HANNES VERHOEVEN
Dutch contemporary sculptor (b. 1984, Esbeek) whose bronze, resin, and marble-composite figures merge children and animals — hares, foxes, eagles, bulls — with rural life and myth.
HANNES VERHOEVEN
BIOGRAPHY
Hannes Verhoeven (b. 1984, Esbeek, Netherlands) is a Dutch contemporary sculptor working from his atelier in Esbeek, Noord Brabant. The core of his visual language is the pairing of human and animal figures — children dressed as hares, foxes, eagles, and bulls, and mythological human-animal hybrids — set against rural, lived-in imagery and social narrative. Small and medium works are made mostly in bronze, resin, and marble composite; his environmental and public projects use steel, steel wire, and wood.
Discussing “Slow Down,” the artist’s official 2026 materials describe the contrast between a quick hare and a slow snail as a metaphor for speed and time, with the seated, meditating child figure representing pause and conscious presence. Marble composite, per the same source, blends resin with fine marble powder into a soft surface close to the quality of skin.
PUBLIC WORKS
“De Melkfabriek,” a steel-and-wood structure addressing the industrialization of agriculture, is the most prominent public work on the artist’s own site. A bronze portrait of Frank Koulen — Verhoeven’s design, chosen from among three proposals and deliberately set at street level without a pedestal — was unveiled in Terneuzen on 15 September 2018. Verhoeven also played an organizing role in Esbeek’s Sculpture Expo Esbeek (SEE), showing his human-and-animal works at his atelier and sculpture garden there.
REPRESENTATION
Named on the artist’s own channels as represented through Van Loon Galleries and Sille Gallery / Sille Select.
Public sources do not give a full account of formal education, awards, or museum holdings, so none are claimed here.
“Slow Down”
Marble composite
80 cm
“Balance 2.0”
Marble composite
65 cm
“Learning to Fly”
Marble composite
60 cm
“Here Comes the Rain”
Marble composite
75 cm
“Slow Down in Bell Jar”
Marble composite, glass case
33 cm
“Pas De Deux”
Bronze
70 cm
“Here Comes the Rain”
Bronze
75 cm
“Balance”
Bronze
65 cm
“Learning to Fly”
Resin
95 cm
“Farm Knight Boy”
Bronze
70 cm
“Praying Farm Girl”
Bronze
60 cm
“Mercy”
Bronze
60 cm
“Farm Nymph”
Bronze
35 cm
“Cow Woman”
Steel
300 cm
“De Melkfabriek”
Steel and wood, public work
800 cm
