Saskia Olde Wolbers
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Saskia Olde Wolbers is a video artist who lives and works in London, England (born Breda, The Netherlands 1971).
, The Rietveld Academie
in Amsterdam and Chelsea College of Art and Design
.
Since the mid-1990s, she has been developing fictional documentaries often loosely based on factual events. Her intricate videos are driven by a combination of otherworldly imagery – meticulously handmade model sets – and the apparent inner monologue of the voiceover in the audio book-like soundtrack. The films are shot underwater, miniature sets dipped in paint to create unstable imagery that abstractly illustrate the narrator's thought process. In her most recent works, the music soundtrack has been composed by Daniel Pemberton
.
She has exhibited widely since 1998. Solo shows include A Shot In The Dark at Vienna Secession
2011, Goetz Collection
2010, Mori Art Museum Tokyo 2008, The Falling Eye at The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2006 and Tate Britain
, London 2003.
Author and curator Phillip Monk describes in his book The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files, "Olde Wolbers not only joins fictional and documentary elements in her scripts, she links them to series of images, themselves fabricated and quite fantastic in their nature."
In 2008, Olde Wolbers lectured for the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
.
Saskia Olde Wolbers is represented by Maureen Paley
, London.
(2003) and the Beck's Futures
Prize (2004).
Background
She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and DesignCentral Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. The school has an outstanding international reputation, and is considered one of the world's leading art and design institutions...
, The Rietveld Academie
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
-Profile:More than 45% of the student population comes from abroad, originating from over 60 different countries around the world. Most of the classes are in English...
in Amsterdam and Chelsea College of Art and Design
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation...
.
Since the mid-1990s, she has been developing fictional documentaries often loosely based on factual events. Her intricate videos are driven by a combination of otherworldly imagery – meticulously handmade model sets – and the apparent inner monologue of the voiceover in the audio book-like soundtrack. The films are shot underwater, miniature sets dipped in paint to create unstable imagery that abstractly illustrate the narrator's thought process. In her most recent works, the music soundtrack has been composed by Daniel Pemberton
Daniel Pemberton
Daniel Pemberton is an Ivor Novello winning and multi BAFTA-nominated English composer.He has composed title tunes and incidental music for countless award winning television series including Peep Show, Desperate Romantics, Occupation, Suburban Shootout, Hell's Kitchen, Great British Menu,...
.
She has exhibited widely since 1998. Solo shows include A Shot In The Dark at Vienna Secession
Vienna Secession
The Vienna Secession was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. This movement included painters, sculptors, and architects...
2011, Goetz Collection
Goetz Collection
The Goetz Collection is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. The collection is owned and continually being built by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collection to the public in a series of themed exhibitions in a purpose built museum designed by the...
2010, Mori Art Museum Tokyo 2008, The Falling Eye at The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2006 and Tate Britain
Tate Britain
Tate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...
, London 2003.
Author and curator Phillip Monk describes in his book The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files, "Olde Wolbers not only joins fictional and documentary elements in her scripts, she links them to series of images, themselves fabricated and quite fantastic in their nature."
In 2008, Olde Wolbers lectured for the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series is a lecture series established by the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. With the support of A&D alumna Penny W. Stamps, the Stamps Series presents visionary leaders who use their creative practice effectively. It celebrates those who transcend...
.
Saskia Olde Wolbers is represented by Maureen Paley
Maureen Paley
Maureen Paley is the American owner of a contemporary art gallery in Bethnal Green, London, where she lives. It was founded in 1984, called Interim Art during the 1990s, and renamed Maureen Paley in 2004. She exhibited Young British Artists at an early stage...
, London.
Awards and prizes
Olde Wolbers has won the Baloise PrizeBâloise Prize
The Bâloise Art Prize is a prize awarded to two people each year at "Art Statements" sector of the international Art Basel fair. It is awarded by the Bâloise group , a company that works to promote contemporary, emerging art. The Prize has been in existence since 1999. Each winner gains CHF 25,000...
(2003) and the Beck's Futures
Beck's Futures
Beck's Futures was a British art prize founded by London's Institute of Contemporary Arts and sponsored by Beck's beer given to contemporary artists....
Prize (2004).
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2012 Pareidolia, Maureen Paley, London
- 2011 A Shot In The Dark, Secession, Vienna
- 2011 Seven Screens Osram, Munich
- 2010 Goetz CollectionGoetz CollectionThe Goetz Collection is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. The collection is owned and continually being built by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collection to the public in a series of themed exhibitions in a purpose built museum designed by the...
, Munich - 2008 Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
- 2008 Mam project, Mori Art MuseumMori Art MuseumThe Mori Art Museum is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan....
, Tokyo - 2007 Maureen Paley, London
- 2006 The Falling Eye, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 2006 Musée d'art contemporain de MontréalMusée d'art contemporain de MontréalThe Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal is a contemporary art museum in the Place des Arts complex, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The collection includes over 7,000 works of art by more than 1,500 artists , covering contemporary art in Quebec in particular and Canada in general, as well as...
, Montreal, Quebec - 2005 South London GallerySouth London GallerySouth London Gallery, founded 1891, often known by the acronym SLG, is a public-funded gallery of contemporary art in Camberwell, London - exhibiting artists included Alfredo Jaar, Ryan Gander and Chris Burden...
, London - 2004 Baloise Prize, SMAK Gent
- 2004 Now that part of me has become fiction, Kunsthalle St Gallen
- 2003 Lightbox Art Now Film and Video, Tate Britain, London
Selected Group exhibitions
- 2011 Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania
- 2009 Manipulating Reality, CCCS, Florence
- 2008 Automated Cities, San Diego Museum of ArtSan Diego Museum of ArtThe San Diego Museum of Art is a fine arts museum located in Balboa Park in San Diego, California that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. The San Diego Museum of Art opened as The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed its name to the San...
, San Diego - 2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Part I: "Dreams", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenThe Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is an art museum beside the National Mall, in Washington, D.C., the United States. The museum was initially endowed during the 1960s with the permanent art collection of Joseph H. Hirshhorn. It was designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft and is part of the...
, Washington, D.C.
Videography
- 2011 Pareidolia
- 2007 Deadline
- 2005 Trailer
- 2003 Interloper
- 2002 Placebo
- 2000 Kilowatt Dynasty
- 1999 Day-Glo
- 1998 Cosmos
- 1997 Octet
- 1996 The Mary Hay Room
Further reading
- 2011 Saskia Olde Wolbers, A Shot in the Dark, Secession ISBN 978-3-902592-42-2
- 2009
- 2009 Automatic cities, The architectural image in contemporary art, Museum of contemporary art San Diego, Distributed by D.A.P. New York ISBN 978-0-934418-71-3
- 2008 Saskia Olde Wolbers, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. ISBN 978 4 902819 19 9 C0071
- 2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the moving image, Hirshhorn Washington DC ISBN 978-1-904832-50-8
- 2003 Now that part of me has become fiction, Artimo, ISBN 90 75380 88 7
External links
- Saskia Olde Wolbers Q & A with Tyler Green
- Deadline at Maureen Paley
- The Falling Eye at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- Fishing Line Never Looked So Good NY arts Magazine
- Film art at the South London Gallery, BBC - collective
- Saskia Olde Wolbers wins Becks Futures
- Marcus Verhagen, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Frieze, Nov-Dec 2004
- Barry Schwabsky, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Tate Britain - London, ArtForum, Nov 2003
- Adrian Searle, Say it with flytraps, The Guardian, May 24, 2005