BIOGRAPHY PHILIPPINE HOEGEN
born 14-12-1970 in Kitzbühel, Austria
lives/ works in The Netherlands and Belgium
Philippine Hoegen (born 14 December 1970 in Kitzbühel, Austria) is an artist and researcher based in Belgium and the Netherlands. Working primarily with performance, she uses the medium both as an artistic practice and as a method of research. Her work explores the constructed and performed nature of the self and, increasingly, the politics, visibility, and value of work—especially the embodied, relational, and often invisible forms of labour that shape daily life.
Hoegen is currently a researcher and PD Candidate at the Professorship Expanding Artistic Practices, HKU, Utrecht with the project Performing Working*, which explores the performativity of work, with particular attention to undervalued, hidden, and unwaged forms of labour. Hoegen's artistic practice is grounded in performance, approached both as a way of thinking with, through, and from the body. Methodologically, the project builds on traditions in performance research that treat artistic practice itself as a mode of inquiry, where making, documenting, and reflecting intertwine. This orientation frames performance not only as a method but also as a field with its own resources for generating and sharing knowledge, and as a discipline with its own creative, infrastructural, and relational tools.
Her recent activities span performance, writing, publishing, and collaborative research. In 2025 she co-authored Consent in Action: Learning from Artistic Research within an Institutional Review Context (with V. Spronck et al.) for Methods in Psychology. She presented performances including Hello Alter Ego (with S. Kashani and I. Darachieva, 2024–25), Callisthenics, Stories of Support, Aversion and Love (with P. Bouhana and H. Dörr, 2025), and Ushering in Some Alternate Ego’s (with A. Guenther, 2025). Her publication How We Wish to Work (with V. Spronck) appeared in Performance Research in 2025.
Earlier outcomes include An Informal Manual for Illness (HKU, 2023); Wat is Werk? (with H. Wierda, 2023); The Body at Work (with L. Oriol, 2023); and the year-long research project What is Work? at Kunsthal Gent (2021–22). Additional publications and broadcasts include In These Circumstances (Onomatopee, 2022), Scores for Isolation (2020), and the book ANOTHER VERSION: Thinking Through Performing (Onomatopee, 2020).
Hoegen attended a.pass in Brussels, holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute and a BFA from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague.
*Performing Working is a Professional Doctorate project conducted in HKU (University of the Arts Utrecht) as part of a new, practice-led professional education line that started in 2023 within Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences, equivalent to a PhD. (National Professional Doctorate program, Arts & Creative Professional Doctorate)
LINKS:
Research Catalogue as portfolio and documentation of Performing Working (ongoing)
Consent in action: Learning from artistic research within an institutional review context, with V. Spronck, F. Camuti, J. Leest, T. Teunissen, in Methods in Psychology Volume 13, December 2025
Hello Alter Ego, with S. Kashani and I. Darakchieva, Buitenplaats Brienenoord, Rotterdam (10-2025)
Callisthenics, Stories of Support, Aversion and Love, performance at Beyond the Black Box festival Antwerp, with Paloma Bouhana and Henny Dörr (05-2025)
Ushering in Some Alternate Ego’s, performance with Antye Geunther, Varia Rotterdam, 02-2025)
How We Wish to Work: An exchange on participation, connectivity and care,article in Performance Research, with V. Spronck (02-2025);
Callisthenics, Stories of Support, Aversion and Love, performance at CERC2025 with Paloma Bouhana and Henny Dörr, (01-2025)
Alter Ego, Training the sense of our other selves, performative workshop with Sohrab Kashani and Ina Darakchieve, Marres Maastricht (11-2024)
The Body at Work: The Work of Being a Body, with Laura Oriol, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (10-2023)
Residency/performance at WP Zimmer, Antwerp, From the Finger to the Bone with Paloma Bouhana (11-2022)
Performance Performing Working at DIS-Seminar #2, Utrecht with Paloma Bouhana (11-2022)
Training the Sense of our Selves: Performing Work, with Nirav Christophe, Carolien Stikker: a performative workshop at Marres, Maastricht
Performance NÓS at Zenne Art-Lab, with Flávio Rodrigo, Brussels (06-2022)
A performative research project, residency and series of presentations at Kunsthal Gent titled What is Work? (03/2021-04/2022)
The publication In these circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices' (editor: launch May 2022) by/about a.pass Brussels, publisher Onomatopee, Eindhoven.
A series of podcasts for/i.c.w. Club Solo Breda About The Future and the Artists’ Initiatives(11-12/2020)
A series of seven broadcasts titled Scores for Isolation on Onomatopeenet / Instagram Live (04-05/2020)
Presentation of her book ANOTHER VERSION: Thinking Through Performing (publisher Onomatopee, Eindhoven) during the Bâtard festival at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels (01/2020)