Han Halewijn
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Music Design · Digital Art · Installations

Art that
leaves
traces

Han Halewijn creates digital art, painting, performance and interactive work — at the edge of algorithm, image and sound. 92 works across 10 series. Award-winning practice. International biennials and exhibitions. Open for collaboration.

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Works
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1992
Founded
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Netherlands
The artist

Han Halewijn

Han Halewijn de Groot (born 1963, Leeuwarden) is a Dutch artist, composer and researcher working under the label Music Design since 1992. His practice spans digital art, painting, illustration, interactive installation and performance.

Trained as an oboist and composer — with formative encounters with John Cage, Iannis Xenakis at UPIC, Olivier Messiaen and Witold Lutosławski — he brings a musical intelligence to visual work. His Leaving Traces / Tagged Space project (2005) was the world's first active RFID art project. His work has been shown in Belgrade, Miami, New York, Cologne and beyond.

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Han Halewijn self portrait
Han Halewijn · Music Design · 2025
Why collect

Six reasons to own
a Halewijn original

"An artwork that leaves a trace in your space — and in you — is worth infinitely more than one that merely fills a wall."
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Genuinely limited
Every print is an edition of 10, signed and certified by the artist. When they're gone, they're gone. No reprints, no open editions. Scarcity is built in — not manufactured.
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A living practice, not a catalogue
A career spanning three decades, with international exhibition history across Belgrade, Miami, New York, Cologne and beyond. Collecting now means collecting a mature, sustained creative voice — before the wider market catches up.
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Colour that commands a room
The generative series — Light Flower Fields, Imaginative Squares — were made for small format. Fantasie triggering leftovers printed directly on aluminium at 20×20cm do something a screen cannot: they glow. They hold their own against any wall.
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Work that keeps asking questions
Art that just decorates stops surprising you after a week. The Observers watching you from liquid sky, the Exploded Flowers burning in ultraviolet — this work keeps asking questions you haven't answered yet. That tension is the point.
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Singular positioning
There are many painters. There are many photographers. There are very few artists rigorously working at the intersection of music, algorithm, physical painting, interactive technology and narrative illustration — for three decades. This practice is singular.
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Custom editions available
Commission a bespoke colour variant, a larger format for an architectural space, or an NFT digital original. Han works directly with collectors — no gallerist markup. Reach out and start a conversation.
Where to collect
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Saatchi Art
Prints · Originals
Premium collector platform. Archival prints, ships internationally, framed on request.
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SuperRare
NFT · 1/1 Digital
Curated NFT platform for digital originals — Foundation's natural successor. Generative series ideal for this format.
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Artsy
Gallery · Institutions
Global art market connecting to major collectors, curators and institutions worldwide.
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Direct
Commission · Bespoke
Contact the studio for custom sizes, colour variants, exclusive editions. No middleman.
Bodies of work

Eleven distinct series

Each series is a sustained inquiry — into colour, structure, nature, the body, and the hidden systems beneath visible reality.

Street art · Digital
Imaginative Squares

Street compositions built on the square as fundamental unit — materials left behind by humans, recomposed as algorithmic geometry.

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Generative · Light
Light Flower Fields

Fields of luminance generated through custom code — organic light forms blooming from algorithmic logic.

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Manipulated Photography
Photo Art

Photography transformed beyond its own limits — reality distorted until it reveals a deeper truth.

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Photo art · Botanical · Digital
Natural Distortion

Flowers in chromatic extremity, digital forests, blue-green river studies — nature refracted through algorithm.

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Painting · Mixed media
Paintings & Mixed Media

Mythic figures, aboriginal marks, botanical forms. These paintings argue with the digital practice — insisting on the body.

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Illustration · Narrative
Leaving Traces — Tagged Space

Wandering characters leaving evidence of passage. The world's first active RFID art project — evolved into illustration.

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Figurative · Human
Figurative Works

Figures in space — people, dialogue, connection. Human presence explored through geometric form and colour.

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Photo art · Architecture
Window to the World

A Gothic cathedral window, six chromatic states. Stone, shadow, gold — how light changes everything without changing the structure.

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Digital Painting · Abstract
Nano Art

Monumental floral abstractions — the Lady Dog Nano Art Triptych in pink, violet and deep purple. Large-format 90×120cm digital paintings.

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LED · Digital installation
LED Art

Immersive digital environments built for LED walls and large-format screens — lost cities, forests, subterranean worlds.

