Willem de Rooij selects and combines images in a variety of media, from sculpture to photography, from film to text, analysing conventions of presentation and representation, and constructing tensions between socio-political and autonomous productions of meaning. Based in Berlin, De Rooij studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie and Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Legal Noses, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2015); The Impassioned No, Le Consortium, Dijon (2015); Character Is Fate, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2015); Untitled, Kunstverein München (2012); Crazy Repelled Firelight, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2011); and Intolerance, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (2010). He is a Professor at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Städelschule, Frankfurt.