Anouchka Oler

Anouchka Oler was born in 1988, Saint Malo (FR),she lives and works in Brussels (BE)

Anouchka Oler’s practice brings together sculpture, writing and performance within videos in which the narratives often focus on the encounter between the characters that she creates and a disruptive material environment. Objects and individuals refuse to function as planned leading the characters to ponder about how this refusal to co-operate will affect their lives. Actors then engage in inquiring with impetuosity how, what and of whom are they made of. Through their speculative narratives and implicit to their playful and idiosyncratic attitude, they question the way that power circulates in shared and constructed spaces and its impacts on the construction of the self. So far in her work, numerous investigators explored affects, caring, sociability and living together.

Anouchka Oler holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and was part of the post-master program of the Lyon’s School of Arts in 2014/2015. Recent solo and two-person shows include Out of Place Artefacts, Galería Javier Silva, Valladolid (SP) with Amélie Bouvier (2016) ; Thingness? at Cooper Gallery (UK); Irma, Wisconsin, Present Works in Milwaukee (2015) ; I Smoked a Cigarette, Wondered About the Colour and Looked at You Once More in AiR-Jakobstad (FI) with Marion Jaulin (2014) and It Is Forbidden To Feed The Sculptures, Kölnischer Kunstverein/OG2, Cologne (2013).
Since 2010 she showed her works amongst group exhibithions at apes&castles, Bruxelles (BE), MOTinternational, Bruxelles (BE), Frac Île de France / Le Plateau, Paris (FR), Le Magasin-CNAC, Grenoble (FR), La Villa Arson, Nice (FR), The Front Gallery, New-Orleans (USA), De Appel, Amsterdam (NL), Tent, Rotterdam (NL), LIVEINYOURHEAD, Geneva (CH).