Francis Ruyter, born
in 1968 in Washington DC, art studies in New York City, more than 30 solo exhibitions worldwide. His work is included in The
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Le Consortium, Dijon and many other public collections.
Ruyter has been active in Vienna’s art community since 2003, producing and presenting more than
30 exhibitions of artists at Galerie Ruyter and other spaces. He was a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
in 2011-12 and is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the Vienna Secession.
His exhibition Hurricane/Time/Image
opened on 10 April at Franz Josefs Kai 3. He will discuss the work in this exhibition during his presentation. Hurricane/Time/Image
sandwiches his new works with a flash retrospective of his germinal work from the 1990s. Curated by Mohammad Salemy, it will
consist of drawings, paintings and objects, dated from 1990–94 and 2015–19 as well as new display treatments including projections
and reproductions of the archival source material.
The exhibition is meant to disrupt narratives of artistic, aesthetic
and career developments as well as social conditions surrounding the production of art and the subjectivity specific to Ruyter.
It suggests that the chaotic force of technology is always at work throughout an artist’s oeuvre, rearranging the relationship
of past, present and future into new constellations. Rather than using the recent works to make a new sense out of Ruyter’s
earlier practice, it brings to light embedded concerns, themes and motifs which have been resonating in the artist’s practice
since the early stages of his career.
Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since 2010.
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