Willem de Rooij

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Willem de Rooij (born June 4, 1969 in Beverwijk , Netherlands ) is a Dutch artist who works with a wide variety of media such as film, photography, sculpture, text and installations.

life and work

From 1990 to 1995 de Rooij studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and continued his studies in 1997 and 1998 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. From 1995 until his death in 2006 he worked with Jeroen de Rijke . In 1999 they took part in the joint exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein To the People of the City of the Euro with Of Three Men . In 2002 the exhibition with the title The Point of Departure followed in the Buchholz Gallery , Cologne.

Furthermore, the two artists exhibited together in 2007, curated by Julian Heynen , at the K 21 in Düsseldorf and in 2008 at the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo). In 2005, the two artists represented the Netherlands at the Biennale di Venezia and exhibited together with Christopher Williams in the Secession (Vienna) and performed throughout the house. In 2006 he was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program .

Since 2006, de Rooij has been Professor of Fine Art at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

In his work, de Rooij examines the production, contextualization and interpretation of images. Since 2004, De Rooij has included works of art or installations by other artists from museum holdings in his own work. For example, he showed 18 paintings by the painter Melchior de Hondecoeter in the exhibition Intolerance in the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin in 2010 and juxtaposed them with feathered ceremonial objects from 18th century Hawai'i .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willem de Rooij, Whiteout. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rooij, Willem de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch artist, professor in Frankfurt
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverwijk