SmithDavidson Gallery is delighted to introduce works by Dutch artist Hanne Arends at KunstRAI Amsterdam 2025. Known for her multidisciplinary practice and emotional depth, Arends explores themes of identity and freedom through bold glass sculptures, ceramics, and installations.Her work explores social themes through the lens of emotion, identity, and human connection. With an intuitive and bold visual language, Arends creates pieces that invite reflection and emotional engagement, challenging viewers to look beyond surface appearances.
She holds degrees from both the Design Academy Eindhoven (2022) and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2023), becoming the first artist to complete both programs simultaneously. This dual education helped shape her distinct artistic voice, one that often investigates paradoxes, the tension between image and reality, and the complexity of the human condition. For her Rietveld graduation, she presented two notable projects. Collective Loneliness a vast ceramic installation exploring the paradox of digital hyperconnectivity and emotional isolation and Freddy Marbic, a marble sculpture mimicking an inflatable chair, humorously critiques the blurred lines between truth and fiction in the age of misinformation.
Arends works across media, blending expressive painting, immersive installations, and sculptural forms. Her use of diverse materials such as marble, ceramics, textiles, and glass reflects her curiosity and deep craftsmanship. Despite the variety, her signature remains unmistakable: precise, emotionally resonant, and subtly absurdist.
Her work resonates on both personal and collective levels, inviting audiences to reconnect with their emotions, question societal norms, and embrace vulnerability.
Through her deeply human and visually striking works, Hanne Arends challenges societal norms while reconnecting us with emotion, imagination, and vulnerability. Her art reminds us that by letting go of control, we often uncover something unexpectedly beautiful.
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