Over the past two decades, Germaine Kruip has been developing a practice that merges time, space and perception. In between the visual arts, stage, and architecture, she investigates and presents her observations through site-specific, sculptural and performative interventions. Kruip studies the scenography of ungraspable phenomena, such as ever-changing daylight and the passage of time; the relationship between art and ritual in repetitive gestures, aiming to subtly alter perception; historical ventures to create abstraction by means of geometry and the desires, theories and ideologies underlying these attempts. Since moving her practice from theatre to the visual arts in 2000, Germaine Kruip has developed a unique multidisciplinary approach exploring the back and forth between the two realms. She is particularly interested in how her background as a scenographer can introduce new strategies of exhibition-making in a museum or gallery, and how these can be translated back into theatre contexts.
Germaine Kruip (b. 1970, Castricum, NL) lives and works in Brussels, Amsterdam and London.