Peter Weibel, Negative Space. Trajectories of Sculpture, The MIT Press, (release October 5th 2021)
Jean Robertson – Craig McDaniel, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980, 5th edition, Oxford University Press
Vala Schriefer, Rúrí’s Rainbow I: The Burning of Being, Journal of Art Criticism, Barnard College in New York
Francesca DuBrock, Blue Gold – Rúrí, Extra Tough: Women of the North, Chatter Marks, Anchorage Museum
Jean-Marie Gallais, Marie- Charlotte Calafat, Folklore, Centre Pompidou-Metz – MUCEM – La Découverte
David Carrier, History Painting and its Changing Subjects, History and Theory 59 (no 3), Wesleyan University
Mark A. Cheetham, “Earth Death Pictures” as Contemporary History Painting, What Was History Painting And What Is It Now?, McGill-Queen’s University Press
Lorella Scacco, Early ‘Female’ Video Experiments in Nordic Countries in the 1970s and 1980s, EWVA | European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s, John Libbey Publishing
The Public Wall, an article by Rúrí in the book Offentlighedens rum / The Public Space, Copenhagen
Interview published in the book Isle of Art, Brussels
Benoît Loiseau,
Just Chill: the museum of rebels that took Iceland by storm. The Guardian International edition,
https://www.theguardian.com
/artanddesign/2018/jun/18
/living-art-museum-reykjavik
-iceland-gallery-of-rebels-nylo
Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir,
When the Water Falls – Finding ‘Nowhere’ in the Precarious, Poetic and Political Waters of Iceland, FOAM – International Photography Magazine, Issue 50/Water, Amsterdam 2018, ISBN 978-90-70516-34-5
Laufey Helgadóttir,
Icelandic multimedia visual artist, AWARE, Paris, awarewomenartists.com
/en/artiste/ruri/
Mark A. Cheetham, Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ‘60s, The Pennsilvania State University Press, Philadelphia, ISBN: 978-0-271-08003-1
Pari Stave, The Artworks, Hverfing | Shapeshifting, Akademía skynjunarinnar, Reykjavik, ISBN 978-9935-24-278-5, pp. 44-47
Anna Toptchi, Contemporary Icelandic Prints in Other Hats, Artzine.is
Guðbergur Bergsson, Rúrí og tilverulistin, Stína, vol 2 2017, Mostrarskegg – bókaútgáfa, pp 12 – 17
Guðrún Pálína Guðmunds- dóttir, Jafnvægi – Úr jafnvægi Rúríar í Ketil- húsinu á Akureyri, Artzine.is
Patrik Marty, Faire entendre l’eau, L’eau géopolitique, L’eau de l’art contemporain/Une dynamique d’une esthétique écosophique,
L’Harmattan, Paris 2016, ISBN 978 2 343 09629 2
Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Future Cartographies, Rúrí – Fragile Systems, Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen 2016, ISBN 978-87-93411-03-6
Christian Schoen, Balance, Rúrí – Fragile Systems, Nordatlantens Brygge, Copenhagen 2016, ISBN 978-87-93411-03-6
Laufey Helgadóttir, Tíma – Tal / Time – Telling, LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerdi, Iceland, 2016, ISBN 978-9935-9246-4-3
Conversation with Rúrí, María Fernanda Barrero, LARMAGAZINE.021, Mexico, www
Andrew Brown, Rúrí, Art & Ecology Now,
Thames & Hudson
London, May 2014, ISBN 978 0 500239162
Nordic Now! Special issue on Nordic contemporary photography, published by Objektiv, Photo Raw, and Filter
Laufey Helgadóttir, Rúrí, Le Dictionnaire Universel des Créatrices, Éditions des Femmes, France
Catrin Lundqvist, Social Videoscapes From the North, catalogue, Pro Artibus – Gallery Elverket, Finland
Lorella Scacco, Social Videoscapes From the North, catalogue, Pro Artibus – Gallery Elverket, Finland
Rúrí – Sjónþing 3. febrúar 2007, Menningarmiðstöðin Gerðuberg
Riitta Kuusikko, Pathway / Polku, catalogue, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Finland
Torben Sangild, Konstruktiv Kunst i Krisetider
(Potten, tiden og døden – Tre værker handler om jord på kunstfestivalen i Reykjavik.)
