Bio
Juri Koll - Director
Along with regularly exhibiting his paintings and photographs, Juri Koll produces and directs Art/World, a series of documentaries on artists and other art world figures. He has produced and managed feature films such as Until The Music Ends (Slash, Chrystal Method), American Cowslip (Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Rip Torn), Hardcore Hearts, The Truth About Kerry (Stana Katic), and That Game of Chess. Juri has produced and/or directed over 50 short films, both fiction and documentaries. His films have screened all over the world, in over 70 festivals, including Cannes, the Cork International Film Festival, the Australian International Film Festival, and won many awards.
After graduating from California Institute of the Arts with majors in Fine Art and Filmmaking, Mr. Koll produced the first Art/World documentaries from 1990 - 1995. He worked with major curators in their museums and galleries, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. His subjects included world famous and infamous artists and curators from the Renaissance period to the present. Recently, Juri’s first documentary, In The Steel: A Portrait of Mark di Suvero, (1991), was accepted into the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution. He has since produced and directed documentaries about many famous and infamous art world figures, including many Venice artists, such as Sarah Danays, Fred Eversley, Joe Fernandez, Bill Attaway, Audrey MacNamara, and others. For more information: juri@veniceica.org