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Popel Coumou Artist Profile Photo

Popel Coumou


Born 1978, Velsen, The Netherlands

Popel Coumou's art is inspired by this naturally occurring play of lines. She tries to simulate these lifeless but highly evocative areas by shaping her own slices of constructed space. She uses a great variety of techniquesto construct the illusion of a place. She then carefully lights this architectural collage to add the suggestion of a third dimension to the photographs she takes of these scenes. By accentuating the effects of light outside and shadows inside these spaces, she furthers both the sense of a flattened representation and the illusion of depth. The end result is an image that seems to hold the mid ground between painterly abstraction and geometric photography.

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Popel Coumou, Digital C-print, 117. Untitled, 2020

117. UNTITLED, 2020

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Popel Coumou, Digital C-print, 116. Untitled, 2020

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Popel Coumou, Digital C-print, 110. Untitled, 2019

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Popel Coumou, Digital C-print, 123. Untitled, 2020

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Popel Coumou, Digital C-print, 121. Untitled, 2020

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Popel Coumou, Digital C-print, 118. Untitled, 2020

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Popel Coumou, Digital C-print, 120. Untitled, 2020

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Popel Coumou, Handmade paper collage, 127. Untitled, 2020

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 1. Untitled, 2003

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 3. Untitled, 2003

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 12. Untitled, 2005

12. UNTITLED, 2005

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 48. Untitled, 2007

48. UNTITLED, 2007

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 70. Untitled, 2010

70. UNTITLED, 2010

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 75. Untitled, 2012

75. UNTITLED, 2012

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 84. Untitled, 2013

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 82. Untitled, 2013

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 88. Untitled, 2014

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 86. Untitled, 2014

86. UNTITLED, 2014

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 91. Untitled, 2015

91. UNTITLED, 2015

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 90. Untitled, 2015

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 98. Untitled, 2016

98. UNTITLED, 2016

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 101. Untitled , 2016

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Popel Coumou, C-print , 105. Untitled, 2017

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Exhibitions

  • A Paper Perspective

    Popel Coumou
    21 Nov 2020 - 23 Jan 2021

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    A Paper Perspective

    Popel Coumou

    21 Nov 2020 - 23 Jan 2021

  • New Work

    Popel Coumou
    8 Apr 2017 - 20 May 2017

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    New Work

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    8 Apr 2017 - 20 May 2017

CV :

Exhibitions

2020

Fotomuseum Den Haag "Papier en Licht" (November)
TORCH Gallery "A Paper Perspective" (November)
Art Rotterdam (TORCH Gallery, February)

2019
Fotomuseum Den Haag “De soep van Daguerre” (group)
Collectie DE GROEN, Arnhem “Pick me” (14/09/19 – 22/12/19)

2018
KadS (Kunst aan de schinker) Art in public space; “When notion of time disappears”.
Photograph for an advertisement collumn.
Work for the showroom op David Lloyd 
Art Fairs: Haute Photographie (TORCH Gallery)

2017
TORCH Gallery (solo) (April-May)
Zandvoorts Museum “Van Mondriaan tot Dutch Design”
Art Fairs: Volta 13 Basel (LMAK Gallery NY)

2016           
LMAK Gallery New York, USA (solo)
Dubai Photo Exhibition. Dutch/Belgium Pavillion. Curated by Els     Barents.
Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen “Photography Extended”
Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium
witteveen Visual Art Centre “Ritme en Regelmaat, 70 jaar abstractie in  de kunst, 1956 – 2015”
Dapiran Art project space, Utrecht (duo)
Art Fairs: Unseen Amsterdam (Torch Gallery)

2015              
TORCH Gallery (solo)
Art Fairs: Art Rotterdam, Unseen Amsterdam (TORCH Gallery), Seatlle Art Fair (LMAKgallery), Art Miami (solo presentation with LMAKgallery).

2014              
LMAKprojects, New York, US (solo)
Huis Marseille Amsterdam
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag “Fotoverhalen”
AMC/Brummelkamp Gallery (Amsterdam Medical Centre) (solo)
Fairs: Pulse Miami, Art Rotterdam (TORCH Gallery)

2013           
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, “The rediscovery of the world”
Fairs: Art at the warehouse with Foam editions, Object Art with: we like art walls

2012             
TORCH Gallery (solo show + book publication)
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam “Viewpoint. A closer look at showing”
Foam Magazine Talent exhibition, Amsterdam
Fairs: Unseen Amsterdam, Tokyo photo, Art Rotterdam (TORCH gallery)

2011             
Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
Art Rotterdam, Art Amsterdam, Pulse Miami, Tokyo photo (TORCH Gallery)
Seelevel Amsterdam
TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam
De rietlanden, Amsterdam

2010            
TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam (double solo)
Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam
Amsterdam Centrum voor Fotografie (ACF)
Galerie 37, Spaarnestad, Haarlem (double solo)
Galerie 48, Breda
Fairs: Art Rotterdam, Art Antique Utrecht (TORCH Gallery)

2009              
Seoul Art Center, S. Korea
Villa Nouailles, Hyeres, France
Kunstanlab, Deventer
Seelevel, Amsterdam
ACF (Amsterdam Centre of photography)

2008             
Gallerie Maurits van de Laar (solo)
ACF (Amsterdam Centre of photography)
Arti et Amicitiae “Het gonst in Arti” (as exhibitor and curator)
Foam “Expanding the city”
Villa nouailles, Hyeres, France (solo)
Platform21, Amsterdam

2007              
Galerie Dubbelbee, Amsterdam (double solo show)
Galerie Pont en Plas, Gent, Belgium (solo)
Villa Nouailles, Hyeres, France

2006             
Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam
ACF (Amsterdam Centre for Photography) (double solo show)
Galerie 32/34 / SBK Osdorp (solo)
Saudades, Museum het Domein Sittard
Gallery Cokkie Snoei, Roterdam (double solo show)
Goudslicht, Gouda

2005              

Gallery Maurits van de Laar in The Hague
Foam (photomuseum Amsterdam) (solo)
Art Fairs: Art Rotterdam (Galerie van Zoetendaal), Kunst Rai on the oportunity of the nomination for the Thieme Kunst Rai price

2004             
ACF (Amsterdam Centre for Photography)
Shell Amsterdam, Shell Young Art Awards 2004

Collections:

Museum Het Domein in Sittard
Gemeente Museum Den Haag
Foam (Photography Museum Amsterdam)
Huis Marseille Amsterdam (Museum for Photography)
VUmc (Medical centre Amsterdam)
AMC (Medical Centre Amsterdam)
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten
Statoil
Dela
MediaMath (New York en Londen) 
Various Art Libraries
Private collectors in and outside Europe (among others the Rothschilds)



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