Chronology

Key dates in the life of Peter Klashorst.

1957Born on 11 February in Santpoort, the Netherlands.
1979Moves to the new Audiovisual department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.
1982LP Happy End with his new wave band Soviet Sex. Buning Brongers Prize.
1983Royal Subsidy for Free Painting (Koninklijke Subsidie voor de Vrije Schilderkunst).
1980sNationally known as one of the Dutch New Wild Ones. Exhibits in New York, among others with Jeff Koons.
1989Co-founds the collective After Nature with Bart Domburg and Jurriaan van Hall.
1997Publishes Schilderen met acryl.
Late 1990sSettles in Africa: Senegal, Kenya and the Gambia.
2000sMoves to Southeast Asia: Bangkok, Pattaya and Phnom Penh.
2010Castles in the Air published in Bangkok.
2011Around fifty portraits shown at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21), Phnom Penh. Novel Kunstkannibaal published by Prometheus (launched 1 December).
2016Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Ludwig, Frankfurt-Höchst (September). Van Gogh in the Gambia with Klashorst, Alliance Française, Banjul (November). Painters Tales published.
2020Privately published art book Dirty Diaries, with stories in English.
2024Dies on 11 September in Amsterdam, aged 67.

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