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Eva Spierenburg (b. 1987, Utrecht) works across painting, sculpture, drawing, video, and performance, with the body as the point of departure for exploring experience, landscape, and natural systems. Her practice examines the boundaries between inner processes, physical presence, and the surrounding environment, with particular attention to vulnerability, temporality, and the interactions between humans, landscapes, and natural materials.
She regards the body as a vessel for experiences, memories, and sensory perception, seeking to give form to the intangible in her work. In installations, sculptures, and performances, she combines intuitive, bodily processes with material exploration, texture, and natural systems. Her work invites audience participation, establishing a direct dialogue between individual and environment.
Her practice is highly site-specific and research-driven. Residencies in Iceland and China have intensified her fascination with landscapes, natural materials, and the interplay between humans and their surroundings. She works with clay, wood, textiles, and found organic objects, with process and physical engagement at the core of her approach.
She studied at HKU and completed residencies at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, and most recently at EKWC, Oisterwijk (2025–2026). Her work has been featured in the following solo exhibitions: 38CC, Delft (2025), Drawing Centre Diepenheim (2023), Kunstenlab, Deventer (2021–2022), the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen (2019), and Centraal Museum Utrecht (2019).
Selected group exhibitions include "Missen als een ronde vorm" at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2025–2026), "On Limits" at VU Art Science Gallery, Amsterdam (2025–2026), "When I Was You" at Chabot Museum, Rotterdam (2025–2026), "Good Mom/Bad Mom" at Centraal Museum Utrecht (2025), Papier Biënnale at Museum Rijswijk (2024), and "Do We Care?" at Museum de Fundatie – Kasteel het Nijenhuis (2023).
Her work is included in the AMC Art Collection, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Isala Art Collection, Collection de Groen, VU-Art collection and private collections in Germany, Morocco, and Switzerland.
She regards the body as a vessel for experiences, memories, and sensory perception, seeking to give form to the intangible in her work. In installations, sculptures, and performances, she combines intuitive, bodily processes with material exploration, texture, and natural systems. Her work invites audience participation, establishing a direct dialogue between individual and environment.
Her practice is highly site-specific and research-driven. Residencies in Iceland and China have intensified her fascination with landscapes, natural materials, and the interplay between humans and their surroundings. She works with clay, wood, textiles, and found organic objects, with process and physical engagement at the core of her approach.
She studied at HKU and completed residencies at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, and most recently at EKWC, Oisterwijk (2025–2026). Her work has been featured in the following solo exhibitions: 38CC, Delft (2025), Drawing Centre Diepenheim (2023), Kunstenlab, Deventer (2021–2022), the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen (2019), and Centraal Museum Utrecht (2019).
Selected group exhibitions include "Missen als een ronde vorm" at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2025–2026), "On Limits" at VU Art Science Gallery, Amsterdam (2025–2026), "When I Was You" at Chabot Museum, Rotterdam (2025–2026), "Good Mom/Bad Mom" at Centraal Museum Utrecht (2025), Papier Biënnale at Museum Rijswijk (2024), and "Do We Care?" at Museum de Fundatie – Kasteel het Nijenhuis (2023).
Her work is included in the AMC Art Collection, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Isala Art Collection, Collection de Groen, VU-Art collection and private collections in Germany, Morocco, and Switzerland.
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Eva Spierenburg (1987, Utrecht) works across painting, sculpture, drawing, video, and performance, exploring the body as a vessel for human experience, with a focus on presence, vulnerability, and the tensions between internal and external.
She studied at HKU and completed residencies at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, and most recently at EKWC, Oisterwijk (2025–2026). Her work has been featured in the following solo exhibitions: 38CC, Delft (2025), Drawing Centre Diepenheim (2023), Kunstenlab, Deventer (2021–2022), the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen (2019), and Centraal Museum Utrecht (2019).
Selected group exhibitions include Missen als een ronde vorm at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2025–2026), On Limits at VU Art Science Gallery, Amsterdam (2025–2026), When I Was You at Chabot Museum, Rotterdam (2025–2026), Good Mom/Bad Mom at Centraal Museum Utrecht (2025), Papier Biënnale at Museum Rijswijk (2024), and Do We Care? at Museum de Fundatie – Kasteel het Nijenhuis (2023).
Her work is included in the AMC Art Collection, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Isala Art Collection, Collection de Groen, VU-Art collection and private collections in Germany, Morocco, and Switzerland.
She studied at HKU and completed residencies at the Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Stöðvarfjörður in Iceland, and most recently at EKWC, Oisterwijk (2025–2026). Her work has been featured in the following solo exhibitions: 38CC, Delft (2025), Drawing Centre Diepenheim (2023), Kunstenlab, Deventer (2021–2022), the Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen (2019), and Centraal Museum Utrecht (2019).
Selected group exhibitions include Missen als een ronde vorm at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2025–2026), On Limits at VU Art Science Gallery, Amsterdam (2025–2026), When I Was You at Chabot Museum, Rotterdam (2025–2026), Good Mom/Bad Mom at Centraal Museum Utrecht (2025), Papier Biënnale at Museum Rijswijk (2024), and Do We Care? at Museum de Fundatie – Kasteel het Nijenhuis (2023).
