Saskia Olde Wolbers (born 1971) is a Dutch video artist who lives and works in London.
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
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Life and career
In 1994, at the age of 16, Pemberton recorded his debut album, ''Bedroom'', on a multitrack cassette recor ...
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She has exhibited widely since 1998. Solo shows include: ''A Shot In The Dark'' at
Vienna Secession
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, 2011;
Goetz Collection
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, 2010; Mori Art Museum Tokyo, 2008; ''The Falling Eye'' at
The Stedelijk Museum
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Amsterdam, 2006; and
Tate Britain
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, London, 2003. In 2014 she created an audio installation at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton, London, the house in which
Vincent van Gogh
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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 2008, Olde Wolbers lectured for the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series.
She is a lecturer at Goldsmiths University.
Awards and prizes
Olde Wolbers has won the Baloise Prize (2003) and the
Beck's Futures
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Prior to the establishment of the prize in 2000, Beck's had sponsored several exhibitions of con ...
*2011 ''Saskia Olde Wolbers, A Shot in the Dark'', Secession.
*2009
*2009 ''Automatic cities, The architectural image in contemporary art'', Museum of contemporary art San Diego, Distributed by