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Collaboration · Photography
Award-winning collaboration · ParaKwadraat

Eight-bit portrait photography — Friendly Worker, Cleaning Pope, UN Contact Officer, Tasmanian Nano Surgeon. Award-winning collaboration with Mark de Weger.

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What kind of collector are you?

Four questions. We find the Han Halewijn works made for you.

You walk into a room. The art on the wall makes you feel—
Your wall is—
Which palette speaks to you?
What relationship do you want with your art?
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Award-winning collaboration

ParaKwadraat

Eemnesser Cultuur Prize 2011 · Eemnesser Publics Prize 2013 · SCOPE Art Fair Miami · The Story of the Creative, New York

Han Halewijn & Mark de Weger — ParaKwadraat
Han Halewijn & Mark de Weger

ParaKwadraat is the long-running collaborative photography project between Han Halewijn and Mark de Weger. Since 2010 the project has produced an expanding universe of staged portraits, ensemble works, performance pieces and narrative series — each one an absurdist, precisely composed commentary on the human condition.

The collaboration won the Eemnesser Cultuur Prize in 2011 and the Eemnesser Publics Prize in 2013, and has exhibited internationally at SCOPE Art Fair Miami and The Story of the Creative, New York.

★ Latest: Make Music No War · Three Art Brothers 01 & 02 · 2025
LongMan series — 2025
Edition 1/3 · photography · 425mm vertical format
Friendly Worker
Friendly Worker
ParaKwadraat · 2025
1 OF 3 SOLD · 2 LEFT
Cleaning Pope
Cleaning Pope
ParaKwadraat · 2025
1 OF 3 SOLD · 2 LEFT
UN Contact Officer
UN Contact Officer
ParaKwadraat · 2025
1 OF 3 SOLD · 2 LEFT
Tasmanian Nano Surgeon
Tasmanian Nano Surgeon
ParaKwadraat · 2025
1 OF 3 SOLD · 2 LEFT
Latest works — 2025 ● New
Make Music No War · Three Art Brothers 01 & 02 · Three Art Brothers 03 — expected
Make Music No War
Make Music No War
ParaKwadraat · 2025 · Latest
Three Art Brothers 01
Three Art Brothers 01
ParaKwadraat · 2025 · Latest
Three Art Brothers 02
Three Art Brothers 02
ParaKwadraat · 2025 · Latest
Selected works from the series
The Breakfast Eaters · First Breakfast · Meeting in Space · Oil 4 Sale · Pap Eters · Third Eye · Man with Plu · Man Waiting for Wife
First Breakfast
First Breakfast (The Last Supper)
ParaKwadraat · 2020
1 OF 3 SOLD
Breakfast Eater 01
The Breakfast Eaters 01
Ed. of 3 · 1 sold · 2 available
1 OF 3 SOLD
Breakfast Eater 02
The Breakfast Eaters 02
Ed. of 3 · 1 sold · 2 available
1 OF 3 SOLD
Breakfast Eater 03
The Breakfast Eaters 03
Ed. of 3 · 1 sold · 2 available
1 OF 5 SOLD
Man with Plu
Man with Plu
Ed. of 5 · 1 sold · 4 available
Man Waiting for Wife
Man Waiting for Wife
ParaKwadraat · 2018
Meeting in Space
Meeting in Space
ParaKwadraat · 2017
Oil 4 Sale
Oil 4 Sale
ParaKwadraat · 2016
Pap Eters
60 Pap Eters in Eemnes
ParaKwadraat · 2015
Third Eye
Third Eye
ParaKwadraat · 2014
Performance project
Het Marionetten Corps — ParaKwadraat Project
Het Marionetten Corps
Het Marionetten Corps
Performance — ParaKwadraat Project

Het Marionetten Corps

ParaKwadraat Project — a live performance work in which the performers become marionettes controlled by language. Strings of text — "werk", "dogma", "buny" — hang from a central figure operating a MacBook, while costumed performers hold circular signs. The work explores control, hierarchy and the performance of institutional identity.

TypeLive performance & photography
CollaborationHan Halewijn & Mark de Weger — ParaKwadraat
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ParaKwadraat — Han Halewijn & Mark de Weger
Han Halewijn & Mark de Weger — ParaKwadraat © parakwadraat.nl
Partnership
Han Halewijn & Mark de Weger · working together since 2010
ArtistsHan Halewijn & Mark de Weger
PlatformParaKwadraat
FocusPhotography · Performance · Tableau vivant · LongMan series
Active1985 — ongoing
RecognitionEemnesser Cultuur Prize 2011 · Publics Prize 2013
Visit ParaKwadraat ↗ Mark de Weger Photography ↗
Which work is yours

Which ParaKwadraat work is yours?

