Berndnaut Smilde
Berndnaut Smilde (Groningen, 1978) is a Dutch visual artist.
Early life[edit]
Berndnaut Smilde was born in 1978 in Groningen.[1] In 2005,[citation needed] Smilde graduated with a master's degree in fine art from the Frank Mohr Institute of Hanze University in Groningen.[1][2]
Career[edit]
Smilde's best known works include the series Conditioner; sculptures that spread an antiseptic scent throughout several rooms,[3] and Unflattened, which shows an inverted rainbow.[4]
I see them as temporary sculptures of almost nothing — the edge of materiality. It looks like you can dive into them or grab them, but they just fall apart. There's a duality there that I really like, where you're trying to achieve this ideal thing that then just collapses moments later.[5]
Smilde in an interview with IGNANT
In 2012 he created a series of self-made clouds, of which Nimbus II, 2012, first performed in the Lady Chapel of Hoorn, was included in London's Saatchi Gallery.[6] He chooses locations that are old, damp, that have no air circulation.[5] Time magazine called this technique one of the fifty best inventions of 2012.[7][8]
Exhibitions[edit]
- Process Room (2008)[2]
- Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008)[2]
- Bunker Project (2010)[2]
- Galerie West (2010)[2]
- The Hague (2010)[2]
- Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2013)[1]
- Ronchini Gallery, London (2014)[2]
- LIAN Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai (2015)[1]
Group shows[edit]
- Galerie Boven de Bank (2001)[2]
- Groningen (2001)[2]
- Nofound Photo Fair, Paris (2012)[2]
- Saatchi Gallery, London, (2012)[2]
- Art 13, London (2013)[2]
- Somarts, San Francisco (2013)[2]
- FotoMuseum, Antwerp, (2015)[1]
- Museum Kranenburgh, (2016)[1]
- RWA Bristol, (2017)[1]
- Saatchi Gallery, London (2017)[1]
Awards[edit]
Smilde won a stipend from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts.[1]
Sources[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Malinsky, Richard (22 June 2017). "An Interview with Berndnaut Smilde". The Woven Tale Press. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Punj, Rajesh (24 May 2014). "Berndnaut Smilde interview". Out of Nothing. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ Image of one of the sculptures
- ^ "Unflattened" accompanied by images of the rainbow, '5uur' blog post.
- ^ a b Flanagan, Rosie (1 June 2018). "Berndnaut Smilde, The Man Who Creates Clouds". IGNANT. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ "Selected Works by Berndnaut Smilde". Saatchi Gallery.
- ^ "Best Inventions of the Year 2012 - Indoor Clouds". Time. 1 November 2012.
- ^ Artist creates clouds indoors. Named one of Time magazine's 'Best Inventions of the Year 2012' Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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