Julika Rudelius

donated by the artist

Some recent solo exhibitions
Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University, Middletown 2010, 'Julika Rudelius: Projections'
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal 2010, 'Julika Rudelius: Soft Intrusion'
Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam 2009, 'Study in obedience'
Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart 2008, 'Rites of Passage'
Grazer Kunstverein, 2006, 'Geld!'
Galeria Manuela Klercks, Milan 2005

Some recent group exhibitions
New Museum, New York 2010, 'H Box'
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, 2010, 'das ist die Lebenswelt'
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago 2009, 'Heartland'
Australian Center for Photography, Sydney 2006, 'Dutch Dare. Contemporary Photography from the Netherlands in Australia'
Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam 2005, 'Populism'

Selected publications
Hripsimé Visser, Rik Suermondt, Fotografie in het Stedelijk: de geschiedenis van een collectie, Amsterdam; Rotterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NAi Uitgevers 2009
Kristen Lubben [et al.], Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, New York: International Center of Photography/Steidl 2009
Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin (ed.), Global feminisms: new directions in contemporary art, London: Merrell Publishers 2007

Selected public and corporate collections
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL • Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL • Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL • De Hallen Haarlem, NL • AMC Kunstcollectie, NL • Achmea Kunstcollectie, NL • Rabo Kunstcollectie, NL

Julika Rudelius explores human conduct: how people behave individually and in groups, in private and in public. She confuses and blurs the real and the fictional, training the camera on events going on around her, combining documentary and staged events to comment on society and the people in it. What are their fascinations? Who are their role models? Boys in a train compartment brag about their sexual conquests. Careerists in a bland office talk about money and what it means to them. Middle-aged American ladies of the 'jet set' will do anything it takes to hold onto the vestiges of youth. Rudelius maintains strict orchestration of the staged scenes and the themes that are dealt with. Her manipulation is subtle but ultimately so convincing that the viewer is confronted by his or her own gullibility.

Julika Rudelius was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 1999-2000.
She won the Amsterdamprijs voor de Kunsten (NL) in 2008 and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (US) in 2009. 

www.rudelius.org