Since the mid-1990s Saskia Olde Wolbers has been working with video and has shown extensively in UK and international museums, galleries and public spaces.
Olde Wolbers’s short narrative videos combine carefully crafted fictional scripts with visuals that reveal other-worldly environments. Off-screen narrators address the fluidity of fact through biographies relating to notions of translation, neurosis and verisimilitude with an eye for wit and the absurd.
Saskia Olde Wolbers lives and works in London (UK).
2019 | Unreliable Biographers, Van Gogh House, London |
2017 | Pan O’Rama, 360dgrs BRWNDR, Viewmaster Foundation, Maastricht |
2016 | Yes, these Eyes are the Windows, curator Bice Curgier, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, FR |
2014 | Pareidolia, Art Unlimited, Basel, CH |
2014 | Yes, these Eyes are the Windows, Artangel commission, 87 Hackford Road, London, GB |
2013 | Artangel Commission 87 Hackford Road, London, GB |
2013 | Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, JP |
2013 | Ota Fine Arts, Singapore, SG |
2013 | Kinemacolor, Museum M, Leuven, BE |
2012 | Pareidolia, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
2012 | Pareidolia, Maureen Paley, London, GB |
2011 | Seven Screens Osram, Munich, DE |
2011 | Wiener Secession, Association of Visual Artists, Vienna, AT |
2010 | Goetz Collection, Munich, DE |
2008 | Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP |
2008 | Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, CA |
2008 | Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, JP |
2008 | New Media Series, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, FR |
2007 | Maureen Paley, London, GB |
2007 | Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, CA |
2006 | The Falling Eye, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, NL |
2005 | Trailer, South London Gallery, London, GB |
2005 | Trailer, AGNSW (Art Gallery of New South Wales), AU |
2004 | Maureen Paley, London, GB |
2004 | Baloize Prize 2003 SMAK, Gent, BE |
2004 | Now that part of me has become fiction, Kunsthalle St Gallen, DE |
2003 | Statements, Art Basel – Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
2003 | Lightbox, Art Now Film & Video Tate Britain, GB |
2003 | Now that part of me has become fiction, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NL |
2003 | Placebo, Transmission Lower Floor Gallery, Glasgow, GB |
2003 | Interloper, Galerie Diana Stigter Amsterdam, NL |
2020 | Towner International, Towner, Eastbourne |
2020 | Real Time, Seventeen gallery, London |
2020 | Circular Cultures: Design, Fashion, Crafts, Onassis Stegi, Athens |
2020 | Crafting the Future, The Onassis Foundation / British Council, Athens |
2020 | Beating Around the Bush #6, The Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht |
2020 | Cartographies of the Imagination, London |
2019 | The Collection (1) | Highlights for a Future, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent |
2019 | Céline Condorelli: Host / Vært, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, touring: Rose Art Museum, Boston |
2019 | La Pintura un Reto Permanente, CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid |
2018 | Gallery Collection, Ota fine arts, Shanghai |
2018 | CITRUS NORTH curated by Susi Gelb, Easy!upstream, Munich |
2018 | Resilient Futures, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
2018 | Out of Time (collection display), S.M.A.K, Gent |
2018 | Phantom Limb: Art beyond Escher, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden |
2018 | Stedelijk Base ( collection display ), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
2018 | Known Unknown, Saatchi Gallery |
2018 | Doing Identity. The Reydan Weiss Collection, Kunstmuseum Bochum |
2018 | Why Art?. Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm |
2018 | Telling Tales, Liao Jiekai and Saskia Olde Wolbers, Ota fine arts, Shanghai |
2018 | Women’s Work: Art from Southwark Collections, Morley Gallery, Morley College, London |
2017 | Paratoxic Paradoxes, Benaki Museum, Athens |
2017 | Celeste Prize final exhibition, Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London |
2017 | Offshore: artists explore the sea, Ferens Art Gallery and Hull Maritime Museum |
2016 | Immerse, Kinokino, Sandnes |
2016 | Our machines, the Obsever Building galler, Hastings |
2016 | Coral North, easy!upstream, Munich |
2016 | I Prefer Life Reydan weiss Collection, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen |
2016 | Connubial, Gunhild Hammeraasof Garborgsenteret, Bryne |
2015 | Yes, these Eyes are the Windows, Art Amsterdam, ADFA, curated by Bart Rutten, Stedelijk Museum |
2015 | Folds in Time: Artists’ Responses to the Tempora land the Uncanny, The Freud Museum, London, GB |
2015 | Black Box 2.0 International Art, Film & Tech. Festival, Seattle Int. Film Festival, US |
2015 | Yes, these Eyes are the Windows, KINO DER KUNST 2015, Munich, DE and Neues Meseum Nurnberg, DE |
2015 | A Breathcrystal,project by Projects Arts Centre and Irish Film Institute,Project Arts Centre,Dublin, |
2014 | Anne Lindberg & Saskia Wolbers: Unmade, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Cont. Art, Cincinnati,US |
