Berndnaut Smilde (Groningen, 1978) is a Dutch visual artist.

Early life

Berndnaut Smilde was born in 1978 in Groningen.[1] In 2005, Smilde graduated with a master's degree in fine art from the Frank Mohr Institute of Hanze University in Groningen.[1][2]

Career

Smilde's best known works include the series Conditioner; sculptures that spread an antiseptic scent throughout several rooms,[3] and Unflattened, which shows an inverted rainbow.[4]

I see them as temporary sculptures of almost nothing — the edge of materiality. It looks like you can dive into them or grab them, but they just fall apart. There's a duality there that I really like, where you're trying to achieve this ideal thing that then just collapses moments later.[5]

Smilde in an interview with IGNANT

In 2012 he created a series of self-made clouds, of which Nimbus II, 2012, first performed in the Lady Chapel of Hoorn, was included in London's Saatchi Gallery.[6] He chooses locations that are old, damp, that have no air circulation.[5] Time magazine called this technique one of the fifty best inventions of 2012.[7][8]

Exhibitions

Group shows

Awards

Smilde won a stipend from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts.[1]

Sources

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Malinsky, Richard (22 June 2017). "An Interview with Berndnaut Smilde". The Woven Tale Press. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Punj, Rajesh (24 May 2014). "Berndnaut Smilde interview". Out of Nothing. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Image of one of the sculptures
  4. ↑ "Unflattened" accompanied by images of the rainbow, '5uur' blog post.
  5. 1 2 Flanagan, Rosie (1 June 2018). "Berndnaut Smilde, The Man Who Creates Clouds". IGNANT. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  6. ↑ "Selected Works by Berndnaut Smilde". Saatchi Gallery.
  7. ↑ "Best Inventions of the Year 2012 - Indoor Clouds". Time. 1 November 2012.
  8. ↑ Artist creates clouds indoors. Named one of Time magazine's 'Best Inventions of the Year 2012' Archived 3 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
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