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Forever

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Where do we migrate to

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Economic primacy

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Your blood is as red as mine

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Tagged

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Looking at the other/desire

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The highest point

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Train

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Actually it’s all about… being happy.
Getting up in the morning and deciding you’re going to be happy.
You have to work at it. Because we all have little things we have to go through.
Rich or poor.
    It’s inevitable that some people are poor. Someone is always the poorest...
People shouldn’t have to starve to death.
But... recently, I was in a room where I was clearly the poorest.
All the other guys had more than 100 million dollars...
... so I was the poorest. Someone always is.
 
Julika:
Anthony:

Julika:
Anthony:
Do you still like modelling?
It was fun, anyway. You meet a lot of people...
But sometimes I discover I’m the only black there.
You’re doing the what? The black bear?
Sometimes I discover I’m the only black.
  I think clothes come first.
You have to look good.
For yourself, so people can see you look good.
That’s important. Then they respect you more. And you are cooler of course.
You buy things that other people can’t afford.
      I don’t masturbate.
That doesn’t bother me. I don’t mind other people doing it.
I'm not even curious about it, because I know how I feel when I do come.
 
Dan:

Balder:

Dan:
She’s like the local 7-Eleven. Just give her a call. Can I drop by?
You’re still open?
On Saturday she was at Raoul’s. Maybe Raoul fucked her too.
If he did... that’s way too slutty.
That would make it three guys in 30 hours.
 
                                                             


Forever

Video installation
16:40 min
2 synchronized DVDs
English spoken
2006

I cast five American women of a certain age for their beauty. They are posing at upscale private swimming pools and reflect on their ideas of beauty, ways to obtain it and it's relationship with privilege. One never hears the questions which circle around intangible ideas such as what it means to be happy and/ or beautiful. The video is punctuated by the women taking self-portraits with a polaroid camera.
 

Where do we migrate to

07:10 min
DVD
2005

A collection of sometimes observed, sometimes staged behaviours that I filmed while on a return visit to Germany.
The video was made for the exhibition “Migration” in Cologne, Germany.
 

Economic primacy

Video installation
17:56 min
2 synchronized DVDs
Dutch with English subtitles
2005

I selected five men for the video:
a lawyer, a spin-doctor, a media advisor,
a millionaire and a top manager.
They are filmed pacing around in a generic office space, that was specially constructed for the video. While they appear talking
to themselves, they are in fact responding to questions I am asking them over
a hands-free phone. In their “monologues” they talk about the importance and omnipotence of money.
 

Family times

Video projection
6 min
DVD
2004

A montage of found family footage from a public archive in Hungary. Daily scenes in an average family-life on relationships, dependencies, abuse of power and voyeurism.
 

Your Blood Is As Red As Mine

Video projection
15:56 min
DVD
English subtitles
2004

A series of staged interviews and situations dealing with skin colour and representation of “the other”. At certain moments I took large format photographs from the same viewpoint as the video camera. Some of the photographs are shown along with the video.
 

Your blood is as red as mine/ Portrait 01
Large format photograph
65 x 80 cm
2004

 

Tagged

Video installation
13:24 min
3 synchronized DVDs
English subtitles
2003

I invited young men who spend a lot of money on clothes to bring their wardrobes to a generic hotel room, specially constructed for the video. While changing into different outfits they talk about their backgrounds, their addiction to clothes, and about the price they pay.
 

Looking at the other/desire

Video projection
02:50 min
DVD
2003

 

Only sight and touch enable us to locate the things around us

Video projection
06:50 min
DVD
2003

The video shows ritual every day movements of a woman who is suffering of an illness that numbed her sense of touch by killing all the outer nerve ends of her body. In order to be able to live independently she had to relearn all movements of her life again only controlling them with her eyes. She is filmed in her house where she also has several turtles, which are in many cultures seen as the symbol for the sense of touch, the fifth sense.
 

The highest point

Video projection
12:40 min
DVD
English subtitles
2002

I placed an ad in newspapers asking for women who want to talk about their sexuality. Over 30 women responded. Many explained that they wished to create a different image of sexuality than that found in current media. All the women were filmed in the same place; a place that suggests both a private house and a consulting room. The women describe their orgasms in dry and technical language while demonstrating the positions they would generally use.
 

Train

Video projection
06:20 min
DVD
English subtitles
2001

I invited a group of young men on the street to be in a video in which they would talk about women and love. During the filming I lead the conversation through questions (not audible in the video), but without a script. The roles they played are close to their own roles in the group, but I asked them to exaggerate certain parts of their opinions on women. The video was shot in a train.
 

Queue

Synchronized four monitor installation (split-screen)
04:50 min
4 DVD's
English subtitles
2001

Shot outside a nightclub, a surreptitiously placed actor discusses his intimate private life in front of a staged TV crew. The video captures the reactions of the surrounding bystanders to his stories and their interaction with the TV camera.
 

Plush

3 monitors Installation
03:20 min
3 synchronized DVD's
2001

An identical triplet talk about their own ideas and expectations dominated by clichés while each of them also individually refers to the facts of their life. Filmed in the same three or four settings looking slightly different from one another, the individual identities of the three girls remains intentionally unclear. Furthermore the video implies the complex possibility of one actress who is deliberately placed to represent the conservative politics by engaging in a limited, repeated vocabulary and applying them to three different biographies.
 

Interview 01

Video projection
04:31 min
DVD
English subtitles
2000

Four actors meeting for the first time haven been given personalities and relationships upon which their dialogues have been built, then the subsequent interview was filmed during which they have been asked to maintain the idea and appearance of their friendship while criticizing the other actors as much as possible towards the camera.
 

Series Reconstruction
4/c prints, 2000 - 2003


Reconstruction 01
4/c print
110 x 120 cm
2000

In order to question the politics imbedded in the visual clichés of immigrant populations, a series of photographs of subjects posing as immigrants in their 'native costumes' have been created. These immigrants are found in an unexpected and/ or inappropriate settings in relation to their racial and cultural background.
 

Study for Reconstruction 05

4/c Print
80 x 85 cm
2001
 

Forms

Video projection
02:40 min
DVD
2000

A gliding camera follows two women in djellaba and headscarf walking between the cars in a parking lot. After a while, one gradually discovers that only the outlines of their faces and dresses seem to suggest their identity, while the individual features of their faces have disappeared
 

Without title

Video projection
03:40 min
DVD
2000

Shot during a slow moving rush hour traffic, a group of drivers have been subject to a voyeuristic perspective. In one car a man is found having a screaming fit while the woman next to him calmly and blankly keeps staring out of the window.
 

R+J

01:52 min
DVD
1999

A young couple found in an iconic embrace was asked to remain in the same position for an extended period of time. The only detectable movements in the work are their breathing and the surface of water in the lake behind them.
 

Series without title '98, '99
Nr. 8 from without title '98


4/c print, Diasec
75 x 75 cm
1998

Julika Rudelius lives and works
in Amsterdam and New York
  Solo exhibitions

2006
 
'Geld! Julika Rudelius'
   Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AU

2005
 
Julika Rudelius. Vijf videowerken 2001–2005
   Frans Hals Museum/De Hallen, Haarlem, NL (cat)
– Studio Manuela Klerkx, Milan, I
Ansichten der Ökonomie/Economic Primacy
   Kunstraum Lakeside, curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber,
   Die Springerin, Klagenfurt, AU

2004
 
– Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, D
Plus ou moins jeunes
   Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, F
Feuilleton, deel vijf
   Marres, centrum voor actuele kunst, Maastricht, NL (cat)
BijlmAir: Your Blood is as Red as Mine
   Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam/
   Artotheek Zuidoost, Amsterdam, NL

2003
 
You can’t stay in the 80s wearing cowboy boots
   while the whole world progresses
   Kunsthaus Glarus, CH (cat)

