‘Kleur is relatie, dat kan niet anders.’

– uit: interview De Tijd van Kleur, mei 2024.

De fenomenologie van kleur

Als beeldend kunstenaar en filosoof (MA) onderzoek ik onze ervaring van kleur. Mijn bevindingen publiceer ik aan de hand van essays, artist books en visuele essays. Ik geef gastlessen aan verschillende Nederlandse kunstacademies en universiteiten zoals: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Willem de Kooning Akademie Rotterdam, ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem, Piet Zwart Instituut Rotterdam.

Daarnaast werk ik sinds 2021 voor ArtEZ, de kunstacademie in Arnhem. Ik draag bij aan het Studium Generale programma als online curator en werk mee aan verschillende publicaties.

Van zomer 2020 tot voorjaar 2023 was ik verbonden aan aan de Riso dependance van Knust Press. Daar werkte ik zowel aan mijn eigen kunstenaarsboeken en gaf workshops aan mensen die ook met de Riso machine aan de slag wilden.

Ik studeerde Wijsbegeerte en Neerlandistiek (MA) aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Verder volgde ik de Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag en ging ik naar Faculty of Fine Arts Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Griekenland.

Contact:
studio[at]barbaracolle[.nl]

The Phenomenology of Colour

As a visual artist and philosopher (MA), I investigate our experience of colour. I publish my findings through essays, artist books and visual essays. I give guest lectures at various Dutch art academies and universities such as: University of Amsterdam, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam.

In addition, I also work since 2021 for ArtEZ, the art academy in Arnhem. I contribute to the Studium Generale programme as an online curator and contribute to various publications.From summer 2020 to spring 2023, I was attached to the Riso dependance of Knust Press. There I worked both on my own artists’ books and gave workshops to people who also wanted to work with the Riso machine.

I studied Philosophy and Neerlandistiek (Dutch Language Studies) (MA) at the University of Amsterdam. I also attended the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague and went to the Faculty of Fine Arts Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Contact:
studio[at]barbaracolle[.nl]

If you want to hear more:

In the video below (in Dutch) you can listen to an interview I gave about vivid and living colours. And in the podcast (in English) I also talk about what it means when we consider colour to be a verb.

De Tijd van Kleur – video interview

Barbara Collé en Roos van Haaften spraken met Maurits de Bruijn over wat het betekent wanneer kleuren een eigen tijd hebben.

Relationships with Colour – Mater podcast

Barbara Collé and Lucila Kenny talk about how colour is changing all the time. And discuss the language we use to describe colour, and how it says so much about our relationship with it.

News & Agenda

Publication in ‘A Magazine Curated by’

Her Own Universe The magazine A Magazine Curated by has been in print for 25 years. They made an anniversary …

Relationships with Colour – podcast

Mater Podcast invited Lu and me to have a conversation about colour. We had a really nice chat. Relationships with …
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Lecture – Blau etc. at KHB Studios, Berlin

Invitation / Einladung / Uitnodiging Friday 11 April 2025, 19.00 – 21.30 KHB Studios, Nazarethkirchstraße 42, 13347 Berlin Colour Order/Disorder …
Blaue Stunde Berlin, Uta Neumann

Join us: Writing during the Blue Hour in Berlin

On Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 of April between 20h00 and 21h00 we will be writing during the Blue Hour …

A month in the Sahara – Tissardmine artist residency

… We were in a place where the sky was an orange and where we could touch the milky way …

Presentation of sketches; the dance of the rainbow serpent and the ouroboros

The month in Tissardmine was full of dreams. Daydreams were everywhere in the vast landscape, during walks, on dune ridges …

Artistic Research on Colour Sensual experience

For a moment, we are face to face with the animate, nurtured with colour and time.

‘De kleuren maken ons erop attent dat we ons met onze tijdelijkheid moeten verbinden. Dat het leven dan vloeiender en zinvoller wordt. Want dat is het wonderlijke aan ephemeral experiences. Juist door het vluchtige en vergankelijke in kunst te ervaren, komen we zo dicht als we kunnen bij de ervaring van eeuwigheid. We staan even oog in oog met het bezielde dat met kleur en tijd wordt gevoed.’

Uit: Kleuren bestaan bij de gratie van een moment, Mister Motley 26 september 2023

“The colours remind us to connect with our transience. That life then becomes more fluid and meaningful. Because that is the wonderful thing about ephemeral experiences. It is precisely by experiencing the ephemeral and transient in art that we come as close as we can to the experience of eternity. For a moment, we are face to face with the animate, nurtured with colour and time.