SAFNASAFNID The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum

15th anniversary exhibition
May 1st. – July 10th. 2010

The exhibition has been prolonged to September 5th.

The museum celebrates its 15th anniversary with thirteen new exhibitions opening on Eyjafjordur Museum Day the first of May. A solo exhibition of the photographic series Waterfall I-IX, Endangered Waters by Rúrí is her contribution to the anniversary celebration.

SAFNASAFNID The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum

Art Feast 1 
July 11th. - September 5th. 2010

Art Feast 1, 2010 / Art-Multiple, 50 examples - 22 artworks by women artists in a specially designed box
© Curator Níels Hafstein; art works: the artists
Publisher: Safnasafnið, The Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum, 2010
Host: Magnhildur Sigurdardóttir
Supervision: Harpa Björnsdóttir, Níels Hafstein

Art Feast 1, 2010 opens on July 11th, the Eyjafjordur Museum Day.

Safnasafnid

CASTLING - INTERCURSE WITH THE COLLECTION
The Living Art Museum
April 10th - May 2nd 2010

The Living Art Museum invited seven young, Icelandic artists; Bjork Viggosdottir, Etienne de France, Harpa Dogg Kjartansdottir, Kristin Runarsdottir, Magnus B. Hafsteinsson, Thorgerður Olafsdottir and Thorvaldur Jonsson to select works from its collections to be exhibited at the museum. Among thee selected works is the graphic series Time Concrete by Rúrí.
Their selection of works will be added to the previously selected works of museum board members, for the exhibition “Intercurse with the collection”, which opened on March 11th 2010.

WHEN IDEAS BECOME FORM
30 Years Gallery Dorothea van der Koelen in Mainz
October  2009

Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, MAINZ-Bretzenheim
and Halle Dammweg in MAINZ-Laubenheim



more: Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen

AQUA - Silence
SEVEN SCREENS - Osram Art Projects, Munich
April 22nd 2009

"Bringing light and art together is such an obvious move", said OSRAM boss Martin Goetzeler. - OSRAM’s artistic light steles form a lighting platform for temporary digital art projects at the OSRAM headquarters in Munich.

Seven steles with a height of six meters each are based on the green between the headquarters and the Mittlerer Ring in the south of Munich. The steles are equipped with LED systems on both sides. Their design as well as their vertical separation corresponds with the facade design of the OSRAM building, which was built by Walter Henn in 1965.
Static or moving pictures can be shown on the steles in a classic or interactive scenario. Up to twice a year OSRAM invites artists to develop site-specific works of art.
A new work by Rúrí will be inaugurated in April 2009.

more: Osram Art Projects
         AQUA - Silence

OSRAM GmbH, Hellabrunner Strasse 1, 81543 Munich Germany

NORTHWAVE by Lorella Scacco,
published by Silvana Editoriale
launched in Venice

Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 5 p.m. will be presented the book Northwave written by Lorella Scacco at the Scuola dei Calegheri in Venice. The book, published by Silvana Editoriale, offers a broad survey of developments in Nordic Countries video art since the 60's until nowadays and the poetics developed by artists. Particular attention has given to artists who have worked since the 90s until the most recent generation.
The book is bilingual (Italian / English) and is divided into two parts: an essay that investigates the early video experiments of the 60s and 80s in the five Nordic Countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) and then goes to the "Nordic Miracle" in the 90s and up to nowadays, describing the issues, trends and work of the artists. The second part consists of about sixty profiles of the recent generation of video artists. Enclosed to the book a DVD showcases some video preview of the artists.

Among the video works presented in the book are works by Ruri

ESPOARTE 57
Artisti Rúrí
di Laura Fanti

An interview by Laura Fanti with Ruri appeared int the February-March issue of the Italian art magazine ESPOARTE

more: article

Creator Vesevo
Éditions Gallimard Loisirs

Creator Vesevo by Jean-Noël Schifano has been published at Éditions Gallimard Loisirs in France with photographs by Alain Volut. The book is trilingual, in Italian, French and English.

The book is dedicated to the outdoor museum Creator Vesevo that was inaugurated in 2005 in the national park of Mt.Vesuvius in the south of Italy and its sculptures. The ten sculptures by the same number of artists were formed out of basalt that has once flown as lava from the crater of the volcano. One of these works is Terra Vivax by Ruri

VIDEOINSTALLATION AND PERFORMANCE
By Rúrí
St. Lukas Kirche, in Munich
October 22. to 27. 2008

Ruri will show a new video installation "Changing Waters" at St Lukas Kirche in Munich in October, and also a large multi media performance "Water Story Vocal-V. The composer Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, and the organist Hilmar Orn Agnarsson will join Ruri in a large scale video projection on the Long Night of the Museums, the 25^th of October. The performance will be shown again on Monday the 27^th of October at 19:00 but in a slightly different form. Then Markus Zahnhausen, flute, will join in on the performing as a special guest.

Hydroformance - Panel Discussion and a lecture will take place in the church on the 22^nd and 23^rd of October.

Organized by St. Lukas Kirche in cooperation with artcircolo and Evangelischer Stadtakademie Munich

more: announcement
         St. Lukas
         artcircolo

SEQUENCES 2008 – REAL TIME ART FESTIVAL
REYKJAVIK 11—17 OCTOBER
VOCAL-IV

Multi media performance by Sequences honorary artist Rúrí, in collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson. Performed by Rúrí, Jóhann, Matthías Hemstock, Pétur Hallgrímsson, Hilmar Jensson, Björn Blöndal, Steingrímur Guðmundsson & Nýlókórinn directed by Hörður Bragason.
Vocal IV. The Reykjavík Art Museum-Hafnarhús.

Sunday October 12th at 20:00

see video: VOCAL - IV, SEQUENCES-08 

Flooding - Nature Lost - Ruri 
Reykjavik Art Festival - START ART
May 16^th – June 30^th 2008

Ruri - Endangered Waters

book released

Ruri - Endangered Waters is a new publication from the artist, and will be presented at the exhibition Nature Lost at gallery Start Art during the Reykjavik Art Festival 2008.
The book is a visual presentation of some of the major works in Ruri's series Endangered Waters, illustrated with photographs by several photographers as well as those of the artist but also presents short texts by a selection of international authors and the artist.

Arts Festival 2008

By By Iceland
Akureyri Art Museum
March 15th - May 4th 2008

A group exhibition of provokative and politicacal art at the Akureyri Art Museum.
Tortimi / Ter-mining a new interactive installation.

more: Akureyri Art Museum

CANCELLED

The exhibition of the installation Water Vocal – Endangered II at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels has been cancelled, due to lack of  compatability at the art centre.

BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels

Ruri - Waterfall – Installation

February 27. – April 27. 2008 / cancelled

A video and sound installation with waterfalls projected onto transparent canvases. Visitors' movements influence the sound of the waterfalls will be exhibited in the Horta Hall of .BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, in the context of the festival Iceland on the Edge.

Centre for fine Arts
Rue Ravenstein 23
1000 Bruxelles

WINTER SOLSTICE 2007

The winter solstice marks a very important moment of the year. This has been a source of inspiration to me for quita some time for the publishing of special postcards.
This year the card is only published on the web.
To see the card in larger format please go to the Gallery part of this webpage.

See card: Winter Solstice 2007

Art on Armitage at
Bridge Art fair Miami 07
december 6–9, 2007

Art on Armitage exhibits at the Bridge Art fair Miami 2007, room 221
Bridge takes takes place two blocks from Art Basel at the Catalina Hotel and Beach Club in two buildings at 1732 Collins Avenue
This spectacular show is coming to Miami for it’s second year, showing international emerging and new contemporary art. Bridge hosts over eighty exhibitors from eight contries, including the U.S., Brazil, Spain, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, France and Denmark.

