A performative model of thought usually revolves around Julie Koldby’s practice (b. 1993, Copenhagen). Something is moving and changing – or at least has the potential to. She is fascinated by energy and flipmoments. How logics collapse, systems of meaning or dynamics generate moments of change. Energy on atomic, bodily or societal levels.

Working cross diciplinary with installation, moving image and printmaking, Koldby provokes sensitivity towards materials and in one way or another, her work is always in transition. Koldby’s work is closer to sculptural scenarios rather than stable/finished work that poses questions to binary oppositions and works on the relational level between forces. As fluid territories, her work position itself in space as it waves between experiment and failure. Works are more leftovers from a (mental) performance that has been or will soon be shown in a persistent and perhaps naive attempt to create meaning between the perceptive and the perceptible. Between thinking and making, worldviews, flips and flops.

Since 2017, Koldby has been part of the curator collective pro tempore.art. The female collective curates exhibitions in established art related spaces displaying artworks by emer- ging artists. Each exhibition is filling a gap in between the preplanned programme of an art related space. All exhibitions are a temporary experiment replacing regular emptiness with moments of artistic collaborations and new vibrations – addressing issues pertaining emerging artists in their journey towards establishment.

Julie Koldby (b. 1993 Copenhagen, DK) holds a MA Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2020-2022). She took her undergraduate in Fine Art from Malmö Art Acade- my, Sweden and Cooper Union School of Art, New York City (2016-2019).