Anouk Kruithof
* 1981 Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany


1999-2003 St. Joost Academy, Breda, The Netherlands
 
Solo exhibitions

2011 The Daily Exhaustion, Bruch und Dallas, Köln, Germany
        Becoming Blue, Exposorium VU, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        Shifting colour, DOK Kunst, Delft, The Netherlands
2010 Becoming Blue, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009 Becoming Blue, Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
        Becoming Blue, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
        Playing Borders, Von Döring contemporary, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
2008 Show me Something, Neunplus, Berlin, Germany
2007 Untitled, Fashion Biennale Arnhem, The Netherlands
        Fight Flight Freeze, Emoticon, Photography festival Naarden, The Netherlands
        Untitled, ACF, Amsterdam Centre for Photography, The Netherlands
2006 The Black Hole, FOAM, photography museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003/2004 Bekijk het, ACF, Amsterdam Centre for Photography, The Netherlands

 
Selected group exhibitions

2011 Junge Künstler aus Belgien und den Niederlanden, KIT Düsseldorf, Germany
        Check double Check, Marthouse gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 Foto Tage Trier. Leben elementar, Stadtmuseum Simeonstift and two further venues in Trier,
        Germany
        A Group Show, organized by RE: at Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium
        Quickscan, contemporary photography from the Netherlands, Dutch Cultural Centre, Shanghai,
        China
        Spirits and Landscapes, part of an installation by Ada van Hoorebeke at WIELS, Brussels,
        Belgium
        Artists & Books - Selecties & Collecties - Uitgelicht, Johan Deumens Gallery, Haarlem,
        The Netherlands
        Multiplex, presented by peer to space, München, Germany (curated by VVORK)
        Exuinox part 1 & 2, Speederbike primitive & Highlight what you love, Grimm Museum, Berlin,
        Germany
        Holland Paper Biennale, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
        Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses and Effects. Time to meet photography festival Antwerp,
        Belgium
        Quickscan #1, photography now! curated by Frits Gierstberg in Netherlands Fotomuseum
        Rotterdam, The Netherlands
        Getting down to the Nitty-Gritty, public-space-project in Bruxelles organised by Outlandish
        Photography - platform for young photography, Antwerp, Belgium
        Madonna Psycho Slut, curated by Despina Stokou, Grimm Museum Berlin, Germany
        Girl Overkil #2, curated by Iris van Dongen, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Germany
2009 untitled groupshow curated by Marcel Everling, Brieselang Berlin, Germany
        Girl Overkill #1, curated by Iris van Dongen, Forgotten Bar, Berlin, Germany
        Contemporary Hungarian Photo, gallery of the city, Pecs, Hungary
        Zero budget biennial, gallery Carlos Cardenas and gallery Schleicher+Lange, Paris, France
        Invited, Von hier aus, Wohin? photography festival F Stop #3, Leipzig, Germany
        Pages, a new generation of photobooks, PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain
        artist in residency exhibition, Meetfactory gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
        La 2,33È Dimension' Gallery 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland
        Platform 09, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
        Temporary City, Kunst in Kreuzberg EV, Berlin, Germany
        The moi non plus remixed, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        The moi non plus remixed, Trouw building Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        The moi non plus remixed, artbookshop Atheneum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        Share your Dreams, Junge kunst aus der EU, Gallery Suppan Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
        IN REAL LIFE, Capricious gallery, New York, USA
        Video screening at montagsbar, Temporary Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
        Portrait, G.A.S-station, Berlin, Germany
        Oog in Oog, stichting KOP, Breda, The Netherlands
        2# Paris, Kantine, Berlin, Germany
2008 3 Positions, Kunst Zurich, Von Döring contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
        Wildlife survival, O Tannenbaum, Berlin, Germany
        eMotion, G.A.S-station, Berlin, Germany
        Mijn ruimte, mijn plek, Bouwinbeeldprijs 2008 Technische Universiteit Eindhoven,
        The Netherlands
        Mijn ruimte, mijn plek, Bouwinbeeldprijs 2008 Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ Amsterdam,
        The Netherlands
        Mijn ruimte, mijn plek, Bouwinbeeldprijs 2008 Stadhuis Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
        Love Design Delirium, Kunstraum Niederösterreich Vienna, Austria
        Pages, Photography festival, Fotofrüling Kassel, Germany
        Pages, Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
        Pages, the Dorrottya Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
        Pages, Lumen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
        Noord(zij), City council, Amsterdam Noord, The Netherlands
        Territoires, MAMAC museum for modern and contemporary art, Liege, Belgium
        Untitled u= A photographic group show, Fette’s gallery, Los Angelos, USA
2007 ITS SIX, Its Six Festival, Trieste, Italy
        Noord(zij) de Meeuw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        Impact, Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, The Netherlands
        I just can’t get enough, Capricious 6#, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Gelderland, Arnhem,
        The Netherlands
        BravoFotoVivo Bravo/DSPS De Player, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
        Dutch Dare, contemporary photography from the Netherlands, Erasmushuis Jakarta, Indonesia
2006 Dutch Dare, contemporary photography from the Netherlands, Australian Centre for
        Photography, Sydney, Austria
        DE: Amsterdam, L'espace bellevaux, Lausanne, Switzerland
        Fotodrukwerk, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 PANL 13, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 Retour Breda-Amsterdam-Den Haag, Museum de Beyerd, Breda2003 PAK! #2, Gallery 300%
        Schiedam, The Netherlands
        Art encouragement award, Aemstelle Amstelveen, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
        Eindexamens fotografie, Municipal hall Terneuzen, Terneuzen, The Netherlands
        Waarin wij gezeten zijn, Photofestival Naarden, Naarden, The Netherlands
        Waarin wij gezeten zijn, Pictura Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
        Bekijk het/graduation exhibition, st. Joost academy Breda, Breda, The Netherlands

