Pieter Paul Pothoven

Pieter Paul Pothoven (1981) is a multimedia artist who engages with historical sites, artifacts and resources in order to mediate new relationships with the past, often based on the potential use value of these locations and objects in the present. He received his BFA at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and his MFA at Parsons The New School for Design, New York. He was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown (US) and a resident at the Instituto Sacatar in Salvador, Brazil. In 2014 and 2015 he was a participant at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
Recent exhibitions with Pieter Paul Pothoven include Territorial Drift at Garage Rotterdam, Listen to the stones, think like a mountain at Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Lapis Lazuli from Serr-I-Sang at PuntWG, Amsterdam, 11:59 at Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown and The Intelligence of Things at The Kitchen, New York. His writings have been published by De Internet Gids, Volume and by the International Center of Photography in collaboration with CCS Bard. Work by Pothoven is held in private and public collections, including the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam and the Van Lanschot Art Collection, The Hague.
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Selected Works
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Sample 2/1, Sorghpar Adit #1, 2010-2015, from the series Laguard, framed C-print, 100 x 80 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Sample 2/1, Sorghpar Adit #1, 2010-2015, from the series Laguard, framed C-print, 100 x 80 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Sample 1/4, Regi-e-Siah, Adit #4, 2010-2015, from the series Laguard, framed C-print, 100 x 80 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Sample 4/1, Ablak, Adit #1, 2010-2015, from the series Laguard, framed C-print, 100 x 80 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP
- Sample 13/2, Sampaloo, Adit #2, 2010-2015, from the series Laguard, framed C-print, 100 x 80 cm, edition of 5 + 2 AP
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, In Absentia, Main Mine Adit #4, 2010-2015, framed C-print, 60.5 × 92 cm, edition of 5 + 2AP
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, In Absentia, Main Mine Adit #2, 2010-2015, framed C-print, 60.5 × 92 cm, edition of 5 + 2AP
- In Absentia, Main Mine Adit #3, 2010-2015, framed C-print, 60.5 × 92 cm, edition of 5 + 2AP
- Lapis Lazuli from Serr-i-Sang, 2012 – 2015 (installation view at PuntWG, Amsterdam)
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Lapis Lazuli from Serr-i-Sang, 2012 – 2015, series no. 4/7, 4 slices of lapis lazuli mounted on glass, Leica slide projector, pedestal (installation view at PuntWG, Amsterdam)
- Lapis Lazuli from Serr-i-Sang, 2012 – 2015, series no. 1/7, 36 slices of lapis lazuli mounted on glass, Leica slide projector, pedestal (installation view at PuntWG, Amsterdam)
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Lapis Lazuli from Serr-i-Sang, 2012 – 2015 (installation view at PuntWG, Amsterdam)
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Limen, installation with Egyptian bronze mirror (New Kingdom 1570 – 1070 BC, handle broken and repaired in antiquity, polished May 7, 2013 – May 25, 2015, total labor: 48 hours), bronze cast wall mounting
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Limen, installation with Egyptian bronze mirror (New Kingdom 1570 – 1070 BC, handle broken and repaired in antiquity, polished May 7, 2013 – May 25, 2015, total labor: 48 hours), bronze cast wall mounting
- Limen (production process)
- Pieter Paul Pothoven, Limen (production process)