Gabriel Lester

Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1972
Lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

www.gabriellester.com

Education
2005-2006 ISCP, New York, United States
2005            New York Film Academy (Film Directing course), New York, Unites States
2003-2004 IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
1999-2000 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995-1996 St. Lucas Academie, Brussels, Belgium (Film Department)
1994-1995 St. Joost, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Breda, The Netherlands

Solo exhibitions
2011
It is no great wonder if in the long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Suspension of Disbelief, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010
Gabriel Lester, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2009
ProMotion, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
2008
One Man Show - One Man Band, Kios, Gent, Belgium
The Last Smoking Flight, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A Man of Action, Duvekleemann, Berlin, Germany
2007
And Now for Something Completely Different, IBID Projects, London, United Kingdom
The Last Piece of John Fare, GB Agency, Paris, France
BIG BANG- and assorted minor explosions, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom
2006
SEEN, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
4x4 Hands, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Opa, Guadalajara, Mexico
A.B.C. Behind the Scenes, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Chiaroscuro, Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
Highlight (plan B), NICC, PSK, Brussels, Belgium
Beautiful Gamble, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
The Clock and the Clockwork, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Break North, Fries Museum, Bureau Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2002
ShutterSpeedTrial, Hortus Tunnel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
News Twister, The Looking Glass, Brussels, Belgium
The Gift of Gab (Curator: Vasif Kortun), Platform, Istanbul, Turkey
Cut to the Chase, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2001
Art Statements (Art Basel 32), Basel, Switzerland
Branching, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
Attic, Centre d'Art Neuchatel, Switzerland
2000
Choreography, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Act Again, Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1999
Mala Loka, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Group exhibitions
2012
Blind Cut, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
2011

Sweet dreams (are made of this), Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China

TV Commune, Nam June Paik Art Center, Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, GyeongGi-do, South Korea

