Anouk Kruithof, born 1981, Dordrecht, The Netherlands) is a visual artist with a trans-disciplinary approach which encompassessculpture, photography, collage, video, books, websites and (social) interventions in the public domain. The work depicts the transience and the chaos of this world, which she skilfully addresses by mixing urgent social issues with personal experience to mirror the state prevalent in our society today. She has been working as an artist full-time since 2003 and currently lives alternately in Brussels, Berlin, Botopasi, Suriname and the Netherlands. Kruithof has had solo exhibitions in Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Centro de la Imagen Mexico City and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her work has also been included in the collections of SFMoMA in San Francisco, Museum Folkwang in Essen and Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar. Kruithof published 15 books and she wasselected for The Gallery of Honour of Dutch photography at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam in 2021 and she won the public prize of the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs in 2016. Her most known project Universal Tongue is still intensively shown all over the world and has been exhibited in Museum Tinguely in Basel, Vooruit in Ghent and at WHOLE | United Queer Festival, Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen, Germany.
art with salt & water
It was once called “white gold”: salt is a crucial element for the entire Salzkammergut region; even today it remains an important trade good, which leads some to prosperity and a few to richness.