Esther Hovers
In her practice, Esther Hovers investigates how power, politics and control are exercised through urban planning and the use of public space. She was trained as a photographer but creates installations in which photographs, drawings, text and film play an equal part. She is interested in finding poetic translations for power structures and technological developments.
Esther Hovers has exhibited at Aperture Foundation in New York City; Lianzhou Photo Festival in China; and Foam Photography Museum of Amsterdam, et al. Her work has been published in The New York Times; The Washington Post; M – Le Magazine du Monde and Wired, among other publications.
In 2019 Hovers was an artist-in-residence at NARS Foundation (The New York Art Residency and Studios) in Brooklyn, New York. In 2025 she will be an artist-in-residence at AGA LAB in Amsterdam.
She is based in the Hague, the Netherlands.
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Several works on this website are generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund, the public fund for visual art and cultural heritage in the Netherlands.
Esther Hovers has exhibited at Aperture Foundation in New York City; Lianzhou Photo Festival in China; and Foam Photography Museum of Amsterdam, et al. Her work has been published in The New York Times; The Washington Post; M – Le Magazine du Monde and Wired, among other publications.
In 2019 Hovers was an artist-in-residence at NARS Foundation (The New York Art Residency and Studios) in Brooklyn, New York. In 2025 she will be an artist-in-residence at AGA LAB in Amsterdam.
She is based in the Hague, the Netherlands.
Several works on this website are generously supported by the Mondriaan Fund, the public fund for visual art and cultural heritage in the Netherlands.