Saar Scheerlings
Born in Eindhoven in 1990, Saar Scheerlings embarked on her artistic journey after studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven and gaining experience as a chef and theater designer. Scheerlings mixes the disciplines of art, design and craft to find processes that give rise to new types and expressions. Her work includes large ceramic vessels that serve as painted maps, decanters that seem unwilling to pour, paintings that resemble fabrics and soft monumental sculptures.
For her, a medium is not defined: she prefers to create her own playing field and associated rules. A great interest in daily life probably comes from her education in design, but she is not very interested in the way products are industrially designed, made and used. She prefers to see forms as intermediate phases of a creative process, a game, a tradition, a ritual, a culinary dish. It is the commitment to this process that gives objects meaning.
Saars work is often triggered by the beauty and dedication of old materials like the antique linens she finds at garage sales in the French countryside where she lives. With a laborious process of sculpting, cutting, sewing and weaving she breathes new life into these materials, transforming them into her monumental talisman sculptures. Weaving is not only a technique for Saar, it is a metaphor for her entire work. She sees her oeuvre as an expanding structure. She not only creates work, she works on her own culture.
The work of Saar Scheerlings has been shown in various international galleries and museums including CoBrA Museum, Design Museum Gent, Hanwha Galleria Seoul, Tripostal Lille, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Valerius Gallery, HAGD Contemporary, De Nederlandsche Bank, Garage Rotterdam and at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as a finalist for the prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
Exhibitions & Fairs
Exhibitions & Art Fairs
Tom Volkaert, Fiona Lutjenhuis, Saar Scheerlings, Mirjam Vreeswijk, Natacha Mankowski
Art Antwerp 2026
Antwerp Expo
10 – 13 December 2026
Saar Scheerlings
Timeframes
19 November – 20 December 2026
Mai van Oers, Saar Scheerlings
Art Island 2026
Forteiland IJmuiden
22 – 24 May 2026
Fiona Lutjenhuis, Erik Mattijssen, Saar Scheerlings
Art Antwerp 2025
Antwerp Expo
11 – 14 December 2025
Saar Scheerlings
Unwind
25 April – 18 May 2025
Koos Buster, Dodi Espinosa, Warre Mulder, Carmen Schabracq, Saar Scheerlings, Tom Volkaert
PAN Amsterdam 2024
Amsterdam RAI
24 November – 1 December 2024
Erik Mattijssen, Saar Scheerlings, Mai van Oers
Castlemania
13 April – 12 May 2024
Natacha Mankowski, Erik Mattijssen, Saar Scheerlings, Mirjam Vreeswijk
Art Rotterdam 2024
Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam · 60
1 – 4 February 2024
Saar Scheerlings
SWAB Barcelona 2023
Fira de Barcelona
5 – 8 October 2023
Saar Scheerlings, Carmen Schabracq, Dodi Espinosa
Sources of Wonder
24 June – 29 July 2023
Saar Scheerlings
Unfolding
7 – 29 January 2023
Saar Scheerlings
Art Rotterdam 2021
Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam
1 – 4 July 2021
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Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1990
Education
Design Academy Eindhoven, graduated 2014
Awards
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024, nominated
Exhibitions
2026
Art Antwerp, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Antwerp (group)
Amsterdam Art Week, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam (solo)
There’s always more going on than you think, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (group)
Hallelujah! God is a Woman, Vol. 2, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg City (group)
Art Island, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, IJmuiden (duo)
2025
Unwind, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam (solo)
New Mother Sculptures, CoBrA Museum, Amstelveen (group)
De cuando jugábamos, Galeria Silvestre, Madrid, Spain (group)
Identity, Verduyn Gallery, Wortegem (BE) (group)
Mètis, La Peau de l’Ours, Brussels (BE) (group)
2024
Pan Art Fair, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter (group)
Sugar Rush, duo with Mario Picardo, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg (duo)
CAN Art Ibiza, with HAGD Contemporary, Ibiza, Spain (group)
Art Rotterdam, with Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Rotterdam (group)
White, HAGD Contemporary, Denmark (solo)
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024, Paris
2023
Révélations Paris with World Craft Council Europe
Museum JAN Amstelveen (group)
Sources of Wonder, Galerie Fleur & Wouter, Amsterdam (group)
Unfolding at Galerie Fleur en Wouter, Amsterdam (solo)
2022
AMC Amsterdam
Textile Totems (Masterclass) at Textielmuseum Tilburg De Kliuw Heeze
2021
Pan Amsterdam, group, Residence
Art Rotterdam, Solo, Galerie Fleur & Wouter KunstRAI, group, Galerie Fleur & Wouter Colors, etc. Tripostal, Lille
World Trade Center, Amsterdam
2020
Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg
Sight by Sight, Johan Kleinjan & Saar Scheerlings, Galerie Fleur & Wouter Kleureyck, Design Museum Gent
Dutch Parade, Hanwha Galleria Seoul
2019
How&Wow Crafts Council NL, Dutch Design Week Key Figures, NR8 Arnhem
Rumours Rotterdam
2018
Sitstentoonstelling, Fries Museum
Ambacht in Dracht, Zuiderzeemuseum Designkwartier Den Haag
Between Bars, de Sociale Dienst Eindhoven
Collections
De Nederlandsche Bank
Ministerie van Binnenlandse zaken
Ministerie van Buitenlandse zaken
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