Koen Potgieter is based in Zürich, Switzerland. ​

Currently working on two photography books.
To get in touch you can write to koenpotgieter@gmail.com

Writing & Exhibitions

Simple Past Tense, Exhibition HTOP Gallery Warsaw
(forthcoming September 2026)

Hometown Song, Solo Exhibition Gemeente Amersfoort
(forthcoming May 2026)

Hometown Song, Solo Exhibition Broedplaats Oogst, Hengelo
(22 June - 20 July 2024)

Foreword for Mirjana Vrbaski’s Odd Time (2021)
(one of The Guardian’s Photobooks of the Year)

Raum/Space Group Exhibition, Kaliningrad (2020)

University Teaching (selection)

University of Warsaw (2021-2025)

• On Photography: 1970 - 2020 (BA)

• Lyric Documentary: Inventing a Genre (BA)

• Landscape Photography: Perspectives on America (MA)

• American Documentary Photography (BA)

• The American Photobook (BA)

Freie Universitaet Berlin (2020)

• American Visual Narratives (BA)

University of Hannover (2019)

• The American Photobook (MA)

Education

PhD in American Literature (Freie Universitaet Berlin, 2019)