Oliver Beer: Resonance Paintings—Cat Orchestra

Oliver Beer creates sculptures, installations, videos, and immersive live performances that reveal the hidden properties and musicality of objects, bodies, and architectural sites. His social and familial relationships often become the blueprint for multidisciplinary works that engage with intimate and universal concerns, such as the transmission of musical memories. Beer’s sculptural practice dissects the material world and the traces we leave on it by slicing and reassembling common objects to create new meanings and forms. The artist’s work has been the subject of many solo and group exhibitions, notably at Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA PS1, New York; London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris, and elsewhere.

Chloe Stagaman is a Brooklyn-based curator. She is Director of Programs at the Brooklyn Rail, where she works on the journal’s weekday conversation series The New Social Environment.