Hanneke Beaumont was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, in 1947. After studying dentistry in the United States, she moved back to Europe, to Belgium, where she still lives today. Beaumont started her artistic studies in 1977 at the Académie de Braine l'Alleud, then at La Cambre & in Anderlecht; she received her first solo exhibition in 1983. Hanneke currently works in Brussels and in Pietra Santa, Italy.

An important turn in her carrier happened in 1994 when she was awarded, for her sculpture group "Le Courage", the major award of the Centre International d'Art Contemporain Château Beychevelle. Shortly after, she participated in the second Exposiciòn Internacional de Esculturas en la Calle, organized by the Colegio de Arquitectos de Canarias in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where her work was permanently installed. Many other public and private collectors have manifested great interest in her work. She now enjoys an international reputation with exhibitions in the US, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland...

Beaumont's sculptures are realized in Terracotta, Bronze and Cast iron.

Read and watch more:

• Stepping Forward: Installation of bronze nr 77 in front of the new building of the European Council
• Hanneke Beaumont: The Urgent Moment. By Robert C. Morgan
• Desolated Figures in Abstract Sculptures. Beanmont's Reinvention of Western Body. By Dinah Guimaraens
• Hanneke Beaumont's Melancholia. By Robert C. Morgan
• The Unfantomable Figure: Hanneke Beaumont's Sculpture by Donald Kuspit
• Hanneke Beaumont ou l'étrange étrangeté. By René Berger