FELDBUSCH
WIESNER
RUDOLPH
RUTH CAMPAU
CURRICULUM VITAE
Danish artist Ruth Campau combines painting and sculpture in her singular installations. Her works oscillate between light and matter, transparency and density, paint and object, ephemeral and tangible, body and design. She works in straight and dense layers of paint in radiating cool yellow, steel gray, silver and violet, her painting surface is acrylic glass and mylar.
A thin layer of paint covers the whole length of the surface, which is formed into fascinating objects and installations. Organic and geometric, lucid and yet magic, with reminiscences of interior design, yet autonomous, and not subjected to any function.
Ruth Campau's inspiration is the turning point in art history where painting leaves the canvas: particularly the artistic tendencies of the American west coast of the 1970s. Her paintings becomes architecture and alchemy, creates new spaces and expands the feld of painting.
Ruth Campau studied Art History in Copenhagen and is a member of the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts. She received several awards and prices so far: amongst them a residency at ISCP New York (2013), the Mogens Ziegler Fond (2012), the scholarship of the Danish Arts Foundation (2008 - 2010), as well as the Honorary Prize of the Danish Arts Foundation (2004). In addition to several solo shows – at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen (2015), ISCP New York (2013), and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg (2010), amongst others – she presented her works in distinct group shows, for instance at Stadtgalerie Kiel (2013) and The Barker Hangar, Los Angeles (2012).
Ruth Campau
born 1955, lives and works in Copenhage, Denemark
EDUCATION
2000 – 2005 Studies in Art History at the Open University, Copenhagen
2002 Became a member of the Danish Artists’ Society
2006 Became a member of Grønningen artists-collective association
2006 - 2009 Art consultant and member (appointed by the Academy Council) of the advisory committee of UBST/The Danish University and Property Agency (appointed by the Academy Council)
2009 - 2010 Art consultant for the Municipality of Guldborgsund’s new business center in Eskilstrup, Denmark
2005 - 2011 Member of the Danish Academy Council and Danish Artist’s Society’s Jury (chairman 2008-2011)
2011 - 2017 Member of The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2013 - 2017 Member of The Academy Counsil
2017 - Boardmember at the Institute of Contemporary Art OVERGADEN, Copenhagen
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
Malmø Art Museum, Sweden
Danish Arts Foundation
Ny Carlsberg Foundation
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIPS
2015 Ole Haslunds Kunstnerfond, honorary stipend
2015 Residency at Accademia di Danimarca, Rome, Italy
2015 15. Juni Fonden
2015,03,02,00,99 The Danish Arts Foundation’s honorary one-year work grants
2013 Residency at ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program), New York, USA.
2012 Residency at Can Lis, Mallorca. (Danish Arts Foundation)
2012 Mogens Zielers Fond, honorary stipend
2013, 09, 01, 96 Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond
2008 The Danish Arts Foundation, 3-year stipend
2008 Residency New York, Bikuben Foundation
2007 The Danish Arts Foundation, travel stipend
2007 Anne Marie Telmanyi født Carl-Nielsen Fond, honorary stipend
2006 Nominated for Mies van der Rohe Prize, for “Nordlyset”
2006 Winner of ”Building of the Year” for Nordlyset, awarded by Byggeri magazine
2005 Fru Andrea Jensen og Prins Jørgens Legat, honorary stipend
2004 Prize of honor awarded by the Danish Arts Foundation
2003 Marie & Victor Haagen-Müllers Fond, honorary stipend
2002 Aage og Yelva Nimbs Fond, honorary stipend
2002 Akademiraadets Understøttelsesfond
2001 Henry Heerups Legat, honorary stipend
2001, 98, 96 Akademiraadets Legat til Yngre Kunstnere
2000, 96 Copenhagen’s Culture Foundation
1999 Prize of honor awarded by the Danish Arts Foundation
1996 Irgens-Berghs Kunstnerlegat
1996 The Camargo Foundation Fellowship Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2017
Chicago Mountains, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen Denmark
2016
Cuts 'N Blobs, Petra Gut Contemporary, Zürich, Switzerland
2016
Imagine Gold, FeldbuschWiesner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2015
Interstellar, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Between the Past and the Coming, Overgaden, Institut for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Vertical, Marianne Friis Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
Open studios, ISCP, New York, USA
2011
Pearl, PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011
Velvet Mirror and Diamonds, Asbaek AAC Showroom, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
Mit Museum, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
2007
Neighbourhood & Grass, Brænderigården, Viborg, Denmark
2006
The Well, Site-specific project for SALEN, Kunsthallen GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
Curtain, Ostseebad Sellin, Rügen, Germany
2005
Galerie Hartwich Rügen, Germany
2004
SPACE BAR, Paintbox extensions, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004
70.02 Read yourself, Traneudstilling, Gentofte Main Library, Denmark
2004
Kan et Figentræ Bære Oliven? [Can a Fig Tree Bear forth the Olive ?], Art project, Østerbro Provsti (Deanery), Copenhagen, Denmark
- Altar Garden, Lundehus Church
- Resurrection, Hans Egede’s Church
- Every Color You Are, Frihavn’s Church
2001
For example, Broadway Pink - 150 cm wide, Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001
Yellow. Red. Cigar, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000
Window painting / Window space, Window Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
Spiritual Kitchen, PAINTBOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
Evergreen, Rampen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998
An Installation of Painting, North Exhibition Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996
Humid Zone, Overgaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Hvad gør kunst på hospitaler, KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Køge, Denmark
RNPG - COPENHAGEN, reductive non objective private gallery, OK Corral, Copenhagen, Denmark
Downshifting, RedLine Art Center, Denver, USA
Idealer, Randers Art Museum, Denmark
Idealer, Esbjerg Art Museum, Denmark
2016
Idealer, Fuglsang Art Museum, Denmark
Fibbonacci Sequence, Francis Boeske Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Self Storage, Another Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Qvartet, Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
Eccentric Abstraction, Feldbuschwiesner Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Grønningen, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014
Edition Norm Issue Nº3 / 2014, Berlin, Germany
