Oliver Beer (artist)

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 Academy of Contemporary Music in England. 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. 2019 Met Breuer, New York, USA, Vessel Orchestra, 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.