Art on Armitage represents the artists:
Mia Capodilupo – Chicago IL, Chun Chun Hee - Korea, Mary Ellen Croteau – Chicago IL, Eduardo de Sognie – Chicago IL, Philip Hartigan – UK/ Chicago IL, Lauren Levato – US, Margeaux – New Mexico, Ruri – Iceland, Jessica Vaughn - Chicago IL, Nicoletta West - Switzerland

Bridge Art fair Miami 2007
Catalina Hotel
1732 collins ave
Miami beach            more: Bridge Art fair Miami 2007

Art on Armitage

Room 221                more: Art on Armitage

Between the 20.10. and 26.10.2007, Overtures has made an expedition to Turkey in order to analyze the social, cultural, political, economical and poetic dimensions of water. After a three day stay in Gaziantep and üanlüurfa and a visit of the Atatürk Dam, the group came to Istanbul to continue its research. In the end of the expedition, the organization of the international symposium Hydroformance Turkey - Water between Poetics and Politics and the exhibition Overtures Turkey 2007- Water between Poetics and Politics at the project space Artvarium at the PROJE4L Museum formed an intellectual and visual conclusion. The exhibition, which is curated by Marcus Graf, shows different media and different concepts around the poetics and politics of water

Artists: Genco Gülan (Turkey), Kalle Laar (Germany), Orhan Cem Cetin (Turkey), Ruri (Iceland), Silvia Erdem (Germany/ Turkey), Silver & Hanne Rivrud (Norway)

more: Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art

Ars Electronica Festival 2007- Goodbye Privacy
Linz, Austria, September 5. - 11. 2007
FLOODING

The installation "Flooding" is shown in cooperation with Overtures - the Environmental Office in the SECOND CITY sector of the Festival.
The installation is based on the waterfall Toefrafoss which is at present disappearing under the rising waters of an enormous reservoir that has been created by a colossal dam for a hydro electrical power plant, built to power an aluminum smelter. This waterfall is just one of many that have disappeared or are affected by this single demonstration of technological power. Flooding is Ruri's latest work of the series “Endangered Waters”, and is created for the Ars Electronica. In this work she documents using video and audio, and presents in an installation how industrial interests are bringing about the flooding of an unique highland ecosystem in her country and causing its unalterable destruction. Even though the artist focuses the camera on waterfalls in her own country, Iceland, the Endangered Waters works are simultaneously local and global in concept.

Flooding is a two faceted video installation starting with a powerful expression of the waterfall Toefrafoss on one screen accompanied with the true recordings of its sound, that is followed by a collage of small frame videos that appear temporarily, allowing the viewer a peek into the lives of birds whose nests are being submerged into the rising waters of the reservoir, as well as watching the previous waterfall disappear under the surface. Parallel with the collage appears a rolling text on a second screen, -  precise and conceptual.

Video installation with two synchronized projections and audio, duration 14 min. The work is made in cooperation with Kvik Film Productions and cameraman Fridthjofur Helgason. 

Location: Mariannestrasse 7
more: Ars Electronica 2007

Art on Armitage
Chicago, US
August 4. 2007

A new installation by Ruri will be exhibited in the Art on Armitage show space in Chicago,
opening in the beginning of August 2007.

Icelandic artist RURI, whose installation “Archive - Endangered Waters” was a must-see at the 2003 Venice Bienale, will be exhibiting work from that series in the art window through August 31st.  At 9 pm on August 4, she will do a short multi-media performance titled “Toefrafoss - Endangered”

Art On Armitage
4125 W. Armitage Ave. (just west of Pulaski)
Chicago IL 60639
tel. (773) 235-8583

REYFI – 2007 Video Art and Performance Festival
in Nordic House at Reykjavik Cultural Night August 18^th
plus August 19^th and 27^th

Reyfi - 2007 focuses on Icelandic contemporary art and will show the foremost Icelandic video art. There will also be performances during the festival, both in the Nordic House and outside the house.

