LUCY SKAER Rural Works May 21 – June 19, 2021 Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL)
LUCY SKAER Rural Works GRIMM is pleased to announce Rural Works a new solo exhibition of works by Lucy Skaer at our Van Baerlestraat location in Amsterdam. Lucy Skaer masterfully combines form and material, navigating between points in time and mutable physical states. She pulls her subject matter away from its original context while preserving a sense of material memory; this is present in her new body of works, where she translates the forms of animals into ceramic, bronze and carved-stone sculptures. Sequences of abstract animal pelts manifest simultaneous natural states; they shift from flora, to fauna, mineral to weather event. Among them, six small-scale ceramic pelts are striking for their individual subtleties and the gradations of forms they produce as a collection. The large bronze pelts were conceived as an embodiment of the words, “forest”, “fire”, “glass” and “fog”. Skaer combines and layers her references upon one another so that varying juxtapositions of texture ¬are coupled. Along with the pelts, a pair of stone basins supporting abstract animal heads are positioned within the gallery space. The latter respond to the staging of religious rituals, suggesting sacred or occult functions. Skaer’s symbolic language draws from her long-term exploration of material, memory, and the bonds between humans and animals. Her process is further informed by research she conducted at the Temple of Mithras where she examined artefacts from the renowned Roman-Era archaeological site in the center of London. Through Skaer’s gesture ancient forms are nurtured and reanimated, acquiring new dimensions that connect them to present systems of knowledge.
By paying close attention, Skaer l of the divine in subject matter tha its own alchemic story and allows the deeper potential of both imag of meaning.
About the artist Lucy Skaer (b. 1975 in Cambridge
(UK) and Glasgow (UK). She grad of Art in 1997. In 2009, Skaer wa 2007 she represented Scotland a She is a 2021 resident at the Chin (US) and was previously awarded Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US) in University of Art and Design in Va
Skaer’s recent solo exhibitions inc SPACE, London (UK); Future Sun Day Divider, Meessen De Clerq, B with works by Carol Rhodes & Ha Amsterdam (NL); The Green Man (UK); Sentiment, Peter Freeman I Available Fonts, Kunsthalle, Salzb Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT); Avail Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE); U Smaller House), Museo Tamayo, M Musée, Régional d’Art Contempor GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); Leonor Canterbury (UK); One Remove, Ku (NL); Sticks & Stones, Murray Guy Random House, Peter Freeman, N
locates and amplifies a sense at is terrestrial. Each work tells s the viewer to comprehend ges and objects as vessels
e, UK) lives and works in London
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clude: Forest on Fire, Bloomberg n, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); Brussels (BE); Heavy Weather, anneline Visnes, GRIMM, n, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Inc., New York, NY (US); burg (AT); La Chasse, lable Fonts, KW Institute for Una Casa Más Pequeña (The Mexico City (MX); La Chasse, rain, Serignan (FR); Past Shows, ra, Sidney Cooper Gallery, unstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam y, New York, NY (US); and New York, NY (US).
May 21 – June 19, 2021 Van Baerlestraat 80, Amsterdam (NL)
About the gallery GRIMM was founded in Amsterdam in 2005. Since its establishment, the gallery has been committed to promoting and supporting emerging and mid-career artists who work in a diverse range of media. Representing thirty international artists, the gallery has two spaces in Amsterdam, and one in New York. GRIMM recently expanded to a new 6,000 square foot gallery space in Tribeca, New York, NY (US) in 2021.
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Forest on Fire, 2020 Bronze 153 x 111 x 13.5 cm | 60 1/4 x 43 3/4 x 5 1/4 in Series of four variants
Forest under Fire, 2020 Bronze 134 x 113 x 9 cm | 52 3/4 x 44 1/2 x 3 1/2 in Series of four variants
Detail | Forest on Fire, 2020
Forest under Glass, 2020 Bronze 127 x 113 x 14.5 cm | 50 x 44 1/2 x 5 3/4 in Series of four variants
Fog on Fire, 2020 Bronze 122 x 87 x 15 cm | 48 1/8 x 34 1/4 x 5 7/8 in Series of four variants
Detail | Fog on Fire, 2020
Installation view | Rural works | GRIMM Amsterdam (NL), 2021
Glass under Fire, 2020 Bronze 144 x 145 x 18.5 cm | 56 3/4 x 57 1/8 x 7 1/4 in Series of four variants
Lucy Skaer’s bronze pelts are tributes to the interaction between humans and nature, retaining the rugged texture of the animal’s protective fur in their expressive bronze surfaces. Skaer has long been interested in the allegorical significance of hunting, and these new works develop her approach to representing the result of this interspecies interaction.
