Background
Ruf is the daughter of a land surveyor, later mayor of Singen, a small town near the Swiss border.
Ruf is the daughter of a land surveyor, later mayor of Singen, a small town near the Swiss border.
She studied at a gymnasium and studied psychology, etnology, art and cultural sciences at the University of Zurich.
Ruf is from November 2014 the director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. The previous directory of this museum was Ann Goldstein. Formerly she was director of the Kunsthalle Zurich.
She is associate editor for JRP-Ringier, and the artistic director of the Ringier Collection.
In 2012, she was listed in the top ten of the most influential people in the art world by ArtReview. After this, she went to the Conservatory of Vienna to study dancing.
She becaume choreographer and art-critic and gave lessons in improvisation at the conservatory.