CREATIVE OFFERINGS
I work with art as a practice of tending to the thresholds we cross, the stories we carry, and the futures we long for. My work lives at the edge of ritual, storytelling, and transformation, offering both artistic and relational forms of guidance for navigating the unknown.
I create visual artworks and long-term projects. I work with individuals, communities, and organisations to hold space for transitions that don’t fit into clear categories. This may take the shape of a commissioned textile piece, a one-on-one process, a shared ritual, or a group encounter.
Some of my works are intimate and personal. Others unfold in institutional contexts, exhibitions, or collective settings. All of them begin with deep listening, and a commitment to honouring what’s in motion.
RELATIONAL OFFERINGS
Alongside my artistic work, I hold space for personal transformation through story, material, and ritual. I guide individuals and groups through creative processes using textile, touch, voice, and intuitive listening.
With Stories for Inanna I make quilts marking personal times of transformation. I also guide women's circles, grief and transition rituals, silent walks, and creative workshops for institutions, collectives, and communities.
These practices are grounded in over a decade of embodied learning, including training in intuitive coaching, ritual facilitation, nonviolent communication, and a practice of meditation, breath work, yoga and somatic work. I participated in healing ceremonies in different cultures.
I collaborate with artists, institutions, collectives, and individuals. My work resonates with those seeking to bring depth and intentionality into their processes: institutions rethinking care and time; artists wanting to root into story and slowness; communities gathering around grief, transformation, or resistance.
You can reach out to me for commissioned textile work, rituals designed around your needs, one-on-one processes, or artistic coaching. I also offer textile-based workshops and creative sessions. And if you feel drawn to my work but aren't sure yet what form it could take, you're welcome to reach out — we can explore possibilities together.
Feel free to email me at hannevandyck@gmail.com with questions / to book a free 20-minute call to explore any offerings
or text me on IG: @hannevandyck
CIRCLES / WALKS
In Marrakech, I organised monthly women's circles. Occasionally, I organise circles in artistic contexts. For example: circular artist talks for JUJlab in Marrakech, a circle combined with play and a night walk at Cité des Arts Paris, one around care and after-performance blues at the Green Corridor in Brussels, around collective disobedience as care in Monty Antwerp, on more than mothers in NTGhent. I irregularly guide silent (new moon/solstice) walks in the city or Forest de la Soigne.
COACHING
As a certified intuitive coach, I offer sessions that support you in navigating where you are. Together, we listen to what is present and explore what you need. I work with experiential, creative, and grounding practices that help reconnect to yourself, resease stress, and care for your energy.
I also create rituals that grow out of your questions, your story, and the transitions you are moving through - gentle spaces of presence and renewal.
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
An experimental non-fiction text based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, read to the deceased for 49 days. Using texts on the transitional stages between dying and rebirth, it guides them through experiences that consciousness has in this liminal space. A Fly in a Salon was partially translated into Darija and performed in collaboration with Mostafa Lhanch, a storyteller who maintains a generations-long tradition on Marrakech's famous Jemaa el-Fna square.
Playing on the Wasteland, Living at the Margins - the shoreline people of Douar Koudia
An interdisciplinary anthropological and artistic project about a landscape slowly turning into a city. It looks at the inner workings of the wasteland of Douar el Koudia, located on the border of urban and peri-urban Marrakech. What happens when we shift the focus to the wasteland as the centre rather than the periphery? If we look at its own inner workings and interactions (or lack thereof) of the people and entities it brings together, rather than questioning its integration into the larger city?
Our aim is to propose a perspective in which the wasteland and its shoreline people are central - as a place where identities and local cultural meanings are constantly being constructed, collective solidarity is being woven together, relationships between different populations are being negotiated, where history leaks into the present and where the future still lies waiting to transform this place once and for all.
Experimental fieldwork in Tighmert, an oasis in southwestern Morocco, with anthropologist Alexandra Anzid Kollárová.
By knocking on doors in the oasis and asking (using a recording in Darija) for a piece of old melfa and sewing it together, they connected with the women of the oasis and their tradition. After a week of gathering and collective embroidery, they used this khayma as a backdrop for a marhouf. A marhouf is a gathering where women come together to eat and celebrate, which was organised for this occasion by Soukaina Dabbah and Rachida Dabbah, two women from the village. With these actions, Van Dyck and Anzid Kollárová wanted to undermine the classical notion of the visible and known terrain of the Tighmert oasis being traditionally male-dominated. Moreover, they questioned the often overlooked ethical approach to artistic collaborations in a postcolonial context."
A publication about loneliness, silence and isolation during a three-month summer sojourn in a large empty hotel in high Alpine territory.
Dance performance with Mohamed Lamqayssi about the liminal space created when changing context. Inspired by the way Al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic, poet and teacher of Sufism uses line diagrams and symbols to express things he cannot put into words.
JUJlab is a laboratory for intimate interdisciplinary exchange initiated in Marrakech. It brings together two artists for a period of two weeks for an experimental exchange of working processes and inspirations. The result focuses on intimacy and exchange with the public, in the form of a guided tour by the artist, a ceremony, a silent walk, a studio visit, ...
A liminal triptych spread over three new moon/winter solstice evenings.
A sacred circle about falling into the abyss. A game of petanque to trust the path and set an intention. A walk along the bridges of the Seine in Paris to let die what must die, live what must live. With visual artist Paola Korošec.
Intrusion is a multimedia installation created during a three-day funeral ceremony led by He XiuDong, a Dongba shaman priest in Lijiang, Yunnan in southwest China, made during a residency at Lijiang Studio. It addresses the relationship between the world of spirits and the natural world, as well as the figures of speech that reveal the traffic between art and anthropology, such as appropriation, materiality and texture, and how this is part of discourses on power and containment. Intrusion consists of two videos and an embroidered patchwork.