Hanneke van Leeuwen (born 1984 in Amsterdam) is a visual artist who focuses on photography and mixed media.
She develops her practice by building up layers, creating a visual narrative, mixing documentary work and collage
with a personal approach to materials and different sources.
In her artistic research process, the creation of images is a dialogue between the old and the new. For her, the ritual
of photography is based on a moment of connection between people in constant search of their place in this world.
By paying attention to our environment, the rhythms of daily life, history and culture, both personal and shared,
we consciously or unconsciously seek out what binds us together. It's a way of caring for others, but also for ourselves,
through these timeless paths of intersecting quests.
In photography, the image is a representation; in Hanneke Van Leeuwen's work, it becomes at the same time an object:
creating a small element of another world, where people are irrefutably present at a precise moment or part of their lives,
it's reuniting a moment that, in the blink of an eye, has already been broken, changed path and begun to follow another destiny.
A fragment open to interpretation and inimitable beauty. Finding a visual vocabulary that brings together all the discoveries.
Royal Academy of Arts / KABK, The Hague, The Netherlands
BA Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Interviews
Feminist - interview by Amanda Born (US) read full text
A Corner With - interview by Trine Stephensen (SE) read full text
BubbleGum Club - A sculptural approach interview by Christa Dee. (ZA) read full text
Publications / Print
2024 Portrait of Photographer Viviane Sassen - The Women Who Changed Photography, by Gemma Padley, Laurence King Publishing, UK
2024 Mythologies - Séve – revue littéaire, published by Vidya Narine, FR
2024 Coral - Periode: a zine unapologetically focuses on the contemporary female female, SE
2023 Louise Vuitton Almanac 2022, FR
2021 ODE - Paper Journal, texts by Joanna Cresswell, AUS
2020 Un air liquide a caressé ma peau, Outtake exclusive works, in collaboration with Vidya Narine FR
2019 Layered - Memoire Universal biennale book, curated and published by Benoît Bèthume BE
2018 Shapes become beings - Twin Magazine , UK
2018 My love for complicity - Hearts magazine, US
2018 FT / Financial times weekend – commissioned portraits by Emma Bowkett, UK
2017 Russh magazine - in collaboration with performance artist Caroline Denervaud, AUS
Exhibitions
2023 Claire de Rouen, curated by Peter Watkins, London, United Kingdom
2022 WonderWall exhibition space, Re_Member, curated by Astrid Zuidema Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Les Résistantes (The Resistant), curated by Nathalie Herschorfer L'Onde Théâtre Centre d'Art, Paris, France
2013 Galerie Bart, Jubilee , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Gallery Bart, Mirror Me, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Kunsthal Rotterdam Mirror Me, curated by Women inc, Rotterdam The Netherlands
2008 The Frozen Fountain, Mirror Me , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Bart Kunst in Huis, ‘Nieuwe Oogst, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2008 Designhuis, Talent 2008 , Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Awards / Nominations
2021 shortlisted Gran Prix Images Vevey Festival, CH
2019 shortlisted Hariban Award, JP
2009 winner, Photo Academy Award, NL
Hanneke van Leeuwen (born 1984 in Amsterdam) is a visual artist who focuses on photography and mixed media.
She develops her practice by building up layers, creating a visual narrative, mixing documentary work and collage
with a personal approach to materials and different sources.
In her artistic research process, the creation of images is a dialogue between the old and the new. For her, the ritual
of photography is based on a moment of connection between people in constant search of their place in this world.
By paying attention to our environment, the rhythms of daily life, history and culture, both personal and shared,
we consciously or unconsciously seek out what binds us together. It's a way of caring for others, but also for ourselves,
through these timeless paths of intersecting quests.
In photography, the image is a representation; in Hanneke Van Leeuwen's work, it becomes at the same time an object:
creating a small element of another world, where people are irrefutably present at a precise moment or part of their lives,
it's reuniting a moment that, in the blink of an eye, has already been broken, changed path and begun to follow another destiny.
A fragment open to interpretation and inimitable beauty. Finding a visual vocabulary that brings together all the discoveries.
Royal Academy of Arts / KABK, The Hague, The Netherlands
BA Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Publications / Print
2024 Portrait of Photographer Viviane Sassen - The Women Who Changed Photography, by Gemma Padley, Laurence King Publishing, UK
2024 Mythologies - Séve – revue littéaire, published by Vidya Narine, FR
2024 Coral - Periode: a zine unapologetically focuses on the contemporary female female, SE
2023 Louise Vuitton Almanac 2022, FR
2021 ODE - Paper Journal, texts by Joanna Cresswell, AUS
2020 Un air liquide a caressé ma peau, Outtake exclusive works, in collaboration with Vidya Narine FR
2019 Layered - Memoire Universal biennale book, curated and published by Benoît Bèthume BE
2018 Shapes become beings - Twin Magazine , UK
2018 My love for complicity - Hearts magazine, US
2018 FT / Financial times weekend – commissioned portraits by Emma Bowkett, UK
2017 Russh magazine - in collaboration with performance artist Caroline Denervaud, AUS
Exhibitions
2023 Claire de Rouen, curated by Peter Watkins, London, United Kingdom
2022 WonderWall exhibition space, Re_Member, curated by Astrid Zuidema Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Les Résistantes (The Resistant), curated by Nathalie Herschorfer L'Onde Théâtre Centre d'Art, Paris, France
2013 Galerie Bart, Jubilee , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Gallery Bart, Mirror Me, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Kunsthal Rotterdam Mirror Me, curated by Women inc, Rotterdam The Netherlands
2008 The Frozen Fountain, Mirror Me , Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Bart Kunst in Huis, ‘Nieuwe Oogst, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2008 Designhuis, Talent 2008 , Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Awards / Nominations
2021 shortlisted Gran Prix Images Vevey Festival, CH
2019 shortlisted Hariban Award, JP
2009 winner, Photo Academy Award, NL