Rúrí & Gunnlaugur M. Einarsson: Future Cartography. Así Art
Museum. Til 1. Juli
Politiken Kultur 26. may 2012, Denmark
Archive – Endangered Waters (2003),
Laufey Helgadóttir
Bridges over Troubled Waters,
Crosstalks, 2012 VUBPRESS Brussels University Press
Anna Jóa, Regnbogi og adrar mælistikur, Morgunbladid, Iceland
2. May 2012
Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine, Rúri, With Respect for Other People and Nature, Iceland Review, april 2012
Einar Falur, Listin þarf að vekja fólk til umhugsunar, Morgunbladid 4 mars
Christian Schoen, “Identity” in Rúrí (monograph) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, pp. 8-27.
Gunnar J. Árnason, “Time” in Rúrí (monograph) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, pp. 28-57.
Dorothea van der Koelen, “Relativity” in Rúrí (monograph) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, pp. 58-93.
Laufey Helgadóttir, “Cosmos” in Rúrí (monograph) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, pp. 94-131.
Halldór Björn Runólfsson, “Enviroment” in Rúrí (monograph) Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, pp. 132-157
Christian Schoen, “On the Voices of Water and Aqua Silenced,” in Osram Seven Screens,
exh. cat. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2011, pp. 101–111.
Gunnar J. Árnason, “Frá endurtekningu til undantekningar/From Repetition to Exception,”
in Á mótum myndlistar/Perspectives—On the Borders of Art and Philosophy, exh. cat.
Reykjavík Art Museum. Ibid., 2011.
“Rúrí,” in Höhenrausch.2— Bridges in the Sky,
exh. cat. OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz. Wien/
Bozen, 2011, pp. 88–91.
Laufey Helgadóttir, “Icelanders at the Venice Biennale,” in 50 Years of Icelandic Art at the Venice Biennale, exh. cat.
Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir. Reykjavík, 2011, pp. 20–21, 33–35.
Heiða Björk Árnadóttir, “The Venice Biennale:
Art and National Image,” in 50 Years of Icelandic Art at the Venice Biennale, exh.
cat. Reykjavík Art Museum—Kjarvalsstaðir,
Reykjavík, 2011, pp. 48, 52, 56, 118–121, 138.
Guðbergur Bergsson, “Ásýnd landsins:
Vatnið, jörðin hafið og himininn, Landnám í eigin heimi gegnum annan heim,” in Visage of the Land: Water, Earth, Sea And Sky, exh. cat.
Gerðarsafn—Art Museum, Kópavogur. Ibid,
2011, pp. 20–21.
Jonatan Habib Engqvist, “From Golden Cars to Waterfalls…:
a conversation between Jonatan Habib Engqvist and Rúrí,” in The Nordic 3rd World Country? Icelandic Art in Times of Crisis, Färgfabrikken Norr, Östersund,
October 2010, p. 44–47.
Ragna Sigurðardóttir, “Hljóðlátt innlegg í baráttuna,” Fréttablaðið, September 16, 2010,
p. 28.
Roxi Thoren, “The Deep Grain of Inquiry:
Landscape and Identity in Icelandic Art,” in:
Journal of Landscape Architecture, 1/2010,
pp. 38–51.
Laufey Helgadóttir, “L’Eau en tant que symbole—Rúrí,” Art Nord—La revue de l’actualité artistique et balte, 2010,
pp. 34–39, 120.
Lorezo Vinciguerra, “Manifestations culturelles.
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contemorain, de Copenhagen,” in Artnord,
Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA),
Paris 2010, pp. 109.
Sinne Lundgaard Rasmussen, ”Glaskunst in
Ijsland,“ in Fjoezzz, 2, 2010, pp. 53–57.
2009
Michael Hübl, “Island: Ragnar Kjartansson—
The End,” in Kunstforum International,
Bd. 198 (2009), pp. 330–333.
Guðbergur Bergsson, “Viðtal við Rúrí”,
in Stína tímarit um bókmenntir og listir,
2009,pp. 14–23.
“Rúrí Opens Art Project in Munich: Silence, a silent sequence,” in List Icelandic Art News, 23/2009. Accessed August 6, 2011,
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Einar Falur Ingólfsson, “Ögrandi og formræn
áskorun,” in Morgunblaðið, May 20, 2009. pp. 34.
Lorella Scacco, “Video Experimentation in
Nordic Countries from 1960s to 1980s,” in
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Countries. Silvana editoriale. Milan, 2009,
pp. 15–55 (esp. pp. 43–44).
Christian Schoen, “Rúrí,” in Icelandic Art
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Antoanetta Ivanova, “Impact by Degrees,” in
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Laura Fanti, “Rúrí,” in Espoarte 57.
Contemporary Art Magazine, Rome 2009,
pp. 47–53.
Andréa Holzherr, “Silence of the Waterfall
2007,” in Rúrí—Endangered Waters, exh. cat BOZAR Palais des Beaux-Arts. Reykjavík 2008, p. 15.
Christian Schoen, “Interview 2008,” in Rúrí—
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Beate Köhne, “In Teufels Küche,” in Sonntag
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Ben Davis, “Fire and Ice,” in Artnet Magazine, 2008. Accessed August 6, 2011,
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Birgit Sonna, “Der Entfesselte Fluss: Die
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der isländischen Künstlerin Rúrí in der
Lukaskirche,“ Süddeutche Zeitung. Nr. 248,
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Christian Schoen, “Ruri: Time, Relativity and
Cosmos”, LIST Icelandic Art News, 2008,
pp. 20–21.
Jean-Noël Schifano, “Rúrí,” Creator Vesevo,
Éditions Gallimard Loisirs, France 2008, pp.
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Kristine Kern, “Kunst og natur kan hjælpe
Island gennem krisen,” in Politiken, Kultur
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Christian Schoen, “Icelanders at the Biennale,”
in LIST Icelandic Art News (2007), pp. 18–23.
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Iris Rodriguez, ”Im Wasser reich. Island badet
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Jón B.K. Ransu, “Ómælanlegar þverstæður:
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Shauna Laurel Jones, “Ruri’s Concern for
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Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir, “Nature’s Otherness
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Andréa Holzherr, Entretiens: Avec les artistes
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Guðjón Jensson, “Gjörningurinn við
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Harpa Þórsdóttir, “Earth Consciousness,”
in Mega vott, exh. cat. Hafnarborg—The
Hafnarfjörður Center for Culture and Fine Art.
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Suzy Menkes,
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Genoveva Rückert, “Die Ordnung der Natur,”
in Austria, May 3, 2005, pp. 70–73.
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Georg Prinz von Hohenzollern and Christiane
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Kulturstiftung, Munich (ibid., 2005), p. 179.
Annick Rivoire, “Une installation au Passage
du Désir de l’artiste islandais: Rúrí met les
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Ásrún Kristjánsdóttir
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Water in danger of extinction,” AVS—Arkitektúr
verktækni og skipulag, (Iceland, 2004).
pp. 52–56.
Bérénice Bailly, “Rúrí—Lyrisme écolo en terre
d’Islande,” (BAM) Beaux Arts 244, (September
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Juliet Steyn, “A Chance Encounter: The
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Richard Leydier, “Un autre monde découverte
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pp. 661–662.
“Rúrí in Colette meets Comme des Garçons,”
in The Sankei Shimbun, 9/26, 2004.
Arianna Di Genova, “Rúrí—quelle cascate in
lenta dissolvenza,” 50/A Biennale, Padiglione
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1990
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1987
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1986
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