Lines / closed circuit
The day I discovered that a line is drawing itself, my whole perspective on creating shifted. I'm a servant now. A follower. I go where the line takes me. The line will always come back to where it started, to make a closed circuit.​

Personal words / multi-personal stories
​Everything I write is highly personal. But once it is on the wall, once it is read by someone else, it’s away from me. People don’t read my story. They read their own. 

Essentialism / the purest form
Someone asked me once to which art movement I would count myself. Essentialism, I replied. Always in search of the essence, the driving force, the purest form. I do this in my artworks, and I do this for others too. 

 I'm a servant now. A follower. I go where the line takes me.” 

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EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES 
RUNNING NOW: ZOMER EXPO (group, Summer exhibition)
25 May - 1 September 2019
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Kasteel Het Nijenhuis

These are the lines (solo, 18 January - 30 March 2019)
Goesting, Falconplein 45, Antwerp, Belgium

De afrekening (spoken word performance) (21 March 2019)
As part of the World-Poetry-Day-For-Life-Marathon
Papa Jos, Blindestraat 39, Antwerp, Belgium

Till the words come (solo, 2017)
Martin van Blerk Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Ariadne's thread (with Gaiska, 2017)
Art Point Gallery, Le Chateau de Saulon, France

Water (group, Summer exhibition 2017)
Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands

Lined by HM de Groot (solo, 2017)
Goesting, Falconplein 45, Antwerp, Belgium


PUBLICATIONS
Labour of love, Portrait of a botanical garden
2012, VU University Press, ISBN 9789086596072


EDUCATION
Master of Arts Dutch Language and Literature
University of Amsterdam
1996 - 2002

Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
Painting / experimental
​2015 - 2017

Get in touch

hannahdegroot@gmail.com
+32 468 26 77 46