About:
Rachel de Joode, from Amersfoort, The Netherlands, studied time-based arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam. Solo exhibitions include The Hole and the Lump, Interstate Projects, New York, NY (2013); Real Things – Explorations in Three Dimensions, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX (2012); and Light Trapped in Matter, Kunstihoone, Tallinn, Estonia (2011). Group exhibitions include SPRING/ BREAK ART SHOW 2013, Old School, New York, NY (2013), Open for Business, STADIUM gallery, New York, NY, Wobbly Misconduct, LV3 Gallery, Chicago, IL (2012); Bad Girls of 2012, Interstate Projects, New York, NY (2012), Life Is Very Long, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2012); and Rat Piss Virus Give It To Me at Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2011). She was awarded the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt (2013) and the Sculpture Space funded residency (2012), and has been selected to be an artist in resident this upcoming fall at the LMCC swingspace program at Governors Island, New York, NY. Recent publications include Artfagcity (2013), Surface Magazine (2012), Figure Magazine (2012), and Dmagazine (2012).
De Joode is founder and art-director of online magazine
Meta Magazine and founder
and curator of the art auction house de Joode & Kamutzki.
Artist Statement:
It is my intention to point out the purposelessness and absurdity of human existence through the semiotics of ‘things’, this can be: contemporary artifacts, information flows, human nature, art or myself.
The thing’s ability to transfer and to measure our ‘humanness’ is a central interest of mine. What I mean with “our humanness” is the human condition, the thing itself which makes us humans, what defines us as human beings. Questions like ‘Why are we here?’ and ‘What does it mean to be human today?’ are reoccurring points of departure.
SCHOOL
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
Art Academie ST’Joost, Breda, NL
GRANTS, AWARDS
(Upcoming) LMCC Swing Space residency at Governors Island , New York
Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Two months funded artist in residency at Sculpture Space, Utica USA
Funding from the Royal Dutch Embassy of Estonia for the solo-show
Light Trapped in Matter
Gruner+Jahr Publishers, 90 Jahre Bauhaus Award—3rd prize for the
series Primary Trichromatic Color Visions, 2009
Fonds BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design
and Architecture), Starterstipendium, 2002/2003
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013
SPRING/ BREAK ART SHOW 2013, Old School, New York
Open for Business at Stadium Gallery, New York
The Hole and the Lump, Interstate Projects, New York (solo)
2012
Real Things – Explorations in Three Dimensions at Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas (solo)
Wobbly Misconduct at LV3 Gallery, Chicago
Important Things, curating (and participating in) a performance-groupshow at Interstate Projects, New York.
Play, Collect, Construct, Fold and Display at Liefhertje en De Grote Witte Reus in Den Haag.
Capricious Benefit Auction, Martos Gallery, New York, NY
ZONA MACO, México’s contemporary art fair, represented by Diablo Rosso gallery from Panama
Bad Girls of 2012, groupshow at Interstate Projects in New York
Tropico Post - Apocalyptic, groupshow at extra extra gallery in Philadelphia
Life Is Very Long, sculptural installation and performance at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Ex Girlfriends In The Age Of Drones, A One Night Group Exhibition at Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin, Germany
DOVBLE TROVBLE groupexhibition curated by It's Our Playground at The Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow.
2011
Exhibition of the series Altars during the groupshow " La quema del Diablo ( The burning of the Devil ) " at Proyectos Ultravioleta in Guatemala City
Seeing The Future a skype performance at Future Gallery, Berlin
The Seven Acts Of Mercy 500 free givaway posters during The Culture Club by Picnic Magazine at Art Basel Miami 2011 in Miami, USA
Light Trapped in Matter solo show at City Gallery in Tallinn, Estonia (solo)
Rat Piss Virus Give It To Me groupshow at Yautepec Gallery - curated by Gerardo Contreras (Preteen Gallery), Mexico
BONE performance and exhibition at LEAP Berlin
2010
Das Ding exhibition of the installation Matter and Light and Workshop
in GAS Station Berlin
PHASE II (SKELETON) performance, in collaboration with Donna Huanca
at Galerie Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin
Conjunction on-site installation with sound and performance, in
collaboration with Donna Huanca in HBC, Berlin
Slab in Temporaray Space, grouphow, exhibition of A Chicken Taped To
A Keyboard Makes Me Sad & I Love Terra Preta, Houston TX, USA
Giant Bowl On Monuments Day, exhibition in Oslo of the giant
inflatable sculpture A Peanut, Half a Horse, a Chicken Foot a
Burning Cigarette and a Black Hole, Oslo, Norway
2009
Ten Years Anniversary Art Exhibition, The Chinese European Art Center,
Xiamen, China
Guerilla exhibition organized by Pluslisa Utrecht showing of
The Residue of those Celestial Objects Bound to our Sun by Gravity, NL
Man & Object, AB-Project Gallery, exhibition of The Legends of
Stick-On Faux Marble and Eternal Grey Dream and Size Matters
SELECTED BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Doppelganger: Images of the Human Being Gestalten Verlag, January 2011
Hair’em Scare’em Gestalten Verlag, October 2009
Tangible Gestalten Verlag, January 2009
Sideways Art Book, Gestalten Verlag, March 2008
LECTURES AND OTHER PROJECTS
Lecture at Ptarmigan Artspace in Tallinn, 2011
Founder and curator of auctionhouse de Joode & Kamutzki, 2011 - till now
Guest lecture at Bauhaus Institut Weimar, Germany, 2010
Founder and art-director of online magazine Meta Magazine, 2009 - till now
Commercial fashion & product photographer - Studio Rachel de Joode , 2004 - till now