2001
 
– Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
Talkshow
   Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, NL (cat)
  Group exhibitions (a selection)

2007
 
Global Feminisms
   Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA (cat)
Global Feminisms
   Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, USA
Ready Media
   Montevideo/Time based arts, Amsterdam, NL

2006
 
Gwangju Biennale
   Gwangju, Korea (cat)
Dutch Dare
   ACP, Sidney, Australia
Monitoring
   Kulturbahnhof Kassel, Kassel, D
The youth of today
   Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, D (cat)
Eastern Neighbours
   Cultural Center Babel, Utrecht, NL
World Unlimited
   Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
Domestic Affairs
   PROJEKT 0047, Berlin, D
Momentum 2006
   4th Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway
Again for tomorrow (screening 'economic primacy' + discussion)
   Royal College of Art Galleries, London UK
30th annual, 6th Biennial exhibition of Visual + Art: Give (a)way
   Limerick, IR

2005
 
Respect! Formes de cohabitation/Vormen van samenleven
   Musée Dar Si Saïd, Marrakech, M (cat)
A Second Sight
   International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005’,
   National Gallery, Prague, CZ (cat)
Recreating the Case
   Kunsthaus Glarus, CH
Migration
   Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, D (cat)
Populism
   Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Populism
   Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M., D
Populism
   The Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LIT
Documentary Strategies
   TENT. Centre for Visual Arts, Rotterdam, NL (cat)
Moving..on... Handlungen an Grenzen –
   Strategien antirassistischen Handeln
   Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, D (cat)



2004
 
Untitled
   Tate Modern, London, UK
Rheinschau – Art Cologne Projects
   Rheinforum, Cologne, D,
   organized by Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
Histoire(s) Parallèle(s) création – confrontation France Pays-Bas
   Institut Néerlandais, Paris, F (cat)
Over zee, land en gezicht
   Museum Valkhof, Nijmegen, NL
Grenzeloos Kijken
   Film by the Sea Festival, Scheveningen, NL
Revisie
   Dutch Film Festival, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Antonietta Peeters, Julika Rudelius en Lily van der Stokker
   Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL
Verworpenen en zondagskinderen: Aanwinsten 2003
   Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL
Teenage Kicks. Adolescence as subject
   The Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IR (cat)
Wirklich wahr! Realitätsversprechen von Fotografien
   Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen, D (cat)
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Diana Stigter
   Rotterdam, NL
LISTE Basel with Kunsthaus Glarus
   Basel, CH
Das zweite Bild
   dreizehnzwei, Wien, Ö/Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, D (cat)

2003
 
Link
   Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL (cat)
Contemporary Dutch Art
   National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR (cat)
Strangers, The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
   International Center of Photography, New York, USA (cat)
Utopie van de periferie
   Stedelijk Museum Aalst, B
Turbulence
   Centre for Contemporary Art, Kiev, UKR (cat)
Child in Time. Views of contemporary artists on youth and adolescence
   Gemeentemuseum Helmond, NL (cat)
Turbulence
   Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL
Beyond beauty
   Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL



 

2002
 
Rendez-vous
   Musée d'Art Contemporaine de Lyon, F
Faces, people and society
   Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL
There’s no accounting for other peoples relationships
   Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, IR
Sold
   Christie’s, Amsterdam, NL (cat)
Non-Members only
   Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Jong
   with Rineke Dijkstra, De Beeldbank, TU Eindhoven, NL
LISTE Basel with Galerie Diana Stigter
   Basel, CH
Dark Spring
   Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, D (cat)
Non Places
   Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, D (cat)
A’dam & Eve
   De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
The People’s Art
   Witte de With, Rotterdam (cat)

2001
 
You never walk alone
   Stroom, haags centrum voor beeldende kunst, The Hague, NL
Commitment, een keuze uit drie jaar Fonds BKVB
   Las Palmas, Rotterdam, NL (cat)
From Here to Reality – a dutch show
   Index The Swedish Contmporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, S (cat)
A Arte do Povo
   Central Eléctrica do Freixo, Porto, P

