Prof. Dr. Lucie Kolb

Head Make/Sense

Prof. Dr. Lucie Kolb has been Professor of Critical Publishing at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel since 2025. She studied for her bachelor’s degree in Media Art and Fine Arts in Zurich, Basel, and Buenos Aires (2005-2008). She completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (2010) and earned her PhD at the Institute for Art and Cultural Sciences at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2017). In her publication titled Study, not Critique (Transversal Texts 2018), she explores forms of artistic research through publications since the 1970s and examines what can be learned from them for today’s critical art and design research. With the co-founding of Brand-New-Life (2015), she created a multilingual open-access publication platform between art, art criticism, and research to give space to the complexities and ambiguities of worlds in transition. Over the past 15 years, Lucie Kolb has been responsible for a wide range of exhibitions, conferences, teaching and mediation formats, including in Vienna, Karlsruhe, Lucerne, Bern, Zurich and Basel. For her commitment to open education and research-based teaching, she was awarded the FHNW Fellowship (2022-24). In the area of Critical Publishing, Lucie Kolb is interested in investigating and developing knowledge infrastructures such as libraries, collections, and archives. She also examines mechanisms and structures that create social injustice in knowledge organizations and explores how collective work can provide a foundation for common infrastructural imaginaries. At HGK Basel, Prof. Dr. Lucie Kolb is mainly active in research and teaching (in MA Transversal Design) at IXDM, and leads the institute-wide PhD programme Make/Sense.