GERMAINE KRUIP: CV Born in Castricum, NL Lives and works between Brussels, BE and Amsterdam, NL EDUCATION: 2000 – 2001 Visual Arts, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL 1995 – 1998 Master, advanced research in theater and dance studies, DasArts, Amsterdam, NL 1991 –1995 Scenography, HKU, Utrecht, BE SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2023 The Mirrored, The Approach, London, GB 2022 Rehearsal, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, BE 2021 Screenplay, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, HK 2019 Diamond, Art Basel Parcours, Kunstmuseum Basel, CH 2019 AFTER IMAGE, Gallery Baton, Seoul, KO 2017 Split Second, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 2017 Solo exhibition, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 2017 Solo booth, Independent Brussels, BE 2017 A Possibility of an Abstraction, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, NL 2016 A Possibility of an Abstraction, Kaaitheater, Brussels, BE 2015 Geometry of the Scattering, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Geometry of the Scattering: Scene I, Veem Theater, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Seeing the Unseen, solo booth, Art Brussels, BE 2015 A Room, 4 Minutes, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL 2014 A Possibility of an Abstraction, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, US 2014 To The Magician’s Mind, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 2013 Geometric Exercises, Parra & Romero, Madrid, ES 2012 A Possibility of an Abstraction, The Approach, London, GB 2010 A Room, 24 Hours II, Parra & Romero, Madrid, ES 2010 A Room, 24 Hours, The Approach, London, GB 2009 Germaine Kruip: Only the Title Remains, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, NL 2009 Aesthetics as a Way of Survival, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2023 Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE 2023 Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE 2022 Mondriaan Moves, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL 2020 The World After, curated by Jacqueline Grandjean, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL 2020 Histories of Dance, Museu de arte de São Paulo, BR 2020 READ/ING, curated by Aveline de Bruin, Quetzal Art Center, Vidigueira, PT 2020 Form and Volume, curated by Jens Ho ff mann, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, PT 2019 Lacuna, curated by Maaike Schoorel, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL 2019 Parcours Art Basel with The Approach, Basel, CH 2018 Light to Dark, Dark to Light, duo exhibition with Stef Driesen, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, BE 2017 Mementos: Artists’ Souvenirs, Artefacts, and other Curiosities, curated by Jens Ho ff mann and Piper Marshal, Art Brussels, BE 2017 20 Years Show, The Approach, London, GB 2017 RESONANCE, Gallery Baton, Seoul, KO 2016 Geographies of Dust and Air, Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, GB 2015 The Corner Show, Extra City, Antwerp, BE 2014 CLEAR, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, US 2013 Things from before beside things from after around things of the moment, Para & Romero, Ibiza, ES 2013 Cimetière d’Ixelles, curated by Lisa Oppenheim & Lisa Tan, New York, US 2013 Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home, curated by Siebe Tettero, Amsterdam, NL 2012 Man in the Holocene, MIT LIST Visual Center, Massachusetts, US 2012 about:blank, curated by Carla Donauer and Alexandra Landré, Kunsthalle Munster, DE 2012 IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE (ACT III), curated by Rosie Cooper and Ariella Yedgar, The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES 2011 SPECIFIC COLLISIONS, curated by Melissa Gordon, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, DE 2010 The Temporary Stedelijk at The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL 2010 Quantos Queres, MARZ Galeria, Lisbon, PR SELECTED PERFORMANCES: 2021 Resonance, commissioned by Europalia Trains & Tracks , curated by Samuel Saelemakers, Antwerp Central train station, BE 2019 A Square Without Corners, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, ES 2018 A Square Without Corners, Marres, Huis voor Hedendaagse Cultuur, Maastricht, NL 2017 A Possibility of an Abstraction: Square Dance, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, PR 2016 A Square Spoken, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, AU 2016 A Square Spoken, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL 2015 A Possibility of an Abstraction: Square Dance, Performatik, Bozar, Brussels, BE 2014 A Possibility of an Abstraction: Square Dance, Le Mouvement: Performing in the City, 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Biel, CH 2014 A Possibility of an Abstraction: Square Dance, Holland Festival, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL 2013 A Possibility of an Abstraction: Circle Dance, the Foundation for Art in the Station Area and the Municipality of Utrecht, Utrecht, NL 2013 A Possibility of an Abstraction: Circle Dance, The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT 2012 A Possibility of an Abstraction: Circle Dance, Art Unlimited, Basel, CH 2012 Eye Trap, Live Cinema Performance, Metropole Orkest / IFFR, Rotterdam, NL 2010 The Moon Is An Arrant Thief, The David Roberts Foundation, London, GB SELECTED COMMISSIONS: 2021 Resonance, commissioned by Europalia Trains & Tracks , curated by Samuel Saelemakers, Antwerp Central train station, BE 2021 Antwerp City Hall architectural intervention, Antwerp, BE 2017 Rotterdamse Schouwburg Beeldspoor, Rotterdam, NL 2008 Jil Sander Conceptstore, New York, US 2008 Passing Time, Ministry in Den Hague, NL 2007 Recording, Former Post O ffi ce Headquarters, Coolsingel, Rotterdam, NL 2005 Design Jubilee-coin to honor the 25 year reigning jubilee Queen Beatrix, NL 2005 Rehearsal, Rijksmuseum, commissioned by The Chief Government Architect, Amsterdam, NL 2004 Light installation, Theater Huis aan de Werf, Utrecht, NL 2000 Amsterdam 2000, AMC Brummelkamp Galerie, Amsterdam, N L AWARDS / PRIZES: 2015 Best solo booth, Art Brussels 2001 Charlotte Köhler Prize 1999 Prix de Rome, Second Prize, Theatre & Visual Arts SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL; Collection KAT_A, Bad Hon - nef-Rhöndorf, DE; Panoptès Collection, Brussels, BE; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, US: Sammlung Philara, Düsselorf, DE; Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, DE; Sanders Collection, Amsterdam, NL; de Bruin- Heijn Collection, Wassenaar, NL; Robert and Renée Drake Collection, Wassenaar, NL; Zaha Hadid Archi - tects, London, UK; Thomas und Eva Lösche Collection, Düsselorf, DE; The ABN AMRO art collection, Am - sterdam, NL; Amex Group BV collection, Voorschoten, NL; B-architecten collection, Antwerp, BE; Lisson Gallery, London, UK; Patrick Van Ommeslaeghe; and Raf Simons. SELECTED LECTURES: 2017 Politics of things, in conversation with Piper Marshal, Art Brussels, BE 2016 The Aesthetics of Disappearance, in conversation with Arjen Mulder, Kaaitheater, Brussels, BE 2016 Artist Talk, Sydney biennale, Sydney, AU 2016 Germaine Kruip and the famous Carrara marble, in conversation with Krzysztof Dobrowolski-Onclin, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. NL 2015 Artist Talk: A Possibility of an Abstraction: Square Dance, Kaaitheater, Brussels, BE 2015 An evening with Germaine Kruip, in conversation with Samuel Saelemakers, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL 2015 Germaine Kruip in conversation with Samuel Saelemakers & Jacqueline Grandjean, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Germaine Kruip about Seeing, in conversation with Jaap Guldemond, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Germaine Kruip about Time, in conversation with Jaap Guldemond, Cinema Zuid, Antwerp, BE 2014 Germaine Kruip, in conversation with Michel François, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 2012 Art 43 Basel: Art Basel Conversations, in conversation with Olaf Nicolai, Richard Phillips, Gianni Jetzer, Basel, CH 2011 The Avant/Garde Diaries chats, in conversation with Krist Gruijthuijsen and Maxine Kopsa, Kunsverein, Amsterdam, NL 2007 Lectures Spring 2007, de Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL GUEST TEACHING / COACHING: de Ateliers , Amsterdam, NL 3 Pommes, Namur, BE Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, NL Master Theater, Toneelacademie Maastricht, NL KNAW Royal Academy of Arts and Science, Amsterdam, NL COMMITTEES: 2023 - present: Co-founder and jury member of the Theodora Niemeijer Prize, Amsterdam, NL 2018 - present: Board member of Niemeijer Fonds Foundation, Amsterdam, NL 2007 - 2010: Advisor and commission member, Sculpture International Rotterdam, NL