BIO

Born in 1979 in Friesland, The Netherlands, Anke Jongejan is a contemporary artist currently based in Soest. She creates sculptures and immersive installations using repurposed materials such as discarded textiles, foam, building materials, and other remnants of consumer culture. Jongejan is best known for her distinctive method of deconstructing materials that evoke shared, visceral memories and recombining them with visible seams, resembling a form of collage.

Jongejan's work invites an experience of intimacy with the layered and often disquieting realities of life and contemporary events. Her current practice focusses on sculptural, site-specific installations that merge hitherto separate strands of her artistic career — ranging from the process of finding agency in a world gone mad, through the intimate material practice of taking apart and creating anew, found in her ongoing wall sculpture series (since 2021), to the immersive settings and public character of earlier artistic projects from 2008 to 2015, all connected by the sense of urgency to creatively intervene in response to current affairs, that spans her entire career and personal life.

Anke Jongejan studied at the Royal Academy of the Arts in Antwerp and Utrecht University of the Arts. She has exhibited multiple times at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, participated in Tussenland in Amsterdam, and Kunstkavel in Amersfoort. Her practice has recently been featured in Suboart magazine (#36) and Circular Textile Stories SE3 (#5).