Beatrix Ruf
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)
- 2004: Jeroen de Rijke , Willem de Rooij , Kunsthalle Zürich . Catalog.
- 2006: Anselm Reyle : Ars Nova , Kunsthalle Zürich. Catalog.
- 2013: Helen Marten : Olive , Kunsthalle Zürich. Catalog.
Publications
- Jeroen de Rijke, Willem de Rooij. JRP Ringier, Geneva 2004, ISBN 978-2-940271-33-7 ( German / English ).
- Anselm Reyle: Ars Nova. de./en. JRP-Ringier, Geneva 2006, ISBN 3-905701-68-5 .
- as editor: Lutz Bacher. JRP Ringier, Geneva 2013, ISBN 978-3-03764-347-1 .
- as editor: Helen Marten: Olive. JRP Ringier, Geneva 2013, ISBN 978-3-03764-346-4 .
Web links
- Beatrix Ruf New Director Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. From the Stedelijk Museum website, April 8, 2014, accessed October 17, 2017. (en.)
- Hanno Rauterberg: Fall into the Bottomless , Die Zeit, Hamburg, No. 44/2017, October 26, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beatrix Ruf leaves the Stedelijk Museum. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , October 17, 2017.
- ^ New York Times: Inquiry Clears Museum Director Who Quit in Conflict-of-Interest Storm.
- ^ Art Forum: New Report clears Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf of Wrongdoing.
- ↑ Süddeutsche: Sponsors and patrons offer an opportunity.
- ↑ Taylor Dafoe: The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow Has Hired Former Stedelijk Director Beatrix Ruf. November 5, 2019, accessed April 3, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Call, Beatrix |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German museum curator, museum director and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | To sing |