Jan Ketelaar

Jan Ketelaar is an artist from Friesland. In 2002 he graduated from the Academie Minerva, interdisciplinary sculpting. Under the name ‘Potzenmakerij Ketelaar’ he makes so-called potzen: serious jokes.

Jan Ketelaar exhibited in Portugal, Bremen and New York, among others. He toured the Netherlands several times (by forklift) with his meter-high sculptures, “the state of the Netherlands”. In 2014, his royal fence, in the form of a bench made of lime leaves, was placed around the first royal lime tree in the Netherlands in Leeuwarden. He is primarily a sculptor, but also writes and publishes poems. In 2008 and 2012, he was in the finals of the NK Poetry Slam. In 2014, his first collection was published: ‘Van een man die denk, ik wil niet meer denken’ (From a man who thought, I don’t want to think anymore). In addition, as a potter, he organizes literary and cultural gatherings.

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