Tijdelijk Verblijf, Kasteel Oud-Rekem, Belgium
De stad 3D, Historie, Street art en Toekomstvisies, Museum Hilversum, The Netherlands
De stad en haar collectie, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(Performance) Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin: I am not a studio artist, SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
De Nederlandse identiteit?, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
Parkplatz, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
ShadowDance, Kunsthal KadE, Amersfoort
"Not Our Cup of Tea" - a variety show traveling down memory lane commissioned by Capacete for the Sao Paulo biennial ( ), i.c.w. Raimundas Malasauskas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Les Rendez-vous du Forum: Repetition Island (Curated by Raimundas Malasauskas), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
B-sides and Rarities , Extra city (i.c.w. Lokaal 01), Antwerp, Belgium
Sound Design for Future Films, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2009
The Prompt Performa 09 Biennial, New York, United States
Group Show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Filmic Conventions, ZOO, London, United Kingdom
Discovering Slowness, CEAC, Xiamen, China
B-sides and Rarities, Lokaal 01, Breda, The Netherlands
Clifford Irving Show (One-night-only), Kadist Art Foundation, New York, United States
Videoclub Avril (http://www.videoclubparis.com/page2_vid.html ), Paris, France
The Secret of the Ninth Planet , Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, United States
Lapses, Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Fribourg, Switzerland
Real vague, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
Slow Movement or: Half and Whole, Kunsthalle Bern , Switzerland
Paper Exhibition, Artists Space, New York, United States
2008
In het duister; Zwervende tentoonstelling #12, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fear Minus One, The University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, United States
The Studio: Sound design for future films , Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Liverpool Biennial: MADE UP (International 08), Liverpool, United Kingdom
Library, UOVO Open Office Berlin, Germany
Wrap your troubles in a dream , Lautom Contemporary, Oslo, Norway
3500 cm2 (Art poster exhibition), uqbar, Berlin, Germany
One of these things is not like the other things, Galleria 1/9 Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Deep Screen; Art in Digital Culture (Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Capacete (With Helmut Batista, Jean-Pascal Flavien & Ducha), Gallery Friedrich Petzel, New York, United States
2007
Group show with Gallery Artists, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Drop it Like it's Hot, Frieze Artfair / Frankfurter Kunstverein, London, United Kingdom
'Decoder' - Contour - (Third Biennial for Video Art), Mechelen, Belgium
Twee en twintig duizend vijfhonderd: De Collectie Almere, aanwinsten 01-07, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
Modern Solitude, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Night of the 25th; MiArt 2007 (Arcipelagi Olanda), Milan, Italy
The discovery of slowness, Kw14, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
The First Antechamber, Projects Arts Centre Dublin, Ireland
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Young Belgian Art Prize, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Still Here, ArtSpace, Sydney, Australia
Anyan Public Arts Project (permanent work), Anyang, Korea
3500 cm2 #61, Blueroom a Rialto Santambrogio, Rome, Italy
Ready Media, Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Giving Visibility, Art Basel Miami Beach, United States
2006
Being in Brussels, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Le Nouveau Sicle, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In Moment, Skellefteå Konsthall, Skellefteå, Sweden
The Urban Condition, Cross Section, De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Everywhere, Busan Biennial 2006, Korea
Undo/Redo, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2005
Group Show with Gallery Artists, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dropping, Gemeente Haarlemmermeer, Nieuw-Vennep, The Netherlands
Black Market, 9th Baltic Triennal, Vilnius/London, Lithuania/ United Kingdom
Parking our Society, Public Space, Utrecht, The Netherlands
More Then This, Goteborg Biennial, Goteborg, Sweden
Past/Present/Forever, Buia Gallery, New York, United States
For Sale, Turin, Biennial, Italy
Juicy Meadows, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
This may be, Sculpture Center, New York, United States
2004
Rio de Janeiro Film festival, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Olandu Burias, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
Traveling without moving, W139, Amsterdam and Trafo, Budapest, The Netherlands/ Hungary
Oneindige Landschappen, Het Slot Zeist/ Loods 6, De Bagagehal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Argos Festival, Brussels, Belgium
Puerto Rico 04, M&M Proyectos, Puerto Rico
Ahuman, MUU, Helsinki, Finland
2003
Group show - New work by Gallery Artists, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Show - New Work by Gallery Artists, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Biennal of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Albisola, Italy
De Inrichting (Manifestation on Contemporary Art and Psychiatry), GGZ Noord-Holland, Heiloo, The Netherlands
Wanderlust, Antoine Dansaertstr. 182, Brussels, Belgium
Blobs, S.K.O.R., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Haupt- und Nebenwege, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
Models und Mavericks, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
The last Seduction, Artis, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
White Meat and Sunlight, Gallery Harbord & Wiesofski, Berlin, Germany
Split and Pick-up, Het Stuk, Leuven, Belgium
2002
Group Show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Other than Film, TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Self Exposure, Harmoniegebouw, Groningen, The Netherlands
And Other Love Stories, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cellar in the Attic, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A Haunted House, Outline, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Parel, Raid Project Space, Los Angeles, United States
2001
Group show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Unlimited NL #4, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Affinités électives n.3, Galerie Du Jour Agnes B., Paris, France
Ferveur, FRAC, Lyon, France
Hotel New York, PS 1, New York, United States
2000
Anarrations, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Open Studio's 2000, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
For Real, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From Here to There & Circles of Life, Expo 2000, World Expo, Hannover, Germany
How to Act, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1999
bUG in Baby, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Film & Video Screening
2009 Roshd International film festival Teheran Teheran, Iran

Commissions
2008 GlassHouse, Rabobank Bergeijk, The Netherlands
Eemplein, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Martini Ziekenhuis, Grongingen, The Netherlands
2007 APAP, Anyang City, South Korea
Elevating the Witte de With, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Moon Lit Lake, CC&CP, Tielt, Belgium
2006 Renovatie Anna, Ministerie van SZW, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Perscope Lanterns, Carberg, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2005 Beatrix Postkantoor, Zorgcentrum Beatrix, Culemborg (with Jennifer Tee), The Netherlands

