maria
koijck

Maria Koijck (1965) lives in Groningen and has realized community art projects from waste for various leading museums, including in the Netherlands, America, Brazil, Zambia, South Africa, Morocco, Romania and the Czech Republic.

In 2021 she made a video installation about the waste from her own breast reconstruction surgery after breast cancer. This shows in a penetrating way how much waste the ten-hour operation produced.

The video went viral and sparked the debate about sustainability in healthcare.

The Groningen artist wants to use her art to initiate a discussion to find other solutions for waste in healthcare. She previously started this discussion by making an impressive video about the large mountain of waste after her own breast reconstruction surgery that she underwent after breast cancer.

Maria Koijck: "We as people would like to get better, but at what price and are there no other ways to produce less waste in healthcare?"

On February 2 of this year, Maria Koijck was proclaimed Woman in the Media 2021 in Groningen