49m2, year 10, spring 2026 | Esther Hoogendijk

Esther Hoogendijk lives and works in The Hague. She obtained her bachelor’s degree at ArtEZ AKI and continued her education with a Master’s in In Situ at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. Esther primarily develops site-specific installations and sculptures that unfold over time. Her works change in form, color, and material due to natural and human influences such as air circulation, evaporation, decomposition, growth, or touch. They show traces of events, thereby making the passage of time visible, as if the work already carries a history within it.

During her residency at 49m2, Esther focuses on our human need for control over nature. Driven by a strong urge to sow and plant, she aims to create a rigid framework of tulips: a border, a fence, a boundary. What does this tendency reveal about our relationship with the living environment, and about others?

In this research, she allows natural processes to clash with the human desire for order and control.