Willem de Rooij

Willem de Rooij (* 1969 in Beverwijk, Netherlands) is a Dutch artist who works with various media, film and installations.

Life

In the years 1990-1995 de Rooij studied in Amsterdam at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and continued the studies in 1997 and 1998 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam continued. Since 1995 until his death in 2006 he worked together with Jeroen de Rijke. In 1999 she took part in the collective exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein To the People of the City of the Euro with Of Three Men. In 2002, the exhibition entitled The Point of Departure followed in the Buchholz Gallery, Cologne.

In addition, presented the two artists in 2007, curated by Julian Heynen, along the K 21 in Dusseldorf and 2008 at the Museo d' Arte Moderna di Bologna ( MAMbo ) from. 2005 represented the two artists, the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale and presented along with Christopher Williams from The Secession ( Vienna) and recorded the entire house.

Since 2006, de Rooij is a professor of fine arts at the Städel School in Frankfurt / M.

Since 2004, De Rooij involves art or installations of other artists from museum collections in his own work.

For example, in 2010, the exhibition Intolerance in the New National Gallery in Berlin showed 18 paintings by Melchior de Hondecoeter and put them feathered Zeremonialobkjekten from the Hawai'i des18. Century building opposite.