Biba Cole

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'Reading Slippages' live performance at Avalon Cafe, London, UK.

Reading Slippages (Live), 2024
Performance
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Animation still from 'Reading Slippages' performance

Reading Slippages, 2024
Animation Still
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Exhibited at 'Greasing the Planets', Jiuba Art Space, Amsterdam (2024)

Reading Slippages (a small painting series), 2024
Gouache on canvas
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Exhibited at 'Greasing the Planets', Jiuba Art Space, Amsterdam (2024)

Reading Slippages (a small painting series), 2024
Gouache on canvas
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Exhibited at 'Greasing the Planets', Jiuba Art Space, Amsterdam (2024)

Reading Slippages (a small painting series), 2024
Gouache on canvas
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Exhibition installation with Paula Kolar at CBS Gallery, Liverpool, UK.

Reading Slippages, Writing Interstices, 2023
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Exhibition installation with Paula Kolar at CBS Gallery, Liverpool, UK.

Reading Slippages, Writing Interstices, 2023
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'(how do you sound a bracket)', published in ‘Alphabetical Processions Laid Him on the Green’, by Plates (x5)

(how do you sound a bracket?), 2023
Publication
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Video still from 'Reading Slippages'. Exhibited at 'Reading Slippages, Writing Interstices', CBS Gallery, Liverpool (UK)

Reading Slippages, 2023
Watercolour on paper
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Still from 'Pulp of the Sea', a performance film made for Hungry Eyes Festival, 2021.

Pulp of the Sea (performance), 2021
Film
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Still from 'Pulp of the Sea', a performance film made for Hungry Eyes Festival, 2021.

, 2021
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Video still from 'Pulp of the Sea', exhibited at the Quartair, Royal Academy of Art Graduation Show, and De Helena.

Pulp of the Sea, 2020
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Video still from 'Pulp of the Sea', exhibited at the Quartair, Royal Academy of Art Graduation Show, and De Helena.

Pulp of the Sea, 2020
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Exhibited at 1646 as part of the Ongoing Conversation #6.

Venus's Girdle, 2019

Biba Cole (UK) is an artist and musician based in The Hague. Swimming in pools of excess material, she examines slippages from known languages through practices of falling and sidetracking, positioning mistakes as positive generative actions.

Websites

www.bibacole.com

Social media

www.instagram.com/bibacole

Curriculum vitae

Education

2018 - 2020

MA Artistic Research Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
2015 - 2018

BA Fine Art Lancaster University diploma

exhibitions

2024

Biba Cole, Hae, Shoko Avalon Cafe London, United Kingdom 'Reading Slippages' live performance with Full Power Records
2024

Greasing the Planets Jiuba Art Space Amsterdam, Netherlands Group
2023

Reading Slippages, Writing Interstices CBS Gallery Liverpool, United Kingdom Duo
2022

Home is Where the Art is pt.3 Liverpool, United Kingdom Group
2021

I'm Not Where I'm Supposed To Be (Hoogtij #64) See Lab Den Haag, Netherlands www.seelab.nl/program/2020/imnotwhereimsupposedtobe-hoogtij64 Group
2021

Hungry Eyes Festival Online Edition Gießen, Germany hungryeyesfestival.de/
2020

A Simple Fizz Quartair Den Haag, Netherlands www.quartair.nl/mar-at-quartair/ Group
2020

Graduation Show Royal Academy of Art The Hague, Netherlands graduation2020.kabk.nl/ Group
2020

End-to-End (Hoogtij #62) De Helena The Hague, Netherlands www.performancesite.nl/project/end-to-end-project/ Group
2019

The Ongoing Conversation #6 1646 Den Haag, Netherlands 1646.nl/projects/the-ongoing-conversation-6 Group
2019

I was mostly delighted, but yes, also a little afraid. Quartair Den Haag, Netherlands Group
2018

Graduation Show, Lancaster University Peter Scott Gallery Lancaster, United Kingdom Group
2018

_Left Unattended Inspire Gallery Lancaster, United Kingdom Group
2018

TAKE The Vestibules Bristol, United Kingdom ASLS Residency & exhibition by Biba Cole, Laurie Cole, and Leo Gavin, at Bristol City Hall. Group
2017

The Other Art Fair Arnolfini Bristol, United Kingdom www.theotherartfair.com/ Duo
2017

I, the Poet. You, the Poet SPACE Bristol, United Kingdom Duo

Projects

2024
Nothing Doing nothing-doing.bandcamp.com/album/held-set
2023
Everything Leans Seoul, Republic of Korea Soundtrack composition for installation 'Everything Leans' by Lucy Cordes Engelman and Annemarie Wadlow. Exhibition 'Light shine glimmer - leak spill shimmer', at Alternative Space LOOP.
2020
Bleach Pizza Den Haag, Netherlands
2019
Nice Flaps Nice Flaps Den Haag, Netherlands niceflaps.hotglue.me/
2017
I, the Poet. You, the Poet. SPACE Gallery, Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom
2016
Post Club Art Club Falmouth, United Kingdom postclubartclub.bandcamp.com/

International exchanges/Residencies

2017

La Trobe University, Bendigo Bendigo, Australia

Publications

2023

Alphabetical Processions Laid Him on the Green plates (x5) United Kingdom www.lateworks.co.uk/plates/articles/alphabetical-processions-laid-him-on-the-green

Awards and grants

2021

Stroom Pro Invest (sinds 2004) Stroom, Den Haag Den Haag, Netherlands