Nan Hoover

Biography

Nan Hoover was an installation and performance artist, originally from the United States, who moved to Amsterdam in the late 1960s. In the early 1970s, she made several short 8mm films. Afterwards, she mainly focused on videos and video installations.

In the 1980s, she moved to West Germany: first to Berlin, and then to Düsseldorf, where she led the department of video art and performance at the art academy.

Hoover’s relevance is due not so much to the importance of her film work – she only made a few experimental films – but rather as an example of a performance artist who made the transition in the early 1970s to audiovisual media such as film and video.

In her later years, Hoover concentrated on painting.