ANOUK KRUITHOF

About

Anouk Kruithof (b. 1981, Dordrecht, The Netherlands) is a visual artist with a trans-disciplinary approach which encompasses sculpture, photography, collage, video, books, websites and (social) interventions in the public domain. The work depicts the transience and the chaos of this world, which she skilfully addresses by mixing urgent social issues with personal experience to mirror the state prevalent in our society today. Kruithof tries to reveal ‘the nerves of the time’ by deftly identifying social, psychological and ethical dilemmas. Observing, analysing, collecting, acting and reacting inform her thoughtful and playful work method, which does not at all detract from her serious approach as a social and political agent. In this time, Kruithof has formulated a highly idiosyncratic view of this world, one where the personal has become political. By continually navigating between the digital and physical experiential spheres, Kruithof investigates a collective state of mind that is not solely grounded in the material world, but more often in an amorphous one. She conteplates a world consisting of a relentless stream of edited, constructed and spliced-together images that have lost their credibility: resulting today in a reality that is thoroughly scripted and subject to permanent post-production. The scope of her world view extends from environmental pollution and the consequences of climate change to government surveillance practices, privacy to inequality and protest. From anonymity to signs of nervousness such as stress and exhaustion, sha- me and social discomfort, all in an effort to address a collective consciousness of human failing towards humanity itself and planet earth at large. Kruithof is acutely aware of her double role as image maker and image consumer. Just like the visual culture in which we live, her paradoxical layered work method is heart-warming and revealing, personal and universal, uplifting and oppressive, light-hearted and dystopian.

She has been working as an artist full-time since 2003 and currently lives alternately in Brussels, Berlin, Botopasi, Suriname and the Netherlands. Kruithof has had solo exhibitions in Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Centro de la Imagen Mexico City and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her work has also been included in the collections of SFMoMA in San Francisco, Museum Folkwang in Essen and Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar. Kruithof published 15 books and she was selected for The Gallery of Honour of Dutch photography at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam in 2021 and she won the public prize of the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs in 2016. Her most known project Universal Tongue is still intensively shown all over the world and has been exhibited in Museum Tinguely in Basel, Vooruit in Ghent and at WHOLE | United Queer Festival, Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen, Germany.

Artworks

Curriculum Vitae

Anouk Kruithof / artist website

Exhibitions

2023

Universal Tongue

Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Universal Tongue

Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris, France Tentacle Togetherness

Centre Photographique d’Ile de-France Pontault-Combault, France

The toes you step on today might be con-nected to the ass you’re kissing tomorrow Willem Twee Kunstruimte, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL Trans Human Nature

Art Rotterdam, Galerie Valeria Cetraro Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Rotterdam, NL

2022

Universal Tongue

Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam, NL

Universal Tongue

Kunstmin, Energiehuis, Dordrecht, NL Universal Tongue

WHOLE United Queer Festival

Orangerie, Ferropolis, Germany

Universal Tongue

Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL

Niet Meer Normaal

Kunstkerk Dordrecht, NL

Universal Tongue

Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

2021

Perpetual Endless Flow

FuturDome, Milan, Italy

Universal Tongue

Noorderzon at Vera, Groningen, NL Universal Tongue

FotoFestival Naarden

Stadhuiszolder, Naarden, NL

Trans Human Nature

Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris, France

Trans Human Nature

254Forest, Brussels, Belgium

Universal Tongue

Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

2020

Jan Paul Evers & Anouk Kruithof

Galerie Jo van der Loo, Munich, Germany

2019

Becoming Blue

Casemore I Kirkeby, San Francisco, US

2018

Transformagic

Association for Contemporary Culture Fotopub, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Anouk Kruithof & Erin Mitchell, Buffering MELK, Oslo, Norway

2017

¡Aguas! Next Level

FOAM, Amsterdam, NL

Ego, Eco, Crescendo

French Pavilion, Organ Vida, Zagreb, Croatia The Aesthetics of Contamination

Galerie Escougnou-Cetraro, Paris, France Enclosed content chatting away in

the colour invisibility

Casemore I Kirkeby, San Francisco, US AHEAD

Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico #Evidence

Casemore I Kirkeby, San Francisco, US

2016

Neutral

Galerie Jo van der Loo, Munich, Germany <CONNECTION>

Offprint, Tate Modern, London, UK

2015

Sweaty Sculptures

Green Is Gold, Copenhagen, Denmark AHEAD,

FOUR A.M., New York, US

2014

Paulien Oltheten & Anouk Kruithof Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

2012

RUHE

Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

Untitled (I’ve taken too many photos/I’ve never taken a photo)