 
Sammlungen

Collection Pieter Sanders and Gabriella Sancisi, The Netherlands
Collection Pieter and Marieke Sanders, The Netherlands
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Museum het Domein Sittard, Niederlande
FOAM Foto Museum, Amsterdam, Niederlande
NFGV Het Nationaal Fonds Geestelijke Volksgezondheid, Niederlande
Kunstuitleen Schiedam, Niederlande
several private collections

 
Residencies

2011 HET VIJFDE SEIZOEN, Den Dolder, Niederlande
2009 Meetfactory Prague, Czech Republic
2008/2009 Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2007 Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag , The Netherlands

 
Monographies

2009 Playing borders, this contemporary state of mind, Anouk Kruithof,
        ISBN 978 3 86895 040 3, Revolver Publishing by VVV Berlin

        Becoming Blue, Anouk Kruithof, ISBN 978-3-86895-024-3,
        Revolver Publishing by VVV Berlin

2006 Het Zwarte Gat/The Black Hole, Anouk Kruithof & Jaap Scheeren, ISBN 90 597 3044 5,
        Epsiode Publishers, Rotterdam

 
Interviews

2009 Joel Colberg/Anouk Kruithof in Foam magazine #20
2009 Alice Revel/Anouk Kruithof on http://runninginheels.co.uk (internet)
2006 LJAD Creghton/Anouk Kruithof in VPRO kunsthalfuur de Avonden (radio)
2006 Marianne Smit/Anouk Kruithof in Punt Uit, Leven in Rotterdam
2003 Harmen Bockma/Anouk Kruithof&Jaap Scheeren, De klas van 2003 Volkskrant 19 juni 2003

 
Articles

Casper Cillekens, „Een breed scala aan emoties“ De Limburger 31 oktober 2009
Iris van der Graaf, Boekrecensie on mistermotley.nl november 2009
Merel Bem „Visuele ontregeling“ Volkskrant 20-10-2009
Margot Pol „Wat doet stress? ’n Mens in het blauw“ NRC Next 19-10-2009
Taco Hidde Bakker, Anouk Kruithof verkent grenzen“ Photoq.nl 21 september 2009

