Sarah Kolb

Sarah Kolb is a Research Fellow (FWF Elise Richter Senior Postdoc) at the University of Art and Design Linz in the Department of Art History and Art Theory. She concurrently serves as co-director of the online platform Mycelial Space (since 2022) and co-director of Viktoria – Space for Artistic Research and Social Design in Vienna (since 2021). She holds a doctorate from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (awarded with distinction in 2016) for her dissertation on 'Image Topology after Henri Bergson and Marcel Duchamp'.

Research Focus: Kolb's transdisciplinary work spans:

• 20th/21st-century art historiography
• Theory-practice intersections in artistic research
• Diagonal science frameworks (Caillois)
• Temporal/spatial topologies in aesthetics
• Phenomenological and new materialist approaches
• Psychoanalytic image theory (Lacan)
• Mycelial networks as art/science interfaces

Active Projects:

• Topologies of Artistic Research: Relational Knowledge in Art and Theory (FWF Elise Richter Project V813)
• Co.Lab Mycelial Space (collaboration with Jutta Strohmaier and Ilka Becker)

Honors:

• Elise Richter Senior Postdoc Fellowship (FWF, 2020–present)
• University of Cologne Fellowship (2006–2007)
• International Research Center for Cultural Studies Junior Fellowship (2005–2006)

Leadership: Directs collaborative platforms bridging artistic research, social design, and mycological studies through exhibition spaces and digital initiatives.