Ruri Matsumoto

Born 1981 in Tokyo, Japan

2000-2004 Studied at the College of Fine Arts and Music Tokyo, Japan

2004-2007 Visiting student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Siegfried Anzinger, Prof. Helmut Federte

2007 Start of studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2008-2009 Studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Markus Lüpertz

2010 Studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Prof. Herbert Brandl, Prof. Katharina Grosse

2012 Master student with Prof. Katharina Grosse

Lives and works in Düsseldorf

2022
Solo exhibition"Ruri Matsumoto", gallery Friday 18.30,Aachen,Germany
”Transformation”, Galerie Klaus Braun, Stuttgart, Germany

2021
”Crossing the line”, livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands

2019
”Line Broken”, livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands
Art Rotterdam”Now/Forever”,Rotterdam,Netherlands

2018
“between the lines”,livingstone gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

2016
COFA ColongeFineArtContemporary Cologne

2015
“The Space and I” Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne

2014
"back from..."Exhibition space atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
"subject/object"-"inside out" byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf

2012 
“Art Prize Start” Kunst Museum Bonn nominates Bonn

2026
TRIBUTE, von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2023
"Inventing Color vs. Black and White" Artes Berlin,Berlin, Germany

2022
"City Life, de erfenis van Mondriaan"Stedelijkmuseum Vianen, Vianen,Netherlands 
“Collectie Wilploo - Verglijdend landschap” Rijksmuseum Twenthe,Enschede,Netherlands 
“Terug naar de toekomst”Museum Nairac,Barneveld,Netherlands 
"Inventing Color" Artes Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2021  
“Art on Paper”Museum Bozar,Brussels,Belgium
“keep cool”Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin, Germany
”Abstract konkret hoch3” byfraunberg art gallery,Düsseldorf,Germany

2021
abstract concrete high3, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf

2020
 “Rotterdam-New York-Berlin-Genoa-Basel-Brussels”livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands
“OPENING GALLERY SEASON – A SNEAK PREVIEW”livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands
“PREVIEW - REVIEW / BERLIN - AMSTERDAM”livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands
“COLLECTORS EDITIONS - UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS”livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands
“UNLOCKED / RECONNECTED”livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands

2019
Gallery choice, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
 “Art on Paper”Museum Bozar,Brussels,Belgium
“Japanese Positions”room 2810,Bonn,Germany
 “Panorama Tulipland 3.0”Museum De ZwarteTulp,Lisse,Netherlands
“Five Years Livingstone Projects Berlin”livingstone gallery,The Hague,Netherlands

2018
“SUMMER GROUP SHOW”, Galerie Renate Kammer, Hamburg
 “What does art smell like?” gallery Friday 18.30, Aachen
STRABAG ARTAWARD INTERNATIONAL nominated Vienna, Austria

2017  
“Preview” Gallery Friday 18.30,Marnach, Luxembourg
“Preview” Gallery Friday 18.30, Aachen
"Painting Now" Livingstone Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands
“Zeit Geist x3”, byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
“Darmstadt Secession 2017” Kunstforum Darmstadt
"Art and Politics at the Economic Forum of the SPD e.V." in Berlin

2016 
“greetings from Asia”, Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne
“Fresh Test”Kunstverein Koelnberg, Cologne
“4th International André-Evard Prize” Kunsthalle messmer, Riegel

2015 
“Miniaturen”Gallery Friday 18.30, Aachen
“Ruri Matsumoto-Sascha Berretz-Fritz Winter, Painting”, Galerie Freitag 18.30, Aachen
“Preview”Gallery Friday 18.30, Aachen
“Color Rooms” DavisKlemmGalerie, Wiesbaden
“GENIUS LOCI 3-HERE THEY COME”Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf
“INTO SUMMER” byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
“WalterKoschatzky Art Prize 2015” nominated Vienna, Austria
"3.RUHR BIENNALE" nominated Duisburg, Germany

2014
"after the fair & new positions", byfraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
"THE PERCEPTION OF ART" Taylor Wessing, Düsseldorf

2013
"Stipendium Junge Kunst Lemgo 2013/2014" Städtische Galerie, Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo
"5x3" KunstraumDüsseldorf, Düsseldorf
"open studio" National Museum of Contemporary Art Goyang Artstudio,Seoul, Korea
"Wilhelm-Morgner-Preis 2013" Museum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus,Soest 

2012
"u arr wet loco"Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
"SENSORIAL PANOPTIKUM" Galerie Beck&Eggeling, Düsseldorf
"Städtische Kunstgenerator2013" Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen
"Pictures?Pictures!" Evangelical State Church of Württemberg, Bad Urach
"von Rundstedt Kunstförderpreis 2012" Düsseldorf 

2010 
"2nd International André-Evard Prize" Kunsthalle messmer, Riegel
"Berlin-Johannesburg"project space Studio Holterhoff, Cologne
"Wilhelm-Morgner-Preis 2010" Museum Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest

2024
art KARLSRUHE with von fraunberg art gallery

2023
Art Rotterdam,Rome International Artfair2023

2022
Art Rotterdam,VOLTA Basel,Art the Hague,Art Karlsruhe

2021
Art Rotterdam, Art on Paper Museum BOZAR Brussels, Art on Paper Amsterdam
Art The Hague2021

2020
Art Rotterdam,Positions Berlin

2019
Art Rotterdam(Now/Forever:Solo Show),Paper Positions Berlin,VOLTA Basel,Art on Paper
Museum BOZAR Brussels,
Art on Paper, Amsterdam,Art The Hague 2019, Positions Munich

2018
Art Rotterdam,Art RAI Amsterdam, Art, The Hague, Netherlands

2017
ArtKarlsruhe, Art The Hague, PAN Amsterdam, Niederlande

2016
Art Karlsruhe, Far Off, COFA ColongeFineArtContemporary, Cologne

2015
Kunst Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2009
ART.FAIR Cologne

2017 Atelierstipendium in Berlin, Solo Katalog Project, livingstone gallery  

2013 "German-Korean Artist Exchange 2013" Cultural Office Düsseldorf, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Goyang Artstudio, Seoul, Korea          
Prices:

2009 "von Rundstedt Kunstförderpreis 2009" Düsseldorf

2013 Scholarship Lemgo Art Award 2013 Lemgo

De Witte Raaf#190
https://www.dewitteraaf.be/artikel/detail/nl/442 

Frankfurt General
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunstmarkt/ein-wenig-gegenwart-darf-s-sein-14533930.html

Cologne City of Anzeiger 11.02.2016
http://page-online.de/branche-karriere/blick-ins-studio-facebook-deutschland/

Aachen News:
http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/lokales/aachen/galerie-freitag-1830-kompositionen-licht-und-formgefuege-1.1228406

Harper’s BAZAAR Oktober/2015
monopol s.95Juni/2015
Junge_Kunst #76 Nr.03/2008:
http://blog.kukgalerie.de/Galerieportrait_Junge_Kunst_Text_Dr_Ann-Katrin_Guenzel.pdf

Art in Building:

2018 Picture presentation at the new Comfort Hotel Monheim am Rhein

2015 Wall painting on Facebook Hamburg

2011 Wall painting at Hotel Ufer Düsseldorf

Collection Robert & Annemijin Crince le Roy-van Munster van Heuven 
Pieter & Marieke Sanders,AkzoNobel Art Foundation 
Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek 
Museum MARTa Herford