Exhibitions & events
Artist Residency MSU Zagreb, HR 2026 (Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb)
Frascati Amsterdam Come Together Amsterdam 2026
Porto Design Biennale TIME IS PRESENT Porto 2025/2026
Van Abbemuseum Bridging Minds Eindhoven 2025/2026
Dutch Design Week25 ALL YOU CAN EAT Eindhoven 2025
Van Abbemuseum Radically mine (Workshop) Eindhoven 2025
Design Museum Designprijs 2025 Den Bosch 2025
Foundation We Are Fresh Grounds Eindhoven 2025
Heden Gallery Nightshift The Hague 2024
The Balcony Gallery Archeology of the not-yet The Hague 2024
Touchy Studios Bermuda Open The Hague 2024
Dutch Design Week24 Dutch Design Awards Eindhoven 2024
Dutch Design Week24 Duty Free Zone Eindhoven 2024
LeiLei Gallery The Other Side of This Side Bucharest, RO 2024
Milan Design Week We Will Design @BASE Milan, IT 2024
De Fabriek Young at Living Eindhoven 2024
Dutch Design Week23 The Graduation Show Eindhoven 2023
Lab-1 Eindhoven Melted Filmfestival Eindhoven 2023
TAC Eindhoven The Library Symposium Eindhoven 2022
Awards & nominations
NRC's Rijzende Sterren category Design 2025
Dutch Design Awards 2024 nominee 2024
Toekomst van het Lichaam nominee 2023
GGzE Planetree Award nominee 2023
BioDesign Challenge (representing DAE) 2022
Dutch Digital Agencies (winner) 2019
Press & publications
FRAME "Playtime: why design needs a joy injection" 2025
NRC "Rijzende sterren van 2025" 2025
DEZEEN "Ten emerging designers to look out for" 2024
VPRO "Top 10 Tips Dutch Design Week" 2024
STT "Toekomst van het lichaam" Book 2024
Education
MA Social Design (Cum Laude) Design Academy Eindhoven 2023
Creative hacking Minor Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam 2020
BA Communication Multimedia Design Hogeschool Utrecht 2020
(with Honors)
Currently
Member of Touchy Studios
Tutoring at Design Academy Eindhoven
Creative for Humanistisch Verbond

© Marissa van Kleef
Exhibitions & events
Artist Residency MSU Zagreb, HR 2026 (Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb)
Frascati Amsterdam Come Together Amsterdam 2026
Porto Design Biennale TIME IS PRESENT Porto 2025/2026
Van Abbemuseum Bridging Minds Eindhoven 2025/2026
Dutch Design Week25 ALL YOU CAN EAT Eindhoven 2025
Van Abbemuseum Radically mine (Workshop) Eindhoven 2025
Design Museum Designprijs 2025 Den Bosch 2025
Foundation We Are Fresh Grounds Eindhoven 2025
Heden Gallery Nightshift The Hague 2024
The Balcony Gallery Archeology of the not-yet The Hague 2024
Touchy Studios Bermuda Open The Hague 2024
Dutch Design Week24 Dutch Design Awards Eindhoven 2024
Dutch Design Week24 Duty Free Zone Eindhoven 2024
LeiLei Gallery The Other Side of This Side Bucharest, RO 2024
Milan Design Week We Will Design @BASE Milan, IT 2024
De Fabriek Young at Living Eindhoven 2024
Dutch Design Week23 The Graduation Show Eindhoven 2023
Lab-1 Eindhoven Melted Filmfestival Eindhoven 2023
TAC Eindhoven The Library Symposium Eindhoven 2022
Awards & nominations
NRC's Rijzende Sterren category Design 2025
Dutch Design Awards 2024 nominee 2024
Toekomst van het Lichaam nominee 2023
GGzE Planetree Award nominee 2023
BioDesign Challenge (representing DAE) 2022
Dutch Digital Agencies (winner) 2019
Press & publications
FRAME "Playtime: why design needs a joy injection" 2025
NRC "Rijzende sterren van 2025" 2025
DEZEEN "Ten emerging designers to look out for" 2024
VPRO "Top 10 Tips Dutch Design Week" 2024
STT "Toekomst van het lichaam" Book 2024
Education
MA Social Design (Cum Laude) Design Academy Eindhoven 2023
Creative hacking Minor Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam 2020
BA Communication Multimedia Design Hogeschool Utrecht 2020
(with Honors)
Currently
Member of Touchy Studios
Tutoring at Design Academy Eindhoven
Creative for Humanistisch Verbond

© Marissa van Kleef
Femke Hoppenbrouwer (1998) is a Dutch social designer and artist who addresses large societal topics by zooming in on small recognisable details from everyday life. She engages with complex public issues, such as ageism, inclusivity and social stigma’s, by transforming them into playful works using joy, humor and celebration. Her practice seeks to build bridges between the worlds of art and design and social fields in order to make each more approachable to wider audiences.
Combining field-based research, community collaboration and artistic experimentation, Femke creates mixed-media works, primarily using film and performance, that aim to subvert stereotypes and introduce alternative narratives that put a smile on your face while making you critically aware about the world around us.
Alongside her art & design practice, Femke is active as a creative for the Dutch human rights organisation Humanistisch Verbond, as well as part of Touchy Studios and tutoring at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Based in the Netherlands. Working between
Utrecht, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, The Hague.
Nominated for a Dutch Design Award 2024
One of NRC's '"Rijzende sterren van 2025"
info@femkehoppenbrouwer.com














Femke Hoppenbrouwer (1998) is a Dutch social designer and artist who addresses large societal topics by zooming in on small recognisable details from everyday life. She engages with complex public issues, such as ageism, inclusivity and social stigma’s, by transforming them into playful works using joy, humor and celebration. Her practice seeks to build bridges between the worlds of art and design and social fields in order to make each more approachable to wider audiences.
Combining field-based research, community collaboration and artistic experimentation, Femke creates mixed-media works, primarily using film and performance, that aim to subvert stereotypes and introduce alternative narratives that put a smile on your face while making you critically aware about the world around us.
Alongside her art & design practice, Femke is active as a creative for the Dutch human rights organisation Humanistisch Verbond, as well as part of Touchy Studios and tutoring at Design Academy Eindhoven.
Based in the Netherlands. Working between
Utrecht, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, The Hague.
Nominated for a Dutch Design Award 2024
One of NRC's '"Rijzende sterren van 2025"
info@femkehoppenbrouwer.com













