Berndnaut Smilde (
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
, 1978) is a Dutch
visual artist.
Early life
Berndnaut Smilde was born in 1978 in
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
.
In 2005, Smilde graduated with a master's degree in fine art from the
Frank Mohr Institute {{No footnotes, date=April 2009
Founded in 1996, the Frank Mohr Institute is the Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in the Arts and Emerging Media of the Hanze University Groningen in the Netherlands. In cooperation with the University o ...
of
Hanze University
Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen (Hanze UAS, nl, Hanzehogeschool Groningen) is the largest technical & vocational university in the northern Netherlands and is located in Groningen.
Hanze UAS offers various Bachelor and Master pr ...
in Groningen.
Career
Smilde's best known works include the series ''Conditioner''; sculptures that spread an
antiseptic scent throughout several rooms, and ''Unflattened'', which shows an inverted rainbow.
In 2012 he created a series of self-made clouds, of which ''Nimbus II, 2012'', first performed in the Lady Chapel of
Hoorn
Hoorn () is a city and municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the largest town and the traditional capital of the region of West Friesland. Hoorn is located on the Markermeer, 20 kilometers ( ...
, was included in
London's
Saatchi Gallery. He chooses locations that are old, damp, that have no air circulation.
''
Time'' magazine called this technique one of the fifty best inventions of 2012.
Artist creates clouds indoors. Named one of Time magazine's 'Best Inventions of the Year 2012'
Exhibitions
* Process Room (2008)[
* Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008)][
* Bunker Project (2010)][
* Galerie West (2010)][
* The Hague (2010)][
* ]Bonnefantenmuseum
The Bonnefanten Museum is a museum of fine art in Maastricht, Netherlands.
History
The museum was founded in 1884 as the historical and archaeological museum of the Dutch province of Limburg. The name Bonnefanten Museum is derived from the Frenc ...
, Maastricht (2013)[
* LIAN Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai (2015)]
Group shows
* Galerie Boven de Bank (2001)[
* ]Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
(2001)[
* Nofound Photo Fair, Paris (2012)][
* Saatchi Gallery, London, (2012)][
* Art 13, London (2013)][
* Somarts, San Francisco (2013)][
* FotoMuseum, Antwerp, (2015)]
Awards
Smilde won a stipend from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts.
Sources
External links
*
Recordings of the Clouds
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1978 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch sculptors
Dutch male sculptors
Artists from Groningen (city)