Hanneke de Munck

Hanneke de Munck (1951) is a Dutch artist, who studied at the RoyalArtAcademy in The Hague and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Since 1983 she has worked as an independent artist in Amsterdam and since 1995 she has taught at the innovative art academy at the NDSM-Wharf in Amsterdam. In her work Hanneke de Munck uses different techniques and abstracted figuration based on the classical tradition, so lovingly instilled into her by her teachers. The essence of a work comes first, her language of shapes and her choice of materials and technique come next. De Munck’s latest love is wood. She has a collection of tree trunks out of which new series have come forth in interaction with the material. Travelling through Slovakia in 2003 Hanneke de Munck was very much impressed by the 15th-century altar pieces she saw there – combinations of wooden sculptures, relief and paintings. They inspired her to collaborate with other artists to make twelve contemporary altarpieces, which create places for religious contemplation and devotion and are devoted to important human values, to things that in our time are still experienced as holy.