Germaine Kruip (1970, Castricum, the Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam and Brussels. Since moving from theatre to the art world in the early 2000s, Kruip has been pursuing several lines of thought and work: her interest in ephemerality and where it condenses briefly into a physical or visual moment; in scenography of uncontrollable or ungraspable phenomena, such as the ever-changing daylight and the passage of time; in ritual and performance as abstracted moments of everyday life; in historical and art historical examples of attempts to reach abstraction by means of geometry – and finally in the desires, theories and ideologies that underlie these attempts. The language of simple geometrical forms, such as circles or squares has deep roots in the histories of ideas, science, religion and art. Kruip employs these shapes in order to explore the relationship between art and ritual in repetitive gestures, which aim to subtly alter perception. By emphasising the gestural and physical origins of abstractions, she questions whether an absolute abstraction could ever be possible at all. Germaine Kruip received the Charlotte Köhler Prize in 2001 and the Prix de Rome (2nd prize) in the category theatre/autonomous art. Recent Solo Exhibitions include; Geometric Exercises, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain (2013); A possibility of an abstraction, The Approach, London, UK (2013); Eye Trap/Metropole Orkest/IFFR, one-day performance 3rd February, Rotterdam (2012); A Room, 24 Hours II, Pilar Parra and Romero, Madrid, Spain and the Approach, London (2010); Only the title remains, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands (2009-2010); Aesthetics as a way of survival, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2009). Recent Group Shows: Love Illumination, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013); Things from before beside things from after around things of the moment, Para & Romero, Ibiza, Spain (2013); Geestverwanten-de ideeen van 24 Kunstenaars, Rabo Art Zone, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2013); Cimetière d'Ixelles, An Art in General New Commission, curated by Lisa Oppenheim & Lisa Tan, New York, USA (2013); The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (2013); Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home - 400 Years of Liberal Culture in Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2013) Man in the Holocene, List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Boston, USA (2012); about: blank, Kunsthalle Münster, Germany (2012); IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE (ACT III), The Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Spain (2012); SPECIFIC COLLISIONS, curated by Melissa Gordon, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany (2011); Haus/House, The Altona Museum, Germany (2011); Quantos Queres, MARZ Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal (2010); SILENCE (A composition), Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (2009); Faux Jumeaux, Curated by Michel François, SMAK, Gent, Belgium (2008-2009).