FEMKE
DEN HOLLANDER
met Noëlla /Amerika Haus Berlijn / 2014
met Anna /Ticky Tacky Brussel / 2022
Femke den Hollander (°1979, Bruges, Belgium) studied social and cultural work at the VIVES-university after spending 12 months in Zimbabwe as a high school student. She worked 20 years as a social worker, mostly with teenagers and young people, their stories and lives full of sadness, strenght and hope. An important part of this work was the development of different educational and awareness programs as well as co-working projects with other organizations on political and public social issues.
She feels strongly about documentary work, both photography and film. At the age of 30 she realized she could actually buy a camera to document people and society and their stories. In 2016 she graduated in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bruges.
She participated in several exhibitions and social and cultural projects in Bruges, as a photographer, social investigator and, in some cases, instigator. She's looking for unknown environments, trying to document the lives of people she does not know. Spending time with them teaches her what might remain unseen, unknown and unspoken when no one captures it.
A never ending story.
She also works on her own projects and art collections, focusing mainly on the beauty of nature in recent years.
Besides that, she works on commissions for social and cultural organizations as well as corporate commissions. But for whatever assignment, she always maintains her own style.
Shows and projects
2025
upcoming / 'Land in Motion' - groupshow - National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg
HORIZON - duoshow - Art&Frame Center Brugge
2024
'Kwart voor Nacht' - groupshow - Poortersloge CC Brugge
WINTER - De Reyghere Brugge
HORIZON - duoshow - Expo18 Oostende
2023
HAVEN - B.E.E.N. - Brugge
Artswap - N.O.D.S. Collectief - B.E.E.N Brugge
PAK Gistel - 'De Natuur' - Gistel
AiR Biekorf 7.0 - 'Out of Office' - Poortersloge CC Brugge
2022
SANT2022 - selected - CC Brugge
Artist Of The Month - Art&Frame Center - Brugge
Smallfish.art - De Republiek - Brugge
AiR Biekorf 6.0 - 'Misfigure' - Poortersloge CC Brugge
Smallfish.art - artshow&auction - De Tank - Brugge
2021
KIYOSHI - social artproject - Brugge
‘Entre deux Nuages’ - PAK Gistel
AiR Biekorf 5.0 - ‘The Wall is as Soft as Lace.’ - CC Brugge
'Goodnight' - De Republiek - Brugge
'Molenwijk in beeld' - social artproject - Sint-Pieters, Brugge
2020
'Barking Dogs & Drawing Rooms' - PAK Gistel
AiR Biekorf 4.0 - ‘Comedie van het menselijk tekort/Comedie de la Condition Humaine - CC Brugge
2019
AiR Biekorf 3.0 - ‘Exile’ - CC Brugge
N.O.D.S. Collectief - ‘Where are You Now?’ - Brugotta Festival - Brugge
‘Where are you now?’ - WZC Westervier CURENDO - Brugge
2018
N.O.D.S. Collectief - ‘Into the Wild’ - Bogardenkapel Brugge
‘Invisible Birds’ - De Republiek - Brugge
2017
BruggeFoto17 & 300 jaar Academie - 'Illuminato'
Air Biekorf 1.0 - 'Les Refugiés' - CC Brugge
2016
Fotohuis & vzw Ter Muiden - 'Ter Muiden' - Beernem
Graduation Academy of Fine Arts - thesis - 'The Waiting' - Brugge
2015
Fotohuis & Raymond Van het Groenewoud - 'De Verpakking van Raymond' - Brugge
Fotohuis & Musea Brugge - Snapshot 12 - 'Dans I.D.'
2014
'Brugge - Snapshot' - publication - Uitgeverij Snoeck
Fotohuis & 44 Gallery - BruggeFoto14 - 'The Family of Chinese'
Fotomarathon Europäischer Monat der Fotografie - Berlin
2013
Fotonale 2013 Brugge 'Contrast' - selected
Fotohuis & 44 Gallery - BruggeFoto13 - 'Street Photography Now'
2012
Fotonale 2012 Brugge 'Verborgen' - selected
Erfgoedcel Brugge/Fotohuis/BruggeMuseum - Snapshot 7 - Clubzotten&Cercletrutten