No Progress, Change is All We Know.«
Notes on Duchamp’s Concept of Plastic Duration

Article by Sarah Kolb in The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 28/57–58, 87–108

tidsskrift.dk

02–09/04/2019
Exhibition & Workshop

Wie man mit dem Gummihandschuh philosophiert.
Topologische Operationen in Kunst und Theorie

With contributions by Gerhard Dirmoser, Katrin Mayer, Pauline M’barek, Max Schaffer,
Matthias Sohr, Michael Rottmann, Jens Vetter, and Sarah Kolb
Organized and curated by Sarah Kolb, Kulturtankstelle Linz

kulturtankstelle.at

02/04/2019
Lecture

Produktive Uneindeutigkeit.
Zur topologischen Wende in Kunst und Theorie

Lecture by Sarah Kolb at the workshop Wie man mit dem Gummihandschuh philosophiert. Topologische Operationen in Kunst und Theorie, Kulturtankstelle Linz

kulturtankstelle.at

03/11/2018
Lecture

»Where I forget myself, consent will do.«
Dizziness as metaphysical challenge and creative resource 

Lecture by Sarah Kolb at the symposium As Much About Forgetting, Viborg Kunsthal, DK

viborgkunsthal.viborg.dk

17/10/2018
Panel Discussion

Umwelten: Sarah Kolb und Eva Johach im Gespräch

Talk with Eva Johach and Sarah Kolb at the conference Undisziplinierte Gespräche
International Research Center for Cultural Studies & University of Art and Design Linz

ifk.ac.at

10/10/2018
New Publication

Logik des Imaginären. Diagonale Wissenschaft nach Roger Caillois
Vol. 1: Versuchungen durch Natur, Kultur und Imagination

Edited by Anne von der Heiden and Sarah Kolb
Berlin: August Verlag

augustverlag.de / faz.net (Review by Helmut Mayer)

18/09/2018
New Publication

Biegen | Dehnen | Umstülpen

Essay by Sarah Kolb within the exhibition and publication project Field of Codes 
Curated by Markus Saile, edited with Ilka Becker, Marcel Hiller, and Katrin Mayer
Cologne: Projektraum im KunstWerk, 62–71

markussaile.de

31/05/2018
Lecture

»There is No Progress, Change is All We Know.«
Notes on Duchamp’s Concept of Plastic Duration

Lecture by Sarah Kolb at the conference Duchamp’s Ready-mades: A Reevaluation
Organized by Jacob Wamberg, Aarhus University, DK

humanfutures.au.dk / recording: faceclips.net

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