Margriet van Breevoort (Amsterdam, 22 June 1990) is a Dutch sculptor.
Life and work Van Breevoort followed an orientation year at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague (2007-2008) and then studied at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (2008-2013). She makes drawings and hyper-realistic sculptures, deliberately misleading the viewer.Margriet van Breevoort, Mondriaanfonds. Archived on September 18, 2021.
Van Breevoort received a work contribution for Young Talent in 2016 from the Mondriaan Fund. In the same year she won the audience award at the annual sculpture exhibition Sculptures in Leiden with her sculpture Homunculus Loxodontus. The statue was purchased by the Leids University Medical Center and placed at the main entrance of the hospital. The work became a true internet hit in Russia and the surrounding area."How a Dutch work of art became a Russian internet hit", NRC.nl, February 5, 2017; "This Dutch work of art conquers Russia", Pauw, July 10, 2017. Archived on February 21, 2019. She signed a licensing contract with a Russian company that will transform the image into a children's film.
Selected works 2015: Twisted Fairy Tales, Kanaleneiland Neighborhood Service Center, Utrecht 2016: Homunculus Loxodontus, collection Leiden University Medical Center 2016: The tourist, collection Museum Arnhem 2017: The waiting, collection Buitenplaats Doornburgh 2019: Leo Mare Unicornicus, coll. LUMC
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