°1981 Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Anouk Kruithof is a visual artist. Her multilayered, transdisciplinary approach encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, artist books, text, performance, video, animation, websites and (social) interventions in the public domain. Kruithof’s work explores a ‘contemporary schizophrenia’ which can be seen as an indelible mental disease of contemporary life. By continually navigating between the digital and physical experiential sphere, Kruithof investigates a collective state of mind that is not solely grounded in the material world, but more and more often in the relentless flow of images in an amorphous digital world.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York); The Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City), VOORUIT (Ghent, Belgium), TATE (London), MBAL (Switzerland) and The Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen China)
Selected exhibitions
'Universal Tongue',Museum Tinguely Basel, Switzerland 'NIET MEER NORMAAL',Kunstkerk Dordrecht,NL 'Universal Tongue', Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL 'Of Melting and Disappearing',Kunstforum Montafon, DE 'Avecques Amertume',Les Limbes,Saint-Etienne,France 20th Pančevo Biennial ‘Refinery Monastery’, Pančevo, Servia Overdose-collectionGalila’s P.O.C.Design Museum Holon,Israel 'Biennale für aktuelle fotografie: From where I stand' , Mannheim, DE 'Inside the outside', CODA, Apeldoorn, NL 'Folkwang and the City', Essen, DE
'Perpetual Endless Flow' ,FuturDome, Milano, Italy 'Universal Tongue', Vera, part of Noorderzon, Groningen,NL Universal Tongue,Stadhuiszolder, part of Fotofestival Naarden,NL 'Trans Human Nature', galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris,France 'Trans Human Nature',254Forest, Bruxelles 'Universal Tongue', Voo?uit, Gent, Belgium 'La Biennale NOVA_XX',Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris 'Global Groove', Museum Folkwang Essen,Germany 'Bye Bye His-Story', Chapter 5050, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée, La Louviere, Belgium 'Universal Tongue at STRP', Festival Eindhoven,NL 'Universal Tongue at BASE' ,Milan,Italy 'Eregalerij van de Nederlandse Fotografie',Het Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
'Universal Tongue at Manifesta13,'Parallel Du Sud 'Program', at Le Ballet National Marseille, France 'On Earth - Imaging, Technology and the Natural World', Le Lieu Unique, Nantes 'Nach uns die Sintflut (After us the deluge)' Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria 'La photographie à l’épreuve de l’abstraction', Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France and le Frac Normandie-Rouen, France 'Spoiled Waters Spilled', Manifesta13, Parallel Du Sud Program, BNM, Marseille, France 'On Earth - Imaging, Technology and the Natural World', FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'Persona Everywhere,' Le Lait: Centre d’Art Contemporain, Albi, France
Anouk Kruithof Universal Tongue, 2022 Video, sound, 4hours duration