2000
 
For Real
   Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL (cat)
Hellenistic
   W139, Amsterdam, NL
Scripted Spaces
   Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Man muss ganz schön viel lernen um hier zu funktionieren
   Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a. M., D
  Exhibition catalogues (a selection)

2006
 
EV+A, 2006 - give (a) way
   Oysterhaven, Kinsale: Gandon Editions, pp. 18/19, 192-195
The Youth of Today
   Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, pp. 48, 199

2005
 
Respect! Formes de cohabitation/Vormen van samenleven
   Amsterdam: Mondriaan Foundation
International Biennale of Contemporary Art
   Prague: National Gallery, pp. 572-573
Projekt Migration
   Cologne: Kölner Kunstverein, pp. 196-197
The Populism Catalogue
   Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg
Documentary now!
   Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, p. 30
Moving on. Border Activism – Strategies for Anti-Racist Actions
   Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2003/2004
   Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, p 92/93

2004
 
Histoire(s) Parallèle(s) création – confrontation France Pays-Bas
   Erik Kessels, Gabriel Bauret, Paris: Filigranes Éditions
Teenage Kicks, adolescence as subject
   Dublin: Royal Hibernian Academy
Wirklich wahr! Realitätsversprechen von Fotografien
   Sigrid Schneider, Stefanie Grebe (eds), Ostfildern (Ruit): Hatje Cantz
Das zweite Bild
   text by Melanie Ohnemus, Wien: dreizehnzwei

 

2003
 
You can’t stay in the 80s wearing cowboy boots
   while the whole world progresses
   interview by Jan van Adrichem, Glarus: Kunsthaus Glarus
We Show Art, 10 Years Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
   Amsterdam: Artimo, pp. 497-508
Link
   Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam/Rotterdam:
   NAi Publishers
XL Photography 2, Art Collection Deutsche Börse
   Ostfildern (Ruit): Hatje Cantz, p. 62-63
In or Out, Contemporary Dutch Art
   Amsterdam: Canvas Foundation/Seoul: Yellow Sea Cultural Network
   p. 170-185
Strangers, The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video
   Edward Earle et al (eds), New York: International Center of
   Photography/Göttingen: Steidel, p. 92-95
Turbulence
   Arnhem: Museum voor Moderne Kunst
Prix de Rome 2003, Art and Public Space
   Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, p. 52-53
Child in Time. Visies van hedendaagse kunstenaars
   op jeugd en adolescentie
   Frank Hoenjet, Linda Modderkolk,
   Helmond: Gemeentemuseum Helmond, p. 33

2002
 
There’s No Accounting for Other People’s Relationships
   text by Suzanna Chan, Belfast: Ormeau Baths Gallery (leaflet)
Regionalisten
   Siebren de Haan, “Cosmo Pubers”, Nijmegen:
   Paraplufabriek/Amsterdam: VRIZA, p. 28-31
Commitment, een keuze uit drie jaar Fonds BKVB
   Lex ter Braak, Edwin Jansen, Amsterdam:
   Fonds voor beeldende kunsten vormgeving en bouwkunst
Nabeelden. Album van niet gemaakte foto’s
   Amsterdam: De Balie, p.78-81
Dark Spring
   Kraichtal: Ursula Blickle Stiftung
Non places
   New York: Lukas & Sternberg, p. 46-47

2001
 
From Here to Reality
   Stockholm: Index The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation
The People’s Art/A Arte do Povo
   Rotterdam: Witte de With/Porto: Central Eléctrica do Freixo, p. 51
This is for real
   Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam/NAi Publishers
   Rotterdam, p. 67-69
Nieuwsbrief Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam no.64
   Charles Escher, “Talkshow”
  Articles (a selection)

2006
 
– “Artforum”
   People's Party
   Sven Lütticken
   January 2006 p61-62
– “Frieze" nr. 96
   Emerging Artists
   January/February 2006 p. 123

