50 Years of Icelandic Art at the Venice Biennale
Reykjavik Art Museum - Kjarvalsstadir.
5 February - 25 April 2011

As groundwork for the exhibition is a newly published research of Iceland’s participation in the Venice Biannale in Italy, which is first of its kind ever made on the subject. Icelandic artists have had their representative at this major international contemporary art exhibition for fifty years but their regular participation did not start until the year 1984. Works by 22 artists.
Curator is Laufey Helgadottir

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Visage of the Land : Water, Earth, Sea And Sky
Kopavogur Art Museum-Gerdarsafn
January 15th to February 20th 2011

Curated by Gudbergur Bergsson. The exhibition comprises paintings, watercolours, drawings and photography by Gunnlaugur Scheving, Rúrí, Johannes Sveinsson Kjarval, Dadi Gudbjornsson and Vilhjalmur Bergsson
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The Nordic Third World Country? - Icelandic Art in Times of Crisis.
Fargfabriken Norr, Ostersund, Sweden
October 16th 2011 – January 16th 2011

Opening on the 16th of October 2010, at 12-4p.m.  An exhibition project that aims to investigate the effects of the economic crises on the cultural climate in Iceland and what the last few years’ development in Iceland can tell us about the current global situation.

Participating artists: Erla S. Haraldsdottir - The Icelandic Love Corporation - Ragnar Kjartansson - Hildur Margaretardottir - Bjargey Olafsdottir - Ingvar Hogni Ragnarsson – Ruri - Magnus Sigurdarson - Hreinn J. Stephensen - Petur Thomsen

Curator: Jonatan Habib Engqvist

Fargfabriken Norr
Stadsdel Norr - Byggnad 33 - Infanterigatan 30 - 831 32 Ostersund – Sweden

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.

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.

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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

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

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         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

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

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

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.

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
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Le FIGARO, Paris Photo chauffe sous l'astre du Nord
Valérie Duponchelle, Publié le 17 novembre 2006
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PIXEL-CREATION, Paris Photo 2006 - un foisonnement photographique à ne rater sous aucun prétexte!
Agathe Hoffmann, 11/2006
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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
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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:

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.
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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)
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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.

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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

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.

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

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

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