Ruchama Noorda is an artist who uses diverse media and materials in performances and installations. In 2002 Noorda graduated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and she completed her MFA at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam in 2004. She received a PhD degree from University of Leiden where she researched the early 20th century Lebensreform (Life Reform) movement. In her practice Noorda recycles elements of Reform pedagogy, arts, crafts, dance, diet and ritual practices in performance and installation works that both engage and challenge contemporary communitarian and counter-cultural aspirations, practices and beliefs.
By highlighting the mystical and magical elements within the Reform tradition along with other undigested and ‘irrational’ material, her works perform a séance-function, excavating the repressed and buried histories within the Modern in ways that set out to complicate hard and fast distinctions between progressive and conservative social and artistic movements.
Solo shows and performances have been hosted by Mediamatic (2019),Paradiso (2018), De Appel (2016), De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2015), Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (2015), High Desert Test Sites, Wonder Valley (2014), Marres, Maastricht (2013), Stadhausgalerie/Kunsthalle Münster (2013), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (2012) Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden (2007) en Museum Het Domein, Sittard (2003).
The work and life of Ruchama are under considerate Neptunian influence, as indicated both astrologically and numerologically. With natal Sun and Mars in Pisces (at 11 and 23 degrees), and Neptune in the 1st house of Self (at 20 degrees Sagittarius), this amount of Neptune energy gives her a very spiritual and artistic focus due to exceptional and acute perceptions and poetic sensibility. Her life path is number 7 (ruled by Neptune). This is a path of an old soul on a spiritual mission, learning to have faith while infinitely seeking spiritual wisdoms.
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By highlighting the mystical and magical elements within the Reform tradition along with other undigested and ‘irrational’ material, her works perform a séance-function, excavating the repressed and buried histories within the Modern in ways that set out to complicate hard and fast distinctions between progressive and conservative social and artistic movements.
Solo shows and performances have been hosted by Mediamatic (2019),Paradiso (2018), De Appel (2016), De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2015), Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam (2015), High Desert Test Sites, Wonder Valley (2014), Marres, Maastricht (2013), Stadhausgalerie/Kunsthalle Münster (2013), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim (2012) Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden (2007) en Museum Het Domein, Sittard (2003).
The work and life of Ruchama are under considerate Neptunian influence, as indicated both astrologically and numerologically. With natal Sun and Mars in Pisces (at 11 and 23 degrees), and Neptune in the 1st house of Self (at 20 degrees Sagittarius), this amount of Neptune energy gives her a very spiritual and artistic focus due to exceptional and acute perceptions and poetic sensibility. Her life path is number 7 (ruled by Neptune). This is a path of an old soul on a spiritual mission, learning to have faith while infinitely seeking spiritual wisdoms.
ruchama.com
︎ return to where you came from