Dr. Ronald Kolb (PhD) is an independent curator, transdisciplinary researcher and lecturer, he focuses on curatorial practices at the intersection of art, knowledge, ecology and society.
He was the Artistic Director of M.1 at the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, for the 2025/26 cycle.
He was co-head of the Postgraduate programme in Curating (2017–2024) at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and teaches curatorial practice in continuing education at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
He was one of the editor-in-chief of the web journal On-Curating.org until 2025.
In 2024, he completed his doctorate at the University of Reading with a dissertation entitled Curating as Governmental Practices. Post-exhibitionary Practices under Translocal Conditions in Governmental Constellations. A central feature of his work is the choreography of exhibitions and teaching formats as participatory spaces of knowledge. This is evident in the international events and exhibitions he has (co-)organised, including ‘Learning for Life,’ a festival and workshop programme for the Merz Academy Stuttgart (2018), ‘Situated Knowledges – Art and Curating on the Move,’ a digital event with Tai Kwun Contemporary, HK, and the Migros Museum (2021), the summer school ‘Commoning Curatorial and Artistic Education’ for documenta fifteen (2022), the study trip „Post-/Exhibitionary Practices: Art and Curating in Expanded Ecological Thought‘ and the international exhibition project ’Into the Rhythm„, a collaboration with the ARKO Art Center, Seoul, which also took place at the Gwangju Biennale 2024. From 2025 to 2026, he curated „Art as Ecological Practice“ a „growing exhibitionary project based on four seasonal assemblies with manifold activities, workshops & walkshops and artistic performances.