Rebekka Reuter ‘Spielen und werden’ BE magazine 2009
Lucette ter Borg De afwijking in het doodgewone portret NRC handelsblad 11-04-2009
Corrien Dam Terug naar de isoleer, PSY magazine januari 2008
Stijn Bronzwaer „Het zwarte gat“ NRC next 26-09-2007
Andre Keikes „wereldnieuws doet wat met Beetsterzwaag“ Leeuwarder courant 13-06-2007
Elsje van Ree „Vrij en Onvervaard“ PF magazine nr 5 2007
Frits Gierstberg „De Nederlandse fotografie beleeft haar eigen gouden eeuw“ Hollands Diep magazine 03-2007
Elsje van Ree „Met het oog op morgen“ PF magazine nr 4 2006
Han Schoonhoven „Het zwarte gat belicht in boek en expositie“Photoq.nl 24-04-2006
Merel Bem „Zwarte-gat-spel zet associatievermogen van kijker op scherp“Volkskrant 04-05-2006
Annemiek van Grondel „Weinig blinkend goud op Panl Awards #13“ Identity Matters magazine nr 1 2004
Merel Bem „oud fotoblad in nieuw jasje“ Volkskrant 08-01-2004
Siobahn Wall, Eyemazing young discovery, Eyemazing magazine winter 2003
Elsje van Ree „Wie is er bang voor het zwarte gat?“ PF magazine nr 6/2003
Sandra Heerma van Voss „Breda toont de mens als kuddedier“NRC Handelsblad, 24-92003
Anita Tournois „Foto’s verrassen in raadhuis“ Zeeuwse Courant, 04-08-2003

 
Catalogues

2010 catalogue Quickscan #01, Photography from the Netherlands, now
2009 catalogue Contemporary Hungarian Photo

        catalogue Von hier aus, Wohin? Comtemporary photography from Leipzig and international
        catalogue Share your Dreams, Junge k¸nst aus der EU, Gallery Suppan Contemporary, Vienna
        catalogue eMotion, G.A.S-station, Berlin
2008 catalogue K¸nstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin 2008/2009
        catalogue Territoires, 6th international biennial of photography and visual arts, Liege
        catalogue Love Design Delirium, Kunstraum Niederˆsterreich Vienna
        catalogue Untitled u= A photographic group show, Fette’s gallery, Los Angelos
2007 catalogue Emoticon, Photography festival Naarden
        catalogue Fashion Biennale Arnhem
        catalogue Jones for Arnhem Fashion Biennale
        catalogue ITS SIX, festival for fashion and photography, Trieste
2006 catalogue DutchDare, contemporary photography from the Netherlands, NAI publishers
2004 catalogue Uitgelicht 04, startstipendia beeldende kunst 2002-2003, Fonds BKVB
        catalogue PANL 13 photography association of the Netherlands
        catalogue ITS THREE, festival for fashion and photography, Trieste
2003 catalogue De Verenigde Sandbergen ‘Art encouragement award Amstelveen’
        catalogue AKV st. Joost Breda graduation work

 
Publications

2009 Livraison #4, FOAM magazine #20, Volkskrant, GUP magazine #20,
        Borough(ed) stories, Silvia Russel &Louky Keijsers editions, The moi non plus remixed,
        magazine Bas Morsch, Pages #2 fw: magazine, Glamcult #1
2008 Geven aan Cultuur, Kunst en Zaken/CultuurMecenaat, SICA magazine nr 39,
        NRC NEXT in beeld, Mijn ruimte, mijn plek“, C magazine, De laatste fotograaf AKV st. Joost,
        WIA 4, 5 in balans/ Only human, PF magazine #4, Pages #1 fw: magazine
2007 Livraison #3, Mini International, Capricious #6, GUP magazine #9,
        In verbeelding van elkaar samen het toneel van stad zijn,
        Uitgangspunten voor cultuurbeleid2009-2012 Gemeente Rotterdam
2006 DE: Amsterdam, GUP magazine #7, Carp #4, ID magazine #250,
        50 years fashion Art academy Arnhem,
2004 PF magazine #1
2003 British Journal of Photography, Eyemazing #1

 
Grants

2009 Basis Stipend The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
        Standard Workbudget for artist in residence Meetfactory Prague
        The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
        Flexible Workbudget for artistbooks Becoming Blue & Playing Borders
        The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2008 OOR Regeling Grant, Citycounsil Rotterdam
2006 Starter Stipend The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2004 Starter Stipend The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture

 
Prizes

2005 Unique Photography Bookaward (Het Zwarte Gat/The Black Hole)
2003 PANL 13 student award & gold award