Sebastiaan Schlicher, it is all around you (but what is it?) / ecto pet, 2022

The core element that informs my practice is the concept of Noise. Noise as a fundamental principle of randomness and uncertainty, and metaphorically, as a state of consciousness in which the contemporary self is merged with its surroundings and all sensory information is treated as equally important. My drawings, sound performances, and electronic prototypes are different constructs addressing complex emotional and sensory experiences of everyday life. In my drawings I use the simplest and most fundamental means to construct complex images; there is no preparatory work, and no post-process of editing or refinement. Immediacy takes center stage. My drawing process is driven by intuitive mark-making and associative narration. Things that go into the work are often improvised and spontaneous; words taken from a song that happens to be playing in the studio, or a phone call, news headlines, memories, dreams, things that excite, depress, anger, sadden or confuse me. The characters featuring in my work are not representations of real people, but abstract versions. They are caricatures, theatrical exaggerations; monsters whose emotions are melodramatic and simplified. Their features often reduced to amalgams of eyes, mouths and fluids, their purpose is to drive and upset the narrative. The grotesque in my work is an agent of intensity and disruption. 

• Künstlername | artist name: Sebastiaan Schlicher
• Vorname | First Name: Sebastiaan
• Nachname | Last Name: Schlicher
• Email address: cultofsebastiaan@gmail.com
• Mobile phone: +31615636232
• Website URL: https://www.sebastiaanschlicher.nl
• Instagram URL: https://www.instagram.com/sebastiaanschlicher/
• Address Line 1: Witte de Withstraat 31 C-2
• Address Line 2: 1057XG
• City: Amsterdam
• Zip Code: 1057XG
• Country: Netherlands
• State: noord-holland
• Künstler-CV | Artist Bio:

  Selected Exhibitions
  2023
  - APICK Gallery, Turin ( with Philip Grözinger, Sven Drühl, Zora Jancovic, Anina Brisolla, Michael Wutz,
  Tanja Rochelmeyer, Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Jay Gard, Manfred Peckl, Franziska Klotz, Fritz
  Bornstück, Karsten Konrad, Paul Pretzer)
  - SMAC, Berlin, (solo)
  2022
  - Départ, Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag (with Martin Assig, Anya Belyat Giunta, Susanna Inglada ,
  Kevin Simon Mancera, Elmar Trenkwalder, Ronald Versloot, Dan Zhu, Dirk Zoete)
  - Moving Up, Maurits van de Laar , Den Haag (with Elsbeth Ciesluk, Robine Clignett, Robbie
  Cornelissen, Karin van Dam, Marcel van Eeden, Tobias Lengkeek)
  2021
  - EQUIPE 1 (a.o. Dirk Zoete, Susanna Inglada, Dan Zhu, Marjolijn van der Meij), Galerie Maurits van
  de Laar, The Hague
  2019
  - THEY (video performance), European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück - Die Schönheit kann
  ebenso gut aus der Hölle stammen wie aus den Himmel (a.o. Jonathan Meese, Matthias Weisscher,
  Maria Ondrej) Städtische Galerie im Alten Feuerhaus, Bad Reichenhall - Paper works (a.o. Rezi van
  Lankveld, Sarah Verbeek, Arjan van Helmond, Alexandra Leykauf, Marjolein Rothman), Galerie
  Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam
  2018
  - Ristretto (a.o. Robbie Cornelissen, Nour-Eddine Jarram, Christie van der Haak) Galerie Maurits van
  de Laar, The Hague - The Line-Up (a.o. Erik van Lieshout, Mounira Al Solh, Mark Manders), Centraal
  Museum Utrecht - Berlin Calling (a.o. Tom Anholt, Fritz Bornstück, Hannah Dougherty), Galerie
  Kornfeld, Berlin - Luceberthuis, Bergen – residency presentation Mondriaan Fonds - The Wild (a.o.
  Anouk Griffioen, Ed Pien, Jim Holyoak), Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague
  2017
  - ART Rotterdam 2017 (with Dirk Zoete and Andrea Freckmann), Galerie Maurits van de Laar - How
  to disappear completely (a.o. Constant Dullaart, Sarah van Sonsbeeck), Garage Rotterdam - Tropical
  Healing, galerie Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam - Jetzt Druck Machen - Atelier für Radierung Leipzig,

