Photo: Masataka Kougou


Biography


Vincent Ruijters .PhD. Born 1988 in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Ruijters is an artist who focusses on the phenomenology of intimacy and identity. His work explores how contemporaneity shifts and morphs these phenomena. Through his art he intends to establish new levels of understanding—and perhaps some form of ‘peacemaking’—with these morphed bonds. The context of his work is rooted in his research on ‘Aesthetics of Intimacy’. By crossing boundaries of inner space and outer public space, his goal is also to challenge notions of intimacy. In the form of his work, he aims for a synthesis between the poetic, conceptual and technological. Ruijters is also active as a curator. He has obtained a PhD in Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts.

Past exhibitions include solo exhibitions ‘Cave Inside The Body of Shadows’ (CAVE-AYUMIGALLERY, JP) and ‘Breathing IN/EX-terior’ (Komagome SOKO gallery, JP). Group exhibitions include ‘Roppongi Art Night’ (Tokyo Midtown, JP), 1.5 Celsius (MSU Museum, USA)  and ‘Ars Electronica’. Curatorial activities include ‘Mimicry of Hollows’ (The 5th Floor, JP) and ‘To Defeat the Purpose: Guerilla Tactics in Latin American Art’ (Aoyama Meguro Gallery, JP). Awards include Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) and the Prins Berhard Culture fund Scholarship.




Solo Exhitibions


2023   ‘Cave Inside the Body of Shadows’, Cave-Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2019    'Breathing IN/EX-terior', Komagome SOKO gallery, Tokyo, JP. Guest curator: Seiha Kurosawa, supervision: Yuko Hasegawa.
2014    'BOKUSAIGA: Expressing Japan', Atelier 228, The Hague, NL

Group Exhibitions (selection)


2023   Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo Midtown, JP
2022    1.5 Celsius, MSU Museum, USA
2022    TEI 2022 : International Conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Daejeon, KOR (Online)
2022  Data Art for Climate Action, Singing Waves Gallery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, HK
2021    Ars Electronica ‘Artificial Intentionalities: Art in the Cloud’ (Online), HK
2021    ‘SDGs x ARTs’, The University Museum Tokyo Univ. of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
2021    ‘Mimicry of Hollows’, The 5th Floor, Tokyo, JP
2021    Constructing Contexts: Art Machines 2 Art Gallery, Singing Waves Gallery, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, HK
2020    Tougenkyo Art Festival, Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki, JP
2019     ‘Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Final Exhibition’, The University Museum, Tokyo, JP
2018    'Radical Observers', Akibatamabi21 gallery, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JP
2017    'Substantial Visions', Tama Art University Graduate School Information Design Course Artwork Exhibition 2017, YCC Yokohama Creativecity Center, JP
2015    Tokyo 5 Art Universities Joint Exhibition, Tokyo, JP
2014    Paintings 'BOKUSAIGA', Aichi Prefecture Foreign Artist Exhibition, Okazaki, JP
2012    Interactive Installation, 'VEINS', Off Centre festival, Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
2011    Interactive Installation 'Tactile Echo', Fiber festival, Trouw, Amsterdam, NL
2010    Watercolour 'The Pecular', One Hour Art, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
2010    Interactive Installation 'Tactile Echo', Freemote festival, Utrechts Archief, Utrecht, NL
2010    Interactive Installation 'Tactile Echo', Fruitfest festival, Huis aan de Werf, Utrecht, NL
2010    Interactive Installation 'Tactile Echo', Music and Art Days festival, Vredeburg Leeuwenbergh, Utrecht, NL
2010    Interactive Installation 'Digital Marbles', Tweetakt Theatre Festival, Neude, Utrecht, NL

Performances Directed


2023    Shadowplay, Telematic Performance, Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo
2023    Shadowplay, Telematic Performance, Cave-Ayumi Gallery, Tokyo
2023    Shadowplay, Telematic Performance, Broedplaats Contact, Amsterdam
2015    3rd Skin live-painting performance, Paint Your Teeth, Tokyo
2015    Triangle Tribes live-painting performance, Bar Rosso198, Tokyo

Curational Activities


2022 Curator, ‘Kenji Hirasawa: Thermomacy’, Shibuya Fashion Week, Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, JP
2021  Co-curator, ‘Mimicry of Hollows’, The 5th Floor, Tokyo, JP
2020  Co-curator, To defeat the purpose: guerilla tactics in Latin American Art, Aoyama Meguro Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2018    Exhibition Designer, Art Fair Tokyo '18, World Art Tokyo: Pangea Tectonics', Tokyo, JP
2015    Art Director, Tokyo 5 Art Universities Joint Exhibition, Tokyo, JP


Grants & Awards


2023    Mondriaan Fund, Cultural Grant, NL
2023    International Heritage Cooperation, Cultural Grant, NL
2023    Arts Council Tokyo Grant, JP
2023    Contribution ‘Cave Inside The Body of Shadows’, Embassy of The Netherlands in Japan
2022    Netherlands-America Fund, Cultural Grant, NL
2022    Creative Industry Fund, Digital Culture Grant, NL
2021    Contribution ‘Mimicry of Hollows’, Embassy of The Netherlands in Japan
2019   Contribution ‘Breathing IN/EX-terior’, Embassy of The Netherlands in Japan
2021    Geidai I Love U Grant, JP
2019    Arts Council Tokyo Grant, JP
2015    Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarship, JP
2015    Prins Bernhard Culture Fund Scholarship, NL
2012    Dutch winner European Charlemagne Youth Prize, EU
2011    1st prize International PORTICO students' challenge, Köln, DE

Press & Publications


Iwata, T., Takagi, Y. (2023, May). Mimicry of Hollows, 2021αΩ|The 5th Floor Annual Book“Roppongi Future Talks” Roppongi Street
Theater" 2nd Project Report ‘The Possibility of an Installation that Transforms Space’, 2023/08/09


2022 LC, RAY, and Vincent Ruijters. “CHIKYUCHI: In-Person/Remote Game   Exhibition for Climate Change Influence.” Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1145/3490149.3507784.

2021 Ruijters, V., & LC, R. (2021). Chikyuchi. In Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021 Proceedings (pp.269–269). Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong; School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

2021 (2021) Chikyuchi [Exhibition catalogue]. Exhibited at The University Museum Tokyo University of the Arts June 22 – August 31 2021.

“Interactive Storytelling” Climate Influence: Implicit Game-Based Interactive Storytelling for Climate Action Purpose, Springer 2021/12/07

 “The Curtain” Vincent Ruijters, Blurring Roles Between Artist and Curator, 2021/10/07

“Brutus Magazine” July issue, How Young Latin American Artists use Guerrilla Tactics to express themelves, 2020/7/1

“Bijutsu Techo Magazine” June Issue, Artist Pickup: Vincent Ruijters 2019/7/5

Education


2020    PhD Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
2017    MSc, Media Art, Tama Art University, Tokyo, JP
2014    Japanese Language, Tokyo Central Japanese Language School, Tokyo, JP
2014    Japanese Language, The Yamasa Institute, Okazaki, JP
2011     MA Creative Design for Digital Cultures, Utrecht School of the Arts, NL
2011     BA Art and Technology, Digital Media Design, Utrecht School of the Arts, NL

Lectures and Teaching


2022    Panel Discussion ‘Art and Performance’, TEI 2022 : International Conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Dae jeon, KOR
2021    Panel Discussion ’How Online Shapes Art?, Ars Electronica 2021 Garden Hong Kong, Panel Participant
2020    Visiting Lecturer, Deparment of Creative Innovation Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2017    Symposium 'Fine Art & The PhD - Art and Language' Korean Cultural Center, Tokyo
2017    Senior Tutor, Intermedia Art Course, Tokyo University of the Arts, JP
2016    Lecture 'The Bizarre Life of a Young Artist in Tokyo', Japanmuseum Sieboldhuis, Leiden, NL
2015    Graduate teaching assistant, Media Art Course, Tama Art University, Tokyo, JP
2015    Lecture 'Japanese Contemporary Art', Museon, The Hague, NL
2014    Workshop 'Japanese Calligraphy', Atelier 228, The Hague, NL
2014    Lecture 'Japanese Contemporary Art', Atelier 228, The Hague, NL
2012    Workshop 'New Media & Architecture' for Master Interior Architecture, Visual Arts and Design Faculty, Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, NL
2011    Guerilla course for first year Media, Art and Media Technology Faculty, Utrecht School of the Arts, Hilversum, NL
2009    Lecture on the CCIG Interactive Installation for the Studium Generale at the Visual Arts and Design Faculty, Utrecht School for the Arts, Utrecht, NL

Committee


2011    Mid Year Assesment comittee for first year Media, Art and Media Technology Faculty, Utrecht School of the Arts, Hilversum, NL
2009    admissions committee Digital Media Design, Art and Media Technology Faculty, Utrecht School of the Arts, Hilversum, NL


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