Rut Blees Luxemburg’s photographic work deals with the representation of the city and the phenomenon of the urban, ranging from large-scale photographs to public art installations and operatic mise-en-scène. Her permanent public art work Silver Forest, amonumental photographic urban landscape cast in concrete,can be seen on the façade of Westminster City Hall in London.
Rut Blees Luxemburg has exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe, including the solo exhibition Phantom, a photographic exploration of Modernity’s imprint on the architecture of Dakar, Senegal, at Tate Liverpool in 2003. Her series London Dustwas shown at the Museum of London in 2015.
Rut Blees Luxemburg created the iconic cover for The Streets’ Original Pirate Material and is a reader in urban aesthetics at The Royal College of Art. She is a co-director of FILET – a space for experimental art production.
Rut Blees Luxemburg’s work is held in major public and private collections including Tate, Pompidou Centre, Paris and the V&A Museum, London.