Jeroen Offerman

Being trained as a sculptor in the early nineties, Dutch born artist Jeroen Offerman continued to make a wide variety of artworks that often had a performative nature and were rooted in conceptual ideas. He worked with live material as medium, using plants, cactee, birds, butterflies and flies. Inspired by works of Young British Artists that were trained at London’s Goldsmiths College, Jeroen moved to London in 1997 to study for his Masters in Fine Art. Offerman continued to make a wide variety in art, leaving behind the live material but still continuing to make installations, video’s and performances.

In 2002 he started working on a project that made him known to a wider audience. The work was a live rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” but practiced in reverse for months after another. The resulting video “the Stairway at St.Paul’s” won several awards in film-festivals all over the world and was published alongside works by Spike Jonze and Miranda July. After having lived in Berlin and back home in his native country the Netherlands, Jeroen returned to London in 2006 where he has been goldplating fieldflowers and weed, resulting in beautiful jewels of sculpture.

In recent years Offerman exhibited internationally at major venues as well as in smaller, artist-run spaces. The Hamburger Kunsthalle, Eindhoven’s van Abbe Museum, Tokyo’s Hara Museum, Klink o Bank Reykjavik, YBCA San Francisco.