Gitta Pardoel is a Dutch-born artist, illustrator, and educator living in Spain. Trained in architecture and landscape design, she learned to notice how places hold stories—in their forms, their details, and the memories they awaken.

Today, nature is at the heart of her work. Through drawing, painting, and layered materials, she follows the shapes of plants and the rhythms of landscapes, moving between close observation and abstraction. Each image becomes a small story: a meeting between what is seen, what is remembered, and what the imagination discovers.

Gitta has exhibited internationally, her work is held in public and private collections, and she has written and illustrated children’s books. She has taught art and design at several academies for nearly a decade.

education
2023-2024/ MA course illustration and storytelling
2001-2003/ MA Art, architecture and design, Leicester(9) GB, NL
1992-1997/ Artschool, Utrecht, (8)NL
1983-1991/ MSc Technical University Delft, architecture, urban design,interior landscape architecture, (8,5) Delft, NL

teaching
2008-now/ Senior lecturer at the Academy of Art, Communication and Design, Academy of Fine and Performance Art, Tilburg. spatial design, interactive architecture, visualisation, illustration.
workshops, courses and lectures garden design, interior design, architecture, art, drawing,
2008-1018/ Lecturer interactive architecture at the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague
2008-2014/ Head of the Academy of Art, Communication and Design, Tilburg

exhibition
2026/ Cairo, Gran Museum from Egypt
2026/ Hammamet, Tunesia
2025/ Baku, Azerbaijan
2024/ ensemble, Tunesie
2023/exhibition childrensbookmuseum the Hague/ gallery Haagse Kunstkring
2020/ exhibition and symposium Xi’an, China, Silk route Foundation/ Hammamet, Tunesie
2019/ Hammamet, Tunesie
2018/ 51e premio vasto di arte contemporanea, scuderie di palazzo aragona studio uno ripartimento da zero Avezzano, Castello Orsini Colonna, italia
2017/ studio uno ripartimento da zero Avezzano, Castello Orsini Colonna, italia
2016/ Ins Blau- Art Gallery, Remscheid Honsberg, Germany/ Kunstschouw Zeeland/ Gallery Davydovych/ Regency artspace, Doha, Qatar
2015/ Gallery ArtHeereveenArt, Heereveen/ Amsterdam Artfair
2014/ Gallery staphorsius, artists.nu, the Netherlands
2013/ Instituto cervantes milano, Italia/ Gallery staphorsius, artists.nu, the Netherlands/ Ars Visiblis, Almería, España
2012/ Caravane Tolentino, Italia/ Caravane, Meca, Almería/ Biennal de Jaen
2011/ Arte Gira, Almeria, Spain/ Italy tolentino/ Galeria 23 y 12, El Vedado, C. Habana, Cuba/ Arte Gira, Cuba, Spain, Switerland/ Meca Mediterraneo Almeria
2010/ Chiesa di Santa Caterina ,Smerillo, Italy/ Polo culturale “San Francesco”,Monterubbiano, Italy/ Museum Rijswijk, the Netherlands
2009/ Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, the Netherlands/ SLEM, New York/ SLEM, Oerol, the Netehrlands
2008/ Museum Rijswijk, the Netherlands
2007/ Old Church, Amsterdam, the Netherlands/ Gallery Beeldkracht, the Netherlands
2006/ Gallery Artishock, Rijswijk, the Netherlands/ Gallery Marziart Hamburg, Germany/ Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, the Netherlands
Biennial Albiac, Rodalquilar, Spain
2005/ MECA Mediterráneo, Almeria, Spain
2004/ 404festival, Rosario, Argentina/ VA, image and sound, the Netherlands
2003/ Vrije Academie, Den Haag, the Netherlands
2000/ Vishal, Haarlem, the Netherlands / Gallery Beeldkracht, Scheemda, the Netherlands
1998/ Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds, Heerlen, the Netherlands
solo
2014/ Gallery Artishock, Rijswijk, the Netherlands
2013/ Gallery Mikstmedia, the Netherlands
2011/ Galeri hornan, Falun, Sweden
2007/ Sloopt!. Gallery 91, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2005/ MECA Mediterráneo, Almeria, Spain (duo)
2004/ VA, 2 audiovisual installations, the Netherlands
2001/ Gallery Beeldkracht, Scheemda, the Netherlands
2000/ Gallery de Kamer, Amersfoort, the Netherlands

symposia, contest
2025/ International artsymposium Matbu, Baku, Azerbaijan
2024/ Symposium 4th edition of ensamble d’art contemporain, Hammamet,
2022/ nominated literatureprize Leidschendam
2020/ Symposium Xi’an China
2019/ Symposium 4th edition of ensamble d’art contemporain, Hammamet, Tunesia
2018/ Symposium 4th edition of ensamble d’art contemporain, Hammamet, Tunesia
2016/ Printworkshop Mac.a Briech, Marocco
2016/ Al Asmakh atelier, Doha Qatar
2004 / selection 404festival, Rosario, Argentina
2002/ workshop Granada, Spain
1998 / ABP 2e prize, the Netherlands
1988/ internationaal designseminar Split, Yougoslavie
1989/ internationaal designseminar Delft

Publication
2019/ MusjesHuis, childrenbook

Galleries
New Jorg Gallery
Gallery … Italy

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