Gerco de Ruijter (Vianen, 1961)
Woont en werkt vanuit Rotterdam, Nederland
Education:
1981-1984 School for Fotografie and Fotonica, Den Haag
1988-1993 Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
Solo exhibitions (Selection):
2023 ON TIME, Galerie de Zaal, Delft
2022 t i l t (2001-2021), Galerie de Zaal, Delft
2019 Grid Corrections, Fotomuseum, Den Haag
2018 In Search of a Sense of Scale, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
2017 TETHER, Bewaerschole, Burgh-Haamstede
2015 Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA
Extended View, Galerie van Kranendonk, Den Haag
2014 Almost Nature, Museum Jan Cunen, Oss
2013 Gerco de Ruijter, the Black Box, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2012 Almost Nature, Galerie Zic Zerp, Rotterdam
2011 Permanent Kwadraat Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2009 Fries Museum Leeuwarden
2008 Loslaten (Letting Go), Creatief Laboratorium 38CC, Delft
Borders MKgalerie.nl, Rotterdam
Landing Soon #4, Heden, Den Haag (cat.)
Over de Grenzen, Stedelijk Museum Hoogstraten, België
2007 Grenzen/Borders, Belasting en Douane Museum, Rotterdam (cat.)
Citycollection, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Scale of Structure MK galerie.de Berlin
2006 MK galerie.nl, Rotterdam
Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2004 MK galerie.nl, Rotterdam
De Waag, Leiden
2002 MK galerie.nl, Rotterdam
Cargo Z, Almere
2001 Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam
Galerie Modulo, Lissabon
Galerie Modulo, Porto
2000 MK galerie.nl, Rotterdam (cat.)
False Flat, Fries Museum Buro Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden
1999 Galerie van Kranendonk, den Haag
Ata-Ray Gallery, Sofia (cat.)
1998 Galerie Bernard Jordan, Parijs
1996 Art Amsterdam, solostand, MK expositieruimte
1997 Witte de With, centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Rotterdam (cat.)
Group exhibitions (Selection):
2023 Terra Libera: who does the land belong to?, Rijksmuseum Twenthe Enschede
Fryslân from the Air, Fries Museum Leeuwarden
The Way We Live Now, Saatchi Gallery London
New Horizons, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
2022 Levend Landschap, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Flora Photographica: The Flower in Contemporary Photography, Flowers Gallery London
2021 Grid Corrections , Fotofestival Enschede
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations Marseille France
Thema, Methode, Keuzevrijheid, groepstentoonstelling, curator Jaap van den Ende, Galerie de Zaal, Delft,
2020 Countryside, The Future / Guggenheim Museum / New York
2019 Civilisatzion:The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)Melbourne, VIC Australia
Manic Patterns, Cokkie Snoei Rotterdam
2018 Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA)Beijing China
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea
Het Trage Lage Land, Museum More, Gorssel
2017 The Darkened Mirror - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Expanding Animation, Nicolaïkerk, Utrecht
Hidden Treasures - Van Kranendonk Gallery, The Hague
2016 Now&After 16 - Now&After - International Video Art Festival, Moscow
ARENA Noorderlicht Photofestival 2016 - Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Panorama Continuüm - Panorama Mesdag, The Hague
2015 Wind, Water, Wad / Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
ANTI-GRAND Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape,
Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia, USA (cat.)
Worlds of Nature, RAM foundation, Rotterdam
Rotterdam in the Picture, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2014 Google Mapping, (met Hans Gremmen), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Horizonnen, Art in a changing Friesland, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Frames Per Second, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh U.S.A.
2013 Landmark, the Fields of Landscape Photography, Sommerset House, London
distURBANces Museum National d'Histoire et d'art, Luxembourg
Stad in beeld, beeld van de stad, Stedelijk Museum Zwolle
Photography Extended, Museum Het Valkhof Nijmegen
Viewmasters, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag
2012 Sense of Place, Bozar, Brussel (cat.)
Zoet en Zout, Sweet and Salt, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (cat.)