  Museum Angerlehner, Talhelm/Wels, Austria - De FamiliekamerKunstprijs 2017 (with Rens Krikhaar
  and Rik Smits), De Familiekamer, Leiden - Golden Ass (a.o. Gregor Hildebrand, Jay Gard), Laden für
  Nichts, Leipzig - Transience II, Å-huset, Uppsala konstnärsklubb, Uppsala, Sweden
  2016
  - Track and Trace 2, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague - A Simple Task, Kreuzberg Pavillon,
  Berlin - Track and Trace, Galerie Maurits van de Laar / Het Gemak, The Hague - The Larry Video
  Show, Larry, Berlin - TRAUMRAUM (a.o. Karen Sargsyan, Charlotte Schleiffert), Drawing Centre,
  Diepenheim - Teach Me A New Language (a.o. Paul Beumer, Femmy Otten), Tetem, Enschede -
  Drawing Front Amsterdam, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam - Patty Morgan radio / Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee,
  Intersections, Art Rotterdam
  2015
  - Parallel Stories (a.o. Martha Colburn, Natasja Kensmil), Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam - Arte
  Concordia 2015, Avenue Concordia, Rotterdam - No place like home (a.o. Koen Taselaar, Martin
  Assig), SMAC, Berlin Art Week, Berlin - The Homestead Principle #7: A beautiful corpse in an
  exquisite morgue (a.o. Erkka Nissinen, Jonas Ohlsson), PuntWG, Amsterdam - My first drawing,
  Amsterdam Drawing, Amsterdam - Hôtel Dunkerkque, FRAC NORD-PAS DE CALAIS, Dunkirk, France
  - Alles was Ich mag, fast, Schau Fenster, Berlin
  2014
  - The Homestead Principle #6: Economic models of life have been imposed but there is no dent in
  what they truly believe, Galerie Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam - I am not doing anything until I feel
  the need, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam - My first drawing, Amsterdam Drawing, Amsterdam
  - Sculptures & works on paper, Mikael Andersen Galerie, Berlin - Antistar #4: The Feral Child,
  Extrapool, Nijmegen - Weiner Wall Project, M4 Gastatelier, Tetterode, Amsterdam (solo) - The
  Homestead Principle #4, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag (solo) - Recent acquisitions; Zwaan,
  Schlicher, Ossip, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
  2013
  - Rolling down the stairs, SMAC, Berlin (duo with Philip Grözinger) - Disappearer, Galerie Jaap Sleper,
  Utrecht (solo) - The partaker partakes of that which changes him, TAC, Eindhoven - Alles Wasser II,
  Mikael Andersen Galerie, Copenhagen
  - Identifying Europe, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede - Drawing Cabinet, Galerie Maurits van de
  Laar, The Hague - Rebel House, Bonnefantenmuseum, ECI, Roermond

  2012
  - Secret Postcards, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht - Drawings and works on paper, Galerie
  Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag (duo with Thijs Zweers) - APES presents, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin -
  Please wait while we contact your bank #2, French Riviera, London - Alles Wasser, Mikael Andersen
  Galerie, Berlin
  2011
  - Kid's alright, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zürich (solo) - Selected, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin -
  Marcel van Eeden/Johan Gustavsson/Daniel Jensen/Rens Krikhaar/Sebastiaan Schlicher, Galerie
  Maurits van de Laar, The Hague - Out of Storage, collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais,
  Timmerfabriek, Maastricht - All about drawing. 100 Dutch artists, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam -
  Search & Destroy, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
  Teaching positions
  - No Wave electronics, Fine Art department, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague (2021) - Tutor
  Rietveld academie, dogtime dept, Amsterdam, (2020) - Tutor Royal Academy of Arts, painting,
  drawing & printmaking, The Hague, (2019 - 2021) - Guest tutor Design Academy, Eindhoven (2018-
  2019) - Guest tutor Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2018-2019) - Guest tutor Hogeschool voor de
  Kunsten, Utrecht (2015) - Guest tutor ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Enschede (2015) - Guest
  tutor Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht (2014) - Guest tutor Wimbledon College, London (2012)
  - Guest tutor Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen (2012) - Tutor drawing and
  painting, Wimbledon College, London (1999-2003)
  Extra curricular (selection)
  - Experimental film and video commission, European Media Art Festival (EMAF), Osnabrück (2013 -
  2020) - Artist in residence, Mondriaan Fonds, Luceberthuis, Bergen (2018) - Curator No place like
  home (a.o. Martin Assig, Koen Taselaar), SMAC, Berlin (2015)
  - Curator A beautiful Corpse in an exquisite Morgue (a.o. Erkka Nissinen, Jonas Ohlsson), PuntWG,
  Amsterdam (2015) - External adviser, Panorama events, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht (2015) -
  Moderator Panorama Events, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht (2013-2014)
  - Selection committee Panorama Programme, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht (2014) - Curator Backstage
  Riders (a.o. Egil Seabjornsson, Tony Oursler), Alte Tagesspiegelgebaude Potsdamerstrasse, Berlin
  (2011) - Curator Search & Destroy (a.o. Alicja Kwade, Marc Bijl), Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin
  (2011)
  Bibliography (selection)

