About

Eva van der Zand, was born in the landscape of the border between the Netherlands and Germany. This green border inspired her to draw information and stories from ecology and biology. How is the language of ecology shaped? How does it influence our perspective and behaviour?

In that border landscape, she started a location with a unique forest garden, where she hosts events and artist in residence named "De Stuwwal" www.themoraine.org.

November 2023, Photo taken while torch glass blowing in her studio

The border she grew up on made her question, how do stories shape our identity? Therefore she started to study International Relations at the Rijks University of Groningen and TUKS university in South Africa and finished with a minor in antrhopology at Free University of Amsterdam. She did a master at Jönköping university in Sweden, in Education, Digitalisation and Sustainability. After working as a journalist, guide, media specialist and teacher for various organisations, she wanted to research the relation between language and the material world.

She continued studying art and design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and went for an exchange to the School for visual theater in Jerusalem. For her graduation work she got selected by the external committee in Rietveld (Re)viewed. Next to that she won the Overduin art prize and won the Re-Use-Me challenge by Leerdam glas museum en Make Eindhoven.

She now continues with her practice and works as a curator, and develops workshops, educational programs and exhibitions.

September 2022, whistling on glass flute during The Moraine Research Weekend