About
Hanna Burgers is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, text, and sound. In her work she explores themes of birth, loss, resilience and the cycles of life.
Raised in a home shaped by the realities of beginning and end; her mother a midwife, her father a hospice worker, Burgers developed an early sensitivity to life’s thresholds. This perspective continues to inform her practice, as in Birth Currents, an installation examining the power of the birthing body.
Her reflections on generational trauma in her project De Berg Blijft, which explores her grandmother’s internment during WWII, appear alongside her engagement with contemporary mourning rituals, such as anonymous council funerals in the Netherlands. These themes of quiet dignity and remembrance are central to her series Eenzame Uitvaart. In her collaborative project Bodily Topography, developed during a residency in Poland, she explores the somatic memory of place, treating the land not as a backdrop but as a living, responsive collaborator.
Burgers holds a BA in Documentary Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2023). She has participated in residencies including Nieuw en Meer and Radio Tempo Não Para (Amsterdam), IDLO (The Hague), and The Palace (Gorzanów, Poland). Her work has been exhibited at Nieuw en Meer (Amsterdam), Grey Space in the Middle (The Hague), and 90Mil (Berlin), among other venues.
Contact
+31681120084
hannaburgers@gmail.com
Based in Amsterdam
Hanna Burgers is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, text, and sound. In her work she explores themes of birth, loss, resilience and the cycles of life.
Raised in a home shaped by the realities of beginning and end; her mother a midwife, her father a hospice worker, Burgers developed an early sensitivity to life’s thresholds. This perspective continues to inform her practice, as in Birth Currents, an installation examining the power of the birthing body.
Her reflections on generational trauma in her project De Berg Blijft, which explores her grandmother’s internment during WWII, appear alongside her engagement with contemporary mourning rituals, such as anonymous council funerals in the Netherlands. These themes of quiet dignity and remembrance are central to her series Eenzame Uitvaart. In her collaborative project Bodily Topography, developed during a residency in Poland, she explores the somatic memory of place, treating the land not as a backdrop but as a living, responsive collaborator.
Burgers holds a BA in Documentary Photography from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2023). She has participated in residencies including Nieuw en Meer and Radio Tempo Não Para (Amsterdam), IDLO (The Hague), and The Palace (Gorzanów, Poland). Her work has been exhibited at Nieuw en Meer (Amsterdam), Grey Space in the Middle (The Hague), and 90Mil (Berlin), among other venues.
Contact
+31681120084
hannaburgers@gmail.com
Based in Amsterdam