Jana Marie Kolbert (*1995 in Vienna, Austria) lives and works in Vienna and Lisbon. She graduated 2019 in Painting and Animated Film and 2023 in Transmedia Art, both at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Starting from abstracted human reflections in different mirroring surfaces and spaces such as the elevator, Kolbert creates larger than life painting installations on metal that mirror the viewer and the environment. They invite the audience to perceive themselves as part of the painting and depict the network in which the art work exists. By recreating the experience of the abstracted reflection for the viewer Kolbert investigates contemporary self portrayal culture. Her works have been exhibited at Parallel Vienna, Vienna Art Week, Verein Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreich, KS Room Feldbach, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Spiegelray Zürich, Q21 Museumsquartier Wien, Pince Budapest, Ausstellungszentrum Heiligenkreuzerhof, Künstlerhaus Wien, Phileas and Krinzinger Schottenfeld.
