Saskia Olde Wolbers
Saskia Olde Wolbers (born 1971) is a Dutch video artist who lives and works in London.
Saskia Olde Wolbers
- Name
- Saskia Olde Wolbers
- Born
- 1971
- Birthplace
- Breda, The Netherlands
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- artist · sculptor · collagist · television producer · photographer
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Saskia Olde Wolbers (born 1971) is a Dutch video artist who lives and works in London.
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Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam and London. Employment is recorded with Camberwell College of Arts. Work by Saskia Olde Wolbers is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Museum Arnhem, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Centraal Museum.
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• Name — Saskia Olde Wolbers • Born — 1971 • Birthplace — Breda, The Netherlands • Works — Pareidolia, Deadline, Trailer
Background
Background
Since the mid-1990s, Saskia Olde Wolbers 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 illustrates 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. In 2014 she created an audio installation at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton, London, the house in which Vincent van Gogh lodged briefly in 1873–74. 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 2010, Olde Wolbers lectured for the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. She is a lecturer at Goldsmiths University.
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Saskia Olde Wolbers is recorded with the occupation artist. Recorded as artist, sculptor, collagist, television producer and photographer. Recognition and collections.
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Life and career
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1971
Saskia Olde Wolbers born at Breda.
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- “Saskia Olde Wolbers”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards and prizes
Olde Wolbers has won the Baloise Prize (2003) and the Beck's Futures Prize (2004).
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- 1.A Shot in the Dark at secession
- 2.Saskia Olde Wolbers at Maureen Paley
- 3.Kellaway, Kate. Does a house in Brixton hold the key to Vincent Van Gogh?. The Observer. 27 April 2014.
- 4.Monk, Phillip. The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files. Art Gallery of York University. 2009. 978-0-921972-53-2.
- 5.Saskia Olde Wolbers, 2/18/2010. U-M Stamps.
- 6.Sanders, Brad. Wolbers brings dreamy, stream-of-consciousness films to the Michigan. The Michigan Daily. 14 February 2010.
- 7.Saskia Olde Wolbers. Goldsmiths, University of London.
- 8.Art News Saskia Olde Wolbers at Mori Art Museum Tokyo
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- 2011 Saskia Olde Wolbers, A Shot in the Dark, Secession.
- Monk, Phillip. The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files. Art Gallery of York University. 2009. 978-0-921972-53-2.
- 2009 Automatic cities, The architectural image in contemporary art, Museum of contemporary art San Diego, Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers New York.
- 2008 Saskia Olde Wolbers, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. C0071
- 2008 The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the moving image, Hirshhorn Washington DC.
- 2003 Now that part of me has become fiction, Artimo.
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