Willem De RooijWillem de Rooij (b. 1969) creates temporary installations that explore the politics of representation across various media. Appropriation and collaboration are central to his artistic method, and his projects have stimulated new research in art histoy and ethnography. In 2000 De Rooij won the Bâloise Art Prize, and he was nominated for the Hugo Boss Award in 2004 and the Vincent Award in 2014. He was a Robert Fulton Fellow at Harvard University in 2004 and a DAAD fellow in Berlin in 2006. He represented the Netherlands at the 2005 Venice Biennale with Jeroen de Rijke, his collaborative partner from 1994-2006. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Portikus Frankfurt (2021), LAXart, Los Angeles (2019), IMA Brisbane (2017) and Consortium, Dijon (2015). De Rooij has taught and lectured extensively since 1998. He is Professor of Fine Art at the Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main since 2006, and advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam since 2015. In 2016 he co-founded BPA// Berlin program for artists, and became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. De Rooij’s works can be found in the collections of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles and MOMA, New York. Melchior d’Hondecoeter (1636-1695), Willem de Rooij and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (eds.), Volume 2 from Intolerance, published for an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Dusseldorf (Feymedia Verlagsgesellschaft) 2010 Read More Read Less