Transparent – Between the Base and the Surface , Gallery Charlotte Fogh, Aarhus; Denmark
Pragmatic Painting, Gallery Hartwich, Rügen, Germany
CRYSTALLINE, Gallery DGV, Villa Tårnborg, Svendborg, Denmark
PS 1999-2014 / A 15 YEARS ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION, PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013
Baltic Sea Record 2013, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
ZIEGEN ZEIGEN. An Audio Tour through Copenhagen by Karin Sander Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark
Form - Signage, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark
Sculpture by the Sea, Aarhus Waterfront, Denmark
Arkitektonisk Stuegang, Designmuseet Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Giv os i dag…Når kunsten går i kirke, Museet for Religiøs Kunst, Lemvig, Denmark
2012
Giv os i dag…Når kunsten går i kirke, KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces Køge, Denmark
Co Lab, The Barker Hangar, Los Angeles, USA
Shaped by Time, The National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Robert Jacobsen up to date, Esbjerg Art Museum, Denmark
Landing, Teksas exhibition space, Græsted, Denmark
Ostrale, Dresden, Germany
Land of the seven moles, PS projectspace, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Grønningen, Docken, Copenhagen, Denmark
Arkitektonisk Stuegang, Kunstcentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
2011
Visitation, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin, Rügen, Germany
Crisp & Shout, Gallery KANT, Esbjerg, Denmark
2010
Preview, Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
Grønningen, Docken Nordhavnen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vråudstillingen, Kunstbygningen in Vrå, Denmark
North, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin, Rügen, Germany
2008
ROUNDABOUT, Contemporary Exhibition Space, Berlin, Germany
Grønningen, Bornholm Art Museum, Denmark
2007
Grønningen, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Young Blood, PS Projectspace, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2006
Now here and never again, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
SPLASH, BOX 2.0. Copenhagen, Denmark (with architect Mette Skjold (Denmark) and visual artist Gerold Miller (Germany))
Duschkonst, Galleri Leger, Malmö, Sweden
Standard, Århus Exhibition space, Denmark
2004
Farbfilm 2004 - Abstraktion III, Kunstverein Schloss Plön & Schloss Plüschow, Niedenstein, Germany
2003
Horizontal Open, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Vierzig mal, Kunstverein Rügen, Putbus, Germany
2003
Norther Malerei, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin, Rügen, Germany
2001
Efterårsudstillingen, Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
I:I, Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark
2000
Picture This, North Exhibition Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
PAINTBOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
Originals, North Exhibition Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ringsted Galleriet (with Michael Mørk and Lisbeth Lyrstrand), Ringsted, Denmark
1998
Forårsudstillingen, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995
Horizonline, Castle of Pomeranian Dukes, Szczecin, Poland
1992
Galleri Eva Marker, Copenhagen, Denmark
1991
The Young Artists Creative Triennial of Baltic States, Vilnius, Lithuania
EXHIBITIONS
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Ruth Campau, "IMAGINE GOLD", FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
Ruth Campau, "IMAGINE GOLD", FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
Ruth Campau, "IMAGINE GOLD", FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
Ruth Campau, "IMAGINE GOLD", FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph, Berlin
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Ruth Campau, " CHICAGO MOUNTAINS" Solo Show at Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (Photo: David Stjernholm)
Ruth Campau, " CHICAGO MOUNTAINS" Solo Show at Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (Photo: David Stjernholm)
Ruth Campau, " CHICAGO MOUNTAINS" Solo Show at Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (Photo: David Stjernholm)
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SELECTED WORKS
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (light purple), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (light purple), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (black/blue)
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (black/blue)
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (iridescent purple), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (iridescent purple), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (blue/ white) , 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (blue/ white) , 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (open black), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (open black), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (light lime), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (light lime), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
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Diamond Dust (silver), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (silver), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (ultramarin), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (ultramarin), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (light yellow), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Diamond Dust (light yellow), 2019
Acrylic, mirror mylar, spray paint
41 x 32 cm
RUTH CAMPAU
Blobs for Yves , 2016
acrylic on mirror mylar, wooden frame
150 x 110 cm
unique
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Contemplation, 2016
acrylic on mirror mylar, wooden frame
140 x 100 cm
unique
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Polar, 2015
acrylic on mirror mylar, silicon, velour, polyester mesh, wooden frame
155 x 116 cm
unique
RUTH CAMPAU
UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE , 2015
acrylic on mirror mylar, mylar, velour, nylon, iridiscent vinyl, wooden frame
159 x 110 cm
unique
COMMISSIONS
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Ruth Campau, Commission Work
Ruth Campau, Commission Work
Ruth Campau, Commission Work
Ruth Campau, Commission Work
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Ruth Campau, Commission Work
Ruth Campau, Commission Work
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WIM BOTHA | GL BRIERLEY | THORSTEN BRINKMANN | DANIELE BUETTI | RUTH CAMPAU | JACOB DAHLGREN | WOLFGANG FLAD | PAULE HAMMER | SAMUEL HENNE | MARLEN LETETZKI | BENEDIKT LEONHARDT | PHILIP LOERSCH | SARA-LENA MAIERHOFER | JENNY MICHEL | ANNA NERO | PAUL PRETZER | AUGUSTIN REBETEZ | DENNIS RUDOLPH | MARLEEN SLEEUWITS | NICOLA STAEGLICH | CHRISTINE STREULI | KLAUS-MARTIN TREDER |