Collections
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
MUDAM, Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Rabobank Art Collection, The Netherlands
21CMuseum, Louisville, United States
2011
Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence
catalogue: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt / CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux

author(s): David Ulrichs
newspaper/magazine: Art in America

Voetnoten bij onbekende verhalen
author(s): Nanette Kraaikamp
newspaper/magazine: Tubelight, no. 74

Review Gabriel Lester
author(s): Sanne Rispens
newspaper/magazine: Kunstbeeld, no.4

Illusie van de Cinema; Gabriel Lester in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
author(s): Lennard Dost
newspaper/magazine: (H)Art, March

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Lynne van Rhijn
newspaper/magazine: De Witte Raaf, no. 150

De lenige geest van Gabriel Lester
author(s): Nina Folkersma
newspaper/magazine: MetropolisM, no.1

Het oprekken van cinema
author(s): Machteld Leij
newspaper/magazine: Kunstbeeld, no.2

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Kees Keijer
newspaper/magazine: Museumtijdschrift, no.2

Gabriel Lester; In voor- en tegenspoed
author(s): Etienne Boileau
newspaper/magazine: Tableau, no.1

Gabriel Lester; Het ongeloof wordt nog even uitgesteld
author(s): Sacha Bronwasser
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant, 18 feb

Gabriel Lester speelt naar lieve lust
author(s): Kees Keijer
newspaper/magazine: Het Parool, 19 feb

Lester is een goochelaar
author(s): Janneke Wesselink
newspaper/magazine: NRC, 25 feb

Magische gedachten
author(s): Hilda Bouma
newspaper/magazine: FD | Persoonlijk

2010
Grensverlegging op luchtige wijze
author(s): Marina de Vries
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant

Identiteit
author(s): Koen Kleijn
newspaper/magazine: De Groene Amsterdammer, no. 44

2009
Verruimde Blik
author(s): Duncan Liefferink
newspaper/magazine: Zuiderlucht, June / July

Spelen met verwachtingen - Gabriel Lester in Z33 Hasselt
author(s): Christine Vuegen
newspaper/magazine: (H)Art, June

2008
Polanski, die is zo breed!
author(s): Bert Mebius
newspaper/magazine: De Groene Amsterdammer, no. 44

Hunting and Gathering
author(s): edited by Maria Fusco
catalogue: The Happy Hypocrite, no. 2

Perspectieven
author(s): Maria Barnas
newspaper/magazine: NRC

The Conversation
author(s): Gabriel Lester
newspaper/magazine: Metropolis M, no. 4

Apathische Adam & Eva in zoete wereld vol digitale bloemen
author(s): Merlijn Schoonenboom
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant

Micro-Nation CAPACETE (Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA)
author(s): Kristin M. Jones
newspaper/magazine: Frieze, no. 116

Deep Screen Art in Digital Culture
author(s): Andreas Broeckmann
catalogue: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Theory of the Street
author(s): Hans Aarsman, Tijs Goldschmidt
catalogue: NAi Publishers

Elevating Witte de With
author(s): Xander Karskens, Jan Rothuizen
catalogue: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten & Ymere

Kunst en Corporaties: Ymere
author(s): Ans van Berkum
newspaper/magazine: Beelden, no. 41 (jaargang 11)

2007
Gabriel Lester
author(s): Vivian Rehberg
newspaper/magazine: Frieze, no. 109

The Last Piece by John Fare
author(s): Vivian Rehberg
newspaper/magazine: Frieze, no. 108

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Ossian Ward
newspaper/magazine: Time Out

Big Bang and assorted Minor Explosions; The art of office life
author(s): Fiona Mcdonald
newspaper/magazine: Metro

Vanzelfsprekende aanwezigheid; Spel en verbeelding in het werk van Gabriel Lester
author(s): Nathalie Zonnenberg
catalogue: Young Belgian Painters Award 2007

2006
Gabriel Lester
author(s): Renske Janssen
newspaper/magazine: Kunstbeeld, no 10

Statig huis tilt kunstenaars op
author(s): Sacha Bronwasser
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant

Interview with Gabriel Lester
author(s): Ashley Rawlings
newspaper/magazine: Tokyo ARt Beat

