2020 Don't Fence Me In, artistic research project in collaboration with TAAK, Amsterdam (2020-2021) Now What?, Fieldwork International Summerschool, Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland Take Part. Final stage bringing model together as performative participatory project, was cancelled due to coronacrisis. Stories from the model city 2019 Czigane – Not the whole story, Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM), Exeter Whole Life Academy, HKW/Archive der Avantgarde, Dresden Far Too Many Stories to Fit Into so Small a Box, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, research and exhibition Take Part, project for Public Knowledge, with SFMOMA and Public Libraries network, San Francisco (January-April 2019)2018 Mama, was ist eigentlich Natur? Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld Headlands, research residency (fall 2018) Take Part, project for Public Knowledge, with SFMOMA and Public Libraries network, San Francisco (fall 2018) Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald - Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Zentralmagazin Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen, Halle Dismantling the Scaffold, curated by Christina Li, Tai Kwun Contemporary, JC Contemporary, Hong Kong Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald - Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Tieranatomische Teater, Berlin Syndrome of the Present, research project initiated by Galit Eilat. First seminar, Yeni Camii, Thessaloniki
2017 Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald - Disappearing Legacies: The World as Forest, Zoological Museum of CeNak, University of Hamburg, Hamburg Offshore: artists explore the sea, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Greater Together Greater Together, ACCA, Melbourne Youth Academy THE CITY & THE CITY, Academie der Kunste der Welt, Cologne (seminar and workshop) Future Climates, Athens (workshop) UNGLOSSARY, publication in cooperation with Stadtrevue, CologneTHE CITY & THE CITY, Academie der Kunste der Welt: Youth Academy, Cologne WERE IT AS IF, Beyond An Institution That Is, published by Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands School of Missing Studies, Sandberg series No. 1, published by Sternberg Press/Sandberg Institute Public Space? Lost and Found, produced by ACT and distributed by MIT Press.2016 WERE IT AS IF, Witte de With, Center of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (research, exhibition, publication) SEMA MediaCity Biennale, Seoul The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?)11thGwangJu Biennale, GwangJu (S. Korea) Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, Berlin
2015 Decolonized Skies, ADNPlatform, Barcelona Eminent Domain, The Power Plant, Toronto (Can) Pavilion of Mauritius, 56th Venice Biennale, May 9 - November 22, 2015 Future Light, Vienna Biennale, MAK, Vienna Speechless, Pérez Art Museum Miami, August 13, 2015 – February 21, 2016 Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, Indonesia Lodgers 4, School of Missing Studies at MUHKA and AIR, November 1, 2015 -January 17, 2016 Are you talking to me? Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein2014 How to (…) things that don’t exist, 31st Biennale Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show, A nomadic exhibition across Auckland (NZ) Moderations, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Curated by Heman Chong Rotterdam Cultural Histories 2, Witte de With, Centre for Contemporary Art and TENT, Rotterdam Sounds for Silence, Ternitz, Austria The Missing Stories, CAFAM Biennial 2014: Invisible Hand, Curating as gesture, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Museum of Arte Util, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de Wth, Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Curated by Cristina Ricupero
2013 The Possibility of an Island at Import Projects, Berlin. Imaginary Friends, organized by independent curator Chelsea Haines. Interstate Projects, Brooklyn NY ROAD/BOAT 3.1.8 with Cristoph Keller, Bik van der Pol, Helmut Batista, Amilcar Packer by invitation of Anne Ballester Soares and the school Xapomi, Amazonas (Br). Organised by CAPACETE The Maldives Exodus Caravan Show, Biennale Venice Critical mass, TOK, St. Petersburg Open City Fort Vijfhuizen Biennale of Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Call of the Mall, project for Hoog Catarijne, Utrecht http://gabriellester.com/exhibitions/the-future-that-was/ [i]The Future That Was, group show curated by Gabriel Lester, NASA - New Art Space Amsterdam2012 You talking to me? a workshop in collaboration with 98weeks project space (Beirut, Lebanon). Insert in Volume Magazine no. 34 appeared in December 2012, designed by Alexander Shoukas. The Future that Was - curated by Gabriel Lester. NASA, Amsterdam Desertmed - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin Neon. La Materia luminosa dellarte - MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?, Exhibitaly, Red October (Krasnyi Oktiabr) Moscow Between the Map and the Territory, Tent., Rotterdam Between a Rock and a Hard Place, project for Sudbury (Ca), Musagetes Foundation, Canada. Facebook and Pinterest[/bl] Deze Sokken Niet Wit (These Socks Not White), Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven Last Day, curated by Paul O'Neill. Cartel, London Art Histories, CAC VOX, Montreal Graphic Design: Now In Production, Govenors Island, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York Who Decides? Stadtgalerie Mannheim