2005
 
– “Art Review”
   Future greats 2005
   December 2005 p. 78
– “De Witte Raaf 116”
   Postpolitiek, pop en populisme
   Sven Lütticken
   July/August 2005 p. 30-31
– “Denieuwe” Jaargang 8 Nr. 7
   Vol van plaatsvervangende schaamte
   Saskia Monshouwer
   p. 21-22
– “Tages Anzeiger”
   Im Kaffeefleck die Welt sehen
   23.09.2005 p. 63
– “Neue Züricher Zeitung”
   Eine andere Sicht
   5.11.2005 p. 48

2004
 
– “Het Parool (PS van de week)”
   Schildenpadden en speldenprikjes
   Kees Keijer,
   25 October 2004
– “Kunstbeeld”
   De ambivalentie van goede bedoelingen
   Saskia Monshouwer
   10 October 2004 p. 22-23
– “Vrij Nederland”
   Ik kijk door de ogen van een witte trut
   Barbara van Erp
   1 May 2004
– “Flash Art”
   Julika Rudelius
   Douglas Heingartner
   January 2004

 

2003
 
– “De Groene Amsterdammer”
   En ik dan
   Maria Barnas
   2 August 2003, p. 34-36
– “Tubelight” nr. 29
   Reality-art
   Martine van Kampen, Jaap Vinken
   November 2003
– “Skrien”
   Ik ga er niet bij lopen als een crimineeltje
   Jacquine van Elsberg
   November 2003 p. 55

2002
 
– “Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin”
   Focus auf Julika Rudelius
   Vanessa Joan Müller
   13 April 2002

2001
 
– “BLVD”
   De raadselachtige video’s van Julika Rudelius
   Sjoukje Posthuma
   December 2001
– “NRC Handelsblad (CS)”
   Tussen echt en nep, gedragsexperimenten van Julika Rudelius
   Maartje Somers
   14 December 2001

2000
 
– “Skrien” nr. 240
   Art house, Julika Rudelius
   Jacquine van Elsberg
   February 2000, p.59


  Publications

2006
 
Julika Rudelius, Looking at the other, Five Video Works

   
   104 pages
   21,6 x 27,9 mm
   Text in English
   Essay by: Sven Lütticken
   Design: Thomas Buxó

   ISBN 90-78088-05-2
   Price € 24,50
   Valiz publishers, www.valiz.nl


   
  Television broadcasting

2004
 
Julika Rudelius
   documentary RAM, VPRO television
   25 April 2004
Metrópolis
   Televisión Española, viewing of “The highest point” and “Tagged”


Screenings at video festivals (a selection)
 
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, D
Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, NL
9th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, BR
International Film Festival, MEDIAWAVE, Hungary
Festival International du Film d’Amiens, F
Bandits Images, Bourges, F
Lux, Nijmegen, NL
2nd Annual Detroit International Video Festival, Museum of New Art,    Detroit, USA
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, F
Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, NL
International Festival of New Film, Split, HR
Video festival, National Cinema Museum, Turin, I.
  Commissions

2001
 
Oost Kunst/East Art, Kunst in het Oostelijk Haven-gebied
   van Amsterdam / Art in Amsterdam’s Eastern Docks Area
   Photo works, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, NL

2000
 
SKOR/Annual Report 2000
   Video and stills produced for Amsterdam, NL

1998
 
Without title ’98
   Illustration of the Annual Report of the Council for Culture
   (Raad voor Cultuur), NL: photo works


Grants/Prizes

2004
 
Nederlands Film Festival
   special mention Dutch film critics for “Tagged”

1999
 
Robert Bosch Stiftung
   Stuttgart

2000
 
KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines)
   Amsterdam


Residencies

2006
 
International studio & curatorial program
   NYC, USA

2003
 
BijlmAir residency from Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
   Artotheek Zuidoost, NL

1999–2001
 
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
   Amsterdam, NL
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