Detail | Glass under Fire, 2020
Installation view | Rural works | GRIMM Amsterdam (NL), 2021
Fog on Glass, 2020 Bronze 110 x 124 x 5 cm | 43 1/4 x 48 7/8 x 2 in Series of four variants
Slate and Stone, 2020 Stone and cast iron 77.5 x 107 x 39.5 cm | 30 1/2 x 42 1/8 x 15 1/2 in
Detail | Untitled, 2020
Slate and Stone, 2020 Stone and cast iron 70 x 107 x 39.5 cm | 27 1/2 x 42 1/8 x 15 1/2 in
Lucy Skaer
La Chasse, Salzburger Kunsteverein, Salzburg (AT)
b. 1975 in Cambridge (UK)
2017
Available Fonts, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)
Lives and works in Glasgow and London (UK)
Una Casa Más Pequeña (The Smaller House), Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX)
EDUCATION
La Chasse, MRAC, Serignan (FR)
1997 BA Honors Fine Art, Environmental Art Department, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK)
Past Shows, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
RESIDENCIES
2015 Lucy Skaer, Sticks and Stones, La Salle de Bains Hors les Murs, Musée Gallo-Romain de Lyon Fourvière, Lyon (FR)
2021 Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (US) 2016 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US) 2015 Emily Carr University, Vancouver (CA) 2013 Atelier Calder, Saché (FR) 2010 Location One International Fellowship, New York, NY (US)
2016 Leonora, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (UK)
One Remove, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL)
Random House, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY (US)
Sticks & Stones, Murray Guy, New York, NY (US) 2014 Lucy Skaer, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow (UK)
2008 Laurenz House Foundation Residency, Basel (CH)
2006 Scottish Arts Council Studio Residency, New York, NY (US)
2013 Exit, Voice and Loyalty, Tramway, Glasgow (UK)
2002 NIFCA Network North Residency, Faroe Islands (DK)
Lucy Skaer: A Proposal for Mount Stuart 2013, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland (UK)
Wellcome Trust Sci - Art Grant, London (UK)
2001 Scottish Arts Council Amsterdam Studio Residency, Amsterdam (NL) AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS 2016 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award
Prix Canson
2009 Turner Prize
Lucy Skaer, with Paolo Scheggi, Cortesi Contemporary, Lugano (IT)
Lucy Skaer: MONDAY 8.4.13..., Yale Union, Portland, OR (US)
Force Justify, CAB, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos (ES)
2012 Force Justify, Part 3, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
Force Justify, Part 1 & 2, Tulips & Roses, Brussels (BE)
2002 Beck’s Futures
Scene, Hold, Ballast: David Maljkovic and Lucy Skaer, Sculpture Center, New York, NY (US)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Rural Works, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) 2020 Forest on Fire, Bloomberg Space, London (UK)
Future Sun, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
2019 Day Divider, Meessen De Clerq, Brussels (BE)
Heavy Weather, with works by Carol Rhodes & Hanneline Visnes, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 The Green Man, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) Sentiment, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY (US)
Available Fonts, Salzburger Kunsthalle, Salzburg (AT)
Harlequin is As Harlequin Does, Murray Guy, New York, NY (US)
2011 Film for Abandoned Projector, Pavilion, Leeds (UK)
Blanks and Ballast, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris (FR)
2010 Rachel, Peter, Caitlin, John, Location One, New York, NY (US) 2009 A Boat Used As A Vessel, Kunsthalle, Basel (CH) 2008 Catch This, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (UK)
Lucy Skaer, The Fruitmarket Gallery,
Edinburgh (UK)
The Siege, Chisenhale Gallery, London (UK)
2006 Art Statements, Art 36, Basel (CH) 2004 The Sound and the Screen, Schnittraum, Cologne (DE)
The Opaque, doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
The Problem in Seven Parts, Counter, London (UK)
2001 Like A Circle in a Spiral, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (UK) SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2021 Physics Room, Christchurch (NZ) [forthcoming]
Watou Arts Festival, Watou (BE) [forthcoming]
La Couleur crue, Musée des beaux-arts, Rennes (FR) [forthcoming]
Groups and Spots, Contemporary Art at Baloise, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf (CH)
Atmospheres of Form, Parisian Laundry, Montréal (CA)
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, Union Pacific, London (UK)
Final Exhibition, Murray Guy, New York, NY (US)
2016 Whatever moves between us also moves the world in general, Murray Guy, New York, NY (US)
Incorporated! Les Ateliers de Rennes, Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Rennes (FR)
Leonora Carrington/Lucy Skaer, Leeds College of Art, Leeds (UK)
Prix Canson, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (US)
For Every Purpose, P!, New York, NY (US)
The Secret Life of Images, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau (DE)
Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (BE)
2015 A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (BE)
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
The Biography of Things, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AU)
2019 Sea Garden, The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter (UK)
The Parliament of Things, Firstsite, Colchester (UK)
