Saar Scheerlings 1990
Lives in Le Maupas, Sussey (FR). Works in Le Maupas, Sussey (FR).
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Galerie Fleur & Wouter
Born in Eindhoven in 1990, Saar Scheerlings embarked on her artistic journey after studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven and gaining experience as a chef and theater designer. Scheerlings mixes the disciplines of art, design and craft to find processes that give rise to new types and expressions. Her work includes large ceramic vessels that serve as painted maps, decanters that seem unwilling to pour, paintings that resemble fabrics and soft monumental sculptures.
For her, a medium is not defined: she prefers to create her own playing field and associated rules. A great interest in daily life probably comes from her education in design, but she is not very interested in the way products are industrially designed, made and used. She prefers to see forms as intermediate phases of a creative process, a game, a tradition, a ritual, a culinary dish. It is the commitment to this process that gives objects meaning.
Saars work is often triggered by the beauty and dedication of old materials like the antique linens she finds at garage sales in the French countryside where she lives. With a laborious process of sculpting, cutting, sewing and weaving she breathes new life into these materials, transforming them into her monumental talisman sculptures. Weaving is not only a technique for Saar, it is a metaphor for her entire work. She sees her oeuvre as an expanding structure. She not only creates work, she works on her own culture.
Her work has been shown in various international galleries and museums including CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, Design Museum Gent, Hanwha Galleria Seoul, Tripostal Lille, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Valerius Gallery, HAGD Contemporary, Garage Rotterdam and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as a finalist for the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
For her, a medium is not defined: she prefers to create her own playing field and associated rules. A great interest in daily life probably comes from her education in design, but she is not very interested in the way products are industrially designed, made and used. She prefers to see forms as intermediate phases of a creative process, a game, a tradition, a ritual, a culinary dish. It is the commitment to this process that gives objects meaning.
Saars work is often triggered by the beauty and dedication of old materials like the antique linens she finds at garage sales in the French countryside where she lives. With a laborious process of sculpting, cutting, sewing and weaving she breathes new life into these materials, transforming them into her monumental talisman sculptures. Weaving is not only a technique for Saar, it is a metaphor for her entire work. She sees her oeuvre as an expanding structure. She not only creates work, she works on her own culture.
Her work has been shown in various international galleries and museums including CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen, Design Museum Gent, Hanwha Galleria Seoul, Tripostal Lille, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Valerius Gallery, HAGD Contemporary, Garage Rotterdam and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as a finalist for the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
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After graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven, Saar Scheerlings (NL, 1990) set out on a path that has led to the creation of visual art. Her art is an endless mill of production, constantly susceptible to outside influences. It is a process like a trade route or port where all kinds of previously unknown things can influence each other. Her work has been shown in various international museum shows, such as Zuiderzeemuseum, Fries Museum, Design Museum Gent and Dutch Parade, Hanwha Galleria Seoul, South Korea. Saar lives and works in the remote village of Le Maupas, France.
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Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1990
Education
Design Academy Eindhoven, graduated 2014
Awards
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024, nominated
Exhibitions
2025
Unwind, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam (solo)
New Mother Sculptures, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen (group)
De cuando jugábamos, Galeria Silvestre, Madrid, Spain (group)
Identity, Verduyn Gallery, Wortegem (BE) (group)
Mètis, La Peau de l’Ours, Brussels (BE) (group)
2024
Pan Art Fair, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter (group)
Sugar Rush, duo with Mario Picardo, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg (duo)
CAN Art Ibiza, with HAGD Contemporary, Ibiza, Spain (group)
Art Rotterdam, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Rotterdam (group)
White, HAGD Contemporary, Denmark (solo)
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024, Paris
2023
Révélations Paris with World Craft Council Europe
Museum JAN Amstelveen (group)
Sources of Wonder, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam (group)
Unfolding at Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam (solo)
2022
AMC Amsterdam
Textile Totems (Masterclass) at Textielmuseum Tilburg De Kliuw Heeze
2021
Pan Amsterdam, group, Residence
Art Rotterdam, Solo, Galerie Fleur & Wouter KunstRAI, group, Galerie Fleur & Wouter Colors, etc. Tripostal, Lille
World Trade Center, Amsterdam
2020
Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg
Sight by Sight, Johan Kleinjan & Saar Scheerlings, Galerie Fleur & Wouter Kleureyck, Design Museum Gent
Dutch Parade, Hanwha Galleria Seoul
2019
How&Wow Crafts Council NL, Dutch Design Week Key Figures, NR8 Arnhem
Rumours Rotterdam
2018
Sitstentoonstelling, Fries Museum
Ambacht in Dracht, Zuiderzeemuseum Designkwartier Den Haag
Between Bars, de Sociale Dienst Eindhoven
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Ministerie van Binnenlandse zaken
Ministerie van Buitenlandse zaken
Education
Design Academy Eindhoven, graduated 2014
Awards
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024, nominated
Exhibitions
2025
Unwind, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam (solo)
New Mother Sculptures, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen (group)
De cuando jugábamos, Galeria Silvestre, Madrid, Spain (group)
Identity, Verduyn Gallery, Wortegem (BE) (group)
Mètis, La Peau de l’Ours, Brussels (BE) (group)
2024
Pan Art Fair, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter (group)
Sugar Rush, duo with Mario Picardo, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg (duo)
CAN Art Ibiza, with HAGD Contemporary, Ibiza, Spain (group)
Art Rotterdam, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Rotterdam (group)
White, HAGD Contemporary, Denmark (solo)
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024, Paris
2023
Révélations Paris with World Craft Council Europe
Museum JAN Amstelveen (group)
Sources of Wonder, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam (group)
Unfolding at Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam (solo)
2022
AMC Amsterdam
Textile Totems (Masterclass) at Textielmuseum Tilburg De Kliuw Heeze
2021
Pan Amsterdam, group, Residence
Art Rotterdam, Solo, Galerie Fleur & Wouter KunstRAI, group, Galerie Fleur & Wouter Colors, etc. Tripostal, Lille
World Trade Center, Amsterdam
2020
Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg
Sight by Sight, Johan Kleinjan & Saar Scheerlings, Galerie Fleur & Wouter Kleureyck, Design Museum Gent
Dutch Parade, Hanwha Galleria Seoul
2019
How&Wow Crafts Council NL, Dutch Design Week Key Figures, NR8 Arnhem
Rumours Rotterdam
2018
Sitstentoonstelling, Fries Museum
Ambacht in Dracht, Zuiderzeemuseum Designkwartier Den Haag
Between Bars, de Sociale Dienst Eindhoven
Collections
Ministerie van Binnenlandse zaken
Ministerie van Buitenlandse zaken
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