Event overview
Department of Art Public Talks Programme Autumn 2015
Contemporary Art Talks: Saskia Olde Wolbers
Since the mid-1990s Saskia Olde Wolbers has been making short narrative videos that combine fictional and documentary elements in their scripts with constructed otherworldly imagery. Off screen narrators address the fluidity of fact and the fabrication of fictions with an eye for wit and the absurd.
The process of image making is experimental and completely analogue. Sets are dipped in paint and submerged in tanks creating dripping and unstable visuals filmed in real time. Olde Wolbers recent and future solo exhibitions and projects include; ‘Yes, these Eyes are the Windows’ at Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, 2016; Maureen Paley London 2016; Artangel Commission, London, 2014; Art Unlimited, Art Basel 2014; ‘Kinemacolor’, M Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2013; Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo and Singapore, 2013; ‘A Shot in the Dark’, Secession, Vienna, 2011; Goetz Collection, Munich, 2010; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 2008; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2008; ‘The Falling Eye’, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Group exhibitions and screenings include; ‘Yes, these Eyes are the Windows’ at the IDFA, Amsterdam, Freud museum London, Kino der Kunst Munich, Blackbox 2.0 Seattle Art Museum 2015. ‘Twixt Two Worlds’, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2014, ‘The Surface of the World’,?Architecture and the Moving Image?MCAD Manila, Philippines 2014, ‘Penetrating Surfaces. Apparitions in Digital Space’, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, 2014; ‘Visceral Sensation’, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2013; ‘Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands’, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA, 2013; ‘Open End’, Sammlung Goetz, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2012; ‘Monanism’, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, 2011; ‘Automated Cities’, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, 2009; ‘The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image’, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2008.
Olde Wolbers lives and works in London and is a lecturer at Goldsmiths.
Saskia olde wolbers is represented by Maureen Paley London and Stigter van Doesburg Amsterdam. http://www.saskiaoldewolbers.com
Image: Saskia Olde Wolbers, ‘Yes, these Eyes are the Windows’, 2015, 18 min HD video, voice over by Tom Brooke. Courtesy of the artist.
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 25 Nov 2015 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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