2014 | Story Time: Or Was It?, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, IS |
2014 | Penetrating Surfaces; Apparitions in Digital Space, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Vienna, CH |
2014 | A Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz: RCA Film Night Series, Royal College of Art, London, GB |
2014 | Twixt Two Worlds, Whitechapel Gallery, London, touring to Towner Museum, Eastbourne, GB |
2014 | The Surface of The World : Architecture & The Moving Image, MCAD, Manila, Philippines |
2013 | Beyond Tradition, Garage, Rotterdam, NL |
2013 | Visceral Sensation, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, (C) |
2013 | Slow Burn, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands |
2013 | Wanderlust, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK |
2013 | Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen , USA |
2013 | Beyond Tradition, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL |
2012 | Through an open window, Art contemporain de la Rabo Art Collection, Institut Neerlandais, Paris |
2012 | Slow Burn- an Index of Possibilities, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, NL. |
2012 | Restless, Adelaide International 2012, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, AUS. |
2011 | Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art , Tasmania, AUS. C |
2011 | John Kaldor Family Collection, AGNSW, Sidney, AUS. C |
2011 | The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, ES. |
2010 | In What We Trust, Art Miami, USA. C |
2010 | For Real, video art in public space, Hasselt / Maastricht, BE/NL. |
2010 | Dying in spite of the miraculous, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Int. Arts Festival, AUS. |
2010 | A Bluebird in My Heart, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, ZB. |
2010 | Deception of the Eye. Special Effects in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, DE. C |
2010 | Dying in spite of the miraculous, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, AUS. |
2010 | Disturbed Silence, Duffel, BE. |
2009 | Manipulating Reality, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy. |
2009 | Heaven, 2nd Athens Bienal, Athens, GR. C |
2009 | Automated Cities, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA. C |
2009 | Stressed Spaces, KW14, s’Hertogenbosch, NL. C |
2009 | Virtuoze Zinsbegoochelingen, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL. |
2008 | Four Thursday Nights: Creative Imagination, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA. |
2008 | The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Part I: “Dreams”, |
2008 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA. |
2008 | Space Now, Space Studios, London, UK. |
2008 | Love and Politics, in a minor key, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, TK. |
2008 | Stop,Look and Listen, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,Cornell University, NY, USA. C |
2007 | Genesis: Life at the end of the information age, Centraal Museum, Utrecht., NL. |
2006 | Visibilities: Between Facts and Fictions, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg, DE. |
2005 | “The Plain of Heaven”, The High Line, organised by Creative Time, New York, USA. C |
2005 | The British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery (Touring exhibition), London, UK. C |
2005 | Two by two, FOR AIDS AND ART, Sotheby’s auction, London, UK. C |
2004 | Into My World / Recent British Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA. C |
2004 | WonderHolland. Mercati di Traiano, Rome, IT. C |
2004 | Real World Theatre – encapsulated in life, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA. |
2004 | Becks Futures, ICA, London, UK. C |
2004 | Another Zero, L’Arte Enterprize Museum, Bergamo, IT. C |
2004 | Bloom Govett-Brewster Contemporary Art Museum, New Plymouth , NZ. C |
2004 | Vis/Vitalis, Centraal Musem, Utrecht, NL. |
2003 | Displaced, Armand Hammer Museum Los Angeles, USA. C |
2003 | Fast Forward, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE. C |
2003 | Shine, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL. C |
2003 | Turbulence, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL. C |
2003 | Anti-Pure, Kunsthalle St Gallen / Ursula Blicke Stiftung, St Gallen, CH. C |
2003 | Models en Mavericks, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NL. |
2003 | Nano, Gallerie Fraich Attitude, Paris, FR. C |
2003 | Wonderland, Artspace, Auckland, NZ. |
2002 | Reality Check, British Council touring video show Slovenia, Prague, London, Zagreb, Cracow, Riga. C |
2002 | 20202, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL. |
2002 | Prix de Rome Award film & video Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL. C |
2001 | Casino SMAK, Gent, BE. |
2001 | Tirana Biennial National Gallery of Albania, Tirana, AB. C |
2001 | New Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL. |
2001 | Nuove Scene dall’Olanda, Museo Castello di Rivoli, Torino, IT. |
2001 | Echt Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, CH. |
2001 | Insider Trading, Mandeville Hotel, London, UK. |