| Biography |
Germaine Kruip (NL, 1970) lives and works in Brussels and Amsterdam. Her minimalist installations and actions interact with social systems such as groups of people, exhibitions and exhibition spaces. Kruip was trained at DasArts, Amsterdam (1998-1999) and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, (2000-2001).
She is known from her often minimal architectural inventions integrating light and mirrors. She perceives her audience as actors in these minimal but staged environments. Her photographic slide pieces such as The Bower (2006) and Image Archive (2004-ongoing), connect the institutional environment, the way we are conducted or conditioned to look at images, to the everyday world outside. She places the so-called “artificial” on the same level as the ‘natural”. |
