FEATURED
A search between freedom and structure
My work primarily concerns drawings and woodcuts, though I also love to experiment with different graphic techniques. These techniques include: cardboard print, blueprint or a combination of print and rubbing, collage and drawing.
Most of my work is about city-buildings or constructions. The speed at which cities change intrigues me, also the fact that a city is never finished but always is being designed and transformed into something new. Constructions give an impression of how a building is being mentioned, but they do not show the definitive building and leave me some space for imagination. The lines are not yet fixed, but they look more like the searching lines of a sketch.
I spend a lot of time sketching in the city. I am always searching the horizon for cranes that lead me to some area where there is some transformation happening that I can draw. Those are the sketches I use for making my prints. In my woodcuts I search for the same aspects as sketching, the movement of a city that is never finished. I re-use parts of the wood plates by printing them over another plate or rubbing. By doing this, time and places are intertwined and new places and connections can being made.
WORKS
ON VIEW
2025
- 17 december 19:30 (online) studiogesprek – studiobezoek bij Zaida Oenema, Hanna de Haan en Kim Habers. aanmelden via Kunstenlab.nl
- Nov. 13 20:00-22:00 een monumentale dialoog – artist lecture Hanna de Haan + Jurjen Ravenhorst, Kunstliefde Utrecht.
- Okt.22 – nov. 10 Van de lijn en de tijd, group expo Melkfabriek Den Bosch
- Okt.18 – Nov.16 Grafiek Magnifiek, group expo Kunstliefde Utrecht
- Sept.27 – Nov.2 Swedish-Dutch Rooms – group expo Pictura Dordrecht
- Okt. 3-5 Live drawing performance with Rik Buter @ Murw Festival Tilburg
- Litho XP: Explore-Experiment-Experience
2026
- expo Kunstenlab Deventer
REVIEWS
- Mister Motley – De stad in stukken zagen – op atelierbezoek bij Hanna de Haan
CONTACT
Hanna de Haan
phone: +31 (0)610088002
If you would like to contact me
or get added to my mailinglist
please send an email to hannadehaan@gmail.com
Studio:
Obrechtstraat 236
2517 VC Den Haag
This website is made possible by STROOM DEN HAAG
CV
EDUCATION
Art academy Constantijn Huygens, Kampen (currently ArteZ Zwolle) BA
University of Leiden, Literature BA
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, alumno visitante (Spain).
Norh Karelian Politecnic, exchange program, Joensuu (Finland).
ADDITIONAL
2020 Residency Foundation Veerle Rooms, Antwerp (BE)
2018 Masterclass by Nik Christensen, Drawing Centre Deipenheim
2010 Honours Class Seeing and Naming by Kitty Zijlman, KABK
2009 veelvormige typografie by Gerard Unger, KABK The Hague
2008 etching classes by Simon Koene KABK the Hague
2006 residency at Frans Masereel Centrum Kasterlee, Belgium
WORK/PROJECTS
since 2016 Museum Educator Kunstmuseum The Hague | Teacher at Grafische Werkplaats The Hague
since 2020 editorial board member RAAM grafiekmagazine | ‘kunstenaar in de klas’ KOO Kunstonderwijs
since 2024 Museum Educator Museum Bredius The Hague
2018 – 2025 Museum Educator Escher in het Paleis
2007 – 2020 Museum Educator Huis van het Boek The Hague
2012 – 2017 Teacher Grafiek/drawing at my own atelier ‘grafiekwerkplaats Blauw’
2023 workshop and lecture ‘houtcollage’ at Foundation Veerle Rooms (BE)
2019 – 2022 various workshops in Museum Panorama Mesdag/ Exhibition organizer Paper Biennial Rijswijk
2012 – 2019 Organisation Open Ateliers The Hague
2019 curating the exhibition Plaatjes&Praatjes with Astrid Florentinus, WillemII/Den Bosch.
2017/2018 Member of the Exhibition Commitee Grafisch Atelier Den Bosch
2018 Jurymember Jeugdgrafiekprijs GA den Bosch
2017 workshop teacher in Museu da UFPA Belem/ Museum Huis van het Boek en GA den Bosch
2016 Art-education project, Stroom The Hague & Madurodam | Jurymember Kitchen Litho Biennial
2014-2015 Organisation VLO- Festival The Hague
2006 + 2008 Poetry Project at nursing home Den Briel | Lambe Lambe Woodcut Project, with Ernesto Bonato
& Armando Sobral, Belem (Brasil)
EXHIBITIONS (last years selection)
2025
Graphic matters, group expo Kneževa Palača, Zadar Kroatië | Swedish Dutch Rooms -group expo Pictura Dordrecht | Grafiek Magnifiek, group expo Kunstliefde Utrecht | Van de Lijn en de Tijd, group expo Melkfabriek Den Bosch
2024
Biennale Internationale du Carton Gravé galerie l’Entracte, Ville d’Avray |XVII Grafiktriennal, Uppsala Konstmuseum | GEN-T, groupshow with NKVT at FUSE NDSM Amsterdam |Triënnale de Gravure, La Boverie Luik | solo show at Grafisch Atelier Alkmaar
2023
Tussenstaat – tijdelijke constructies in beeld, duo expo with Henri Ardui, Anna3 Antwerp | In Aanbouw, solo expo at Ruimte Remmelink, Delft | 350×1018, duo expo with Rik Buter at Studio Seine Rotterdam
2022
Panorama Hesjtèk,Atrium The Hague | Koninklijke ontmoetingen, groupshow at Escher i/h Paleis | Op Glad IJs, groupshow at Lochal Tilburg
2021
Works on Paper II, Moving Gallery Utrecht | Grafiek&Multiples, Galerie de Ploegh, Amersfoort.
2020
Kruisbestuiving, Anna3 Antwerpen, group exhibition, collaboration with Henri Ardui |Geen Bloem zonder wortel, Artist Support Fair, Quartair | Tussen vrijheid en structuur, Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste Antwerpen (solo) |Drawing project with Rik Buter at Ruimtevaart + Quartair the Hague |Hey Joe, tell us a story! GA /Willem II Fabriek Den Bosch
2019
Verandering/alles stroomt, Kunstuitleen Alkmaar |Grafiek 2019, Pulchri The Hague| Panorama Hesjtèk # solo exhibition, Panorama Mesdag | Pictures&Talks/Plaatjes&Praatjes coordination with Astrid Florentinus, Groupexhibition Willem II Den Bosch + Leeszaal Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag | Groupexpo at De Heerlyckheid, Antwerpen/Berchem | Übergansweise, Goethe Instituut Rotterdam | Panta Rhei, Zelhem
COMMISSIONED
2020 ‘Haven’ triptych; 21 woodcuts (7×17 meters) for the central hall of Sanders Building
Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam
2019+2012 1000 graduation gifts for ESL Rotterdam
2016 11 glass drawings on the 5th floor of Sanders Building, ESL Rotterdam
AWARDS
2024 Ysbrand Grafiekprijs
2015 Kitchen Litho Awards, 1st jury prize | 2014 BAS grafiekprijs, 2nd price | 2010+2006 BAS grafiekprijs, 3rd price
2003 Allianz grafiekprijs, 2nd price
MEMBER OF: Grafiekplatform | Nederlandse Kring van Tekenaars | Stroom The Hague