Rachel de Joode

b. 1979, Netherlands

Rachel de Joode is a Dutch-born, Berlin-based multi-media artist.  She mixes mediums, particularly those of photography, sculpture and most recently, painting.  Her work bounces between the physical and the virtual, exploring the relationship between the three-dimensional object and its two dimensional-representation.  De Joode’s work is a constant play between surface, representation and materiality.

De Joode earned her diploma in time-based art from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.  She was awarded the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt (2013) and the Sculpture Space funded residency (2012), as well as a residency at LMCC swingspace program at Governors Island (2013 – 2014) in New York.  She has received funding from the Mondrian fund, the Berliner Senat and the Royal Dutch Embassy.  Her work has been reproduced and reviewed in Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramics (Phaidon), Artforum, Artnet, The New York Times, The New Yorker, DIS magazine and Charlotte Cotton’s book Photography is Magic.

A select exhibition history of the artist includes shows at: Centre Photographique, Marseille, France (2021); ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London, UK (2020); The Pitcairn Museum of Contemporary Art, Groningen, Netherlands (2020); Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden (2019); Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France (2018); ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2017); ICA, Philadelphia, US (2017); Foundation for Art Fort Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, Netherlands (2017); Kustverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany (2016); MACRO Contemporary Art Museum of Rome, Rome, Italy (2015); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2012).

Work by the artist is represented in permanent private and public collections, including the Collection of Keramiek Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden.