Klasse Nicolai

Bio

Jonas Kolecki (1994 in Munich) works with various media, including film, video, photography, collage, installation, and performance. He currently is based between Copenhagen, Denmark & Munich, Germany.

"In my work, I examine the intersection of human presence and the passage of time. Through a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, film, performance, and collaborative projects, I engage with themes of ephemerality, decay, and authorship. My work often reflects on how landscapes—both physical and conceptual—are altered by human intervention, being interested in how the creation can be a process of removal, recontextualizing contemporary imagery through the lens of historical decay, and examining the dynamics of labor within artistic production. Across all my projects, I am concerned with what remains and what is lost in the traces we leave behind."*

Education

2022 - 2025: Royal Academy of Arts Copenhagen - Pictorial Practices
2023: Veit Laurent Kurz – Architecture & Art
2020 - 2023: Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Class Olaf Nicolai, Germany
2019: Workshop with Otobong Nkanga
2016 - 2020: BFA in New Media Arts, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
2017: Fake for Real - Workshop with Beate Gütshow
2017: Workshop with Monica Bonvicni
2014 - 2016: Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Philosophy

Solo Exhibitions

2024: Through the Shades of Broken Windows, Every Story Once Rang True, Ping Pong, Copenhagen

Group Exhibitions

2023: Ajoutens, A Mon Avis, Copenhagen
2023: Adaptable, Repeatable, Changeable, ADBK Munich
2022: Studio, Practices, Arbeitstitel, Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin
2022: I Did Not See It Coming, Lothringer 13, Munich
2020: Willi the Cat, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano
2019: Tree Time, Curated by Massimo Bartolini & Luca Trevisani, Bolzano
2018: CAV Residency, Pietrasanta, Italy

Film Work

Director: A Long, Long Way from California to Casablanca
Cinematographer: Anti-Flag - Power to the Peaceful
Directors Reel on request

Collections

BARTH Collection Italy

Works are included in private collections in Europe.

Links

Exibart - Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare
Süddeutsche Zeitung - I Did not see it coming
Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin
Jahresaustellung ADBK
Lothringer 13
Willi the Cat - Fondazione
https://www.culturalheritage.unibz.it/
Klasse Nicolai

Bio

Jonas Kolecki (*1994 in Munich) works with various media, including film, video, photography, collage, installation, and performance. He currently is based between Copenhagen, Denmark & Munich, Germany.

"In my work, I examine the intersection of human presence and the passage of time. Through a multidisciplinary practice that spans painting, film, performance, and collaborative projects, I engage with themes of ephemerality, decay, and authorship. My work often reflects on how landscapes—both physical and conceptual—are altered by human intervention, being interested in how the creation can be a process of removal, recontextualizing contemporary imagery through the lens of historical decay, and examining the dynamics of labor within artistic production. Across all my projects, I am concerned with what remains and what is lost in the traces we leave behind."