Jurgen Rooijackers

The never natural landscapes of the Netherlands and its human influences are explored in the works of the artist Jurgen Rooijackers. The Dutch artist who studied photography at the Fotovakschool in Apeldoorn and graduated at the Artez Art school in Enschede in 1999, restarted his art career in 2020 after several years of working for families with multiple disabled children.

Passionately dedicated to the vast possibilities of digital photography and image manipulation as both a medium and a cultural epoch, Rooijackers' narratives draw inspiration from the total diversity offered by the visual arts.

Especially the look at the phenomenon of landscape is what is currently occupying him. What is a landscape; how do we experience a landscape; why do we over-romanticize the landscape and how do humans shape nature.
Tuning landscapes is how Jurgen Rooijackers describes his process
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In almost every landscape-artwork, human emotions are projected on nature. However, nature does not experience emotions as we do and attributing emotions to a landscape stems from the need to humanize everything around us so that we seem to be able to understand what is beyond our imagination.
I'm trying to capture the landscape as is. Photography could hav...

Art Academy AKI (ArtEZ), Enschede NL
Fotovakschool, Apeldoorn NL

Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem 2002
Galerie het Langhuis te Zwolle 2000 + 2001
Sandberg2 te Hoorn 1999
Kunstvlaai3”, (voor Kunstruimte Kampen), Westergasfabriek te Amsterdam 1999
Sandberg2 te Hoorn 1998
“Pole position”, de Fabriek te Eindhoven 1998