Author Archives: anique

Het Hondenhok” (The Dog House), 2011

For this work I delved into the world of Dutch teenagers who mostly live in smaller towns and villages, creating their own sub-culture. They form groups by building their own bars in wooden sheds in which they can create their

Steak / Biefstuk , 2010

Series of photos in which I created images of my little fascinations and figments of my direct environment. Some of these were staged in the way I see them. The photos stand by themselves, but by repeating the same technique

The new family, (Temporary Stedelijk Museum, “de Bouwkeet”, IJburg Amsterdam) 2009

A research about society’s hierarchy and social conventions within the Western-Dutch family. I constructed new families by adding total strangers to each other temporarily, after which they were taken to a family’s day out under my supervision.

Last dream is the only reality, 2007

Responding to a car accident that me and friend Jan de Bruin found ourselves in, (which was a frontal collision to a streetlight resulting in a broken back) we showed a fake memorial in a Rotterdam gallery based in the

Daan & Anique, 2007

Selection of pictures Me and my boyfriend Daan den Houter set out looking for new boyfriends and girlfriends for each other, especially looking for people who we thought made better visual matches than ourselves as a couple. I went looking

The new family (The Hague sculpture), 2007

A research about society’s hierarchy and social conventions within the Western-Dutch family. I constructed new families by adding total strangers to each other temporarily, after which they were taken to a family’s day out under my supervision.