Jeanne van Heeswijk (born 1965) is a Dutch

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and

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. Her work often focuses on social practice art, or the relationship between space, geography and urban renewal. She lives and works in

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in the

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Biography

Early life and early career

Jeanne van Heeswijk was born in 1965 in

Schijndel Schijndel () is a town and former municipality in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. Schijndel is located approximately southeast of 's-Hertogenbosch. Schijndel was founded on 6 December in the year 1309. On 1 January 201 ...

, The

.van Heeswijk, Jeanne
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/ref> From 1983-1988 she attended the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilden, The Netherlands. From 1988 to 1990 she attended the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. In 1996 Manifesta Jeanne van Heeswijk was among the local artists with Bik Van Der Pol and

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, who were brought into the international scene with the first

Manifesta Manifesta, also known as the European Nomadic Biennial, is a European pan-regional contemporary cultural biennale. History Manifesta was founded in 1994 by Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen. The first edition took place in Rotterdam. One of t ...

biennale in Rotterdam.

Further career

In 2003 she was chosen by the curator Rein Wolfs to exhibit at the Dutch Pavilion at the

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, along with Meschac Gaba,

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, Alicia Framis, and Erik van Lieshout. In 2005 she created a temporary artwork at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in Amsterdam, entitled ''Face Your World'', which allowed young people to re-imagine and design their surrounding neighborhood. In 2008 she participated in the Seventh Shanghai Biennale, which was themed "Translocalmotion". In 2010 she was commissioned to create a project for the

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, which was entitled ''2Up 2Down''. For this project, van Heeswijk worked with local

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residents to repurpose derelict housing. Van Heeswijk's examination of capital, labor, power, and social injustice through the lens of urban space reflects the way theories of feminist urbanism look at how self-organization, participation, collective ownership, and new forms of sociability create new urban realities. In 2014 van Heeswijk was awarded the inaugural Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at

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. Jeanne van Heeswijk is part of the research fellowship program 2018/2019 at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht.

Recognition

* Hendrik Chabot Award, 2002 * Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, 2011. * Curry Stone Design Prize, 2012"Jeanne van Heeswijk"
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References

External links

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at jeanneworks.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Heeswijk, Jeanne van 1965 births Living people 20th-century Dutch women artists 21st-century Dutch women artists People from Schijndel Dutch women curators