Grave Surfer – 1995
March 21, 2012

This was recently send to me by my longtime friend Herwig Weiser. Wim Jongedijk was also part of this little action. I am the hooded actor. We filmed it on one of the dikes near where I grew up. As far as I can remember, the film became part of a set-up of several films [...]

16 March – Artist Talk at RAM Shanghai
March 2, 2012

Artist Talk: TimeSpace date:2012.03.16 19:00(周五Fri.)Location:2F, No.20 Huqiu Road.Guest Speaker:Gabriel LesterRelated Exhibition:Model Home Speaker: Gabriel Lester Language: English with Chinese Translation Gabriel Lester’s lecture titled TimeSpace, a term indicating the three dimensions of space supplemented with the fourth dimension of time,will focus on his spatial installations. These artworks, resembling cinematic stage sets, architectural design and interior [...]

The Physical Expression of Potential and other works/events at Arco Madrid – 2012
February 12, 2012

There will be a Dutch focus this year at Arco Madrid – the so called Dutch Assembly. For this I will show a new conveyor-belt work, the reviewed and improved edit of The Big One (2010) . Furthermore, I will host the auction of Kunstverein the 17th of February and co-host a radio program on [...]

TIMESPACE – lecture at Chinese University Hong Kong – 09.Feb.2012
February 8, 2012

Gabriel Lester’s lecture titled TimeSpace, a term indicating the three dimensions of space supplemented with the fourth dimension of time, will focus on his artworks from a perception of spatial movement and time-based compositions. Observing the world as a progressions through time and space, the lecture will address an evolution of artistic ideas and experiences [...]

ETUDE FOR MAZDA 323F in Cmin-2 – 2011
November 2, 2011

Sound performance at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Mazda 323F + sound system on sidewalk. In collaboration with Pieter Willems.

HIGHLIGHT PSK – 2004
August 8, 2011

As of today, my site has been slightly remixed and refreshed. So I took out some selected projects, which I belief suit the highlight better. As a first move, updated documentation of Highlight (the work). This exhibition was installed at the BOZAR (former PSK/PBA) in Brussels. It combines my first periscope sculpture, designed together with [...]

Melancholia in Arcadia (in memory of my dear friend) – 2011
May 5, 2011

For I AM NOT A STUDIO ARTIST the first show at the new Istanbul art center SALT (formerly know as Platform Garanti), I was asked by curator Vasif Kortun to propose a work in memory of artist Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin (Ankara, 1957 – Istanbul, 2007). Hüseyin and I had become friends in 2002 when I [...]