Ruud Kuijer / Bio

Ruud Kuijer, born in Schalkwijk, Utrecht (NL), lives and works in Utrecht. He studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving in Den Bosch and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His works are collected internationally by private and publiccollections, such as Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Kunstmuseum The Hague, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen.

Ruud Kuijer / Works

Ruud Kuijer is a sculptor, who works with iron and concrete. He is known for his series of large concrete sculptures along the banks of the Amsterdam Rijnkanaal in Utrecht, the so-called Waterworks. For these casts he uses plastic waste material, such as ordinary plastic bottles and boxes that we use every day. The forms of these found objects are stacked and linked into his abstract assemblages. The artist considers concrete a sustainable material and a modern variant of bronze. In addition to concrete he also works in iron. Recently he made a series of I-beam sculptures. The I-beam has a limited history in art and challenges him to many new possibilities. A single piece of I beam is always the starting point. Kuijer opens the I-beam, he breaks the symmetry of the block and creates a three-dimensional ‘new’ sculpture by cutting and assembling this hard material.

Kuijer, born in Schalkwijk, Utrecht (NL), lives and works in Utrecht. He studied at the Koninklijke Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving in Den Bosch and the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His works are collected internationally by private and publiccollections, such as Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Kunstmuseum The Hague, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Museum Beelden aan Zee in Scheveningen.