Four questions · your result is a work from the series

What pulls you into the work?
In the world of the work, you are:
How should the figure be presented?
What should the work leave with you?
Musical stories — interactively played on and offline

Fabulari

Co-production with Leon Dekker · Interdisciplinary art, storytelling and interactive work in public space

Edgar Musical Story — A Magic Moment · Fabulari
Edgar Musical Story — A Magic Moment · Fabulari

Fabulari is the co-production of Han Halewijn and Leon Dekker — a long-running creative partnership that moves between digital and physical, between the studio and the street. Dekker is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and cultural force in the Netherlands whose practice spans sculpture, drawing, community art, performance and educational projects spanning more than three decades.

The partnership grew from a shared conviction: that art which inhabits public space, that speaks to people who did not come looking for it, is art doing its most important work. Together they develop projects that are both formally rigorous and genuinely accessible — musical stories told through image, object and interaction, played out on and offline.

↗ fabulari.nl · Interactive & public space work
The practice
Art in public space · Musical storytelling · Interactive work · Education & community
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Art in public space
Works designed for the unexpected encounter — installations and objects that find their audience rather than waiting for it.
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Musical storytelling
Stories carried by image, sound and interaction — played on and offline, across media, across spaces.
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Interactive work
Digital and physical work that responds to its audience — the viewer as participant, the space as instrument.
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Education & community
Over three decades of cultural engagement in the Netherlands — projects that bring art into schools, neighbourhoods and community spaces.
Partnership details
ArtistsHan Halewijn & Leon Dekker
PlatformFabulari
FocusMusical stories · Interactive art · Public space · Education
BasedNL, Norway
Active sinceEarly 1990s — ongoing
Visit Fabulari — fabulari.nl ↗
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Commission & collect

New series 2024

Window to the World

One Gothic window. Six states of light, colour and material. How perception transforms structure — the same form, utterly different worlds.

Window 01
01 · Stone
Window 02
02 · Warm stone
Window 03
03 · Dark night
Window 04
04 · Gold radiant
Window 05
05 · Gold dark
Window 06
06 · Gold soft
Perceptive Moment 03
07 · Perceptive Moment
Working with others

Collaborators & partners

A practice sustained by extraordinary collaborations — composers, choreographers, theatre-makers, designers and artists across Europe and beyond.

Beyond the studio

Performance & moving image

Live performance, site-specific events and collaborative projects that unite music, image and space. Click any project to expand.

Beyond the studio

Hardware development

Custom interactive hardware built by Jos Knoop (KED) & Eddy van den Ham (Artron) in collaboration with Han Halewijn — The hardware spans custom light controllers, audio processing units, and sensor-driven interactive systems that formed for many years the technological backbone of his live performances and installation practice.

Technical partnerEddy van den Ham — Artron · artron.nl ↗
Technical partnerJos Knoop — KED · ked.info ↗
Light Flower 3D Effect
Light Flower · 3D Effect
Light Flower KED
Light Flower · KED
Han L Lamp
Han L Lamp
Interactive Controller KED Artron
Interactive Controller · KED Artron
24 Input Unit KED Artron
24 Input Unit · KED Artron
Audio Unit KED Artron
Audio Unit · KED Artron
Formative influences

Workshop teachers & institutions

Masterclasses followed during studies, and the institutions that shaped and hosted the practice.

Workshop teachers

Masterclasses and workshops followed during formative studies. A cross (✝) marks those who have passed away.

Institutions

Academies, studios, labs and venues that shaped and hosted the practice.

Career history

A life in image and sound

Three decades of making — across music, digital art, painting, performance and interactive technology.

Biennial
Triennial
Prize
Event / milestone
Label
Music Design
Based in
The Netherlands
Email
Han@HanHalewijn.nl
Website
www.HanHalewijn.nl
Find the work
Saatchi Art ↗ Artsy ↗ SuperRare ↗ Vimeo ↗ Whitewall ↗ LinkedIn ↗
Editions
Archival pigment prints · editions of 1, 3, 5, 10, 22 · signed & certified · custom sizes & NFT originals on request