Represented by
tegenboschvanvreden gallery, Amsterdam NL
tegenboschvanvreden
contact information:
info@tegenboschvanvreden.com
a.i.vanzwieten@gmail.com
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tegenboschvanvreden
contact information:
info@tegenboschvanvreden.com
a.i.vanzwieten@gmail.com
Supported by
Mondriaan Fund
Stichting Stokroos
Het Hanzenfonds
Mondriaan Fund
Stichting Stokroos
Het Hanzenfonds
Anouk van Zwieten was born in Amsterdam (1991, NL) and lives and works in Utrecht (NL).
The floor of Van Zwieten’s studio is covered in colorful paint spots. Painting is an ‘enjoyable’ struggle to her: in her own words, “Painting is essentially the creation of problems that you’re then forced to resolve.” The art of painting is the subject of her work, and she is imbued with the medium’s history and the endless possibilities it offers. She likes painters who liberate themselves, who don’t hold back, who make work in which anything is allowed and possible. Nothing is fixed, the painting determines its own outcome. Through her associative and experimental method, Anouk van Zwieten creates room to let that freedom take its course.
The floor of Van Zwieten’s studio is covered in colorful paint spots. Painting is an ‘enjoyable’ struggle to her: in her own words, “Painting is essentially the creation of problems that you’re then forced to resolve.” The art of painting is the subject of her work, and she is imbued with the medium’s history and the endless possibilities it offers. She likes painters who liberate themselves, who don’t hold back, who make work in which anything is allowed and possible. Nothing is fixed, the painting determines its own outcome. Through her associative and experimental method, Anouk van Zwieten creates room to let that freedom take its course.
Alumni studio PADA
Bareirro PT
sept-oct 2026
Winter Residency
Dooyewaard Foundation
Blaricum NL
2024–2025
PADA Studios Spring/Summer Residency
Barreiro, Portugal
2021
LAB Kalkhorst Residency
Kalkhorst, DE
2018
Bachelor of Fine Art
HKU Utrecht
2013–2017
Internship with Claudia Martinez Garay
2017
Internship with Evi Vingerling
2016
Art & Design
ROCvA Amsterdam
2011–2013
Mural at Projectspace Kate
Stichting Nieuw en Meer
Amsterdam, NL
2025-2026
And they lived happily ever after
the Cacaofabriek
Helmond, NL
2025
Around Mondriaan’s Hut
Anniversary Exhibition
Nardinc Gallery in Singer Laren
Laren, NL
2025
Here and There
Unfair 2024
Westergasfabriek
Amsterdam, NL
2024
Here and There
Facade Exhibition, Paradiso
Amsterdam, NL
2024
MINI SHOW
gallery tegenboschvanvreden
Amsterdam, NL
2024
Everything is on the One
Arti et Amicitiae
Amsterdam, NL
2024
What I Stand On
window artwork commissioned by
the Municipality of Amersfoort
2023
Royal Prize for Painting
Royal Palace on the Dam
Amsterdam, NL
2023
All the Best
gallery tegenboschvanvreden
Amsterdam, NL
2022
SO WIE SO
Omstand, space for contemporary art
Arnhem, NL
2022
Project Mayhem
Sunrise Tours X W139
Amsterdam, NL
2022
Prospects and Concepts
van Nellefabriek Art Rotterdam
Rotterdam, NL
2021
Grazed Land
PADA Studios
Barreiro, Portugal
2021
Mars Blueberries
PADA Studios
Barreiro, Portugal
2021
Provisional Painting
Centraal Museum Utrecht
Utrecht, NL
2020
Unfair20 Temporary Museum
Zuiveringshal Westergasfabriek
Amsterdam, NL
2020
THE PAINTING SHOW
gallery tegenboschvanvreden
Amsterdam, NL
2020
At the Gym
curated by tegenboschvanvreden
Whitehouse Gym,
Bierbeek, BE
2019
Drifting and Dreaming
gallery tegenboschvanvreden
Amsterdam, NL
2018
Royal Prize for Painting
Royal Palace on the Dam
Amsterdam, NL
2017
Stichting Stokroos and Hanzenfonds
2025
Royal Prize of Painting
2023 (nominated)
Artist Basis
Mondriaan Fund
2023-2027
Development Grant
Amarte Fund
2022
Artist Project
Mondriaan Fund
2021
Development Grant
Amarte Fund
2020
K.F. Hein Stipendium
2020 (nominated)
Artist Start
Mondriaan Fund
2019
Royal Prize of Painting
2017 (nominated)
het Parool
2022
Springvossen podcast
Robert van Altena in conversation with Anouk van Zwieten
2022
‘Free Play in Dealing with Reality and Tradition: On the Innovative Painting of Anouk van Zwieten’ by Eric Corsius
2021
‘The Art of the Provisional’, by Eva Burgering
2020