Helen Verhoeven

Place: Leiden

Born: 1974

Biography:

Helen Verhoeven is a painter and sculptor based in Berlin. She was born in the Netherlands and moved to the U.S. in 1986. Verhoeven attended the San Francisco Art Institute, New York Academy of Art, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2008, she won the Dutch Royal Award for Modern Painting, in 2010 the Wolvecamp Painting Award, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the ABN-AMRO Art Prize. She was commissioned to make a painting for the new courthouse of Dutch Supreme Court in The Hague that opened in 2015. Since 2023 she works as professor in painting for Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Verhoeven's works seem to explore the theme of ceremonial gatherings. She makes monumental-sized paintings that are populated with contorted figures in various states of rapture, despair, lust and estrangement. She is the daughter film director Paul Verhoeven.