About the artist
Rudolf Boogerman
Mixed media artist. often expressing, yet not limited to, abstracted ideas about human nature and (r)evolution.
Since October 2020, he works primarily on digital art in the form of NFTs using video, sound, photography, Artificial Intelligence (machine learning/gan) and sporadically 3D.
Rudolf went to a Graphic arts school (SISA) in Antwerp (Belgium). For a period of time, he became an apprentice of several artists where-under Eduard Leibovitz (glass sculptor), with whom in 1985 he rented an art studio in Antwerp. Next to his artwork, he made a living as a freelance illustrator/graphic designer, working primarily for advertising agencies and publishers.
He moved to the UK in 1990 where he began his art series. He created several projects: “Mirrors on the Wall”, “Travel Series”, “Wooden Dimensions” and “Lost Corners“.
In 2007 he returned to Belgium, creating primarily art videos and cardboard artwork, the latter he filmed initially to demonstrate, later on the cardboards became actors in his art videos.
From October 2021, under the name of his alter ego Raboo, Rudolf created several art series inspired by architecture and the Dutch painter Escher, using artificial intelligence and image editing. More info: 4D Architecture
With authorization of TV Luxembourg. To see the full interview: click here.
Tangled trees (the cryptoart version) was featured in a live stream of ArtProject 2020 during the Vancouver Biennale:
Selection of NFT art events and exhibitions
| 2024 | Rooftop Artists Village gallery, NFT.NYC 2024, New York. NOTNFTNYC, Forbidden Fruit, World Trade Center, New York. |
| 2023 | ArtCrush, video art on large scale digital display, Times Square New York. Founder of the Raboo Museum of Digital Art ArtCrush open air exhibition, large scale projection on Brussels-Midi building. “Post photography glimpses” organised & curated by Ivona Tau. NFT Fine Art Show: “Freedom Exhibition” curated by RӔset. The AI Internet Yami-Ichi exhibition, Miami. |
| 2022 | “Contagious” became part of the Genesis Collection in MoCA(Museum of Crypto Art). ArtCrush Miami Art Basel ultra exhibition, Miami. AlottaMoney postcard exhibition, NFT London. WAGMI exhibition, Kuwait. International Artcrush project London. Human error series, OpenSea. Temporal Vision, Times Square, New York. The Wrong Biennale 2022, pavilion curated by Ivona Tau. MOCA, Museum of CryptoArt – Community collection KnownOrigin NFT platform (before eBay acquired it). CupcakeandHoneyB Gallery https://oncyber.io/cupcakeandhoneyb Expanded Views series, OpenSea. |
| 2021 | 4D Architecture AI series on OpenSea. Stratosphere, NFT Art International, Beijing China. Foundation NFT platform. Collaboration with Jeremy Torman on the Mythologicals project. Morrow Collective NFT gallery, Permanent exhibition “Trash art”. Digital art on HicetNunc and objkt.com. Finalist of the Ephimera photo manipulation contest at ETHDenver 2021. |
| 2020 | Ephimera, Collect museum of quality photography and video art. |
Selection of traditional exhibitions
| 2018 | Parc des Topiaires, Durbuy. |
| 2017 | Centre Culturel, Hotton, exhibition “Décacher”. |
| 2016 | Chateau de Villiers, group exhibition. |
| 2010 | Donk Pronkt, Mol, group exhibition. |
| 2003 | Le Chaperon Rouge, international group exhibition, St Hubert Belgium. |
| 2001 -2003 | Sokillustration, National University of Technology, Seoul South Korea. |
| 2000 | Zuiderpershuis, group exhibition. Gallery WooDuk, Seoul Korea. “International illustrators exchange exhibition”. |
| 1997 | BACOB bank, Head office Antwerp, with Inge De Belder. |
| 1996 | Gallery Otus, Antwerp. Exhibition with Luis Caro (Spanish Painter), Antwerp. |
| 1995 | ‘t Geleeg Brick-yard museum in Rumst, Belgium with “De Beeldende Zusters”. Central Library of St. Albans, England. |
| 1994-1998 | Open Ateliers ’94, Antwerp South with “De Beeldende Zusters”. |
| 1994 | Salon d’Artistes ’94, Neckerhallen in Mechlin, Belgium. Foundation of group “De Beeldende Zusters”. |
Publications
Art directors’ Index to illustrators- issue 13 Rotovision Swiss
Sept ’94 De Morgen, Belgian newspaper
Sept ’94 Art directors’ Index to illustrators- issue 14 Rotovision Swiss
Sept ’95 Art directors’ Index to illustrators- issue 15 Rotovision Swiss
Sept ’95 Catalog Salon d’Artistes, Mechlin
April ’95 Gazet van Antwerpen, Belgian newspaper
April ’95 Gazet van Antwerpen, Belgian newspaper
April ’95 Het Nieuwsblad, Belgian newspaper
Dec ’96 Hamburger Abendblatt, German newspaper
Sept ’97 Gazet van Antwerpen, Belgian newspaper
Sept’ 97 Radio interview: Studio Brussel, radiostation Belgium
Sept ’97 Radio interview: Radio Centraal, radiostation belgium
Nov 2000 Catalog ‘Sokism’ 2000, Korea
May 2001 Impress Design, Interview in Korean magazine on graphic design.
Aug 2002 Catalog Sokillustration 02
July 2003 Catalog Le Chaperon Rouge
Nov 2003 Catalog Sokillustration 03
Nov 2010 Gazet Van Antwerpen
Sept 2010 Interview by Laura Tetrault, londonartgirl.
Febr 2017 TV interview TVLux
July 2021 Interview with Electric Artifacts.
September 2021 Interview with Claudia Pawlak from Ephimera.
