Ruud van Empel

NEWS

Vintage works in exhibition

Flatland Gallery in Utrecht, The Netherlands, is organizing the first Vintage exhibition with the early works of Ruud van Empel made from 1995-2003. There will also be one work dating from 1983, an original handprinted work which is the very first photo artwork he produced.

Look for more information at:
www.flatlandgallery.com

Artwork for David Sylvian

Ruud van Empel was invited to deliver his artwork for the new album from David Sylvian titled Manafon

You can see the album here:
Manafon (pdf)

www.davidsylvian.com
www.manafon.com
www.samadhisound.com

Exhibition at Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie

Ruud van Empel took part in the exhibition "Visons, aufsicht auf leben" in Darmstäd.

Read reviews:
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
Dtdf Programm
Bildwerk3
Presse Anzeiger

Exhibitions in Paris, Düsseldorf and Tokyo

The New Series Dawn, Souvenir and World have been presented at TZR Galerie Kai Brückner, Flatland Gallery and Gallery Terra Tokyo.

Look at the reviews here:

Rheinische Post (TZR ; pdf)

Westdeutsche Zeitung (TZR ; pdf)

Benjamin La Combe (Flatland Paris)

www.kalons.net (Gallery Terra Tokyo)

Birgit Varenkamp (Gallery Terra Tokyo)

New Works at Stux Gallery

On January 29 th. the third solo exhibition of Ruud van Empel opens at Stux Gallery in New York. There his new series titled Dawn and Souvenir can be seen for the first time. Also some new works from his former series World, Moon and Venus will be in this exhibition. Stux Gallery, 530 West 25th street New York NY 10001
January 29 - Februari 29, 2009

New book with new works from Ruud van Empel

In January there will be a new book coming out with new series such as Dawn, Souvenir and Monument. Dutch Art-historian Maartje van den Heuvel (Prentenkabinet Leiden NL) has written a text about the history of the works by Ruud van Empel and writes about his technique and subjects, but also gives an analyses of all the critisism that has been on his work throughout the world in these last few years. A very interesting essay.

Read more about this at:

English

Nederlands

Exhibition at LGP Prague

The director from Leica Gallery Prague Jana Bömer has asked Ruud van Empel to exhibit his work in her exhibition space.The exhibition will open on 15 th of January and will last until April 18 th 2009. LGP is a photography gallery with a broadly envisioned concept: Its exhibition program focuses on the best that the international photography scene has to offer. As a nonprofit organization, the gallery touches upon important social issues through its program and it helps people to orientate in the contemporary world through cultural experiences.

Exclusive new work

Ruud van Empel was invited to make an exclusive work for a portfolio for the Elton John Aids Foundation. The portfolio will consist of 10 artists and the size will be 20x24 inches. A number of artists who are friends of Eltons have also committed. These include Thomas Struth, Damien Hirst, Sally Mann, Sam Taylor-Wood, Phillip Lorca-DiCorcia, Nan Goldin, and Richard Misrach. The portfolio will be introduced at the annual Elton John Oscar Party in Hollywood on February 22nd. 2009.

Click on the picture to see the new work.

More information:
www.ejaf.org
Ejaf Portfolio
Photographyblog
NYArtBeat

Portfolio Le Monde

In the French Newspaper Le Monde from November 15 th 2008 is a special High-tech issue, in here is a 8 page portfolio published from sketches Ruud van Empel made for his series The Office in the year 2000.
The text is written by Yann Plougastel.

Read more about this at:
Le Monde Magazine (pdf)

Exhibition at Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf

On Oktober 24 th,2008 the exhibition Diana and Actaeon, the forbidden glimpse of the naked body was opend by director Beat Wismer at the Museum KunstPalast in Dusseldorf, Germany. Ruud van Empel is present with one work in this exhibitions that runs through February 15, 2009

Book publication Beyond Photography, photography and imagination

Voetnoot Publishers and Ruud van Empel have produced a new book on photography from the Netherlands and Belgium about photography and imagination. It shows Photo Art from 1980 to 2008 and the 4 essay's are written by Maartje van den Heuvel, Rommert Boonstra, Lotte Menkman and Eric Min.

Exhibition at Kunstverein Halle, Germany

Ruud van Empel had the honor to show his works in the summer of 2008 at the Kunstverein “Talstrasse” e.V. in Halle (Saale) by invitation of Matthias Rataiczyk and Christin Müller-Wenzel. The exhibition was opend by Angelika Honsbeek, Kulturattacheé from the Dutch embassy, Berlin. He presented him with a beautifull bouquet made specially for him by Geer Pouls from Gallery Brutto Gusto Berlin. Than Art Historian Christoph Kivelitz made a speech about the history and works of Ruud van Empel.
After this there was a presentation with works from students Fashion Design Der Burg Giebichenstein Art University for Art & Design Halle, in the style of the portrait of Ruud van Empel. The exhibition is from July 24 to Oktober 5, 2008