Saturday August the 18^th And Sunday the 19^th at 13:00 – 18:00 will there be shown video works by Dieter Roth, Magnus Palsson, Ruri, Asta Olafsdottir, The Icelandic Love Corporation, Hannes Larusson, Sara Bjornsdottir, Anna Hallin, Arna Valsdottir and Chooc Ly Tan.

Nordic House

Over one thousand visitors vitnessed the performing of Vocal III - Endangered at the castle walls on the riverside in Frankfurt Hoechst on June 30th.
Frankfurter Neue Presse, 02.07.2007



NEW DATE: The Performance Vocal III - Endangered had  to be canceled at the opening ceremony of the Castle Festival - Schlossfest Frankfurt-Hoechst, Germany on June 9. 2007 as a result of a sudden thunderstorm.
A new date for the performing of the work is: evening the June 30. 2007

More information on: exact hour and place

A new multi media performance/installation Vocal III – Endangered will be shown at the opening of the Schlossfest Frankfurt Hoecst. Joining Ruri in the performing of the work are the sound/music artists Steingrimur Gudmundsson, Jon Geir Johannsson and Tjorvi Johannsson.

The Schlossfest Frankfurt-Hoechst festival will continue to the 9^th of July.

The book Mega Vott has been released
The exhibition Mini Vott opened on May 10^th
at Gallery Start ARt

The book is the third part of the trilogy “Mega vott” comprising the exhibition Mega vott in Hafnarborg – Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, with large installations by the five artists Anna Eyjolfsdottir (IS), Jessica Stockholder (US), Ragnhildur Stefansdottir (IS), Ruri (IS) and Thordis Alda Sigurdardottir (IS) in September 2006; the performance Dedication by Ruri at Thingvellir in September 2006, and the book.

The book was launched May 5. in the Eymundsson/Mal og Menning bookstore at Laugarvegur, showing a video presentation of the exhibition and of the performance.

The exhibition Mini Vott, with new works of the Iceland based artists  was opened in connection with the release of the book at Gallery Start Art, in downtown Reykjavik.

The book is available in the downtown bookstores of Eymundsson in Reykjavik, as well as in Reykjavik Art Museum-Kjarvalsstadir, and in Gallery StartArt.

RURI
TIME - RELATIVITY - VALUES
Visual Seminar - 2007 and Exhibition
Gerduberg Culture Center Reykjavik
Saturday February 3. 2007

The exhibition has been prolonged to May 6th.

At the Visual Seminar - 2007 the focus is on the works of Icelandic artis Ruri. The visual seminar is chaired by art historian and curator Laufey Helgadottir, philosopher Gunnar J. Arnason and art historian Halldor B. Runolfsson will be on the panel together with the artist.

A retrospective exhibition of her works will open the same day in the exhibition space of the centre.

Falling Water

10. February - 29. April 2007
Kjarvalsstadir:

The exhibition Waterfalls explores and problematicizes the relationship between art and natural phenomena through the works of four artists - Olafur Eliasson (DK/IS), Hekla Dogg Jonsdottir (IS), Pat Steir (US), and Rúrí (IS), who work in distinctively different environments but draw their sources from waterfalls.

Ruri will show a new multi media installation Water - Vocal, Endangered, that is now in progress.

