biography

Ankie van Kasteren (1996, NL) is a visual artist, photographer, curator and public speaker based in the Netherlands. She is primarily focusing on the medium photography, but also shifting between moving image, painting, bio design, sculpture and installation art. 
 
Ankie is concerned with topics such as the healing process of trauma, neurodiversity and human-nature interactions. Within her artistic practise she uses her personal experiences and memories to fuel her work.

Besides holding cameras, she works hands-on with unconventional materials, and explores uncharted territory making her own handmade mushroom paper from foraged mushrooms, or canvases of home grown mycelium out of coffee grinds. She is not limited to being a creative visionary behind the camera but also works on the other side, posing as a model. Ankie critically interacts and questions her own and her audience’s behaviours regarding sustainability, domestic/sexual abuse issues, and consumer culture.

She hopes to not only tell her own story, but also invite others to position themselves in the world. Her goal is to open up the discussion revolving stigmatized themes by evoking self-reflection and societal change.
  

Contact me:
info@ankievankasteren.com

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Exhibitions

2025
– Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard
– Agora Theater, Lelystad

2024
– Graduation Show Royal Academy, The Hague
– Door open space, Amsterdam
– Manifestations, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

2023 – Paviljoen aan het water, Rotterdam
2021 – The grey space in the middle, the Hague
2019 – Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven.

Publications

2025
– I Think U Did Something To Me And Now It’s In Everything I See And Do, (overview zine: Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard)
– SAAC M’AS – TU VU #16

2024
– I was eleven
– Graduation Catalogue

2021 – Cockroach Collective magazine
2021 – of First magazine
2020 – Photo Vogue Italy

Education

2019 – 2025 Royal Academy of arts, the Hague | Photography degree, graduated.
2015 – 2019 SintLucas, Eindhoven | Photography degree, graduated.