Willem de Rooij
Willem de Rooij (born 1969 in Beverwijk, Netherlands) is a Berlin-based artist and educator who works in a variety of media. Since the early 1990s, he has created temporary installations to analyze the politics of representation. Drawing on his experience in time-based media, he uses montage to combine appropriated objects. De Rooij collaborates with leading academics, initiating research in global art history and visual anthropology. His work is marked by closely edited publications and a select corpus of precisely crafted objects.