Femke Hoyng is a Dutch interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of ceramics and photography. Her practice explores the relationship between material, narrative, and societal urgency.

She studied audiovisual design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and worked for over twenty-five years in film and television while/before focusing on autonomous sculptural practice. Her work emerges from long-term engagement: traveling, observing, documenting, and subsequently transforming into tangible forms. She approaches making not as an endpoint, but as a process in which stories slowly unfold.

Central to her practice is the idea of ​​making as connection. In her recent projects, she works with footage of women in India, water carriers, with which she creates ceramic sculptures. These objects carry not only water, but also personal and collective stories about climate change, scarcity, and resilience. Through photo transfers and hand-shaping, each work becomes a unique carrier of identity and experience.

Her working method is intuitive and exploratory, allowing room for imperfection and the unexpected. Material plays an active role in this: clay, sculpture, and photography interact with one another and together form a layered whole. Each object bears traces of the making process as well as of the context from which it originates.

Her work can be seen as a plea for attention and slowing down in a world under pressure. By connecting personal stories with global themes, she creates work that is both intimate and urgent—an invitation to look differently at water, at care, and at the role we ourselves play in it.

Hoyng lives and works in BOTH the Netherlands and France.