Tour des Templiers, Hyères, France

2009

Becoming Blue

Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, NL Becoming Blue

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2006

The Black Hole

with Jaap Scheeren

FOAM, Amsterdam, NL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Burning down the house

AFF Galerie e.V., Berlin, Germany

See Beyond The Sea

Festival internazionale di fotografia e arte PhEST, Monopoli, Italy

Nocturne with Anouk Kruithof

Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium

Un Été Au Havre

édition 23, Le Havre, France

Becoming Earths

Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, NL Mama’s Pride

Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, NL

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, NL

Just Dance, schrit_tmacher

Schunck Glass Palace, Heerlen, NL

Uit het donker (winter warm)

De Warande at de Hoge Rielen

Kasterlee, Belgium

2022

Sightlines

SFMOMA San Fransisco, US

Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate Casemore I Kirkeby, San Francisco, US

The World Was All Before Them

TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, Galway, Ireland Night, Chroniques

Biennale of Digital Imagination

Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France Tales of Togetherness

KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium

Big DaDa

Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL

I can live forever

Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium States of Disruption

Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne, Australia

Of Melting and Disappearing

Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria Avecques Amertume

Les Limbes, Saint-Étienne, France

Refinery Monastery

20th Pancevo Biennial, Pancevo, Serbia Overdose –Collection Galila’s P.O.C. Design Museum, Holon, Israel

From where I stand

Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie

Port 25, Mannheim, Germany

Inside the outside

CODA, Apeldoorn, NL

Folkwang and the City

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2021

Biennale NOVA_XX

Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris, France Global Groove

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Bye Bye His-Story, chapter 5050

Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée La Louvière, Belgium

À Fleur de monde

Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie Rouen, France

One and One is Three

Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL Eregalerij van de Nederlandse Fotografie Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL

2020

On Earth — Imaging, Technology and the Natural World

Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France

Nach uns die Sintflut (After us, the flood) Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria

La photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France Pontault-Combault, France;

Frac Normandie Rouen, Rouen, France Spoiled Waters Spilled

Parallel Du Sud Program, Le Ballet National Manifesta13, Marseille, France

On Earth — Imaging, Technology

and the Natural World

FOAM, Amsterdam, NL

Persona Everyware

Centre d’art Le Lait, Albi, France

2019

EXPO Koelkast

Garage Noord, Amsterdam, NL

Identify Us

Babel / Willem Twee muziek en beeldende kunst, s’Hertogenbosch, NL

Unsupported Message Format

Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris, France

On Earth — Imaging, Technology

and the Natural World

Les Forges I LUMA, Arles, France

The Life of Things

MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image

Montreal, Canada

Joy before the object

Seventeen Gallery, London, UK

Handless Operative

Casemore I Kirkeby, San Francisco, US Model Staan

Stedelijke Kunstacademie Tielt, Belgium Mexico on my mind

Cultuurcentrum van Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium Trouble in Paradise

Collection Rattan Chadha

Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

2018

Inside/out: Family, Memory,

Loss, Displacement

Center for Book Arts, New York, US Loading… Works from the FOAM collection FOAM, Amsterdam, NL

Beautiful Distress

Zomergasten

Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium

Scene Unseen

Forum Triangulare, Kasteel, Oud-Rekem, NL [INSERT TITLE]

Kleine Humboldt Galerie

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Human Nature

Fotofestiwal Art Inkubator

Lodz, Poland

Concealer

Peckham 24

Copeland Gallery, London, UK

10 Years Base-Alpha Gallery —

Part III Prospects

Antwerp, Belgium

2017

Chapter 3, The Control of Images

Foto Forum, Bolzano, Italy

Paperworks

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Façade

Middelburg, NL

Face + Identity

Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark You can tell I’m alive and well because I weep continuously

Knockdown Center, New York, US Objectivism (Visual Philosophies)

KARST Projects, Plymouth, UK

2016

Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL Temporary Highs

Bitforms, New York, US

Loin des yeux

Optica, Montreal, Canada

2015

Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015 MoMA, New York, US

Picture/Thing

Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, US

Undendliche Bibliothek

Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland

2014

L’art se Livre

MBAL, Le Locle, Switzerland

The Spectrum of Ethereal

Trafó, Budapest, Hungary

2013

Undercover

Erarta Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

WIT

Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL Still/Life

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia Papierkunst

Stedelijk Museum, Kampen, NL

ICP Triennial

New York, US

Bookhouse: La forma del libro

Museo Marca, Catanzaro, Italy

The Feverish Library

Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2012

New Wight Biennial

UCLA, Los Angeles, US