Juul Kraijer's work has been awarded
De Kunstprijs 2004
(formerly Philip Morris Prize)

The prize-money has been used bij Juul Kraijer to make a book:


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Juul Kraijer - Drawings
Design: Tessa van der Waals
76 pages, hard cover, 23,5 x 30,5 cm, 39 reproductions (full colour and black & white), with a text by the artist, 2004.
Euro 30,-cexcl. p&p
to order: send an email to info@juulkraijer.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Juul Kraijer - Recent works
Drawings, sculptures and videoworks

Kewenig Galerie
Appellhofplatz 21 Cologne, Germany
www.kewenig.com
30 August - 18 October 2008

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Juul Kraijer, N.N. Rimzon, Tushar Joag
 'DRAWING SCULPTURE'

Drawing and sculpture are making resurgence and coming into increasing public view. This exhibition is testimony to the fact that drawing and sculpture need not be bland, preachy or prim. The three artists shown here treat their subjects in a speculative, thought-provoking, nicely-nervy manner. We have moved ahead from drawing as a 'verb' as Richard Serra called it in 1977 -- referring to art that is primarily about process, materials, surfaces, or tools -- to drawing that is fundamentally a noun standing on its own. This exhibition combines fantasy and imagination with romanticism, conceptualism, graphic novels and illustration. It is where drawing and sculpture come together as a whole. - Manoj Nair

GALERIE MIRCHANDANI + STEINRUECKE
2 Sunny House, 16/18 Mereweather Road, Behind Taj Mahal Hotel, Colaba, Mumbai 400 001
+91 22 2202 3030/ 3434/ 3636, info@galeriems.com  www.galeriems.com

August 12 -- September 20, 2008

Diana and Actaion - the forbidden sight of nudity

Museum Kunst Palast
Düsseldorf, Germany
www.museum-kunst-palast.de

from 25 October 2008 to 22 February 2009

Greek mythology tells the tale of the hunter Actaion, who surprised Artemis while she was bathing and looked at her. As a punishment, she changed him into a deer and then turned his dogs on him, who tore him to pieces. Ovid took up the tale of Diana and Actaion in his book of Metamorphoses, after which the theme often recurred in pictures as part of the revival of antiquity, from renaissance to classicism.   Various 20th-century artists also dealt with the psychological aspects of this theme from mythology.
The exhibition starts with the fatal encounter between Actaion and Diana, and the questions arising from the story. But it does not seek to be yet another display on the hackneyed theme of eroticism in art. Instead, it engages with a precise question and focuses on pictorial works which deal with the forbidden gaze on the uncovered female sex. In doing so, it seeks to guide and accompany us on our way through the extremely complex subject of eroticism in its most comprehensive, and therefore also mythological, significance. The exhibition will deal with desire and attraction, and will therefore also embrace the convoluted links between sex, sexuality and beauty, truth, ecstasy and even death. It will look at the ambivalent fascination of looking at the beautiful female body. The erotic and eroticising attraction of the lustful gaze are as much its subject as the disgust and apotrophaic impact which gazing on the naked truth of the evocative and shamelessly unveiled female, the Baubo, may have on the viewer. It will document the voyeurism and exhibitionism of art works and artists, from views of the naked body to presentation and provocative exposure of the uncovered female pudenda.

"La nudité de la femme est plus sage que l'enseignement du philosophe" -- Max Ernst.

The exhibition will feature works from antiquity and early art history. It will also display works by the following and other artists: Gustave Courbet, Auguste Rodin, Pierre Bonnard, Ferdinand Hodler, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, various surealists, Balthus, Pierre Klossowski and Tom Wesselmann. The contemporary section will feature works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Markus Raetz, Balthasar Burkhard, Cindy Sherman, Nobuyoshi Araki, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Marlene Dumas and others.
A comprehensive publication will accompany the exhibition, depicting all the exhibited works. A book is being compiled with texts by authors who tackle the subject not only from an art history angle, but also from philosophical and literary viewpoints. This will have a relevance beyond the exhibition itself.

Deviser, planner and curator of the exhibition: Beat Wismer

Galleria Monica De Cardenas
FIAC Paris
GRAND PALAIS & COUR CARREE DU LOUVRE
Paris, France
23 -26 October 2008

The Hands of Art
George Wittenborn (1905-1974), kunstboekhandelaar en uitgever uit New York, speelde een belangrijke rol in de kunstscene van zijn tijd. Getuige zijn gastenboek dat van 1944 tot 1974 door kunstenaars werd gevuld met tekeningen, afdrukken, collages en foto’s van hun handen. Dit groepsportret is nu verrijkt met tientallen bijdragen van levende kunstenaars.
Resultaat is een unieke collectie van bijna 300 handen van onder meer Alechinsky, Arp, Baldassari, Mike Bidlo, Louise Bourgeois, Calder, Chagall, Raoul Dekeyser, Duchamp, Max Ernst, Jan Fabre, Arshile Gorky, Jan Hoet, Asger Jorn, Axel Katz, Le Corbusier, Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Miro, Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Panamarenko, Raveel, Diter Rot, Ruscha, Rob Scholte, Thomas Schütte, Richard Serra, Tapiès, Luc Tuymans, Henk Visch, Warhol, Erwin Wurm.
Bij de tentoonstelling verschijnt een ingenieus boek,
getiteld Artists' Handbook.
Een project van Ronny Van de Velde en Ludion Uitgevers
26.01.- 16.03.2008
S.M.A.K.
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
www.artistshandsproject.be
www.smak.be

“La nave dei folli” (The Ship of Fools)
H.Bellmer, G.Brus, M.Bussmann, G.Cerone, E.Cucchi, B.Ceccobelli, G.de Chirico, G.de Dominicis,R.Devriendt, S. di Stasio, M.Ernst, M.Eustachio, J.Fautrier, A.Fogli, G.Gallo, A.Giacometti, F.Goya, Hokusai, M.Klinger, T.Kowalski, J.Kraijer, A.Kubin, H.Michaux, F.Levini, O.Licini, L.Ontani, V.Pisani,M.Prosheck, O.Redon, P.Richar, F.Rops, D.Rudolph, A.Savinio, Wols, M.Ziegler
from an idea by Cristiano Bernhard and Andrea Fogli
With catalogue
30th November 2007 -March 15 2008
Studio Angeletti
Rome, Italy

"AUGENblick"
A series of five exhibitions dedicated to the senses. This year the focus is on the sense of sight. Fully illustrated catalogue containing several essays.
summer 2008
Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth e.V.T
Kunstgebäude im Schlosshof Bodenburg
Teichstraße 15a
D-31162 Bodenburg
T. +49 (5060) 961201
F. +49 (5060) 961202
www.kunstverein-bad-salzdetfurth.de