Curator: Hafthor Yngvason

read more: Falling Water
by Hafthor Yngvason, Museum Director

Paris Photo - PRESS
HERALD TRIBUNE International
Le FIGARO
EXIT express
Le Journal des Arts
Video Interview
on works of Ruri;

HERALD TRIBUNE International, Images captured under a Nordic star
Suzy Menkes, Published: November 16, 2006
read more Herald Tribune

Le FIGARO, Paris Photo chauffe sous l'astre du Nord
Valérie Duponchelle, Publié le 17 novembre 2006
read more Le Figaro

PIXEL-CREATION, Paris Photo 2006 - un foisonnement photographique à ne rater sous aucun prétexte!
Agathe Hoffmann, 11/2006
read more PixelCreation

LIBERATION, Cinq étoiles du Nord brillent à Paris Photo
Cette dixième édition a marqué le retour des acheteurs américains
Brigitte OLLIER, quoticien: 20 novembre 2006
read more Liberation

Le JOURNAL des ARTS, Les Nordiques a l'épreuve des clichés
Féréric Bonnet, No. 246, du 3 au 16 Novembre 2006

EXIT Express No 23, Al norte de París
Jari-Pekka Vanhala, Novembre 2006

Paris Photo 2006, The Central Exhibition presents 5 Nordic women artists from Nordic countries: A short video has been produced, directed by Andrea Holzherr
click here to see the video:

PARIS PHOTO 2006
Central Exhibition - Stella Polaris
Novembre 16. - 19. 2006
Carrousel du Louvre


Paris Photo 2006 - The International Fair for 19th Century, Modern and Contemporary Photography - 10th year

The Central Exhibition - Stella Polaris, will highlight the work of an established woman artist as the photographic representative of each of the five countries :

Charlotte Gyllenhammar, born in 1963, for Sweden
With the support of the Malmö Konstmuseum
Ulla Jokisalo, born in 1955, for Finland
With the support of the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
Astrid Kruse Jensen, born in 1975, for Denmark
With the support of the Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen
Mette Tronvoll, born in 1965, for Norway
With the support of the Preus Fotomuseum, Horten
Ruri, born in 1951, for Iceland
With the support of the Reykjavik Art Museum
and the CIA (Center for Icelandic Art)

This choice underlines the leading role in the arts women play in the Nordic countries, where the emancipation of women and their status today has made possible the flourishing of powerful and fascinating work by women over the last few years.

more on Paris Photo
video interview Stella Polaris           

Mega vott
Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art
September 2^nd – October 2^nd 2006
Book published January 2007

Mega vott is a trilogy comprising the exhibition Mega vott in Hafnarborg – Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, with installations by five artists; the performance installation Dedication by Ruri at Thingvellir National Park, and a book that will be released in January 2007.
Artists: Anna Eyjolfsdottir (IS), Jessica Stockholder (US), Ragnhildur Stefansdottir (IS), Ruri (IS) and Thordis Alda Sigurdardottir (IS)

ENDANGERED
Galeria Liget, Budapest

Solo exhibiton with photographic works and installation, opening March 28. 2006.
The videowork Vocal III will be presented at the opening of the exhibition.
more: Galeria Liget
         Endangered
         Veszelyeztetett vizek

International Symposium on - Sustainability and Contemporary Art
Central European University Budapest,  Thursday 30 – Friday 31 March, 2006
Speakers: Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon (UK), Jonathan Dronsfield (UK), Miklos Erhardt (H),
Ivan Ladislav Galeta (CRO), David Haley (UK), Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison (USA),
Tamás Kaszás and Viktor Kotun (H), Hildegard Kurt (GER), Kristina Leko (CRO),
Nils Norman (UK),  Marko Peljhan (SLO), Renata Poljak (CRO), Rúrí (IS) and Diane Warburton (UK)
more:  Symposium

CLARITIES

in Gerdarsafn - Kopavogur Art Museum, Iceland

An exhibition with three artists; Elina Brotherus (FI), Thor Vigfusson (IS) and Ruri (IS).
Brotherus uses the photogrpaph as her artistic media while Vifusson shows a large iInstallation of enameled glass and Ruri shows works with transparent photo positives combined with audio.

