Juul Kraijer (born 31 October 1970)
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at the RKD
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is a Dutch visual artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in major museum collections such as the
Museum of Modern Art
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, New York City, the
Museum of Old and New Art
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla Estate, Moorilla winery on the Berriedale, Tasmania, Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the South ...
, Tasmania and the
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
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.
Life and work
Kraijer was born in
Assen
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.
She studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts
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* Alberta College of Art and Design
* Art Academy of Cincinnati
* Art Center College of Design
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in
Rotterdam
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, graduating in 1994 with a series of large format charcoal drawings.
[Baar, V. and Sütö, W. (2009) ''Juul Kraijer''. Rotterdam: FREEM.] Her principal mediums are drawing, photography and collage. She occasionally makes sculptures and video-works.
In the drawings Kraijer's subject is always female, naked and depersonalized, an archetype or personage rather than a particular individual.
[Alphen, E. van and Malbert, R. (2015) ''Juul Kraijer : werken 2009-2015''. Zwolle: WBOOKS.] The model is sometimes multiplied: facing herself, head to head, or appearing as Siamese twins or triplets. In most works the human body is combined with other creatures or natural phenomena: surrounded by schools of little fish or swarms of moths, fused with branches or parts of animals or displaying mountainscapes on the skin.
Kraijer favors charcoal, and only rarely works in colour. The size of her drawings is determined by the image, which is always depicted more or less life-size.
Since 2012 photography has been an important medium in Kraijers practice. Her photographs are also mostly black and white and thematically closely related to her drawings. She often works with the same model, who poses with objects or animals, most notably snakes.
Kraijer's works share an emblemata-like concision, showing no more than what is strictly necessary. In each image, the figure looms out of an undefined background. Definition of time is absent as well. No hairstyles or dress belonging to any specific period are shown, no hint of a narrative is present.
The postures and facial expressions are deliberately restrained and intensely concentrated. They seem to have been adopted for eternity.
[Kraijer, J. (1998) ''The Hydra''. Rotterdam.] Faces and bodies are a vehicle for meaning rather than portrayals of individuals. The impassive visage, in a state of half-sleep, seems to exist at an interface between self-awareness and self-extinction.
[Malbert, R. (2015) ''Drawing People. The Human figure in Contemporary Art''. London: Thames&Hudson.]
The images elude traditional iconography. Kraijer creates naturalistic images that are memorably strange.
[Koplos, J. (April 1998) ''Juul Kraijer''. Art in America.]
Her work has been awarded four Dutch art prizes and has been included in major international exhibitions such as ARS 06 at the Museum of Modern Art KIASMA in Helsinki (2006), the Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009) and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2018).
Solo exhibitions
*Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands (1998)
*Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands (1998)
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Stedelijk Museum
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Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
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, The Hague, The Netherlands (2006)
*Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy , Zuoz, Switzerland (2007, 2014, 2023)
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The Wapping Project/Bankside, London (2014)
*Kunsthalle Giessen,
Gießen
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Th ...
, Germany (2014)
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Drents Museum
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and CBK Drenthe, Assen, The Netherlands (2015)
*''Chimaera'',
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography
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, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2017)
*Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, Frankrijk (2019)
*''Zweiheit'', Museum Sinclair-Haus,
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
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, Germany (2020)
*''S ,'' De Ketelfactory, Schiedam, The Netherlands (2021)
*Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi, India (2010, 2016, 2023)
Awards
*Charlotte Köhler Prijs (1998)
*Pendrecht Cultuurprijs (2000)
*Philip Morris Kunstprijs (2004)
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*Thérèse van Duyl-Schwartze Portretprijs (2009)
*nominated for Prix Guerlain du Dessin Contemporain (2018)
*Lensculture Portrait Awards - Single Image 3rd Place (2018)
*Lensculture Black&White Awards - Series 3rd Place (2018)
]
Works in public collections
*Museum of Modern Art
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, New York City: 1 drawing (as of 3 November 2021)
*Museum of Old and New Art
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is an art museum located within the Moorilla Estate, Moorilla winery on the Berriedale, Tasmania, Berriedale peninsula in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest privately funded museum in the South ...
, Tasmania
*Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
*Museum Kunstpalast
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History
The roots of the museum go back around 300 years. In 1932, the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Art) was housed in the Kunstmus ...
, Düsseldorf
*Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
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*Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna
* Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
*Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from its two most important donors, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. The museum is located a ...
, Rotterdam
*Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...
, The Hague
*Drents Museum, Assen
* Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam
*Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
*Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard
*Teylers Museum, Haarlem
*Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
References
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Dutch contemporary artists
People from Assen
Willem de Kooning Academy alumni