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 […]
In 2015, Dürst Britt & Mayhew took part in the Unseen Amsterdam Photo Fair, where the gallery exhibited work by Lennart Lahuis, Alexandre Lavet, Pieter Paul Pothoven and Sybren Renema. Reviews and features NRC Handelsblad by Sandra Smallenburg Mister Motley by Lieneke Hulshof Collector Daily by Loring Knoblauch Trendbeheer by Johan Nieuwenhuize
For the first edition of Amsterdam Art Fair Dürst Britt & Mayhew presents a solo presentation by Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven, whose artistic practice concerns itself with the historic and social connotations of various valuable objects, ranging from lapis lazuli to ancient Egyptian mirrors. Pothoven mixes personal experience and first-hand research with historical information, which […]