Opening March 18. 2006, closing April 23.

more: Gerdarsafn - Kopavogur Art Museum

CREATOR VESEVO
Ercolano, Italy – Outdoor Museum
October 2005

A new outdoor art museum, Creator Vesevo, was opened in the Vesuvius National Park on October 29. At the opening 10 new works by as many contemporary artists were inaugurated. All the artworks are carved into lava stone, that has originated within the volcano itself.

artistic director; Jean-Noel Schifano
artists; Miguel Berrocal, Mark Brusse, Lello Esposito, Alexandros Fassianos, Johannes Grutzke, Dimas Macedo, Denis Monfleur, Ruri, Antonio Segui, Vladimir Velickovic

more on Gallery and on Creator Vesevo

THE GLOBE OF GOODWILL – 2005
WITHOUT BEGINNING - WITHOUT END

The Globe of Goodwill project was initiated 2003 in Iceland by the Benefit Society of Children with Disabilities. Each year one artist has made a design for a small blown-glass sphere (2003; Erro, 2004; Olafur Eliasson). The globe is for sale in December each year only, and all proceeds are donated to enrich the lives of children and youths with disabilities. Ruri has made the design for the Globe of Goodwill 2005

WITHOUT BEGINNING - WITHOUT END
“The words refer to an all-encompassing love that has neither beginning nor end.
It is unconditional - eternal - it is. As is the waterfall - ever falling - it is.
A perfect sphere has neither beginning nor end, in the same way that our planet is a perfect globe - a perfect being.
Iceland’s powerful waterfalls appear in this fragile, floating sphere of art as a minuscule world, which reflects and converses with a universe in which the Earth itself floats in eternal space.”

more:  Benefit Society of Children with Disabilities

Colour-Tones Johannes Gutenberg University
4. September -  2. October 2005

Culture Summer Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany

Organizers; Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Galerie Bausmann, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Dr. Georg Kremer, BTC Speciality Chemical Distribution GmbH (Cologne), Nature Science Department Museum Wiesbaden, FH Wiesbaden

Artists: Lore Bert, Daniel Buren, Vanda Feher, Katharina Fischborn, Günter Forg, Heinz Gappmayr, Mathias Graffe, Uwe Heene (Schauspiel), Anna Jacobi, Tanja Lohr, Jie Ma, Jens J. Meyer, François Morellet, Kisho Mukaiyama, Hella Nohl, Prof. Dr. Horst Prehn, Mario Reis, Reinhard Roy, Ruri, Lucas Schmenger, Andy Warhol, Birgitta Weimer

Tenth Festival of Sacred Arts
opening August 20. 2005

The visual artist of the Festival of Sacred Arts 2005 is Rúrí. She will present a new installation in the entrance hall of Hallgrimskirkja with the title “Salt of the Earth - Light of the World”.
A new multi media performance/ installation
will take place in the nave of the church on Saturday August 27. at 22.00. In the performance she will be accompanied by Hordur Askelsson, conductor and organist, and several more.

more at; Festival of Sacred Arts - Hallgrimskirkja

Atelier & Gallery AREA 53, Vienna
July 8. – August 19. 2005

But the Exciting Aspect is to Organize Matter – FEMALE POSITIONS TOWARD SCULPTURE,  55 international female positions toward sculpture Vienna AREA 53

The exhibition is designed as a purely informational exhibition on local and international female artists who include a sculptural view into their work.

Among other aspects a strong emphasis is put onto the sensual facet in the female material art as well as onto the examination of overlapping approaches concerning the applied media.

Curators; Karin Sulimma / Nora Hermann / Elisabeth Kousal

more: Atelier & Gallery AREA 53  or  www.AREA53.org


GLAMPI/BLITZ at Bluesky Artspace, Vienna
July 9. – 25. 2005, opening July 9^th. at 18.00

Agusta Kristofersdottir, curator at Reykjavik Art Museum gives a speach at the opening. Glampi/Blitz stands for a short flash of Icelandic art. The six artist are simultaneously participating in the exhibition “But the Exciting Aspect is to Organize Matter – Female Positions Toward Sculpture  55 international female positions toward sculpture Vienna AREA 53”. 

