Background
Oliver Beer was born in 1985, in Kent, United Kingdom.
Rodboro Buildings, Bridge Street, Guildford GU1 4SB, United Kingdom
In 2004, Oliver entered the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, England, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007.
74 High St, Oxford OX1 4BG, United Kingdom
In 2009, Beer finished his studies at the Ruskin School of Art, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Oliver Beer (left) and Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet at the Sydney Opera House. Picture: Anna Kucera.
Rodboro Buildings, Bridge Street, Guildford GU1 4SB, United Kingdom
In 2004, Oliver entered the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, England, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007.
74 High St, Oxford OX1 4BG, United Kingdom
In 2009, Beer finished his studies at the Ruskin School of Art, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Oliver Beer (left) and Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet at the Sydney Opera House. Picture: Anna Kucera.
Oliver Beer was born in 1985, in Kent, United Kingdom.
In 2004, Oliver entered the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, England, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2007. In 2009, he finished his studies at the Ruskin School of Art, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
Oliver took part in many solo exhibitions, including "Oliver Beer", La Viande Gallery, London (2007), "Die Budgie History", Dolphin Gallery, Oxford (2009), "Pay and Display", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2011), "Out of Shot", Silencio, Paris (2013), "Prospectif Cinéma - Oliver Beer", Pompidou Centre, Paris (2014), "Life, Death and Tennis", Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, Japan (2015), Birmingham Solo exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom (2017), "Reanimation (Alice Falling)", video presentation (2018), "Vessel Orchestra", Met Breuer, New York City (2019) and others.
In addition, Beer acted as an artist-in-residence at the Palais de Tokyo (2011), Fondation d'Entreprise Hermès (2012), Villa Arson (2013), Watermill Center (2015) and Sydney Opera House (2017).
Currently, the artist divides his time between Kent and Paris.
Oliver Beer is a well-known artist, who gained prominence for his work, that explores sound and space through sculpture, film and performance.
In 2015, Beer received a Daiwa Foundation Art Prize.
Oliver's works are kept in the collections of different art centers, museums and foundations, including the Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France; Fond Régional d'Art Contemporain, Île-de-France, France; Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom and others.
Oliver explores the relationship between sound and space, particularly the voice and architecture. He creates performances, in which spectators take part by the mere fact of their presence, and he also makes sculptures and videos, that embody, literally or metaphorically, the plastic expression of this subtle relationship and the way the human body experiences it. In addition, interested in the resonant frequencies of objects and architecture, Beer devises work, which stimulates the unique voice of empty space.