  2019 - Doei, canvas. We willen tekeningen, Edo Dijksterhuis, Het Parool
  2018 - Atelierbezoek: Sebastiaan Schlicher, Alex de Vries, Mister Motley - Atelier Sebastiaan
  Schlicher in Luceberthuis, Najiba Brakkee, Trendbeheer - Bijtende teksten, tekeningen in literair
  tijdschrift Extaze no. 26 - The Wild, Kees Koomen, chmkoome's blog - Anouk Griffioen, Jim Holyoak,
  Ed Pien, Sebastiaan Schlicher @ Maurits van de Laar, Trendbeheer
  2017 - Een les in verdwijnen, Roy Russen, Tubelight - Kunst van het verdwijnen verschilt sterk per
  kunstenaar, Merel Bem, De Volkskrant - Art Rotterdam 2017, Niek Hendrix, Lost Painters - Special
  Feature: selection of works at Art Rotterdam, Art Viewer
  2016 - Monumentale tekenkunst in de mode? Diana Wind, 15e Tekeningencahier - Drawing
  Centre/Kunstvereniging Diepenheim - TETEM - Drawing Front, Mister Motley - Drawing Front,
  Domeniek Ruyters, Metropolis M - Tekenkunst wint terrein, Ingrid Bosman, Twentsche Courant
  Tubantia - We really don’t care what others think of what we buy. But of course, we hope that we
  are buying good art, Fineartmultiple, Berlin
  2015 - Patty Morgan, Who's that girl?, Fenne Saedt, Mister Motley - In deze Berlijnse galeries
  ontdek je de kunst die over vijf jaar pas in de musea hangt, Marian Cousijn, De Correspondent
  2014 - Eén zin, 365 kunstwerken, één jaar, Jan Pieter Ekker, Het Parool - The Homestead Principle
  #4, Sebastiaan Schlicher at Maurits van de Laar, Bertus Pieters, Villa Next Door - Glanz und Abgrund
  in der Kunst, Suedkurier
  2013 - Disappearer - residency tentoonstelling van Sebastiaan Schlicher, Gritta Ewald, Kunstbeeld -
  Wo man von aufgeschlitzten K hen empfangen wird, Ronya Saladin, Basler Zeitung - Kunst Magazin:
  Sammlergespräche (geführt von Jan Kage), Offizin Verlag, Zürich - Palais de Tokyo aan de Roer,
  Domeniek Ruyters, Metropolis M
  2012 - Zweers en Schlicher delen een liefde voor onwaarschijnlijkheden, Sandra Smets, NRC
  Handelsblad - A phonic occupation. Interview with Sebastiaan Schlicher at London’s French Riviera,
  Berlin Art Link - Sebastiaan Schlicher malt einen Punker, Kopf der Woche, ZDF Kultur

• Ich bin durch eine Galerie vertreten | I am represented by a gallery : Ja | Yes
• Name und Sitz der Galerie | Name and location of gallery : Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, Netherlands
• Website URL Galeriie / Gallery: https://mauritsvandelaar.nl/en/
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