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.