Jaap de Ruig

[Nederlandse versie] Jaap de Ruig is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam. He makes video installations, shorts etc. In 2009 he completed his first creative documentary The Source - One Day in a Roma settlement in Romania. This film had its première at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His other works have been shown at exhibitions in museums and art galleries across Europe. In 2010 his project Wisdom and Hell was selected for No Holds Barred, Art Amsterdam. The book EEN DIER / EEN MENS (Caprae, 2010) shows an overview of his works. He lives with the author Mariët Meester.

Jaap de Ruig is represented by Maria Chailloux in Amsterdam, RAM in Rotterdam and Khiasma in Paris.

This site is a virtual museum. Visitors can wander the halls. A fragment from shorts and installations can be seen. The sidewalls are clickable too. Texts on the work of Jaap de Ruig and a cv can be found in the library. For information about sales, screenings and commissioned work see shop.

News:

- Article in art magazine Beelden.

- The video installation The Burden is included in the art collection of AMC, Amsterdam.

- Article in AMC Magazine about The Burden, page 28 and 29.

- One of the projects Jaap de Ruig is currently working on: What David sees.

Book preview: EEN DIER / EEN MENS

Jaap de Ruig: "Video and film make use of the existing reality in order to create a new reality which investigates the existing one. Anything can be recorded: suffering, death, the struggle between man and nature and between individuals. Especially in my early work animal behavior played an important role as a metaphor for human life. In 2007 I made a series of life-size video installations 'The Army of split Souls', in which I multiplied myself. Each installation represents archetypal values like anxiety, loneliness or liberation. But humour is not lacking, without humour life becomes unbearable."