BLUESKY ARTSPACE, Makartgasse 1, 1010 Wien, blueskyinfo@gmx.net, 0650/9232309 

The Reykjavik City Artist Award 2005

At Hoefdi House on June 17., the Independence Day of Iceland, Ruri received the Reykjavík City Artist Award 2005, from the Mayor of Reykjavik City Steinunn Valdis Oskarsdottir.

Stefan Jon Hafstein Chairman of the Cultural Committee of Reykjavik City
informed in his speech of the criteria for the award.

The O.K Center for Contemporary Art
Die Ordnung der Natur

4. 6. - 24. 7. 2005
Opening: June 3

Curators: Genoveva Rückert, Martin Sturm, Hans-Peter Wipplinger
In the cooperation between the Museum of Modern Art – Stiftung Wörlen Passau and the O.K, in conjunction with the Adalbert Stifter Year, there will be two different but jointly conceived exhibitions on the same theme with a joint catalogue.

The O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria is an experimental laboratory for exploring art, based in Linz, Austria
Ruri is contributing to the exhibition -the Order of Nature- with her artwork Waterfall – Dynkur

More of: O.K Center for Contemporary Art

Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munic
June 3rd. 2005 to August 21st. 2005

Water
For the first time, the Kunsthalle will be presenting an interdisciplinary exhibition. The theme will revolve around the element water.
Curated by Dr. Christiane Lange und Dr. Susann Waldmann. Among the works exhibited will be Ruri’s installation 400 Cubic Metres/Second.

The project’s main focus will be in the visual arts area, however an additional coming to grips with the subject matter will be offered within the range of the exhibition, which will go beyond individual historic-cultural aspects.

More of: Hypo-Kulturstiftung

CHARMED
Solo exhibition at FUGL Project Space April 30 to May 15.  2005

New installation of sound, photograph and text. Here the artist is taking the subject of water to a new dimension in comparison with her recent installations.

More of: FUGL Project Space

ARCHIVE – ENDANGERED WATERS in National Gallery of Iceland

ATTENTION - New closing date!
The exhibition that opened January 29th. 2005 has been very well received. The exhibition period has been extended until April 24th.

PANEL DISCUSSION
February 5th. 2005, at 11.00 - 13.00 in the National Gallery.
Panellists:
Halldor Bjorn Runolfsson, Art historian and Lector at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts
Rakel Petursdottir, Head of Education, the National Gallery
Ruri, artist.

Apriori

October 23. 2004 – February 15. 2005

Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen - 25 years - also La Galeria, Venice, and Cologne Artfair

New works with photographs and sound.

more information: Galerie Van der Koelen

Limpide II

Gallerie Colette-meets-Comme des Garcons,
Tokyo, Japan.

New works with photographs and sound, open until October 24^th. 2004.

Limpide

gallerie colette, Paris

An exhibition of new photographic artworks.
The exhibition was not limited to the gallery space, but extended into the fashion area
of colette and the restaurant.
Some of the works are installations with sound, that is played through headphones.

PRESS RELEASE:
colette and the Passage du Désir – Paris

colette and the Passage du Désir will be presenting for the very first
time in France two exhibitions by Icelandic artist Rúrí, from August
30th and September 3rd to October 2nd, 2004.

Limpide
a new series of photographic works at Colette
from August 30th to October 2nd, 2004
and
Archive – endangered waters
an interactive multimedia installation at the Passage du Désir
from September 3rd to October 2nd, 2004

Limpide II
in colettemeetsCommedesGarçons
Tokyo

An exhibition of new photographic works

September 18. - October 24. 2004

located 5-12-3 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, 107-0062 Tokyo, Japan
Phone +81 (0) 3 5468 8301, website   www.colettemeetscommedesgarcons.com

Further infos, please contact annika.mcveigh@comme-des-garcons.com or press@colette.fr

