Menno Pasveer (Born in Schiedam - 1998) is a Dutch painter who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 2022, The Hague | KABK.
Pasveer’s work is about the beauty of the everyday. His graduation series 'An Ode to the Floor Cleaning Industry' (2022) focuses on physical labor and the machine. The same applied to the subsequent series 'An Ode to felling trees' (2023). The viewer is immersed in scenes of chainsaws, flying wood chips, jerrycans and craftsmen diligently working high up in trees. In addition to the subject matter, he investigates the formal qualities of painting: differences in touch, energy, composition, size, and technique.
Exhibitions
2024 Art Rotterdam - Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Art fair.
2023 Art Antwerp - Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, Art fair.
2023 An Ode to Felling Trees - Galerie Ten Haaf, Amsterdam, solo exhibition.
2022 Pulchri prijs 2022 - The Hague art week, The Hague, solo stand.
2022 Fresh Cacao - Cacao Fabriek, Helmond, group exhibition.
2022 Best of Graduates - Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, group exhibition.
2022 Unfair 22 (ABCND store) - Amsterdam, Art fair.
2022 Graduation show - KABK, The Hague, group exhibition.
2021 Lean And Mean - Loods 6, Amsterdam, group exhibition
2021 As is Where is - The Hague, group exhibition
2021 Untitled - Trixie, The Hague, group exhibition
2020 Op Poten - Loods 6, Amsterdam, solo exhibition (canceled due to covid)
2019 Exchange at The Academy of Arts in Palermo, Painting department, Italy
2018 Vruchtbare Grond - Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, group exhibition