Jakob Kolding

Born 1971 in Albertslund, Denmark
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

In his collages on paper and life-sized figures, Jakob Kolding examines different takes on masks and connected acts of gesturing, performing and staging, acts that indicate possible identities, as well as psychological, social and political implications. Taking masquerades as a starting point, the works playfully combine a wide range of influences. From renaissance sculptures to surrealism, psychoanalysis and dream interpretation to modernist theatre, dioramas and classic literature to hip hop culture and pop music, post-structuralist identity theory and back again to pre-modern myths and fables. In the process, a world of constantly shifting, changing and overlapping positions is constructed.