Femke Herregraven

Femke Herregraven (b. 1982, Nijmegen, the Netherlands) is an Amsterdam-based artist who explores the effects of abstract value systems on landscapes, ecosystems, historiography, and daily life. Her research into the interaction between financial markets, risks, and the physical world forms the foundation for her iterative sculptures, drawings, films, and hybrid installations. Herregraven employs multiple textual, computational, and gestural languages, expressed through image, sound, drawing, and speculative fiction. She is an alumnus of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (2017–18) and obtained the Creator Doctus title at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam in 2024. She was part of On-Trade-Off: a transnational artist-led project (2018–24) on lithium extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including RADIUS CCA, Delft, 2024; KCUA, Kyoto, 2023; and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, 2018. Her work has also appeared in group shows at venues recently including State of Concept, Athens, 2024; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2023; 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2023; and 13th Gwangju Biennale, 2021. Herregraven won the 2025 Theodora Niemeijer Prijs and was previously awarded the 2023 Evens Arts Prize and shortlisted for the 2019 Prix de Rome.