Terra Cognita, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Tulca Arts Festival,Galway Ireland
International Photo festival, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2011 Zó Hollands, Ons landschap in de kunst sinds 1850, De Hallen Haarlem
De Saedeleer Revisited, Stedelijk Museum Aalst
2010 Na Pele da Terra, Van Kranendonk Gallery, The Hague
Collectiepresentatie Kunst na 1945 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2009 Desert Passage Harwood museum,Taos, New Mexico
Nature as Artifice , Aperture Gallery, New York
Nature as Artifice , George Eastman House, Rochester NY
2008 Nature as Artifice , Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Parts and the Whole , The Centro Cultural Bancaja , Alicante, Spain
Nature as Artifice , Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Dutch Dare, fsmgallery Florence, Italy
Expandig the City, Foam Amsterdam
2007 Contour / Continuïteit , Prinsenhof Delft (cat.)
Parts and the Whole, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona (cat.)
Dutch Landscapes, Home Views, Brisbane, Australie
2006 Photo London, MK Galerie.nl, London
Dutch Dare, Sydney (cat)
2005 Constructed Moment, 's Hertogenbosch
Histoire(s) Parallele(s) FOAM, Amsterdam
Ground Management/Fantasy Landscape, SFAI, Santa Fé
2004 Le Cinema des photographes Neerlandais, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Parijs
Echo 3, Archipel, Apeldoorn (met Martijn Schuppers)
De Magie van het Beeld, In Situ Galerie, Aalst
2003 Shine, museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
Art Brussels, MK galerie.nl
Panorama Amsterdam, FOAM, Amsterdam
2002 International Photofestival, Musée Réattu, Arles
Filmlounge, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
2001 In The Rough, Museu Serralves, Porto (cat.)
The People's Art, Eléctrica do Freixo, Porto; Witte de With, Rotterdam(cat.)
2000 Musee des Beaux Arts, Beaune
Stedelijk Museum, Gorinchem
1999 Dutch Photography, House of Photography, Moskou
De Vleeshal, Middelburg
Paris Photo (galerie Flatland)
1998 Carambolage, Gothaer Kunstforum, Keulen (cat.)
Carambolage, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam
Big enough for both of us, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
1997 National Gallery, Praag
Fotofestival Naarden (cat.)
1995 Verzameld Werk 6 Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Screenings (Selection):
2018 Grid Corrections, Festival du Film / Grasse
Grid Corrections, Technologies of Violence / Kino Arsenal / Berlin
Grid Corrections, IAFF ANIMATOR / Poznan Poland
2017 Grid Corrections, International Film Festival / Rotterdam
Grid Corrections, Holland Animation Film Fesitival / Utrecht
Grid Corrections, Glas Animation Festival / Berkeley (CA) USA
Grid Corrections, Intermediaciones 2017 / Medellin Colombia
Dissolve, Expanded Animation / Utrecht
Grid Corrections, Kurz & Knapp / Documentary Film and Video Festival Kassel
Grid Corrections, Imagen Ex Machina / La Casa Encendida / Madrid
2016 CROPS, GLAS Animation Festival / Berkeley (CA) USA
Grid Corrections, NOW & AFTER / The State Darwin Museum / Moscow
Grid Corrections, Transparency Machines / Arts Santa Monica / Barcelona
2015 Playground, Holland Animation Film Fesitival / Utrecht
Playground, European Media Art Festival / Osnabrueck
Playground, Different and Experimental Cinema / Paris
Playground, Nederlands Film Festival / Utrecht
Playground, Documentary Film and Video Festival / Kassel
2014 CROPS, Tempo Não Para (Time Doesn’t Stop) / TIFF Toronto, Canada
2013 CROPS, Animpact Animation Festival 2013 / Korea
CROPS, Nederlands Film Festival / Utrecht
CROPS, International Film Festival / Rotterdam
CROPS, Holland Animation Film Festival (nomination for the Grand Prize for Dutch Animation)
Publications/Books Monography
2019 Grid Corrections NAI010 Publishers, Rotterdam
2016 Almost Nature, Timmer Art Books / Lecturis , Eindhoven
2010 Toevallig Landschap, Uitgeverij van W ijnen, Franeker