Career
Since the mid-1990s, Saskia Olde Wolbers has been developing fictional documentaries often loosely based on factual events. Her intricate videos are driven by a combination of otherworldly imagery – meticulously handmade model sets – and the apparent inner monologue of the voiceover in the audio book-like soundtrack. The films are shot underwater, miniature sets dipped in paint to create unstable imagery that abstractly illustrates the narrator"s thought process.
In her most recent works, the music soundtrack has been composed by Daniel Pemberton.
She has exhibited widely since 1998. Solo shows include: A Shot In The Dark at Vienna Secession, 2011.
Goetz Collection, 2010. Mori Art Museum Tokyo, 2008.
The Falling Eye at The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2006.
And Tate Britain, London, 2003. Author and curator Phillip Monk describes in his book The Saskia Olde Wolbers Files, "Olde Wolbers not only joins fictional and documentary elements in her scripts, she links them to series of images, themselves fabricated and quite fantastic in their nature." In 2008, Olde Wolbers lectured for the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. Saskia Olde Wolbers is represented by Maureen Paley, London.
She is a lecturer at Goldsmiths University.
2011 Pareidolia 2007 Deadline 2005 Trailer 2003 Interloper 2002 Placebo 2000 Kilowatt Dynasty 1999 Day-Glo 1998 Cosmos 1997 Octet 1996 The Mary Hay Room.