Berndnaut Smilde (Groningen, 1978) is a Dutch visual artist.
Early life Berndnaut Smilde was born in 1978 in Groningen. In 2005, Smilde graduated with a master's degree in fine art from the Frank Mohr Institute of Hanze University in Groningen.
Career Smilde's best known works include the series Conditioner; sculptures that spread an antiseptic scent throughout several rooms,Image of one of the sculptures and Unflattened, which shows an inverted rainbow."Unflattened" accompanied by images of the rainbow, '5uur' blog post.
In 2012 he created a series of self-made clouds, of which Nimbus II, 2012, first performed in the Lady Chapel of Hoorn, was included in London's Saatchi Gallery. He chooses locations that are old, damp, that have no air circulation. Time magazine called this technique one of the fifty best inventions of 2012."Best Inventions of the Year 2012 - Indoor Clouds". Time. 1 November 2012.Artist creates clouds indoors. Named one of Time magazine's 'Best Inventions of the Year 2012'
In a collaboration with the photographer Simon Procter Smilde signature manufactured cloudscapes with fashion luminaries Karl Lagerfeld, Dolce & Gabbana, Donatella Versace and Alber Elbaz. The pictures appeared in feature in the September 2013 issue "ICONOCLOUDS" of Harper's Bazaar U.S.
Exhibitions Process Room (2008) Irish Museum of Modern Art (2008) Bunker Project (2010) Galerie West (2010) The Hague (2010) Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2013) Ronchini Gallery, London (2014) LIAN Contemporary Art Space, Shanghai (2015)
Group shows Galerie Boven de Bank (2001) Groningen (2001) Nofound Photo Fair, Paris (2012) Saatchi Gallery, London, (2012) Art 13, London (2013) Somarts, San Francisco (2013) FotoMuseum, Antwerp, (2015) Museum Kranenburgh, (2016) RWA Bristol, (2017) Saatchi Gallery, London (2017)
Awards Smilde won a stipend from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts.
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Recordings of the Clouds