Saar Scheerlings 1990
Lives in Eindhoven & France. Works in Eindhoven & France.
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Valerius Gallery
Born 1990 in Eindhoven.
Lives and works between Amsterdam and France.
Saar Scheerlings embarked on her artistic journey after studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven and gaining experience as a chef and theater designer.
Saar 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 Design Museum Gent, Hanwha Galleria Seoul, Tripostal Lille, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Valerius Gallery, and later this year at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as a finalist for the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
Lives and works between Amsterdam and France.
Saar Scheerlings embarked on her artistic journey after studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven and gaining experience as a chef and theater designer.
Saar 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 Design Museum Gent, Hanwha Galleria Seoul, Tripostal Lille, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Valerius Gallery, and later this year at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as a finalist for the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
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EDUCATION
Design Academy Eindhoven, graduated 2014
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Rotterdam, Galerie Fleur en Wouter (group); Rotterdam, NL
Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
HAGD the den (solo), HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg, DK
CAN Art Ibiza, with HAGD Contemporary, Group show, Ibiza, ES
2023 Sources of wonder, Group-Show, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam, NL
SWAB Art Fair Barcelona, Solo, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Barcelona, ES
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
WHITE, Group show, HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg, DK
Révélations Paris with World Craft Council Europe, Paris, FR
Museum JAN Amstelveen
Unfolding at Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam, NL (solo-show)
2022 AMC Amsterdam, NL
Textile Totems (Masterclass) at Textielmuseum Tilburg, NL
De Kliuw, Heeze, NL
2021 Pan Amsterdam, group, Residence
Art Rotterdam, Solo Show, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam, NL
KunstRAI, Group Show, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam NL
Colors, etc. Tripostal, Lille, FR
World Trade Center, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Group show, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg, LU
Sight by Sight, Johan Kleinjan & Saar Scheerlings, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam, NL
Kleureyck, Design Museum Gent, Gent, BE
Dutch Parade, Hanwha Galleria, Seoul, South Korea
2019 How&Wow Crafts Council NL, Dutch Design Week
Key Figures, NR8 Arnhem, NL
Rumours Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Sitstentoonstelling, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
Ambacht in Dracht, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, NL
Designkwartier Den Haag, NL
Between Bars, de Sociale Dienst Eindhoven, NL
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Ministerie van Binnenlandse, NL
EDUCATION
Design Academy Eindhoven, graduated 2014
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Rotterdam, Galerie Fleur en Wouter (group); Rotterdam, NL
Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
HAGD the den (solo), HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg, DK
CAN Art Ibiza, with HAGD Contemporary, Group show, Ibiza, ES
2023 Sources of wonder, Group-Show, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam, NL
SWAB Art Fair Barcelona, Solo, Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Barcelona, ES
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
WHITE, Group show, HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg, DK
Révélations Paris with World Craft Council Europe, Paris, FR
Museum JAN Amstelveen
Unfolding at Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam, NL (solo-show)
2022 AMC Amsterdam, NL
Textile Totems (Masterclass) at Textielmuseum Tilburg, NL
De Kliuw, Heeze, NL
2021 Pan Amsterdam, group, Residence
Art Rotterdam, Solo Show, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam, NL
KunstRAI, Group Show, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam NL
Colors, etc. Tripostal, Lille, FR
World Trade Center, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Group show, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg, LU
Sight by Sight, Johan Kleinjan & Saar Scheerlings, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam, NL
Kleureyck, Design Museum Gent, Gent, BE
Dutch Parade, Hanwha Galleria, Seoul, South Korea
2019 How&Wow Crafts Council NL, Dutch Design Week
Key Figures, NR8 Arnhem, NL
Rumours Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Sitstentoonstelling, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
Ambacht in Dracht, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, NL
Designkwartier Den Haag, NL
Between Bars, de Sociale Dienst Eindhoven, NL
COLLECTIONS
Ministerie van Binnenlandse, NL
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