Vèf Jaah! at Dürst Britt & Mayhew

Artists: Paul Beumer, Alex Farrar, Willem Hussem, Jacqueline de Jong, Lennart Lahuis, Alexandre Lavet, Joseph Montgomery, Raúl Ortega Ayala, Pieter Paul Pothoven, Sybren Renema, David Roth, Puck Verkade, Wieske Wester

Exhibition title: Vèf Jaah!

Venue: Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, The Netherlands

Date: February 14 – July 19, 2020

Photography: Gert Jan van Rooij / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Note: ‘The Art of the Gallery’, essay by Bertus Pieters is available here

On 14 February 2015 Jaring Dürst Britt and Alexander Mayhew opened the doors of their gallery in The Hague with the group exhibition ‘Urbi et Orbi’, showing fourteen promising young artists who all graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

14 February 2020 marks Dürst Britt & Mayhew’s fifth anniversary. The group exhibition ‘Vèf Jaah!’ will show works by all of our thirteen represented artists, as well as a selection of handouts that have been created by graphic designer Chantal Hendriksen since the beginning of the gallery in 2015.

From each of our artists we will show one work that has never been shown in the gallery before accompanied by a work that was sold in the past few years and has an interesting story to the sale.

These stories have been recorded by art critic Bertus Pieters and printed on the by now well-known handout, thus giving a concise history of the gallery up to now.

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Willem Hussem (1900-1974), Composition, ca. 1972, oil on linen, 140 × 120 cm

Willem Hussem (1900-1974), Composition, 1963, gouache on paper, 76 × 56 cm, Collection of AKZONobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam

Vèf Jaah!,2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Joseph Montgomery, Image Two Hundred Sixteen, 2010-2013. oil, gouache, paper, canvas, rope, ink, pastel, cedar, stain on panel, 41.9 × 30.5 × 7.6 cm, Private collection, The Hague

David Roth, Untitled, 2010 – 2019, oil on canvas, 24 × 30 cm, Private collection, The Hague

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Puck Verkade, BAIT, 2018, mixed media installation including a looped video 5’ 24”

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Paul Beumer, Untitled, 2016, ink on cotton, 161 × 155 cm

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Paul Beumer, Untitled, 2015, ink and watercolour on paper, 70 × 50 cm, Private collection, Amsterdam

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Joseph Montgomery, Image Five Hundred Fifteen, 2020, gouache, pigment transfer, paper, and acrylic on cedar and plywood, 41 × 27 × 5 cm

Wieske Wester, Oysters and Lemon #4, 2019, oil on linen, 100 × 130 cm

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Lennart Lahuis, Le sentiment national, 2019, C-print on wood, beeswax on paper and glass, 128 × 288 × 4 cm

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Alexandre Lavet, Ensemble no. 1, 2019, mixed media, 45 × 38 × 38 cm

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Lennart Lahuis, Deeply held beliefs, 2019, jesmonite, cast rubber, imitation leather, metal, 40 × 13,5 × 2,5 cm, unique, Private collection, São Paulo

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Jacqueline de Jong, Potato Flower walking away, 2017, digital print, oil stick and nepheline gel on canvas, 87 × 62 cm, Private collection, Amsterdam

Jacqueline de Jong, Sleeping potato’s “en famille”, 2017, digital print, oil stick and nepheline gel on canvas, 87 × 62 cm

Jacqueline de Jong, Baked Potatoes, 2006, glazed ceramic, wire, dimensions variable

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Alexandre Lavet, One hundred and ten characters on a wall, 2017, Transfer on wall, 2,7 × 12,1 cm, Private collection, Lisbon

Pieter Paul Pothoven, ‘Laguard’ series, 2010, framed C-print, 100 × 80 cm, number 1 from an edition of 5+2AP, Collection of AKZONobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam

Pieter Paul Pothoven, Sample 1/4, Regi-e-Siah, Adit #4 (from the ‘Laguard’ series), 2010, framed C-print, 100 × 80 cm

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Alex Farrar, Behavioural Residue (painted Mary Kaye pink), 2019, painted sand cast lead, steel mounting, 90 × 40 × 2 cm, Private collection, Rotterdam

Alex Farrar, Bubblestill (sweat painting), 2017, cotton, silicone, aluminium stretcher bars, 70 × 50 cm, Private collection, Rotterdam

Selection of handouts designed for Dürst Britt & Mayhew by Chantal Hendriksen of Studio Hendriksen, 2015-2020

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Sybren Renema, Discovery, 2017, single channel video, 2 hours, 46 minutes, number 1 from an edition of 5 + 2 AP, Collection of the MIAP Foundation, Netherlands

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

Wieske Wester, Shapes (Land) #4, 2018, oil on linen, 24 × 30 cm, Private collection, Basel

David Roth, Untitled, 2019, oil on canvas, 30 × 24 cm

Sybren Renema, Discovery 115’50”, 2017, digital print, 29 × 38 cm, edition of 7 + 2AP

Alex Farrar, Behavioural Residue (painted 999 red), 2019, painted sand cast lead, steel mounting, 98 × 35 × 2 cm

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague

On the left: Raúl Ortega Ayala, The Bleaching Ground (after Max Liebermann), 2016, mixed media on wood, 114 × 178 cm, unique piece, version 1 of 3; On the right: Raúl Ortega Ayala, Still life with meadow flowers and roses (after Vincent Van Gogh), 2016, mixed media on wood, 100 × 80 cm, unique piece, unique piece, version 3 of 3

Raúl Ortega Ayala, Still life with meadow flowers and roses (after Vincent Van Gogh), 2016, mixed media on wood, 100 × 80 cm, unique piece, unique piece, version 3 of 3

Vèf Jaah!, 2020, exhibition view, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague