arranged the funding and support from businesses, constructed a large workshop himself and even arranged all the permits for the locations. Water Works is unconventional from the point of view of vision, scale and location, and that makes it unique in the Netherlands. The Water Works sculpture project led him to being awarded the Fentener van Vlissingen culture prize in 2004 and the Dutch Concrete Award in 2005. 2002 Water Work I, Forward 2003 Water Work II, Bearable Lightness 2005 Water Work III, Chardonnay 2007 Water Work IV, Overstag 2009 Water Work V, Circuit 2011 Water Work VI, Weerslag 2013 Water Work VII, Cohesie Exhibitions (selection) 1986 Wentzel Gallery, Cologne 1987 Waalkens Gallery, Finsterwolde 1989 Wentzel Gallery, Cologne 1990 Central Museum, Utrecht 1990 Living room exhibition by Benno Premsela and Friso Broeksma, Amsterdam 1991 Wentzel Gallery, Cologne 1995 Southworth International Group, Portland, ME (USA) 1996 Municipal Museum The Hague 1997 Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 2000 Waalkens Gallery, Finsterwolde 2009 Central Museum, Utrecht 2011 Gerken Gallery, Berlin 2014 Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden 2014 Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague 2017 ARTZUID, International Sculpture Biennale Amsterdam (group exhibition) 2017 Villa Wessel, Iserlohn 2017-2018 City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia 2019 Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam (with Lon Pennock) 2019 Sculpture biennale BLICKACHSEN 12, Frankfurt and surroundings (group exhibition) 2020 Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam (with Krijn de Koning) 2020-2021 Gerhard Marcks Haus, Bremen Commissions 2008 Springtij (Spring Tide), sculpture for the head office of Royal Boskalis Westminster NV in Papendrecht 2009 Alliance, Sculpture for the port of Melbourne in Australia 2010 Group of 13 sculptures for the Parkhaven neighbourhood in Utrecht commissioned by Bouwfonds ASR 2016 Ocean Reef I and II two sculptures for two artificial islands in front of the coast of Panama-City, Panama 2017 Hangend Vlak, sculpture for ArtZuid 2017, International Sculpture Biennale Amsterdam Collections Ruud Kuijer's works are included in collections of, among others: Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht Centraal Museum, Utrecht Municipal Museum, The Hague Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Private collections in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain, the United States, and Australia. Gallery Publications 2018 Abstractie-Ruimte-Staal, about the work of André Volten. Catalog text at the exhibition Utopia of André Volten at museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague. Waanders publishers, Zwolle 2019 Ruud Kuijer: Over Sculptuur, Notities van een maker en beschouwer. NAI010 publishers, Rotterdam 2019 Ruud Kuijer: On Sculpture, Reflections by a Maker and Observer.