Her work is included in the AMC Art Collection, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Isala Art Collection, Collection de Groen, VU-Art collection and private collections in Germany, Morocco, and Switzerland.
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Eva Spierenburg (1987)
Opleiding
2015-2016 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2005-2009 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, BFA (with honours)
Solotentoonstellingen / Solo Exhibitions
2026 SecondRoom, Antwerp (BE) – oersoep
2025 38CC, Delft – I can be a mountain
2023 Drawing Centre Diepenheim – slice of life with swallowed spiral
2022 ProjectSpace Lokaal, Utrecht – Tracing the Body, Chapter 1
2021 Kunstenlab, Deventer (NL) – drifting stones and a broken bird
2020 CINNNAMON, Rotterdam (NL) – holding a fish to avoid sinking
2019 Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL) – disappearance in slow motion
2019 CEAC, Xiamen (CN) – floating hands and fake mountains
2014 Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht (NL) – short solo: Eva Spierenburg
2013 Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat (MA) – le conte des contes
2010 Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht (NL) – acting as almost
2010 Vierraumladen, Berlin (DE) – nichtzutreffendes bitte streichen
Selectie Groepstentoonstellingen / Group Exhibitions (selection)
2025 Chabot Museum, Rotterdam – When I was You
2025 VU Art Science Gallery – On Limits
2025 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam – Missen al seen Ronde Vorm, curated by Hanne Hagenaars
2025 Centraal Museum Utrecht – Good Mom/Bad Mom
2025 Loods 6 – Vouch V
2025 Museum Perron Oost – Nachtbrieven
2024 Stadshart Amstelveen – I’ve got the feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore
2024 Museum Rijswijk – Paper Biennial 2024: Animal Farm
2024 Museum Helmond – Daily Encounters
2024 WARP, Sint-Niklaas (BE) – Coup de Ville 2024: artists & athletes, the hill they climb
2023 Museum de Fundatie – Het Nijenhuis – Do We Care?
2023 Singular Art Gallery x Sally’s Fault – Mollar, gullet, drain, curated by Pieter Dobbelsteen
2023 Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen – Exodus
2023 Omstand, Arnhem x Kunstpodium T – Einfühlung/ashes/mouth/void/mania/ssssshhh
2022 Collectie De.Groen – Setup.07
2022 AG, Utrecht – Tracing the Body, Chapter 2 / CareFull, curated by Imke Ruigrok
2022 Museum IJsselstein – Vensters
2022 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst
2022 Kunstenlab, Deventer – The body keeps the score, curated by Yuki Kho & Maurits de Bruijn
2022 This Art Fair
2022 Galerie Fontana – Hidden Remains, curator Pieter Dobbelsteen
2022 Galerie Larik, Utrecht – View from Balcony Peak
2021 Galleria Ramo, Como (IT) – This is not a curated exhibition II
2021 Young Collectors Festival, Amsterdam
2021 Absurd Beings – on lines, Amsterdam
2021 SEA Foundation, Tilburg – intertwined, duo Jesse van den Berg
2021 Closed Windows/No Entry – When I touch you, I actually feel something
Residencies
2025 EKWC, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2024 Fish Factory, Stödfarfjördur, Iceland
2018 Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen, China
2015-2016 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2013 WARP Artist Village, Genk, Belgium
2013 Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat, Morocco
2011 CBK Utrecht
Awards & Stipends
2022 Basisbeurs Mondriaan Fonds
2022 Winner Royal Award for Painting
2018 Winner KF Hein Stipend
2018 Stipend Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund
2016 Grant Elise Mathilde Fonds
2015 Cultuurfondsbeurs, Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds
2015-2016 Grant Praktijkverdieping, Mondrian Fund
2012-2015 Nomination Royal Award for Painting
2010 Nomination Buning Brongers Award
2009 Starters Stipend, Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2009 Nomination HKU Award
2009 Nomination Jan Zumbrink Award
2009 Nomination Dooyewaard Stipend
Commissies / Gesprekken / Onderwijs / Commissions / Talks / Teaching
2024 Sketch commission, University Hospital Ghent
2024 IDFA x Mister Motley – Het landschap dat in ons huist, multisensory event
2023 Denk Zorg: Pijn, HA Concerts Gent (BE), stage design & talk
2022-23 Apprentice/Master program Kunstpodium T
2021 Liefdevol & Kritisch, estafettegesprekken, DE.GROEN, Arnhem
2020 Event Dissecting Touch, Jan van Eyck Academie
2020 Artist Talk, St. Joost Breda
2019 Artist Talk, de Fabriek Eindhoven
2018 Guest Teacher, StJoost ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2017/2018 Text contribution, publication P////AKTPOOL
2017 Guest Teacher, Bcademie Rotterdam
2016/ongoing Guest Teacher, Artez Zwolle
