ART & DESIGN

Photos: Advance Guard

Beatrix Ruf, the new director of the Stedelijk Museum, has a nose for the next big thing.

by Diane Solway

Beatrix Ruf
Photograph: Rineke Dijkstra

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Photograph: Rineke Dijkstra

Beatrix Ruf.

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Urs Fischer’s Madame Fisscher, 1999–2000. Photograph by Stefan Altenburger.

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Tony Oursler’s X ERGO Y, 2014, which Ruf exhibited on the exterior of the Stedelijk. Photograph by Ernst van Deursen.

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Wade Guyton’s installation at Kunsthalle Zürich, 2013. Photograph by Stefan Altenburger.

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Ribbons, 2014, by Ed Atkins, whom Ruf championed early on. Courtesy of the Artist and Cabinet, London.