Gabriel LESTER

Born in 1972 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Now lives and works in Netherlands

 

Gabriel Lester’s works across various disciplines including music, cinema, installation, sculpture, architecture and performance. Many of his works evolve around the very nature of the media of our time, and transform the space and time through meticulously altering the media and narrative forms. Strongly influenced by cinema and mime, Gabriel Lester’s works challenge the reality of perception and stimulate on collective imagination through constructing and creating theatrical illusions. “My work represents a field of tension.” Lester has explained. “It is either implicitly narrative, explicitly visual or both at the same time. My works of art rarely convey a single explicit message or idea, rather they suggest ways to relate to the world.”

  • Selected Solo / Duo Exhibitions

    2024  “Majestic”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2024  “Gabriel Lester: Odeon”, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, America

    2024  “Dig it”, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, America

    2024  “Token of Gratitude From Refuge to Freedom”, National Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2023  “Dig it”, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2020  “Holes in the Sky”, Machinery of Me, Arnhem, the Netherlands

    2018  “Shake A Face”, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2017  “The Return of Lester’s Loops”, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands

    2017  “If you happen to be”, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, America

    2017  “How to Act”, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands

    2016  “Unresolved”, De Appel Art center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2016  “The Nine Day Week”, CAC museum, Vilnius, Lithuania

    2015  “Cosmic Call”, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2015  “Cleromancy”, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, America

    2014  “The Ears Have Walls”, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China

    2014  “Habitat Sequences”, El Museo De Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2014  “Follies”, Bonner Kunst Verrein, Bonn, Germany

    2014  “The Silent Trilogy”, Stiftelsen 3’14, Bergen, Norway

    2014  “Blank Stare”, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

    2013  “The Secret Life of Cities”, Galerie Fons Welters, the Netherlands

    2013  “Highlights & Chance Encounters”, Tetem Kunstruimte, Enschede, the Netherlands

    2012  “Roxy”, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

    2012  “The Future that Was”, Smart Project Space icw NIMk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  • Biennale, Triennial, Quinquennial

    2024  Biennale of Digital Imaginaries – organized by CHRONIQUES

    2022  Quebec City Biennial, Canada – curated by Steven Matijcio

    2021  Momentum10 Biennial, Norway – curated by Théo-Mario Coppola

    2019  Ural biennale, Russian – curated by Xiaoyu Weng

    2018  Busan biennale, Korea – curated by Cristina Ricupero / Jorg Heiser

    2017  Kochi biennale, India – curated by Sudarshan Shetty

    2016  Moscow biennale, Russian – curated by Defne Ayas / Bart De Baere

    2015  Istanbul biennale, Turkish – curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

    2014  Marakech biennale, Morocco – curated by Hicham Khalidi

    2014  Sydney biennale, Australia– curated by Juliana Engberg

    2014  Folkestone triennial – curated by Lewis Biggs

    2014  CAFAM bejing biennale, China – curated by Xiaoyu Weng

    2013  Momentum biennale Oslo, Norway – curated by Power Ekroth

    2013  Performa biennale, America– curated by Defne Ayas

    2013  Sharjah biennale, Sharjah– curated by Yuki Kamiya

    2013  Venice biennale, Italy – curated by Raimundas Malasauskas

    2012  Documenta (D) – curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

  • Public Commissions

    2023  Dank Teken, NHM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2023  Tree of Souls, NHM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2023  NDSM GIANTS, Stichting NDSM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2023  PostNL HQ, Den Haag, the Netherlands

    2022  Peel Plaza, Capital C, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2021  Mural, Busterminal Utrecht CS, the Netherlands

    2020  AirMail, Headquarters PostNL, The Hague, the Netherlands

    2020  Water Mirrors, Headquarters Arhend, Sint Oedenrode, the Netherlands

    2020  Promenade, Tunnel design, Oegstgeest, the Netherlands

    2019  CS Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands

    2019  Voor de Wind, Zeist, the Netherlands

    2019  Beemster Ereboog, Zuidoostbeemster, the Netherlands

    2018  Void-Non-Void, NDSM-Terrein, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2018  Delta – Design for a city icon, Den Helder, the Netherlands

    2017  Corridor, Horst Festival, Belgium

    2017  Locomotion, University of Sports Science, Oslo, Norway

    2017  Pitstop, Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands

    2017  The Ripple, TAAK/Hortus Haren, the Netherlands

    2016  Aura Utrecht, Public Works, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    2016  The Moveables, Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, the Netherlands

    2015  Arcadia Grandview Pavilion, Southbank London, England

    2014  Peel #2 Twisted, Museo de Art Moderno Medellin, Columbia

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2024  “Interactions 2024”, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

    2023  “New Statues of Liberty”, Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar, Alkmaar, the Netherlands

    2023  “A Filed Guide to Getting Lost”, Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, the Netherlands

    2022  “Ridiculously Yours!”, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

    2021  “Ω, Om, Ohm, Omega”, Elektriciteitsfabriek, Den Haag, the Netherlands

    2021  “Within Space—Time, We Walk Through Images, Glow Shenzhen 2021” – Futian, Shenzhen, China

    2021  “Warehouse Story VII”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2020  “We Never Sleep”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, German

    2019  “Chapter I”, Het Hem, Zaandam, the Netherlands

    2019  “Weg en Water”, Burgerweeshuis, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2018   LekArt Festival, Culemborg, the Netherlands

    2018  “Paysage—Fiction”, Le Tetris, Le Havre, France

    2018  “Bambaataa”, De Beeldengalerij, Den Haag, the Netherlands

    2018  “Sculpture in the City”, City of London, London, England

    2018  “Another Dimension”, Nest, Den Haag, the Netherlands

    2017  “Radicale Sociale Animale”, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, the Netherlands

    2016  “Heaven”, Hell & Earth, Stedeliijk museum Den Bosch

    2015  “Nice’n Light”, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands

    2015  “Lustwarande 15”, Park De Oude Warande, Tilburg, the Netherlands

    2015  “When I Give I Give Myself”, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

    2015  “The School of Nature and Principle”, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts,New York, America

    2014  “ (In)constancy of Space”, Ring Gallery, Zagreb, Hrvatska

    2014  “The Promise”, Arnolfini Center for Contemporary Arts, Bristol, England

    2014  “Crime Was Almost Perfect”, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

    2014  “Play Time”, Corner House, Manchester, England

    2013  “Suspicious Minds”, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Brazilian

    2013  “The Garden of Diversion”, Sifang museum, Nanjing, China

    2013  “Call of the Mall”, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    2013  “Shanghai Surprise”, chi K11 Art Space, Shanghai, China

    2013  “Bourgeois Leftovers”, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2012  “Blind Cut”, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, America

    2012  Jardin de Esculturas, NuMu, Guatemala-City, Guatemala

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