Nonna Hoogland
Nonna Hoogland fuses elements of kitsch, contemporary culture and Renaissance composition to create sculptures and paintings that place the female identity at their centre. Her works are at once playful and vulnerable, negotiating the complexity of human emotions through an interplay of intimacy, humour, poetry and cynicism.
Hoogland draws inspiration from the visual canon, referencing the great masters of the past such as the Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli. Yet she never imitates. Instead, she bends these iconic forms into her own visual language, injecting wit, irony and tenderness. By reworking the familiar, she situates herself in an ongoing dialogue between history and the present, questioning how cultural ideals are shaped, remembered and transformed.
Her sculptures and paintings stand as layered reflections on identity. Beneath their charm and eccentricity lies a deeper investigation into representation and selfhood, particularly the ways in which femininity is staged, celebrated and scrutinised across time. In this tension between reverence and critique, Hoogland’s work finds its distinct voice bold, nuanced, and unmistakably her own.
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