2013/2022 Guest Teacher, HKU
2009/2010 Commission Rabobank Utrecht – wall painting Maliebaan 15
2009 Commission RC de Ruimte – brainstorm over IJmuiden
Opleiding
2015-2016 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2005-2009 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, BFA (with honours)
Solotentoonstellingen / Solo Exhibitions
2026 SecondRoom, Antwerp (BE) – oersoep
2025 38CC, Delft – I can be a mountain
2023 Drawing Centre Diepenheim – slice of life with swallowed spiral
2022 ProjectSpace Lokaal, Utrecht – Tracing the Body, Chapter 1
2021 Kunstenlab, Deventer (NL) – drifting stones and a broken bird
2020 CINNNAMON, Rotterdam (NL) – holding a fish to avoid sinking
2019 Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL) – disappearance in slow motion
2019 CEAC, Xiamen (CN) – floating hands and fake mountains
2014 Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht (NL) – short solo: Eva Spierenburg
2013 Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat (MA) – le conte des contes
2010 Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht (NL) – acting as almost
2010 Vierraumladen, Berlin (DE) – nichtzutreffendes bitte streichen
Selectie Groepstentoonstellingen / Group Exhibitions (selection)
2025 Chabot Museum, Rotterdam – When I was You
2025 VU Art Science Gallery – On Limits
2025 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam – Missen al seen Ronde Vorm, curated by Hanne Hagenaars
2025 Centraal Museum Utrecht – Good Mom/Bad Mom
2025 Loods 6 – Vouch V
2025 Museum Perron Oost – Nachtbrieven
2024 Stadshart Amstelveen – I’ve got the feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore
2024 Museum Rijswijk – Paper Biennial 2024: Animal Farm
2024 Museum Helmond – Daily Encounters
2024 WARP, Sint-Niklaas (BE) – Coup de Ville 2024: artists & athletes, the hill they climb
2023 Museum de Fundatie – Het Nijenhuis – Do We Care?
2023 Singular Art Gallery x Sally’s Fault – Mollar, gullet, drain, curated by Pieter Dobbelsteen
2023 Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen – Exodus
2023 Omstand, Arnhem x Kunstpodium T – Einfühlung/ashes/mouth/void/mania/ssssshhh
2022 Collectie De.Groen – Setup.07
2022 AG, Utrecht – Tracing the Body, Chapter 2 / CareFull, curated by Imke Ruigrok
2022 Museum IJsselstein – Vensters
2022 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst
2022 Kunstenlab, Deventer – The body keeps the score, curated by Yuki Kho & Maurits de Bruijn
2022 This Art Fair
2022 Galerie Fontana – Hidden Remains, curator Pieter Dobbelsteen
2022 Galerie Larik, Utrecht – View from Balcony Peak
2021 Galleria Ramo, Como (IT) – This is not a curated exhibition II
2021 Young Collectors Festival, Amsterdam
2021 Absurd Beings – on lines, Amsterdam
2021 SEA Foundation, Tilburg – intertwined, duo Jesse van den Berg
2021 Closed Windows/No Entry – When I touch you, I actually feel something
Residencies
2025 EKWC, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2024 Fish Factory, Stödfarfjördur, Iceland
2018 Chinese European Art Center (CEAC), Xiamen, China
2015-2016 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2013 WARP Artist Village, Genk, Belgium
2013 Le Cube – independent art room, Rabat, Morocco
2011 CBK Utrecht
Awards & Stipends
2022 Basisbeurs Mondriaan Fonds
2022 Winner Royal Award for Painting
2018 Winner KF Hein Stipend
2018 Stipend Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund
2016 Grant Elise Mathilde Fonds
2015 Cultuurfondsbeurs, Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds
2015-2016 Grant Praktijkverdieping, Mondrian Fund
2012-2015 Nomination Royal Award for Painting
2010 Nomination Buning Brongers Award
2009 Starters Stipend, Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2009 Nomination HKU Award
2009 Nomination Jan Zumbrink Award
2009 Nomination Dooyewaard Stipend
Commissies / Gesprekken / Onderwijs / Commissions / Talks / Teaching
2024 Sketch commission, University Hospital Ghent
2024 IDFA x Mister Motley – Het landschap dat in ons huist, multisensory event
2023 Denk Zorg: Pijn, HA Concerts Gent (BE), stage design & talk
2022-23 Apprentice/Master program Kunstpodium T
2021 Liefdevol & Kritisch, estafettegesprekken, DE.GROEN, Arnhem
2020 Event Dissecting Touch, Jan van Eyck Academie
2020 Artist Talk, St. Joost Breda
2019 Artist Talk, de Fabriek Eindhoven
2018 Guest Teacher, StJoost ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2017/2018 Text contribution, publication P////AKTPOOL
2017 Guest Teacher, Bcademie Rotterdam
2016/ongoing Guest Teacher, Artez Zwolle
2013/2022 Guest Teacher, HKU
2009/2010 Commission Rabobank Utrecht – wall painting Maliebaan 15
2009 Commission RC de Ruimte – brainstorm over IJmuiden
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