Bio

Jonas Kolecki is a filmmaker, painter, and collagist whose multidisciplinary practice centers on time as both a tool and a subject. His work explores themes of ephemerality, decay, and the human impact on landscapes—physical and conceptual alike. Through site-specific and context-sensitive approaches, he creates projects across painting, film, performance, and collaboration that investigate the traces and transformations left by human presence. (Mariam Elnozahy – Artistic Director, Konsthall C Stockholm)

About

About My approach to work is simple; I go on field trips to explore the unexpected and bring my discoveries to the studio to take care of and develop them further, kind of like a Pokémon trainer would do with their creatures. I am especially interested in how narratives, images, and myths shape our worldview and how they attempt to create meaning, as well as our collective interpretation of them. Therefore, I travel, read, and confront myself with imagery and content from Greek myths to contemporary comics and try to see them beyond their appearance. I believe that our present leftovers, traces, presences, and reminiscences can teach us a lot about our collective society, and I like to imagine what a person in 1000 years would think about us. While cinema is my access to image-making, all of my projects initiate as a drawing; some remain there, while others develop into space. I see my work as bringing socio-philosophical thoughts into action to connect people across disciplines and spaces.

Education

2022 – 2025: Royal Academy of Arts Copenhagen – Class Peter Wächtler
2025: Archive // HIERARCHIES, Class of Dora Budor
2024: CPH:DOX Academy, Copenhagen
2023: Veit Laurent Kurz – Architecture & Art, Copenhagen
2020 – 2026: Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Class Olaf Nicolai, Germany
2016 – 2020: BFA in New Media Arts, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
2019: Workshop with Otobong Nkanga
2017: Fake for Real – Workshop with Beate Gütschow
2017: Workshop with Monica Bonvicini
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

2025: Archive // Hirachies Book Launch, Kunsthalle Charlottenborg, Copenahgen
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 ->

Workshops

2020 - ongoing: The Filmmaking Journey
2020: Das Universum, Animation Film for Children

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
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