Hans van der Ham
Hans van der Ham studied classical piano at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and also at the Utrechts Conservatory from which he graduated in 1984. He went on to study autonomous art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam where he graduated, in 1989, in painting, drawing and graphic. Since 1989 Van der Ham worked in Rotterdam as an independent creator of visual arts and has held regular exhibitions both at home and abroad. His work is represented in the Netherlands by galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague and is respresented in various museum collections. In 2012, Van der Ham cofounded Garage Rotterdam, of which he was artistic director and curator until 2015. Van der Ham makes exhibitions on a regular basis, including for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: as a guest curator he worked on the exhibition ANIMA MUNDI - opening June 2018.