Anouk van Klaveren

Anouk van Klaveren (b.1991, works and lives in The Hague NL) is fairly obsessed with the narrative power of objects. She believes they talk - so to speak - although she’s not quite sure if she understands what they exactly convey. In her artistic practice she develops playful strategies to analyse the mythical and absurd quality of material things to absorb symbolic meanings, transmit societal ideals, become entangled with identities or induce humans to perform seemingly scripted behaviour. By studying religious artefacts and contemporary consumer cult, and by playing around with materials and craft, she attempts to create a meaningful object herself - what ever that might mean. After gruaduating at the Royal Academy of Arts NL in 2013, she has been educated through practice by creating site specific projects, collaborations and artist-in-residency programs at Zeeuws Museum, De Fabriek Eindhoven, Zuiderzeemuseum, FashionClash Festival. Her works are represented in collections among which Centraal Museum NL, Kunst Linie Almere Flevoland NL and Zeeuws Museum NL. Currently she is enrolled in the interdisciplinary MA programme F for Fact, at the Sandberg Institute NL. She is co-founder of collective Das Leben am Haverkamp, established in 2014. Das Leben am Haverkamp is a collective formed by Christa van der Meer, Dewi Bekker, Gino Anthonisse and Anouk van Klaveren. Together they speak and discuss the current state of affairs of something we delightfully – but often problematically – call fashion. Spring 2020 the collective relocated their studio to a former gallery, at the Stille Veerkade 19, The Hague NL. Sparing a square room in the back allows them to host exhibitions, screenings, dinners and bingos in collaboration with like-minded artists.