About

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Karolina Rupp
info{at}karolinarupp.com
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Currently lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands.

Artist Statement
My interest lies in the relationship between art and everyday life and my work explores through phenomenological and new materialist methods the overlaps between what is real or found and what is performed or constructed. Understanding the corporeal as a vessel of knowledge especially in relation to the ecological environment is at the core of my working process.

Education
2022 – 2024 Master Performance Practices, ArtEZ University of the Arts (Arnhem, NL)
2016 – 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts with specialisation in Sculpture/3D, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, NL)
2013 Advanced Certificate in Professional Photography, Vega School of Brand Leadership (Pretoria, RSA)
2012 Higher Certificate in Photography, Vega School of Brand Leadership (Pretoria, RSA)
2010 – 2014 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology & Anthropology, University of South Africa (Pretoria, RSA)

Residencies
Aug 2022 Alps Art Academy (Tenna, CH)
Mar 2022 Leveld Kunstnartun (Leveld, NO)
Oct 2021 33 Officina Creativa (33OC) (Toffia, IT)
Feb 2020 Arteles Creative Center – ‘Silence, Awareness, Existence’ (Haukijärvi, FIN)

Nominations / Grants
2023 Stroom Den Haag – SPOT Grant for May I find you, can I not (The Hague, NL)
2020 Nominee Bachelor Thesis Award, Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, NL)
2015 Long listed, Aesthetica Art Prize (UK)

Collectives / Projects / Publications
HRK Collective
Notes on Hapticity (supported by Stroom and Stichting Stokroos)
   June 2022 16 10 20, published by PrintRoom (Rotterdam, NL)
   Nov 2020 Quarantine in the Archive #4, PrintRoom (Rotterdam, NL)
   Nov 2020 15 03 20, published by PrintRoom (Rotterdam, NL)

Selected Exhibitions / Performances
2023 The Pond, performance, part of HIGHS & LOWS at 4bid Gallery (Amsterdam, NL)
2023 May I find you, can I not, performance, part of PERNEO Encuentro Internacional de Performance Art 9th edition curated by Alba Soto at the Centro de Artes de Vanguardia Museo de la Neomudéjar (Madrid, ES)
2022 Take Care, performance with Rachel Pursglove as part of Between Four Walls during ZINE CAMP at WORM in collaboration with N.o.H. Collective and PrintRoom (Rotterdam, NL)
2022 Heinze, performance, Alps Art Academy – Institute for Land and Environmental Art (Tenna, CH)
2022 Cleaning the Pool, participatory performance with Rachel Pursglove at Kunstfestival Begehungen 22 (Thalheim, DE)
2022 Sitting in Silence, participatory performance with HRK Collective at Kunstfest Rotvoll (Trondheim, NO)
2022 Open Studios (g) with HRK Collective at Leveld Kunstnartun (Leveld, NO)
2022 Sitting in Silence, Walking in Silence & Eating in Silence, participatory performance with HRK Collective at Leveld Kunstnartun (Leveld, NO)
2021 Open Studios (g) with HRK Collective at 33 Officina Creativa (Toffia, IT)
2021 ALL INN (g) at Het HEM (Zaandam, NL)
2020 Filmhuiskamer (g) by Galerie de Jaloezie (Rotterdam, NL)
2020 Towards a Foreword (g) by N.o.H. Collective in collaboration with PrintRoom (g) at Art Bar (Rotterdam, NL)
2020 Graduation exhibition (g) at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, NL)
2019 Note to Self (g) at Helena van Doeverenplantsoen (The Hague, NL)
2019 Today I Taste Tomorrow (g) at Helena van Doeverenplantsoen (The Hague, NL)
2017 Everything must go (One Nest Stand #26) (g) at NEST (The Hague, NL)
2015 The Narrative Portrait (g) at SE Centre for Photography (Greenville SC, US)
2015 Prospect Poem (s) at Grounded at Echo (Pretoria, RSA)
2015 Miniatures (g) at Long Street Art Lovers (Pretoria, RSA)
2014 A summer evening stroll (g) at Blokhuiz Studio Collective (Pretoria, RSA)
2014 Exit (s) at Kaimara Gallery (Pretoria, RSA)
2013 Graduation exhibition (g) at Vega School of Brand Leadership (Pretoria, RSA)