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RACHEL DE JOODE
BORN IN 1979 in AMERSFOORT, NL
LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN
This document was updated on 23 September 2021 and is for reference only.
EDUCATION
2000
Diploma Time Based Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1997
Propedeuse Media Arts Art, Academie ST’Joost, Breda
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Soft Paintings, ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London — UK
Sloppy Therapy, The Pitcairn Museum of Contemporary Art, Groningen — NL
2018
Instead of Pieces, a Play, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris — FR
2017
Flat Nature / Surface Bodies, Foundation for Art Fort Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen — NL
Soft in the Centre, Pasquart, Bienne — CH
2015
Connective Tissue, Cinnnamon, Rotterdam — NL
Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma, MACRO, Contemporary Art Museum of Rome, Rome — IT
Porosity, Christophe Gaillard, Paris — FR
Surfaces, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin — DE
Soft Inquiry – Kansas Gallery, New York — US
2014
The Matter Of It Being A Stone, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow — UK
Bronze-ware & Ceramics, Museo Apparente, Naples — IT
The Molten Inner Core, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin — DE
2013
Dust Skin Matter, Diablo Rosso, Panama City — PA
The Hole and the Lump, Interstate Projects, New York — US
2012
Real Things, Explorations in Three Dimensions, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas — US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Polyptyque l’Exposition, Centre Photographique, Marseille — FR
The Artist is Online. Painting and Sculpture in the Postdigital Age, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin — DE
2019
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg — SE
Holiday from Rules, curated by Camille Houze, Toffee Park Adventure Playground, London — UK
2018
Without Nature, Nicoletti, London — UK
2017
Hybrid Layers, ZKM, Karlsruhe — DE
Myths of Marble, ICA, Philadelphia — US
Myths of Marble, Henie Onstad Kunstenter, Oslo — NO
Forever Never Comes — Metabolismo del Tempo, Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma and Area archeologica di Roselle, Grosseto — IT
2016
Physical Fiction, Garage, Rotterdam — NL
Gestures of Tomorrow, Kunstverein, Nürnberg — DE
The Analogy Between Bulbs and Buds, Berlin Botanical Gardens, Berlin — DE
Hybrid Modus. New positions in bio-, living- and digital sculpture, Bredelar Brand New Gallery, Milan — IT
ONCE (11), ESPACIO MONITOR, Caracas — VE
Un certain regard, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague — NL
2015
Not a photo, The Hole, New York — US
Touch-tone, Martos Gallery, New York — US
Listen to the stones, think like a mountain, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent — BE
Percussive Hunter, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul — TR
Deep Screen, Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux — FR
COOL, as a state of mind, MAMO, Marseille — FR
2014
Open for Business, at Per4m, Artissima Art Fair, Turin — IT
Objects in a Room, Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin Tabularium, Slopes, Melbourne — AU
Soft Intensities, Gloria Knight, Auckland — NZ
Group Show, Elaine Levy Project, Brussels — BE
The New Beauty of Our Modern Life, Higher Pictures, New York — US
Surface Poetry, Boetzelaer|Nispen, Amsterdam — NL
2013
Come All Ye Faithful, Curated by Carson Chan & Florian Christopher, Zurich — CH
Body Building, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin — DE
PHATT-B, Pratt Institute, New York — US
The Lies of Light, MADA Gallery, Melbourne — AU
Mutant Porcelain, So What Space, New York — US
After The Spectacle, In The Pines, Jackson — US
Spring/Break Art Show, Old School, New York — US
Open for Business, Stadium Gallery, New York — US
Notes on Form, 032C Workshop, Berlin — DE
NADA, Interstate Gallery, New York — US
2012
Wobbly Misconduct, LV3 Gallery, Chicago — US
Important Things, Interstate Projects, New York — US
Play, Collect, Construct, Fold and Display, Liefhertje en De Grote Witte Reus, The Hague — NL
Capricious Benefit Auction, Martos Gallery, New York — US
Zona Maco, DiabloRosso, Panama — PA
Bad Girls of 2012, Interstate Projects, New York — US
Tropico Post-Apocalyptic, Extra Extra, Philadelphia — US
Life Is Very Long, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen — NO
Ex Girlfriends In The Age Of Drones, Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin — DE
Dovble Trovble, CCA, Glasgow — UK
2011
La quema del Diablo, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala — GT
City Seeing The Future, Future Gallery, Berlin — DE
The Seven Acts Of Mercy, Art Basel Miami, Miami — US
Light Trapped in Matter, Kunstihoone, Tallinn — EE
Rat Piss Virus Give It To Me – Yautepec Gallery, Mexico — MX
City Bone, Leap, Berlin — DE
2010
Das Ding, Gas Station, Berlin — DE
Phase II (Skeleton), Galerie Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin — DE
Collaboration with Donna Huanca, HBC, Berlin — DE
A Chicken Taped To A Keyboard Makes Me Sad & I Love Terra Preta, Slab, Houston — US
A Peanut, Half a Horse, a Chicken Foot a Burning Cigarette and a Black Hole, Giant Bowl, Oslo — NO
2009
Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen — CN
The Residue of those Celestial Objects Bound to our Sun by Gravity, Guerilla, Utrecht — NL