Lines from Scotland, St Andrews Museum, St Andrews (UK)
Sculpture in the Close, Jesus College, Cambridge (UK)
Paramoudra, Mossman Gallery, Wellington (NZ)
Frieze Sculpture, Regent’s Park, London (UK)
The Third Person, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX)
Away in the Hill, GRIMM, New York, NY (US)
Periodic Tales: The Art of the Elements, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (UK)
2018 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (US) A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Drawing Room, London (UK)
Innovative Printmaking, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (UK)
Bandes à part. Nouvel accrochage des collections, MRAC, Sérignan (FR)
Avant-poste, La HAB Galerie, Nantes (FR)
2017
Community Board, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London (UK)
Now Wakes the Sea: Contemporary Art and the Ocean, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (IE) The Other Dark: Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar, Nashashibi/Skaer, Sirius Arts Center, London (UK) VAN BAERLESTRAAT 80 1071 BB AMSTERDAM
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The Registry of Promise: The Promise of Literature, Soothsaying and Speaking in Tongues, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (NL)
Wintermute, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Generation: 25 years Contemporary Art in Scotland, The Hunterian, Glasgow (UK)
Sequence 5, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Paolo Scheggi – Lucy Skaer, Cortesi Contemporay, Lugano (CH)
Someone Like Me, Murray Guy, New York, NY (US) 2013 Art Under Attack-Histories of British Iconoclasm, Tate Britain, London (UK) The Narrators: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
Suicide Narcissus, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL (US)
21 Revolutions, Royal Scottish Academy,
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Edinburgh (UK)
Es (the above I), Catalyst Arts, Belfast (UK)
9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre (BR)
Archeologia, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes (FR)
Cube, An Tuireann, Portree, Isle of Skye (UK); toured to Jarnac (FR); Cairo (EG); Ichinomiya (JP); BovlinUKerg (DK)
La femme de nulle parte - Anita Di Bianco, Sophie Macpherson and Rosalind Nashashibi, curated by Lucy Skaer, doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
Tradition with William Oorebeek, Lucy Skaer and Christopher Williams, Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht (NL)
Catch as Catch Can, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (US)
Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY (US)
2012 Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US)
2006 If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Editie # 2: Feminist Legacies and Potentials In Contemporary Art Practice, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
Momentum, Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss (NO)
Reflexion und Einfühlung, KAI 10, Raum für Kunst, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (DE)
Minor Characters (with Anita DiBianco), Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich (CH)
La Vie des Formes, Les Abbatoirs- Musee de’Art Contemporain, Toulouse (FR)
Statements, Art Basel, Basel (CH)
A Common Feeling, gb agency, Paris (FR)
2011 Dwelling, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (US)
Watercolour, Tate Britain, London (UK)
Three Stones in the City of Ladies, curated by Elisa Kay, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham (UK)
Color Pattern Yellow Danger, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm (SE)
Young Art from the Collection, Kunsthaus, Zürich (CH)
2010 Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Prendre la porte et faire le mur, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille (FR)
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI (US)
Intensif-Station, K21, Kunst Sammulung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE)
Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, New York, NY (US)
MOON STAR LOVE, Marcelle Alix, Paris (FR)
Elles, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)
2009 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London (UK) 2008 Concrete Shadows, The Changing Room, Stirling (UK)
Lucy Skaer and Gabriel Vormstein, Galeria Maisterra Valbuena, Madrid (ES)
2007 Scotland & Venice, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice (IT)
New Work UK: You and Me, screening curated by Polly Staple, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
2005 The Music of the Future, Gasworks, London (UK)
Great Value (II), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
The British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead (UK); Platform for Art, London (UK); Underground, London (UK)
The World, Abridged, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (UK) 2004 Edge of the Real: a painting show, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (UK) 2003 Zenomap, Gagosian, London (UK)
Zenomap, Venice Biennale (IT)
Beck’s Futures, ICA, London (UK); CCA, Glasgow (UK)
Two-person show with Hanneline Visnes, Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Florence (IT)
Soft Sun Down, doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK)
