Juul Kraijer Pays-Bas, b. 1970

Juul Krajer, Untitled, 2014-2015
Juul Krajer, Untitled, 2014-2015

Juul Kraijer raises one of the major issues of civilisation in crisis: to rethink the human body interacting with the species and our natural milieu. Man’s flesh fits within a vital universal flux.

Juul Kraijer is a Dutch visual artist born in 1970 in Assen. She specializes in photography and drawing, and also works in sculpture and video art. Kraijer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, graduating in 1994 with a series of large-scale charcoal drawings.
 

Her drawings often depict depersonalised female nudes. In many works, the human body is merged with animals and nature, including shoals of small fish, swarms of moths, animal fragments, or mountainous forms. Since 2011, Kraijer has also produced numerous black-and-white photographs closely related to her drawings.

 

Her work is included in major international collections, including MoMA in New York, KIASMA in Helsinki, Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, MONA in Tasmania, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam, Teylers Museum in Haarlem, Drents Museum in Assen, the Stedelijk Museum, Musée Het Domein in Sittard, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden, among others in Europe, the United States, and India. In 2018, she was nominated for the Prix Guerlain for Contemporary Drawing.

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