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Museum Henriette Polak

Interview with Ruud van Empel for the exhibition “Paradise lost” 2019 (dutch language)

Museum Belvédère

Gallery tour with Ruud van Empel in Museum Belvédère during the exhibition “Making Nature” 2019 (dutch language)

Exhibition Groninger Museum

An impression of Ruud van Empel’s retrospective exhibition at the Groninger museum in 2011. The film includes an interview with the artist and Modern Art curator Ruud Schenk. (English subtitles)

Filmtrailer Beyond Innocence

During his Red-piano-concert in the Rotterdam Ahoy
Elton John wore the number ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’
on to Ruud van Empel. The English pop idol is a fanatic
collector of his work and a big fan. This is the trailer of the
documentary ‘beyond innocence’ that was directed and
produced by Erik van Empel, the artists brother and was
broadcasted in the Netherlands on september 7, 2011.

Noordbrabants Museum, 's Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Het Noordbrabant Museum brengt een tentoonstelling met werk van de in Breda geboren Ruud van Empel
(Omroep Brabant, February 2014)
(Dutch – SOLO EXHIBITION “Fotowerken”, February 15 – June 8, 2014)

Interview with Ruud van Empel at Beetles+Huxley

Ruud van Empel talks about his show at BEETLES+HUXLEY gallery in London. Published June 5, 2015.

Ruud van Empel - Pictures don't lie

A walkthrough the Fotografiska Exhibition, Stockholm
(No audio – Exhibition from March 7 to June 8, 2013, 77300 visitors)

Stux Gallery 2012

Opening at Stux Gallery: Ruud van Empel-Sunday-New Photographs-September 13 – October 20, 2012 Stux Gallery ispleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Ruud van Empel, Renowned for his digitally collaged photographs of children in mysteriously lush paradises, his images confront photography’s authority of authenticity with painterly stylizations and an almost cinematic experience of parallel time frames.

Kunstlicht (Next)

Art and new media
How do technical developments affect our culture? New media inspire contemporary artists. Contemporary artist Ruud van Empel uses photography to make his own fantasy images. With the computer program Photoshop he changes every detail of the reality. (Dutch – NTR School TV, November 26, 2013, National Television broadcast)

From Darkroom To Daylight

A project that tells the stories of photographers, inventors & others navigating the epic changes from film to digital in photography.
(English – A project on Kickstarter by Harvey Wang, 2014)

Kunststof TV

Contemporary artist Ruud van Empel put the reality to his will. He photographs, but adapts his pictures so that there is a new reality.
(Dutch – NTR television, Interview with Ruud van Empel on september 4, 2011, National Television broadcast)

Art XS Kunstuur

Art critic Hans Hartog den Jager visiting the exhibition of
Ruud van Empel in the Groninger Museum.
(Dutch – Avro Kunstuur, Februari 11 2012, National
Television broadcast)

Opening of the FotoArt Festival in Bielsko Biala, Poland

Inez Baturo & ruud van Empel at the opening of the FotoArt Festival in Bielsko Biala, Poland
For National Polish Television, October 2015.

Galerie Rabouan-Moussion, Paris, France

Balance Between Reality and Perfection, by Paris Culture.
(French – SOLO EXHIBITION “World”, February 3 – March 10, 2007)