BERNDNAUT SMILDE (1978)

Herbarium Collection - Artists - Berndnaut Smilde

Smilde’s work consists of installations, sculptures and photography. He explores the physical de- construction and re-construction of materials; light, space, atmosphere and experience in relation to his architectural environment, creating a new moment between the realms of reality and the temporal.

Smilde holds an MA from the Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen. Awards include a Start Stipend from The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, the FORM Artists’ Residency, Perth, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, US and Irish Museum of Modern Art, IE.
Smilde's work resides in both the Saatchi and the Smithsonian collections among others. Smilde has been written about extensively in art publications; additionally, his Nimbus series was recognized by TIME Magazine as one of the "Top Ten Inventions of 2012".

Selected exhibitions: Bornholms Kunstmuseum (2023), Ronchini Gallery, London, (solo) (2022), World Expo 2020, Netherlands Pavilion, Dubai, UAE (2021-2022) Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, GER (solo) (2021) Stavanger Art Museum, NO (2020), The Armory Show, New York (solo) (2018), Ronchini Gallery, London, (solo) (2017), RWA, Bristol (2016) FotoMuseum, Antwerp, (2015), LIAN Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai (solo) (2015), Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht,(solo) (2013) Saatchi Gallery, London (2012)

Website: https://www.berndnaut.nl/

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The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice. The artists, invited by the curator of "Herbarium" could choose two new participants - so the project traces the exchange of creative energy in the artworld. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. The H Talks series (video portraits of the artists) are shot during the preparation of each presentation of the Herbarium collection in the artists work environment and studios. All the information, gathered in the process of developing the collection, will be available to all researchers, curators, gallery owners, students or art lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms through which contemporary culture functions.

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