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Ute Kolar
Born in Austria, 1966, lives in Viterbo, Italy
HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule, Graz, Austria (1981–1986)
Independent contemporary jewelry artist since 1986. Collaborates with international galleries including Thereza Pedrosa (Italy), Charon Kransen Arts (USA), and Alternatives Gallery (Rome). Participated in major events such as MAD About Jewelry (New York), LOOT (New York), and Collect (London). Works are held in public and private collections including Joanneum Museum (Austria), Alice and Louis Koch Collection (Switzerland), and Thereza Pedrosa Collection.
- UTE KOLAR
- Born 1966
- Education : HTBLVA Graz-Ortweinschule, Graz, Austria, Art & Design – Jewellery and Metal Design 1981-1986
Selected Exhibitions:
2026
- Cominelli Foundation Permanent Collection, exhibition by Leonesia Foundation, Puegnago del Garda, Italy
- Event for Steinbeisser, Vienna, Austria
- Borderlines of Matter, Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy
- Moments of Joy, Galerie Slavik, Vienna, Austria
- Selected for Schmuck 2026, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany
- Spompanadln – Schmuckpositionen aus Österreich, Schmuck München – Room to Dream, Munich, Germany
- Flash Exhibition, Galleria Rossana Borzelli, Rome, Italy
2025
- Time, such a Great Sculptor, Charon Kransen Arts, On the Fringe, New York, USA
- Vom Kleinen ins Große – Addition als Prinzip, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany
- MAD About Jewelry, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
2024
- Sonderausstellung, Atelier Fassungslos, Tübingen, Germany
- Biennale del Gioiello d’Autore, Between Body & Soul, Museo Civico di Asolo, Italy
- To be Human, Thereza Pedrosa Gallery at Quittenbaum Art Auction, Munich, Germany
2023
- Breeze (solo exhibition), Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy
- What Dreams Are Made Of, Thereza Pedrosa Gallery at Quittenbaum Art Auction, Munich, Germany
2022
- Asia Mon Amour, New York Jewelry Week, New York, USA
- METALLOphone Biennial, Vilnius, Lithuania
2017
- Pensilina 10, Viterbo, Italy
2013
- Suggestioni di Metallo, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy
- Second Prize, Ring-Party, Padua, Italy
- Venice Jewelry-Ring, Venice, Italy
- Fantastici, Riga, Latvia
- Ring-Party, Treviso, Italy
2012–2011
- LOOT, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
- Collect 2011, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2010
- White (solo exhibition), Viterbo, Italy
2009–2007
- Collect, London, UK
- Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo (Vicenza, Milan, Berlin, Turin)
- Collectables, Alternatives Gallery, Rome
- Contemporary Jewellery from Italy (Barcelona, San Francisco, London, Krakow, Wroclaw)
2006–2005
- Gallery Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal
- Werkstadt Graz, Austria
- Alternatives Gallery, Rome
- Incontri, Galleria New Space, Trieste
- Landscape Jewellery, Alternatives Gallery, Rome
2003–2000
- Alternatives Gallery, Rome
- Casa Idea, Rome
- Moa Casa / Casa Idea
- Galleria Editrice Latina (permanent exhibition), Rome
- Galleria Tam-Tam, Civita Castellana
- L’immagine del gioiello, Rome
- Un Gioiello per i Farnesi, Valentano
1999–1994
- Gioielli della Tuscia, Viterbo
- Desideri Preziosi, Rome
- Gallery Elios, Rome
- Gioielli-Gioielli, Viterbo
- Schmuckverwandlungen, Joanneum, Graz
- Austrian Cultural Institute, Rome
- International Fair Ambiente, Frankfurt
1989–1986
- Galerie Slavik, Vienna
- In neuer Reihung (touring exhibition)
- International Fair Juwelia 89, Vienna
- Spurensuche, Joanneum, Graz
- Galerie Accent, Munich
- Schmuckszene 87, Munich
- Bijoux Autrichiens, Brussels
- Galerie am Graben (Inge Asenbaum), Vienna