2007 PLUG-IN 28, Pay Attention, Act 1, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL) Temporary Measures, Associates, London Differentiated Neighborhoods, Centre for Visual Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, curated by Eric Zoran 25 year later. Welcome To Art In General, Art In General at UBS, New York 10th International Istanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, IstanbulIstanbul, 59 Locations, A Format for Nightcomers Sunset Cinema, a project with Apolonija Sustersics, Trans(cient) City, Luxemburg 2007, curated by Hou Hanru Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Volksgarten-The Politics of Belonging, curated by Adam Budak Trajectories, LCCA, Riga, curated by Maria Lind Models for Tomorrow, Europeische Kunsthalle, Cologne, curated by Nicolaus Schaffhausen Monuments of our Discontent: Expiration of Place, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Curator: Lolita Jablonskiene2006 Issue Fighters: Thought is made in the mouth, Insa Art Space, Seoul (exhibition, workshop and publication +82) Context 3, research grant and project, Dublin (continued 2008) Fly Me To The Moon, project for the New Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Past Imperfect, Casco Issues 9, concept by Bik Van der Pol, compiled and edited with Lisette Smits, designed by Will Holder, published by Casco, Utrecht, distributed by Revolver, Frankfurt More Stories on Absence, Antwerpen The Domain of the Great Bear: Dystopische Landschaft Kunstraum Muenchen, Munich Naked Life, Museum of Contemporary Arts Taipei (MOCA Taipei), curated by Manray Hsu & Maren Richter On Mobility, CAC, Vilnius I Confess That I was There, Interface, Belfast Dormir, rêver et autres nuits, CAPC, Bordeaux
How to Do Things? - In the Middle of (No)Where..., Kiev. Uqbar, Gesellschaft für Representations-forschung, Berlin Strategies of learning , Periferic 7, Biennale Iasi, Rumania 2005 Rec., Esther Schipper gallery (annex), Berlin Ford Boxes, Cork Caucus, Cork, Ireland Secession, Vienna Exposorium, Free University, Amsterdam On Mobility, Buro Friedrich, Berlin, On Mobility, De Appel, Amsterdam Rotterdam Project, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Magazijn van de Verbeelding, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen Life, once more, Forms of Reenactment in Contemporary ArtWitte de With, Rotterdam2004 K: Mobile Home, mobile research center and exhibition space (with Korteknie and Stuhlmacher architects), Virtueel Museum, Amsterdam Social Affairs!, project and film program for Ministry of Social Affairs, The Hague, Teasing Minds, Kunstverein München, München (a project for SMS (School of Missing Studies), with Stealth Group Open Process, Terrassa, Hangar, Barcelona PR 04. tribute to the messenger, Puerto Rico, organized by M&M proyectos
2003 Casco projects, Utrecht Beyond, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, Nomads in Residence, mobile workspace for artists (with Korteknie and Stuhlmacher architects) Cargo, Almere, Andare A Zonzo, a walk through Almere as preparation for a film Rooseum, Malmö, Universal Studios Part 1, Sleep With Me galerie Maisonneuve, Paris, Time-warp CAC, Vilnius, Lituania 24/7Puddles, Jusshi School, Tokyo Until We Meet Again, Strip, Vlaardingen Cargo, Almere Witte de With, Rotterdam, Social Actors in Transformation, Parallel Practices, in collaboration with Stealth Group Ludwig Museum, Budapest, gravitation, (Untitled (after Miklos Erdely): a project for Moskva Ter) Affinity Archive, curated by Sarah Pierce, Dublin, Ireland2002 TENT., Rotterdam, Married by Powers, a selection from the collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais by Bik Van der Pol Office of the Foundation of Young Artists, Budapest, Lobby/Office Piece, permanent installation Marres, Maastricht, Stadsoase/City Oasis Catching Some Air, library drawings, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque Ministry of OCW, The Hague, Camera Obscura, proposal for Hoftoren (not realized) Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Strike, curated by Gavin Wade TENT., Rotterdam, Foreign Affairs: Budapest Exchange & Transform (Arbeitstitel), Kunstverein Munchen, Munich Fonds BKVB, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, Commitment, curated by Edwin Janssen Marres, Maastricht, Hortus III
2001 White Box, New York, LoompanicsBuro Friedrich, Berlin, Insert, with works of Lee Lozano de Paviljoens, Almere, Love and HappinessExedra, Hilversum Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, Lost In Space, curated by Raul Zamudio Kunsthalle Tirol, Halle, Exits 2000 Moderna Museet Projekt, Stockholm, Absolut Stockholm, label or life city on a platform Kentler Art Space, New York, Catching Some Air Public Art Fund, New York: GOOD: Improper Property (proposal, not realized) ArtShelter, Textielmuseum, Tilburg, with Sue Williamson (SA) Frere, Independent Art Fair, Chelsea Inn Hotel, New York Territory, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo Clocktower Gallery, International Studio Program PS1, New York, Clockwork 2000 Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, Trailer1999 Surge Gallery/ICAEE, Tokyo, Studio Piece MK Gallery, Rotterdam Until We Meet Again, Vlaardingen, information kiosk (not realized) de Gele Rijder, Arnhem, Proposition for Reclaiming a Space Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde KENT Gallery, New York, Department for Public Appearances MK Gallery, Berlin Art Fair, Berlin Niggendijker, Groningen, P001a/P003b, Rooseum, Malmo, On The Sublime 1998 Greene Naftali Gallery, New York TXtShift, Utrecht Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, New Text Based Work galerie Waalkens, Finsterwolde, Contribution for Henk Peeters W139, Amsterdam, Plaats The Powder Room, Rotterdam 1997 Vaalserberg, Rotterdam, To Be Me, contribution for Giorgio Sedotti Duende, Rotterdam, Perish East International, Norwich
1996 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Bookshop Piece, with Peter Fillingham Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Lisbon, Live/Life Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Peiling 5, with Peter Fillingham Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Peiling 5, with Peter Fillingham 1995 Duende, Rotterdam, The Shower Piece, for REST, with Peter Fillingham Cubitt Gallery, Londen The Kitchen Piece, living space of Jos van der Pol, Duende, Rotterdam, with Peter Fillingham