#113 Willem de Rooij

About

With Jeroen de Rijke (1970-2006) he represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale (2005). De Rooij is Professor of Fine Art at the Städelschule since 2006, and visiting advisor at the Rijksakademie since 2015. In 2016, he co-founded BPA // Berlin program for artists.

We are extremely pleased to welcome Willem de Rooij showing a splendid selection of his (collaborative) works:

Leigh Valentine (with Jane Ostermann-Petersen), 1994, VHS-C transferred to digital video, color, sound, 30 min

Bantar Gebang (with Jeroen de Rijke), 2000, 35mm film, color, optical sound, 10 min

Mandarin Ducks (with Jeroen de Rijke), 2005, 16mm film, color, optical sound, 36 min

Farafra, 2012, digital audio recording, 13 min

Recent solo exhibitions include Bouquet II at LAXart, Los Angeles (2019), Whiteout at Kunstwerke Berlin (2017), Ebb Rains at IMA Brisbane (2017), Entitled at MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt/Main (2016), The Impassioned No at Le Consortium, Dijon (2015) and Bouquet IX at the Jewish Museum, New York (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Mindful Circulations at the BDL Museum, Mumbai (2019), Stories of Almost Everyone at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles (2018), the Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta (2017), EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick (2016), 10th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2014) and Hollandaise at Raw Material Company, Dakar (2013).

De Rooij’s works can be found in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, MUMOK in Vienna, Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Centre Pompidou in Paris, MOCA in Los Angeles, and MOMA in New York.

Wir freuen uns Euch zu sehen | we are looking forward to seeing you
Herzliche Grüße | best regards
Ivo Wessel, Olaf Stüber