Beatrix Ruf

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Beatrix Ruf (2015)

Beatrix Ruf (* 1960 in Singen ) is a German museum curator , museum director and author .

Life

Beatrix Ruf studied psychology , ethnology as well as art and cultural studies at the Zurich University and the Vienna Conservatory and then worked as a freelance curator and critic before starting her first job as a curator at the Thurgau Art Museum in 1994 . Since 1995 she has been a consultant and curator of the Ringier art collection. In 1998 she was appointed to the Art Committee of Swiss Reinsurance Swiss Re . From 2002 she was director of the Kunsthalle Zürich . As such, she dealt with the extension of the art gallery in the former Löwenbräu area in Zurich, which was completed in 2012. In the same year she was a member of the jury for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Artissima Illy Present Future Prize .

Ruf is the author of a number of exhibition catalogs on topics of contemporary art , as well as curator of exhibitions, for example in 2006 for the Tate Triennal in London . She was also responsible for the creation of the Yokohama Triennale in 2008 .

From November 1, 2014, Ruf was the artistic director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, succeeding Ann Goldstein , who had left the museum in 2013. In October 2017, she resigned from this post amid media pressure on allegations of a conflict of interest. An independent expert report commissioned by the city of Amsterdam acquitted them of the allegations in June 2018.

Ruf has been a strategic consultant for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow since 2019 .

Exhibitions (selection)

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Beatrix Ruf leaves the Stedelijk Museum. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 17, 2017.
  2. ^ New York Times: Inquiry Clears Museum Director Who Quit in Conflict-of-Interest Storm.
  3. ^ Art Forum: New Report clears Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf of Wrongdoing.
  4. Süddeutsche: Sponsors and patrons offer an opportunity.
  5. Taylor Dafoe: The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow Has Hired Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf. November 5, 2019, accessed April 3, 2020 .