| Dates: | born 1971
| | Biography: | Saskia Olde Wolbers was born in Breda,
The Netherlands in 1971. She studied at
Chelsea College of Art & Design in
London and at the Rietveld Academy,
Amsterdam.
Olde Wolbers makes complex,
multi-layered films, whose narratives
often take their starting point from
overheard conversations, newspaper
articles or television programmes.
Factual incidents are then filtered into
fictional narratives, which move away
from an actual identification with the
real event, person or conversation that
may have inspired the idea. Whilst
reportage and documentary style are
used
to relay the story, the visual imagery
draws on surreal, fantastical or
dream-like interiors and environments.
The process of making is integral to her
practice and, rather than using computer
animation techniques, Olde Wolbers
constructs the film sets by hand – in
miniature – in the studio.
Selected recent solo shows include Saint
Louis Art Museum, St Louis, USA
(2008);
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2008); Art
Gallery of York University, Toronto,
Canada (2008); Maureen Paley, London
(2007); Musée d’Art Contemporain de
Montréal (2007); The Falling Eye,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006);
Trailer, South London Gallery and Art
Gallery of New South Wales, (2005);
Baloize Prize 2003, SMAK, Gent,
Belgium
(2004); Now That Part of Me Has
Become
Fiction, Kunsthalle St Gallen and
Museum
Het Domein, Stittard, The Netherlands
(2003-2004); Lightbox, Art Now, Tate
Britain (2003).
Selected recent group exhibitions
include Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale,
Athens (2009); Automated Cities, San
Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (2009);
Four Thursday Nights: Creative
Imagination, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
(2008); The Cinema Effect: Illusion,
Reality, and the Moving Image, Part I:
Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture
Garden, Washington, DC (2008);
Genesis:
Life at the End of the Information Age,
Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2007); Love
and Politics, in a Minor Key, Istanbul
Modern, Istanbul (2007); Stop, Look and
Listen, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of
Art, Cornell University, New York
(2007); Visibilities: Between Facts and
Fictions, Edith Russ Site for Media Art,
Oldenburg (2006); The British Art Show
6, touring to Gateshead, Manchester,
Bristol and Nottingham (2005); Into My
World / Recent British Sculpture,
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Connecticut, USA (2004); Real World
Theatre – Encapsulated in Life, Wood
Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
(2004); Becks Futures, ICA (2004);
Displaced, Armand Hammer Museum,
Los
Angeles (2003); Turbulence, Museum
voor
Moderene Kunst, Arnehem (2003);
Reality
Check, British Council Touring
Exhibition, Slovenia, Prague, London,
Zagreb, Cracow, Riga, (2002); Prix de
Rome Award, Montevideo, Amsterdam
(2002).
Olde Wolbers curated the project Blink
at Gasworks Gallery in London in 2006,
and was recipient of the Becks Futures
Award in 2004 and the Prix de Rome
Film
& Video Award in 2002. She currently
lives and works in London.
| | | Source: | New Contemporaries website | | | Date of source: | accessed 2009 |
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| | Gender: | female | | Type: | person |
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