Sebastiaan Bremer - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Sebastiaan Bremer is a Dutch artist who lives and works in New York City.

Bremer turns photographs, found or snapped, of himself and his family into trippy, dusty memories that reveal the subconscious and the real world in one blink of an eye. He invents a poetic braille made up of text, personal symbols and ghostly shapes that, when integrated with their complex grounds, disappear again, buried in a sea of suspended dots. By slowly and laboriously painting on top of quickly taken snapshots, Bremer slows down time to render a hauntingly beautiful interior landscape.

Work

Bremer attended the open studio program at the Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1989 until 1991. During his early years he meticulously reproduced personal photographs in paint. He received the Werkbeurs Grant from FBKVB in Holland and moved to New York in 1992 where he began to work primarily in black and white, reemphasizing his connection to photography. In 1994 he had his first solo show at Galerie Reisel, Holland and began exhibiting in as well as curating group shows. He was assistant to several artists in New York, and worked on production for the photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin from 1996 until 2000. In 1998 he produced Liza May Post's 'Trying' film and photograph. In that same year he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine were he began experimenting with murals, collage paintings, and began drawing directly on photographs, the style which he continues to use today. In 1999 he finished his first large scale Ink on C-Print drawing entitled 10 AM-PM. In 2001 he had a solo debut, 'Veronica' at Roebling Hall, New York. His work is part of several important collections in the US and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The MoMA, Zabludowicz Trust, the Rabobank collection and Lodeveans Contemporary LLP.

A new solo exhibition of his work opened May 2, 2008 in Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. Currently he is working on a small edition of jewelry with Moritz Glik for Karen LaGatta editions, a commission for the Rabobank in Holland and new works for various upcoming groupshows, as well as an upcoming soloshow at Mia Sundberg Galleri in Stockholm.

Selected exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2008

Soloshow at Voltahalle, Hales Gallery

Hales Gallery

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, Basel

2008

Cold Turkey, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU

2006

Kraaij, Hales Gallery

Hales Gallery

, London, UK

2006

Sebastiaan Bremer, Roebling Hall, NY, NY, USA

2005

Sub Neblina Use Luz Baixa, Gemeente Museum,The Hague, NLD

2005

Galica, Milan, ITA

2004

Seething, Lying And Other Work, Satellite

Satellite

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, NY, NY, USA

2004

Monkey, Air de Paris, Paris, FR

2003

Sebastiaan Bremer, 303 Gallery at White Box, Mari Spirito curator, NY, NY, USA

2003

Vanishing Point, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2003

You’ve Made Your Mother Cry, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU

2002

Janus, Schaper Sundberg Gallery, Stockholm, SWE

2002

Sebastiaan Bremer, Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA

2001

Veronica, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY,USA

2001

Hotel Lydmar, curated by Thomas Nordanstad, Stockholm, SWE

2000

Melanchromia, Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA

1994

Sebastiaan Bremer, Gallery Reisel, Rotterdam, NLD

Group Exhibitions

2008

When it’s a photograph , curated by Soo Kim, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2008

MULTIVERSE, curated by Pilar Tompkins, Claremont Museum of Art, CA, USA

2008

Your Documents Please, MAC-Itami, Japan

2008

Versions of Reality, curated by Lee Stoetzel, selections from the West Collection, NEXT, Chicago

2008

When it's a photograph,curated by Soo Kim, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2008

Passed as present, York Art Gallery

York Art Gallery

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, York, UK

2007

Inaugural show, Mia Sundberg Galeri, Stockholm, SWE

2007

In het woud - op zoek naar betekenis, Armando Museum, Amersfoort, NLD

2007

Photoplus, curated by Lilly Wei, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center

Blue Star Contemporary Art Center

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, TX, USA

2007

Out of True, Byblos Gallery, Verona, ITA

2007

The End Begins, curated by Gil Hedley, selections from the Lodevans Collection, London, UK

2007

Unseen, Roebling Hall, Chelsea, NY, USA

2007

ICPNY Selections 2007, curated by James Siena, ICPNY, USA

2007

The Photograph as Canvas, curated by Stephen Maine, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA

2006

Out of True, curated by Micaela Giovannotti & Joyce Korotkin, part of Art Basel Miami

2006

I Walk the Lines, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU

2005

Stay Inside, Shoshanna Wayne Gallery, LA, USA

2004

Is One Thing Better Than Another? Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, DEU

2004

Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern

Tate Modern

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, London, UK

2004

Sugar Hiccup, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JPN

2004

Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, PS1/MoMA

Moma

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, curated by Bob Nickas Queens, NY, USA

2004

Drawn/Quartered, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art

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, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

2004

Off the Wall: Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection, Bruce Museum

Bruce Museum of Arts and Science

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, Greenwich, CT, USA

2004

Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

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, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2004

Home Extension, Albany University Museum, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Albany, NY, USA

2003

Obsession, Galica, curated by L. M. Barbero, Milan, ITA

2003

Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich, DEU

2003

The Ballroom Show, Gimm- Eis Gallery, Copenhagen, DNK

2003

Some Panoramas, Pump House Gallery, curated by Paul Hedge, London, UK

2003

The Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum permanent collection, London, UK

2003

Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA

2003

Far Away, So Close, Clare Weiss Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

2003

Group Show, Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, SWE

2003

Water, Water, Rotunda Gallery, curated by Lily Wei, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2002

Paris/Brooklyn, Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FRA

2002

Transformer II, Air de Paris, curated by Inez van Lamsweerde, Paris, FRA

2002

Quase Desenho, Adriana Penteado, São Paulo, BRA

2002

Recent Works, Zabriskie Gallery

Zabriskie Gallery

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, New York, NY, USA

2001

Fast Fwd: Miami, Roebling Hall, Miami, FL, US

2001

Song Poems, Cohen, Leslie & Brown, curated by Steven Hull, New York, NY, USA

2000

Figured Out, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY, US

2000

Groupshow, Bellwether Gallery

Bellwether Gallery

Bellwether Gallery was a New York City art gallery based in Chelsea. Director and owner Becky Smith was recognized as an important promoter of emerging artists since the gallery's 1999 opening in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn...

, Brooklyn, USA

2000

Lightness, Marcello Marvelli Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

2000

Aspects of Contemporary Landscape, Marcello Marvelli Fine Arts, New York,NY, USA

2000

MeatMarket Art Fair, Roebling Hall, New York, NY, USA

2000

White, Nicolai Fine Arts, curated by Irina Popiashvili, New York, NY,USA

2000

3D, Zingmagazine

Zingmagazine

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, New York, NY, USA

2000

Polar Bear In A Snow Storm, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA

1999

Sebastiaan Bremer/Vince Szarek Gallery Untitled, Dallas, TX, USA

1999

The Stroke, Exit Art

Exit Art

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, curated by Shahzia Sikander, New York, NY, USA

1999

Blueprint, Spark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1999

Anti –World, Gallery Untitled, curated by Marcos Rosales, Dallas, TX, USA

1998

Bank Holiday, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, USA

1998

Imagination Dead Imagine, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1996

The Art Market, Gen Art, New York, NY, USA

1995

Thicket on the Lamb, Thicket Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1992

Protectors, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, NLD

Collections

His work is part of several important collections in the US and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The MoMA

Moma

, Zabludowicz Trust, the Rabobank Collection and Lodeveans Contemporary LLP.

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