Oliver Beer (born 1985) is a British artist who lives and works in Kent and Paris. He graduated in 2009 from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, England and in 2007 from the

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in England.

Biography

Beer's background in both music and fine art led to an early interest in the relationship between sound and space, particularly the voice and architecture. He has translated his research into fascinating performances in which spectators take part by the mere fact of their presence, and he makes sculptures and videos that embody, literally or metaphorically, the plastic expression of this subtle relationship and the way the human body experiences it. Within and alongside his work with sound, Oliver Beer creates subtle and diverse sculptural, installation and film projects whose provenance sometimes seems biographical; but in which his play with universal – often intimate – concerns draws on shared emotions and perceptions. Oliver Beer's work has been the subject of many screenings as well as solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; the Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Vuitton and Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon; Modern Art Oxford; WIELS, Brussels; the Ménagerie de Verre, Paris; the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. Oliver Beer has also held residencies at the Palais de Tokyo, the Watermill Foundation and the Fondation Hermès.

Solo exhibitions

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'', 2 July – 11 August 2019 * Galerie des Arts Visuels, Quebec City, Canada, ''Recomposition (Baloo Stripped Bare),'' 16 February – 21 April 2019 * University of New South Wales Gallery, Sydney, Australia ''Impossible Composition'', 1–23 February 2019 * Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, ''Household Gods'', 12 January – 16 February 2019 ;2018 * Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne ''Impossible Composition'' curated by Anaïs Lellouche, 24 March – 21 April 2018 George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, USA, * ''Reanimation (Snow White)'', Video Presentation, 30 October 2018 – 1 January 2019 Ruya Foundation, Baghdad, Iraq * ''Reanimation (Alice Falling)'', Video Presentation, 16 November – 8 December 2018 ;2017
THADDAEUS ROPAC GALLERY
Ely House, London New Performance and Sculpture, 28 April 2017 – 29 July 2017
IKON GALLERY
Birmingham Solo exhibition, 15 March – 14 June 2017 ;2016 * POMPIDOU CENTRE, Paris Polyphonies curated by Christine Macel 19 October 2016 – 23 January 2017 * NUIT BLANCHE, Paris, 2016 Live Stream, Pont des Arts, 1 October 2016 * VG PRIZE EXHIBITION, London August–September 2016 * FRAENKEL LAB, San Francisco, Reanimation (Snow White), January 2016 ;2015 * AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo, Life, Death and Tennis. Daiwa Art Prize 2015 solo exhibition November–December 2015 * ASAKUSA HOUSE, Tokyo, Deconstructing Sound, Daiwa Art Prize 2015 solo exhibition November–December 2015
WATERMILL CENTER
New York, Making Tristan, Watermill Center artist in residence September 2015 * KILIC ALI PASA HAMAM, Istanbul, Call to Sound, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac / Istanbul Biennale September 2015 * DAIWA ART PRIZE 2015, London, Daiwa Foundation Art Prize Exhibition, 12 June – 17 July 2015 ;2014 * Diabolus in Musica, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, (Septembre 2014) * Rabbit Hole, Oliver Beer, MAC Lyon, (6 Juin – 17 Août 2014) * Prospectif Cinéma – Oliver Beer, Pompidou Centre, Paris (22 May 2014) * Sunday Sessions, MoMA PS1, New York, (6 April 2014) ;2013 * Composition for Hearing an Architectural space, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin * Oliver Beer, Villa Arson, Nice * Outside-In, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (permanent installation) * Out of Shot, Silencio, Paris ;2012 * Klang, Palais de Tokyo, Paris ;2011 * Pay and Display, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK ;2010 * Deep and Meaningful, MurmurART, 20 Hoxton Square, London * Training, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (Tower Room) ;2009 * Die Budgie History, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford ;2008 * The Resonance Project, Abbazia di Farfa, Rome, Italy ;2007 * Oliver Beer, La Viande Gallery, London

Public collections

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, France * FRAC (Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain), Île-de-France, France Nouvelles acquisitions du Frac Ile-de-France
FRAC's website * FRAC, Midi-Pyrénées, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse * Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France * Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris * MACVAL, Ivry-sur-Seine * Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, * Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Australie * Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris * National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japon * Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Royaume des Pays-Bas * IKON Gallery, Birmingham, Royaume-Uni * Zabludowicz 176 Collection, London, Royaume-Uni * Kramlich Collection, San Francisco, Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Bibliography

* 2014 Rabbit Hall, Oliver Beer, co-edited by Mac Lyon and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, texts by Thierry Raspail, Jonathan Wattkins, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel,

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and

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. * 2014 Oliver Beer : topologies singulières, 02 magazine, text by Ingrid Luquet-Gad * 2013 Oliver Beer, cahier de résidence. Fondation Hermès, text by Clément Dirier, Editions Actes Sud * 2013 Voyage en territoires partagés, dir.

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, including a text by Oliver Beer, Editions Cercle d'Art * 2013 Expérienz, Art Même No. 58 * 2013 The Resonance Project, Dante No. 4 * 2012 Arts Magazine April issue Oliver Beer: Echologiste by Francois Quintin * 2012 Palais Magazine No. 16, Composition for tuning an architectural space insert. Editions Palais de Tokyo

References

External links

Oliver Beer
personal artist's website {{DEFAULTSORT:Beer, Oliver 1985 births Living people Alumni of the Ruskin School of Art 21st-century British artists 21st-century male artists British contemporary artists 21st-century British male artists