The vibrating art of Oliver Beer Profile of the artist by Anne-Cécile Sanchez

At the crossroads of music and the visual arts, the British artist's installations explore the phenomena of resonance and vibration produced by objects or voices. After a notable appearance at the Lyon Biennial, Oliver Beer will be stopping off at the Musée d'art moderne de Paris in early 2025. An encounter.

His multi-screen video installation The Cave, filmed on a sanctuary prehistoric site and acclaimed by the press, caused a sensation at the opening of the Lyon Biennial in September. And the public followed suit (...) By recreating the intimate, enveloping space of the cave, in which spellbinding polyphonic singing takes place, Oliver Beer has created an experience of shared listening. (...)

From an installation on the Pont des Arts (Nuit Blanche 2016, Paris) to the projection of one of his videos in Piccadilly Circus Square, London, last September (as part of the Circa Prize 2024), from the Opéra Garnier to the Sydney Opera House, from Mac Lyon to Met Breuer, New York, Oliver Beer (born 1985) has already been featured in numerous museums and events around the world. Always at the crossroads of art and music, he has taken on one project after another. At the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, in front of a huge backlit collective work surface lined with rows of coloured pencils, we meet up with the British artist to discuss his latest work, A Thousand Voices, from the Reanimation Paintings series (...)

Oliver Beer has been invited by the Musée d'art moderne de Paris to create a participatory project. Entitled Reanimation Paintings: A Thousand Voices. It involves thousands of children and teenagers in a creative process in dialogue with the collections. (...)

Oliver Beer, in inviting us to open our eyes and ears wide, is always aiming for the heart, the better to stir within us a sense of the ineffable.