Museum Het Domein – Sittard

Archive - endangered waters
Ruri

Announcement Het Domein: Iceland has hundreds of waterfalls, which are a rich source of inspiration for quite a few artist as well as a major source of energy, However, rapidly growing demand for energy is starting to threaten their survival. In a multimedia installation entitled Archive – endangered waters, Ruri documents these imperilled natural treasures in sound and image. The installation is an ode to the waterfalls and at the same time an indictment of the destruction wrought by progress. Ruri represented Iceland at the 2003 Venice Biennale with Archive – endangered waters.
more information: Het Domein

Arte Fiera 2004 Bologna
22-26 January 2004
Galerie Dorothe van der Koelen, Germany and Italy
 

400 Cubic Metres per second

October - November 2003

A new multi media installation, exhibited at the exhibition Zahlen – Zeit - Zeichen, in  Galerie Van der Koelen, Mainz, Germany, and also at the Cologn Artfair.
more information: Galerie Van der Koelen

La Galleria - Venezia
Small photographic works based on the same waterfalls as the Archive - endangered waters are presently on show at Dr. phil. Dorothea van der Koelen's gallery La Galleria - Venezia.
Address I-30124 Venezia, S. Marco 2566,  tel 0039 - 041-52 07 415, fax 0039 - 041 - 277 80 80

THE OPENING OF THE 50^th  VENICE BIENNALE

The installation Archive - endangered waters was received with great enthusiasm.

THE TIMES; June 18 2003, Rachel Campbell-Johnstone wrote:
Venice was sweltering during last week's preview of its Biennale. Seldom has so much air kissing seemed less pretentious -physical contact felt more like the mating of snails. The Icelandic pavilion elicited unprecedented enthusiasm. The glass-mounted transparencies of Ruri, when pulled out from their rack, played the delicious plashing melodies of the waterfall that each one depicted. They were delightfully refreshing.

KULTUR PUNKT wrote:
Fazit: Wasser unser wichtigstes Lebenselixier, wiederum ein Spielball der neoliberalen Machtgier, auch da im äussersten Norden, wird dank RURI zur ästhetisch-sozialen und ökologischen Skulptur als ein grandioser Protest gegen einen AlbTraum, inmitten der Wirklichkeits-Maschinerie unserer machtbesessenen Welt-Mitbürger, die Freiheit als ANYTHING GOES verstehen und die Würde und die Zukunft , anderer und sogar ihre eigene, nicht, ja immer noch nicht begreifen wollen.
So gehört der Beitrag von Island zum Besten der Biennale.03 und unserer Welt.

ARTTHROB, Sue Williamssonwrote:
To mention all the other pavilions is not possible, so to finish with a favourite - the Iclandic. Artist Ruri constructed a brushed steel cabinet with pull out screens, like a print storage cabinet. On each glass screen was a photograph of a waterfall, and as the screen was pulled out, so the rushing sound of that waterfall was heard. One could surround oneself with these liquid sounds by pulling out more than one screen at a time, but once pushed back, the sound ceased abruptly. The piece was entitled Archive - endangered waters.

GATE
March 2003
The assembling of the memorial installation in the Reykjavik Gufunes Cemetary is started.

Timans Ras – II  /Passage of Time II
November 30th. 2002
One-man show opened at Skaftfell-Culture-Centre in Seydisfjordur, Iceland.
The artworks are made with computer technique and are based on photographs of waterfalls in Iceland. Unknown photographers made some of the originals at the beginning of last century while others are from the artist. Some of these waterfalls have changed appearance or do not exist any more.

PASSAGE OF TIME
December 7. 2001
One man exhibition at the Chinese European Art Center - CEAC. New works with photographic technique on the lower floor, an installation, Beijing Sunset, with large drawings on the upper floor.

Passage of Time – II
June 6^th 2002
The opening of a one man show in Galleria Becker, Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Artworks made with photographic technique