Ruud Van Empel

Dutch | 1958

Ruud van Empel is a Dutch photographer who was born in 1958. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Saatchi Gallery in London. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Rijksmuseum Amsterdam have featured Ruud van Empel's work in the past.Ruud van Empel's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 100 USD to 126,168 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2007 the record price for this artist at auction is 126,168 USD for Boy & Girl, sold at Phillips London in 2015. In the past 12 months, his artworks have averaged 2,737 USD.Ruud van Empel has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in June 2023.

At Auction

Notable Lots

World #27 ,2008

By Ruud van Empel

+62%

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World #27 ,2008

By Ruud van Empel

+200%

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World #5 ,2005

By Ruud van Empel

-21%

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Recent Auction Results

Untitled (Girl in Forest) - Ruud van Empel

Untitled (Girl in Forest) ,2005

By Ruud van Empel

-69%

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World #4, 2005 ,2005

By Ruud van Empel

-25%

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Theatre #7 ,2012

By Ruud van Empel

-18%

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Current Exhibitions

Flowers: Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture

Saatchi Gallery

London | UK

Feb 12,2025 - May 05,2025

Ruud van Empel: Theatre

San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA)

San Diego | California | USA

Feb 08,2025 - Jul 27,2025

Past Exhibitions

MMXXIV

Huxley-Parlour Gallery (Swallow St)

Mayfair | London | UK

Aug 14,2024 - Sep 14,2024

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Articles

ArtDaily 29/06/2023

From 29 June to 3 September 2023, works from Jacquie Maria Wessels' analogue photo series Garage Stills will be on show at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (NL) in the group exhibition New Horizons.

Galerie Magazine 04/08/2022

Works by Picasso, Carmen Herrera, and Derrick Adams are just a few of the standouts from the event鈥檚 second edition

ArtDependence Magazine 21/09/2020

Long sold out and appearing at auction for the first time, World #1 is the work that led Ruud van Empel to focus on black children as his long-term subject and set off his seminal World series.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Widely recognized and best known for his carefully constructed photo-collages of children in mysterious and otherworldly paradises, his images draw the viewer into a place that is simultaneously illusory... 鈥�
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Stefan Stux Gallery

鈥� ..Ruud van Empel (1958) is one of the most extraordinary photographic artists of this moment, both nationally and internationally... 鈥�
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The Groninger Museum

鈥� ..Created with a singular artistic vision, van Empel builds vibrant photomontages of fascinatingly fabricated realities... 鈥�
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Museum of Photographic Arts

鈥� ..What is real and what isn鈥檛? And is it all quite as endearing as it appears at first sight? This aspect gives the work of Ruud van Empel a fascinating depth, in addition to the enormous spread of colour... 鈥�
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The Groninger Museum