born February 17th, 1991

2013 – 2014
MA History of Art :: 20th Century Modernism in Europe :: Courtauld Institute of Art University of London (United Kingdom)

2010 – 2013
BFA Fine Art :: Ruskin School of Art Oxford University (United Kingdom)

NARRATING BODY POLITICS
Lara’s regularly updated platform of evolving self-portraiture can be found and subscribed to via this YouTube channel.

EXHIBITIONS and COLLABORATIONS*

2020 Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine: Paradox Paradise // Reflections on the Viral Vacuum https://www.instagram.com/mara_johanna.kolmel/

2019 PENDANT Small Paintings of a Bigger Picture International Summer Academy, Salzburg

2018 Epiphany Chiesa di Sant’Andrea degli Aromatori, Palermo

2018 Newstalgia Austrian Cultural Forum, London

2018 Party’s Over Drago Sauna, Vienna (solo)

2018 LAB #10 Open Studio GAFFdabasso, Milan (solo)

2017 Fuoriclasse Azimut, Turin

2017 Festival Luigi Nono Il Respiro choreographed by and performed with Virgilio Sieni at the Fondazione Archivio Luigi Nono Venice

2017 Leggere il Presente L’Art9, Milan (on show at the EU Parliament Headquarters, Brussels)

2016 Lara Verena Bellenghi | Mirko Canesi | Alessandro Di Pietro GAFFdabasso, Milan

2016 Towards a Progressive Future Azimut, Turin (solo)

2016 ROOMS 2016 Kappatos Gallery, Athens

2015 abWesend LOCOMOT, Vienna (curator)

2015 Stripped to Tease? LOCOMOT Contemporary Art, Vienna (curator and artist)

2014 Path Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University Medical Faculty (solo)

2013 Ruskin Degree Show Old Power Station, Oxford

2012 Pigeon Place OVADA Warehouse, Oxford

2011 New Bridge Street Prize Collective Show London (shortlisted)

2011 MAD About Waddesdon Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon

2011 Parapraxis FREVD, Oxford

2011 The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Mezzanine, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford (solo)

*exhibiting artist, unless otherwise specified

COLLABORATIONS

2019 Kaleidoscopic Typography composition workshop mixing type characters from Dada to Bauhaus for Into the Night: Cabarets and Bars in Modern Art at London’s Barbican Centre

2019 Sprechende Hände, Große Gefühle co-authored workshop programme for Caravaggio & Bernini at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

2018 Arts of the Working Class contributing artist to Berlin-based magazine (ongoing)

2018 In XXX We Trust city-wide flyer distribution in connection with Epihany and city-processions, Palermo

2016 Society for the Preservation of Rare Books (SPRB) (logo design), Oxford

2013 Ashmolean Museum and the Campaign for Drawing Come Draw with Me (artist drawer for the Ashmolean’s LiveFriday), Oxford

2012 Alfred de Musset's Il ne faut jurer de rien (Never Say Never) Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford (costume and set design)

2011 Antonio Vivaldi's Ottone in Villa New College Chapel, Oxford (poster, costume and set design)

2011 J. W. v. Goethe's Faust The Queen's College Chapel, Oxford (costume design)

PRIZES

2014 Sir William Dunn Prize School of Pathology, Oxford University

2011 Bate Collection Prize Faculty of Music, Oxford University

2011 Waddesdon Manor postcard competition winner, UK National Trust, Rothschild Collection