How to Act
author(s): Sara Arrhenius, Vasif Kortun, Raimundas Malasauskas, Aaron Schuster
catalogue: Veenman Publishers

Kunstenaars krijgen geen greep op de stedelijkheid van Almere
author(s): Janneke Wesseling
newspaper/magazine: NRC

Vanuit hun bed tellen de zieken oranje bollen
author(s): Merlijn Schoonenboom
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant

Le Nouveau Siecle
catalogue: Museum van Loon

How should Lester act?
newspaper/magazine: The very best and very next in art books, Veenman Publischers, collectie 2006/2007

Being, in Brussels
newspaper/magazine: Argos; Center for Art and Media

The urban condition
author(s): Lotte Haagsma
newspaper/magazine: Metropolis M, no. 3

2005
3rd Gothenburg Biennial
author(s): Power Ekroth
catalogue: Frieze, no. 95

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Jellichje Reijnders
newspaper/magazine: Tema Celeste, no. 100

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Niklas Otholm
catalogue: More! than this, Goteborg international biennial for Contemporary Art

Gabriel Lester talks to Pierre Bismuth
newspaper/magazine: CAC interview, no. 1

Postkantoor Beatrix
author(s): Dees Linders
catalogue: Kunst als medicijn/volksgezondheid. SKOR Kunstprojecten deel 2

2004
Troost voor de eenzame mens
author(s): Stefan Kuiper
newspaper/magazine: De Groene Amsterdammer

Een verblijf in het buitenland
author(s): Gabriel Lester
newspaper/magazine: BK

Olandu Biuras / Dutch Bureau
author(s): Maria Hlavajova a.o.
catalogue: Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania

2003
Lester houdt de spanning van suggestie niet vast
author(s): Merlijn Schoonenboom
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant

Alleen spektakel bij Welters
author(s): Arjan Reinders
newspaper/magazine: Het Parool

De geheime draaideur
author(s): Pam Emmerik
newspaper/magazine: NRC

The Clock and the Clockwork
author(s): Nathalie Zonnenberg
newspaper/magazine: Tubelight, no. 28

Enter the twilight zone
author(s): Arjan Reinders
newspaper/magazine: Kunstbeeld, no. 9

Wordt verwacht in Buro Leeuwarden: Gabriel Lester
newspaper/magazine: Fries Museum Krant

2002
Gabriel Lester vol ambitie en overmoed
author(s): Sandra Smallenburg
newspaper/magazine: NRC

Gabriel Lester: cinematograaf zonder camera
author(s): Jacquine van Elsbeek
newspaper/magazine: SKRIEN

Over verleiden, overdonderen en het gevoel daarna
author(s): Roos van Put
newspaper/magazine: Haagse Courant

Kunst moet genereus zijn, vind ik
author(s): Sacha Bronwasser
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Nathalie Zonnenberg
newspaper/magazine: Metropolis M, no. 3

White Meat & Sunlite
catalogue: Galerie Wiensowski und Harbord, Berlin, Germany

2001
Stephane Dafflon, Gabriel Lester
author(s): Sarina Basta
newspaper/magazine: Flash Art, November / December

Ferveur-proposition collective
author(s): Hans Jurgen Hafner
newspaper/magazine: Art Forum

Ferveur
author(s): Richard Leydier
newspaper/magazine: Art Presse, no. 268

De scherpe blik van Gabriel Lester
author(s): Hans Den Hartog Jager
newspaper/magazine: NRC

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Anja Dorn
newspaper/magazine: Frieze, no. 56

Unlimited.nl #4
catalogue: De Appel, Amsterdam

2000
Bossen en bergen doen zwenken en wentelen
author(s): Erik Hagoort
newspaper/magazine: de Volkskrant

Gabriel Lester
author(s): Sandra Heerma van Voss
newspaper/magazine: NRC

Met een heel vette knipoog naar Hollywood
author(s): Jhim Lamoree
newspaper/magazine: Het Parool

Theatrale natuurfilmpjes van Gabriel Lester
newspaper/magazine: Radio Nederland Wereldomroep