NIEK DE GREEF

Conceptual Artist & Photographer

Born: 1967, Netherlands
Lives and works in Heiloo, Noord-Holland

Contact: n.degreef@gmail.com | +31 6 24361598
Website: niekdegreef.works
Instagram: @fromthepolder

EDUCATION

1991 – MSc Computer Science, Twente University

2005 – MBA, Henley Management College

Photography Workshops:

— Barry Talis & Zisis Kardianos (Burn My eye) (Brussels, 2016)

— Siegfried Hansen / Jesse Marlow (UP Photographers) (Berlin, 2018)

SOLO PROJECTS

2008–present Noord-Holland Grid Project

Systematic photographic documentation of Noord-Holland province divided into thousands of quadrants. Ongoing long-term investigation of landscape transformation.

Archive: noordhollandfoto.nl

SELECTED SERIES

Built (2020–present)
Engineered (2019–present)
Scaled (2020–present)
Polder (2015–2025)
Singular (2018–present)
Taxonomies: Eheh! Huh? (2020–present)

PUBLICATIONS

2020 – Picture in “A Spectator is an Artist Too”, by Johan Idema

2017 – Focus magazine (2 issues), Canon Grand Prix, semifinalist

EXHIBITIONS

2025 – “IJmuiden, Havenlandschap”, Bibliotheek IJmuiden (solo)

2025 – “Ode aan de Toekomst”, Kunstuitleen Alkmaar (group)

2025 – “Het Land”, Art Parade, Heiloo

2024 – “Ode aan het Licht”, Kunstuitleen Alkmaar (group)

2023 – “Werk aan de Afsluitdijk”, Rijkswaterstaat (solo commission)

2018 – “Streeteye”, Huis Kinesis, Delft (group)

COLLECTIONS

Works in private collections in the Netherlands

COMMERCIAL WORK

Selected clients and projects:

Rijkswaterstaat (Afsluitdijk documentation)

Rode Kruis (commissioned work)

Marker Wadden

ComicCon Utrecht

Portfolio: fromthepolder.nl

ONLINE PRESENCE

Fine Art Portfolio: niekdegreef.works
Noord-Holland Grid Project Archive: noordhollandfoto.nl
Writing: niekdegreef.nl
Commercial Work: fromthepolder.nl
Shop: kneut.nl (prints, art, zines, postcards)
Also available: Saatchi Art

BACKGROUND

Three decades experience as an IT architect, bringing systematic thinking and pattern recognition to photographic practice. Author of technical publications and “Don’t Be Afraid of the Mainframe” (via seneqa.nl).

Literary practice alongside photography, exploring themes of observation, time, and the everyday.