Gerco de Ruijter

conceptual - film - photography

Gerco de Ruijter is a Rotterdam-based visual artist working in the field of photography and film. In the late 1980s he started using kites, balloons and fishing poles to create images of situations far removed from our own vantage point. Since 2012 he has been mining Google Earth as a source, resulting in films like CROPS (2012) and Playground (2014). His art explores how far presentation of the landscape can be reduced and yet still remain recognizable.

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    • Grid corrections

    Project

    • 01-06-2015 t/m 01-05-2019
    • In collaboration with: Fotomuseum The Hague, nai010publishers Rotterdam, Hartenfonds, Mondriaanfonds, Ulrich Museum Wichita Kansas (USA)
    • Film, book and exhibition. Artist in Residence at the Ulrich Museum in Wichita Kansas (USA) 2015 Book Grid Corrections published by nai010 Rotterdam Presentation at the Fotomuseum The Hague 2019
    • https://www.fotomuseumdenhaag.nl/nl/tentoonstellingen/grid-corrections

    CROPS / Cropped

    Project

    • 01-01-2012 t/m 21-10-2020
    • In collaboration with: Mondriaan Fund / Manuel de Santaren
    • CROPS / Cropped is a project on center pivot irrigation in the USA. Long water-sprinkler arms rotate around a central pivot, irrigating circular fields of verdant crops in desert or semiarid environments. Often a well, located at the center of the circle, pumps water up from vast aquifers in the rock formations below, or Rio Grande water is canalized and redirected into the deserts feeding the well. Once the Rio Grande reaches Mexico, it's riverbed has dried.
    • https://hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/meet-artist-gerco-de-ruijter/

    Tether

    Project

    • 01-06-2016 t/m 01-10-2018
    • In collaboration with: Bewaerschole Burgh-Haamstede / Mondriaanfonds Amsterdam / Sander Veenhof
    • Location: Schouwen-Duiveland,
    • An exploration along the coast of Schouwen-Duiveland in various 360 degree panoramas. Exhibition Tether: a virtual reality trajectory (in collaboration with Sander Veenhof) presented in the Bewaerschole, September 2017 Film: Van de Punt tot Bru: a journey in eight panoramas. Premiere at Film by the Sea in Vlissingen 2018
    • https://www.cinecity.nl/voorstellingen/van-de-punt-tot-bru-theater-der-natuur#

    Fleur de sel

    Project

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam

    • 2016
      Scholarship

    • Fund BKVB / Mondriaan Fund

    • 2009
      Scholarship

    • Fund BKVB / Mondriaan Fund

    • 2004
      Scholarship

    • Fund BKVB / Mondriaan Fund

    • 2000
      Pricing

    • Grand Prix de la Ville de Vevey (Kodak Award)

    • 1998
      Pricing

    • Threshold price City of Rotterdam

    • 1993
      Collection

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      Publication

    • Grid corrections

    • 2020
    • nai010 publishers - Peter Delpeut / Gerco de Ruijter
      Publication

    • Almost Nature

    • 2016
    • Books
    • Timmer Art Books / Lecturis - Dirk van Weelden
      Publication

    • Landmark, the Fields of Landscape Photography,

    • 2014
    • Thames & Hudson - William A Ewing
      Publication

    • Casual Landscape

    • 2010
    • Frisian landscapes
    • Van Wijnen - Peter de Ruyter / Atelier Fryslan
      Publication

    • Landing Soon / Gerco de Ruijter

    • 2008
    • artist book
    • Heden Den Haag / Cemeti Art House Yogyakarta -