WILLEM DE ROOIJ

Willem de Rooij (*1969 Beverwijk/Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin. In his work he engages processes of selection and combination of images in a variety of different media, ranging from sculpture to photography, film and texts. De Rooij analyses conventions of presentation and representation and constructs tensions between socio-political and autonomous productions of meaning.

Whilest already his earlier film installations had a sculptural character, his recent exhibitions, that often employ found materials and works of other artists, assert through the gesture of appropriation itself their specific artistic character. De Rooij studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam and at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include “Untilted” at Kunstverein München, Munich (2012), “Crazy Repelled Firelight” at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2011) and “Intolerance” at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2010).