The Legends of Stick-On Faux Marble & Eternal Grey Dream and Size Matters, AB Project, Berlin — DE
SELECTED BOOKS & GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES (PUBLICATIONS)
2020
The Photograph as Contemporary Art (World of Art). Texts by Charlotte Cotton, Thames and Hudson Ltd, London — UK [Book]
2018
Myths of the Marble. Texts by Milena Hoegsberg and Alex Klein, Sternberg Press, Berlin — DE [Book]
2017
Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art. Texts by Clare Lilley, Phaidon, New York — US [Book]
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (ARTICLES & REVIEWS)
2021
Meier, Anika. “Why do you Collect Art, Annka Kultys?” Misa.art (18 August 2021) [online]
2020
Gavoyannis, Olivia. “‘Instagram makes you feel part of the art world – but it’s a lie’: artist Rachel de Joode on art and the digital”. The Art Newspaper (November 2020) [ill.] [online]
2017
“Hybrid Layers”. Fluxo (June 2017) [ill.] [online]
2016
Vrancken, Judith. “That Time.” Artforum (Autumn 2016) [ill.] [online]
Cordray, Julianne. “Nature//The Semiotics of Surface: An Interview with Rachel de Joode.” Berlin Art Link (29 July 2016) [ill.] [online]
“one message interview #24. Rachel de Joode.” We Find Wildness (20 May 2016) [ill.] [online]
Venturi, Riccardo and Shires, Melissa (transl.) “Rachel de Joode, Galerie Christophe Gaillard.” Artforum (January 2016) [ill.] [print]
2015
“‘Touch-tone’ by Rachel de Joode, Kate Steciw and Letha Wilson @ Martos Gallery.” Fluxo (November 2015) [ill.] [online]
Elders, Zippora. “Interview with Rachel de Joode.” FOAM (November 2015) [ill.] [online]
Benson, Louise. “Rachel de Joode’s ‘Soft Inquiry’.” POSTMatter (27 March 2015) [ill.] [online]
2014
Droitcour, Brian. “The Perils Of Post-Internet Art”. Art in America (29 October 2014) [ill.] [online]
“Rachel de Joode: Signifiers + Surface.” Topical Cream (April 2014) [ill.] [online]
Canbaz, Melissa and Reese, Diana (transl.) “Rachel de Joode.” Artforum (Spring 2014) [ill.] [online]
“The New Beauty of Our Modern Life.” DIS Magazine (27 February 2014) [ill.] [online]
Pieterson, Mark. “Rachel de Joode ‘The Molten Inner Core’.” Novembre Magazine (2014) [ill.] [online]
“Rachel de Joode “The Molten Inner Core” at Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin.” Mousse Magazine (n.d.) [ill.] [online]
2013
Jordan, Marvin. “Steciw and de Joode / Open for Business.” DIS Magazine (September 2013) [ill.] [online]
Chen, Adrian, Kirsch, Corinna, and Johnson, Paddy. “The Hole And The Lump.” Art F City (March 2013) [ill.] [online]
Stamatis, Alaina. “Rachel de Joode: Doing Stuff With Things.” Impose Magazine (15 February 2013) [ill.] [online]
“The New Beauty of Our Modern Life.” The New Yorker (2013) [ill.] [online]
2012
Thumfart, Johannes. “¡Disfruten la Apocalipsis!” DIS Magazine (19 December 2012) [ill.] [online]
Khachiyan, Anna. “Artist Rachel de Joode on Absurdity, Authenticity and Playing with Your Food.” BULLETT (November 2012) [ill.] [online]
Drumm, Perrin. “Rachel de Joode: the magic-surreal, inflatable Neo-Dada work of a still life sculptor.” Cool Hunting (2 April 2012) [ill.] [online]
Berger, Aaron. “Artist Interview: Rachel de Joode.” Beautiful/Decay (11 September 2012) [ill.] [online]
2011
Hutchens, Jessyca. “Rachel de Joode: Based-In-Berlin: Artist Studio Visit.” Berlin Art Link (August 2011) [ill.] [online]
TEACHING AND SEMINARS
2019
Lecture at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel — CH
2017
ECAL École cantonale d’art de Lausanne, department Master Photography, Lausanne — CH
2016
Lecture and workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia — US
“The Work of Sculpture in the Age of Digital Production,” with Kasper König, Jörg Heiser and Bettina Pousttchi, presented by Nasher Sculpture Center, Akademie der Künste, Berlin — DE
2013 – 2016
USC Roski School of Art, Los Angeles — US
2015
MICA Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore — US
2014 – 2015
DAAP University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati — US
San Jose State University, Art Department, San Jose — US
2012
Border School for Art & Design in Mexico City, Mexico City — MX
CENTRO University for Art & Design in Mexico City, Mexico City — MX
Central Track, Artist in Residency Program in Dallas — US
2011
Ptarmigan artspace in Tallinn, Tallinn — EE
2010
Bauhaus Institut, Weimar — DE
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2019
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Amsterdam — NL
2017
Mondriaan fonds Project Grant, Amsterdam — NL
2016
Mondriaan fonds, International Presentations Grant, Berliner Senat Project, funding for the project ‘Kultigene Gewächse’, A sculpture garden at the Botanical Garden Berlin (together with Michaela Richter and Zoe Claire Miller) — DE
2013
LMCC Swing Space residency, Governors Island, New York — US
Artist in Residency at Casa Maauad, Mexico City — MX
Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt — DE
Shortlisted finalist for the EMDASH Frieze Award, London — UK
2012
Two months funded artist in residency at Sculpture Space, Utica — US
2002
Fonds BKVB (Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture), Starterstipendium — NL
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Collection of Keramiek Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden — NL
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Collection of Safia El Malqui
Collection of Sébastien Peyret
Collection of Eric Marié
Collection of David Diamond
