Germaine Kruip (1970, Castricum, the Netherlands) is a Dutch visual artist who lives and works between Amsterdam, Brussels, and London. Over the past two decades, Kruip has been developing a practice that merges time, space and perception. In between the visual arts, stage, and architecture, she investigates and presents her observations through site-specific, sculptural and performative interventions. Kruip studies the scenography of ungraspable phenomena, such as ever-changing daylight and the passage of time; the relationship between art and ritual in repetitive gestures, aiming to subtly alter perception; historical ventures to create abstraction by means of geometry and the desires, theories and ideologies underlying these attempts.

Since moving her practice from theatre to the visual arts in 2000, Germaine Kruip has developed a unique multidisciplinary approach exploring the back and forth between the two realms. She is particularly interested in how her background as a scenographer can introduce new strategies of exhibition-making in a museum or gallery, and how these can be translated back into theatre contexts.

Solo exhibitions

Geometric Exercises, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spanje (2013)

A possibility of an abstraction, The Approach, Londen (2013)

Eye Trap/Metropole Orkest/IFFR, eendaagse performance op 3 februari, Rotterdam (2012)

A Room, 24 Hours II, Pilar Parra en Romero, Madrid, Spanje

The Approach, Londen (2010)

Only the title remains, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (2009-2010)

Aesthetics as a way of survival, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Duitsland (2009).

Group exhibitions

Love Illumination, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (2013)

Things from before beside things from after around things of the moment, Para & Romero, Ibiza, Spanje (2013)

Geestverwanten-de ideeen van 24 Kunstenaars, Rabo Art Zone, Utrecht (2013)

Cimetière d'Ixelles, An Art in General New Commission, gecureerd door Lisa Oppenheim & Lisa Tan, New York, VS (2013)

The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Oostenrijk (2013)

Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home - 400 jaar liberale cultuur in Amsterdam (2013) 

Man in the Holocene, List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Boston, VS (2012)

about: blank, Kunsthalle Münster, Duitsland (2012)

IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE (ACT III), Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Spanje (2012)

SPECIFIC COLLISIONS, gecureerd door Melissa Gordon, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, Duitsland (2011)

Haus/House, Altona Museum, Duitsland (2011)

Quantos Queres, MARZ Galeria, Lissabon, Portugal (2010)

SILENCE (A composition), Hiroshima Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Tokyo, Japan (2009)

Faux Jumeaux, gecureerd door Michel François, SMAK, Gent, België (2008-2009)