JAAP  DE  RUIG

[Nederlandse versie] Jaap de Ruig is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam. He makes photographs, shorts and video installations. In 2009 he completed his first mid-length film The Source - One Day in a Roma settlement in Romania. This film had its première at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. His other work has been shown at exhibitions in museums and art galleries across Europe. His partner is the writer Mariët Meester.

Jaap de Ruig is represented by Maria Chailloux in Amsterdam, RAM-art in Rotterdam and Est-ce une bonne nouvelle 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.

Agenda
26-1 / 30-1-2010 FIPA, Biarritz, France,
                    screening of The Source
20-6 / 25-7-2010 De Vishal, Haarlem, co-exh.
                    Come Back, with Alet Pilon

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 animals and 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. It was a research of  the human psyche. Each installation represents archetypal values like anxiety, loneliness or liberation. But humour is not lacking, without humour life becomes unbearable."