1. Beatrix Ruf is associate editor for JRP-Ringier, works with the LUMA Foundation, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and is the artistic director of the Ringier Collection.
14 Facts About Beatrix Ruf
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Beatrix Ruf studied at a gymnasium and studied psychology, ethnology, art, and cultural sciences at the University of Zurich.
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Beatrix Ruf became a choreographer and art critic and gave lessons in improvisation at the conservatory.
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Beatrix Ruf started her career in art as curator of the Kunstmuseum Thurgau between 1994 and 1998.
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Beatrix Ruf has been the artistic director of the Ringier Collection since 1995.
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From 1998 until 2001, Beatrix Ruf was the director of Kunsthaus Glarus.
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Beatrix Ruf replaced Bernhard Burgi in 2001 as director at Kunsthalle Zurich.
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In 2014 Beatrix Ruf was appointed director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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Beatrix Ruf was a member of the juries that selected Magali Reus as 2015 recipient of the Prix de Rome and Helen Marten as 2016 recipient of the Turner Prize.
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On October 17,2017, Beatrix Ruf resigned as director of the Stedelijk after reports in the Dutch news media detailed how, since 2014, she had been earning nearly a half million euros per year as a private art consultant, above and beyond the salary she received from the Stedelijk, and that she had failed to report those activities and earnings.
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From 2019 to 2020, Beatrix Ruf headed the international program of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
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Since 2020, Beatrix Ruf has been serving as director of the Hartwig Art Foundation in Amsterdam an organisation setting up a new museum of contemporary art in Amsterdam.
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In 2022, Beatrix Ruf partnered with the Stedelijk for a major exhibition of artist Anne Imhof, which she had helped curate when the show was initially intended to open at the Garage Museum.
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In 2023, Beatrix Ruf curated the retrospective of Meredith Monk at Oude Kerk, Amsterdam.