Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij, I’m Coming Home in Forty Days, 1997, Production Still, Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz and Willem de Rooij
Opening: 13 September 17, 7 pm
Opening hours during Berlin Art Week:
Thursday–Friday 11 am–9 pm
Saturday–Sunday 11 am–7 pm
Willem de Rooij (born 1969 in Beverwijk, NL) investigates the production, contextualization and interpretation of images. His multifaceted practice includes photography, films, videos, sculpture, soundrecordings, and writing. Appropriated materials, such as found images, objects borrowed from art historical or ethnographic collections, or works by other artists play an important role. De Rooij’s works take the form of installations or temporary groupings that reflect on the physical and contextual qualities of the space they occupy. Willem de Rooij has been Professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main since 2006. In 2015, he founded BPA // Berlin Program for Artists together with Angela Bulloch and Simon Denny, and since 2016 he is a Visiting Advisor at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
This fall, KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents Whiteout—a selection of de Rooij’s production from the last twenty years. The exhibition connects recent work with seminal pieces made together with Jeroen de Rijke (1970–2006), with whom de Rooij collaborated from 1994 to 2006 under the name de Rijke/de Rooij.
Curator: Krist Gruijthuijsen
Assistant Curator: Maurin Dietrich
Partner of the Berlin Art Week
Willem de Rooij and Lucy Skaer is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin. The exhibition by Willem de Rooij is kindly supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Berlin and the Mondriaan Fund.
Willem de Rooij, Installation view Whiteout at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Dead Seal, 1996–99, C-print, framed; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, I’m Coming Home in Forty Days, 1997, 16 mm film, color, optical sound, Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Friedrich Petzel, New York; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, I’m Coming Home in Forty Days, 2001, C-print, framed, installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Willem de Rooij, Ilulissat, 2014, 12 channel digital audio recording, speakers, Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Friedrich Petzel, New York; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Foreground: Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Blue Table, 2004, Courtesy the artist; Background: Willem de Rooij, Blue to Blue, 2012; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Willem de Rooij, Installation view Whiteout at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Dead Seal, 1996–99, C-print, framed; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, I’m Coming Home in Forty Days, 1997, 16 mm film, color, optical sound, Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Friedrich Petzel, New York; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, I’m Coming Home in Forty Days, 2001, C-print, framed, installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Willem de Rooij, Ilulissat, 2014, 12 channel digital audio recording, speakers, Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Friedrich Petzel, New York; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling
Foreground: Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij, Blue Table, 2004, Courtesy the artist; Background: Willem de Rooij, Blue to Blue, 2012; installation view KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling