A collection of inherited photos from the 19th century leads to a kaleidoscopic voyage through Central Europe.



    2024

time is not a thing that passes … it's a sea on which you float.’
(Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood 2009) Celebrating 40 years WG-terrein Amsterdam
24 & 25 september 2024 2024

The history of the garden in images. A living work of art in progres. 2020

In a theatre installation in the middle of the forest, we reflect on ownership. 2019

Blueprints or cyanotypes - photos that saw the light outside the dark room. 2018

A series of portraits of actors for the performance WE THE PEOPLE by theater DEGASTEN 2017

16mm film loops and tape (1993, remake 2014) 2014

originated from an experiment with cyanotype - an old photographic process - and a collection of X-rays. 2013

The video installation SCULPTUUR of Anne-Marie van Sprang and BarBara Hanlo, shows die existence of a sculpture and at the same time the uncover of an other sculpture as an alchemistic process. 2013

Radiodocumentary for Dutch broadcast VPRO on the Dutch explorer Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). 2012

As long as you stay inside, the model is full-screen, a universe in itself. You are at home there, like a child in a nursery, far from the roughness around it. Installation by Jeroen Kee and BarBara Hanlo in project space puntWG, Amsterdam 2011 2011

Silent interiors of canal houses in Amsterdam. 2009

Photo report for Red magazine. Traveling with writer Arita Baaijens who spent years traveling alone through the Egyptian desert.  

2009

The swamp, a transitional area between water and land, becomes a metaphor for the domain between illusion and reality. 2008

What inspired a rich young woman, part of high society in 19th century The Hague, to travel as if possessed, to Africa?     2007

Seven rooms and each room represents a mortal sin.
Are they sins, are they attributes, is it character?   2007

Dream and reality get entangled. An installation by Jeroen Kee and BarBara Hanlo, perfomance: Geerten Ten Bosch.   2006

How did a young bird watcher meet his death in the dungeons of the Nazis? 2003

a collection of Sunday morning rituals, written by the children from Group 3 (ages 5-6 years). The handwriting of each child is fully their own; their letters have a strong character and a striking connection with drawing. Part 4 of the series “Collections from an Elementary School”   2003

A collection of individual ‘own’ sounds made by children from Group 7 (ages 10-11 years) Part 5 of the series “Collections from an Elementary School” 2003

A video by children from Group 8 of the Public Elementary School De Kinkerhoek, Amsterdam, in the context of the culture education project 'Collection of a primary school'. 2000

Filmic and musical variations on a round form. 1999

9 birthgiving stories 1998

A fragile yet powerful poem in black & white. 1997

You could say that the exalted structures and similarities of the microcosm and macrocosm are the motive for this art work. 1996

A cinematic journey tracing a pilgrimage to the monastery ruins of Disibodenberg, inspired by the spirit of Hildegard of Bingen. 1996

The (English) booklet Colored Black and White by BarBara Hanlo is both an artist's book and an artist's manual. 1996

"My poor flowers are quite dead," said little Ida.   1996

A film about looking. For example in Amsterdam's Vondelpark. 1994

A modest and loving portrait of a small enclave of old-fashioned beach huts by the North Sea. 1993

Intensity, presence, light   1989

Inspired by those stories I painted this unique photographic work in 7 parts with light 1988

1981

mystery is to be found in everything and I am merely the artist who recognizes this mystery in the things around me.  
 

Jan Hanlo, and that man I am myself is an impressionistic documentary, a famous Dutch writer and poet in the fifties who died in 1969.

Romantic wandering through abandoned house.

‘I have a bicycle’ is about the observations of children between the ages of four and six, about the strength of their creative ability.

‘My most beautiful/My ugliest’ is a photography book made by students from Group 5/6 (ages 8-10 years). The students took turns to bring home a simple stills camera, with the task of photographing the most beautiful and the ugliest spots in their house and garden.

Video registration of Gerbrand Bos' theater performance  

The Ektachrome and Kodachrome slides, made by my father, are my source of inspiration for a series of paintings. 

Impression of the bigest studio complex in the Netherlands.