Sebastiaan Bremer

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birthdate = 1970
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nationality = Dutch
field = Painting, Photography
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Sebastiaan Bremer (born 1970 in Amsterdam) 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. [“Top Ten,” Inez Van Lamsweerde, Artforum, April 2001]

Work

Sebastiaan Bremer was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1970. He attended the open studio program at the Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1989 until 1991. [Monkey Brain, Sebastiaan Bremer, Thumm&Kolbe Verlag/Two Kings, 2004, pg. 40] 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. [Monkey Brain, Sebastiaan Bremer, Thumm&Kolbe Verlag/Two Kings, 2004, pg. 40] 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. [Monkey Brain, Sebastiaan Bremer, Thumm&Kolbe Verlag/Two Kings, 2004, pg. 40] 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 2nd 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. [http://www.sebastiaanbremer.com/news/]

Selected exhibitions [Avila, Sebastiaan Bremer, 99 Uitgevers/Publishers, 2006, pp. 110-111]

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Soloshow at Voltahalle, Hales Gallery, Basel

2008
"Cold Turkey", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU

2006
"Kraaij", 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, 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, 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, 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 [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_94/ai_n16807618]

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, London, UK

2004
"Sugar Hiccup," Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JPN

2004
"Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity," PS1/MoMA, curated by Bob Nickas Queens, NY, USA

2004
"Drawn/Quartered," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

2004
"Off the Wall: Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection," Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USA

2004
"Open House: Working in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum, 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, Sao Paulo, BRA

2002
"Recent Works," Zabriskie Gallery, 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, 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, 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, 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,Fact|date=August 2008 including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The MoMA ["Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing,Tate Modern, London, 4 December 2004 – 30 January 2005," Clifford Lauson, Papers of Surrealism, Issue 3, Spring 2005 ] , Zabludowicz Trust, the Rabobank Collection and Lodeveans Contemporary LLP.

References

External links

* [http://www.sebastiaanbremer.com Sebastiaan Bremer's website]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E3D8153AF930A15752C1A9679C8B63 Sebastiaan Bremer reviewed in the New York Times]
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_9_94/ai_n16807618 Sebastiaan Bremer reviewed in Art in America]
* [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079908 Sebastiaan Bremer reviewed in Harper's magazine]
* [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/4/artseen/sebastiaan-bremer Sebastiaan Bremer reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail]
* [http://www.artlies.org/article.php?id=48&issue=43&s=1 Sebastiaan Bremer reviewed in Art Lies]
* [http://www.halesgallery.com/exhibitions/_10/ Sebastiaan Bremer is represented by the Hales Gallery in London]
* [http://chelseaartgalleries.com/Roebling+Hall/Sebastiaan+Bremer+2006.html Sebastiaan Bremer at Roebling Hall]
* [http://www.printshop.org/web/Artists/bremer/Bremer.html Sebastiaan Bremer at the Lower East Side Printshop]
* [http://www.voltashow.com/index.php?id=846 Sebastiaan Bremer in The Volta Show, NY]
* [http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/30/sebastiaan-bremer’s-drawings-on-photographs/ Sebastiaan Bremer's drawings featured on lostateminor.com]
* [http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/exhibitionInfo/exhibition/12144/lang/1 Sebastiaan Bremer on artfacts.net]