2002 A Hundred Flowers, A Hundred Birds, A Hundred Children in Late Spring and Early Summer, two-person show with Hanneline Visnes, CCA, Glasgow (UK)
The Best Book About Pessimism I Ever Read, Kunstverein, Braunschweig (DE)
1999 Swift, temporary public artwork, commissioned by Visual Arts Projects, Glasgow (UK) COLLABORATIONS - NASHASHIBI / SKAER Selected Solo Exhibitions 2019 Future Sun, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE) 2018 Thinking through other artists, Tate, St Ives (UK) 2013
Nashashibi / Skaer, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis (FR)
2012 Contemporary Archeologies, Musée de Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard (FR)
Telling everything, not knowing how, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (ES)
2010 Nashashibi / Skaer, Murray Guy, New York, NY (US) 2009 Nashashibi / Skaer, doggerfisher, Edinburgh (UK) 2008 Art Now: Pygmalion Event, Tate Britain, London (UK)
Pygmalion Workshop, CAC Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge (FR)
2007 Flash in the Metropolitan, Spike Island, Bristol (UK)
2019 La Rivière m’a dit, FRAC Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris (FR) 2018 Archaeology of the Screen, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn (EE)
Pygmalion Workshop, CAC Brétigny, Paris (FR)
The Greenroom, The Hessel Museum and The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale–on-Hudson, NY (US)
A life of their Own, Lismore Castle, Lismore (AU) Nashashibi / Skaer Pygmalion Workshop, 5th Berlin Biennale / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE)
Der Droste Effekt, Esther Schipper, Berlin (DE)
About the possibility of a Sculpture, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (DE)
Alabama, Office Baroque, Antwerp (BE)
2006 If I can’t Dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution, De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
A Place in the World, The Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich (UK)
Available Fonts, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)
2017
I can call this progress to halt, curated by Suzy Halajian, LACE, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Strange Days, FRAC Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris (FR)
2005 In Between Times, Tramway, Glasgow (UK) COLLABORATIONS - HENRY VIII’S WIVES
2012 Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US)
Reflexion und Einfühlung, KAI 10 | Raum für Kunst, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf (DE)
Contemporary Archaeologies, Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard (FR)
2010 Prendre La Porte et Faire le Mur, FRAC Provence-Alpes-Cote D’Azur, Marseille (FR) Forum 65: Jones, Koester, Nashashibi/Skaer: Reanimation, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (US) 2009
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, MO (US); ICA, London (UK); de Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens (GR)
The Garden of Forking Paths, MAISTERRAVALBUENA, Madrid (ES) +31 (0) 20 675 24 65 THE NETHERLANDS
Contour, 3rd Biennial for Video Art,Mechelen (BE)
2020 Paul Gauguin. Why are you angry?, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (DK)
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2008 Art Now: Pygmalion Event, Tate Britain, London (UK)
2007 YOU HAVE NOT BEEN HONEST, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples (IT)
COLLABORATIONS - NASHASHIBI / SKAER Selected Group Exhibitions
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SLOW MOVEMENT OR: Half and Whole, Kunsthalle, Bern (CH)
2009 Pump House Anthology, Pump House Gallery, London (UK)
The Street, Whitechapel Gallery, offsite programme, London (UK)
2007 The Returning Officer, Spike Island, Bristol (UK)
Breaking Step / U raskorako, British Council, Belgrade (SR)
2006 Fantom, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (DK)
Villa Jelmini - The Complex of Respect, Kunsthalle, Bern (CH)
2005 Henry VIII’s Wives in Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) Beauty of the Land, We Live in a Beautiful Land, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe (DE) 2004 Romantic Detachment, PS1, New York, NY (US) 2003 Sci-Art Research Project into genetic patterning, Coniston (UK)
Do You Remember This House at All?, Iris Kadel/Meyer Reiger, Karlsruhe (DE)
2002 Light without shadow, Tramway, Glasgow (UK)
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2001 The Fear of Death, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) 2000 The Desert Beautiful, Gallery 54, Gothenburg (SE)
Evolution isn’t over yet, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS Arts Council Collection, London (UK) Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR) Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris (FR) THE EKARD COLLECTION Fonds régional d’art contemporain (FRAC), Bretagne, Rennes (FR) Fonds régional d’art contemporain (FRAC), Marseille (FR) Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow (UK) Government Art Collection, British ConsulateGeneral, New York (US) LUX Collection, London (UK) Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan (FR) Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US) S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE) Tate, London (UK) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (US) UBS Art Collection, Zürich (CH)
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