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thank you very much exhibition in berlin
Please come to my opening next Friday, THANK YOU VERY MUCH at the Future Gallery in Berlin.
It will be the world premiere of a new piece.
PDF link to press release
The Future Gallery
Friday, October 8th, 6 – 10 pm
Hasenheide 56, Berlin
spencer brownstone gallery .com
As part of their “Untitled” group exhibition, I’ve made an intervention on spencer brownstone gallery .com. The “non-show” is happening now, featuring works by: Skip Arnold, David Brooks, Dan Colen, Tessa Farmer, Jeff Gabel, Valerie Hegarty, Aaron King, William Lamson, Tony Matelli, Mathieu Mercier, Jason Middlebrook, Olivier Mosset, Jaime Pitarch, Rafael Rozendaal, Tom Sachs, Noah Sheldon, Richard Wentworth, Martin Wohrl.
my first encounters with the world wide web
I was familiar with computers since I was small, and I had seen the internet on TV… but it’s harder to show a website on TV than to show TV on a website. My first real internet experience was at the library, I was 16 years old. I surfed a bit, mostly looking for interviews with bands. It was terribly slow, but I enjoyed it already. A few months later our home computer got a dial-up connection and I got more into it. I would write down my favorite websites on a piece of paper, I did not know about browser bookmarks…
Dutch progressive broadcasting station VPRO used to have a website with “Lifesavers”. Lifesavers were something that “does not happen in a book, does not happen on TV, an experience specific to the internet.”
It was a series of experimental websites by artists such as Peter Luining and Han Hoogerbrugge, exploring what a website could be, and playing with the slow connections of the internet, turning it into a strength.
I still love small files.
(this is part of a forthcoming interview by Johanna Bergmark)
perfect vacuum opening this friday
RAFAËL ROZENDAAL – PERFECT VACUUM
Opening Friday 17/9, 18-20 pm
Galleri Pictura, Svartbrödersgatan 3, Lund, Sweden
September 18 – October 9
Curated by Johanna Bergmark
Rafaël Rozendaal creates stylistically simple animations which often tend to have subtle undertones of melancholy and humor. While disarmingly simple in design, many of Rafaël Rozendaal’s pieces unfold in complexity through their boldness of concept. Many of the works challenge the viewers initial response; repetitative patterns and images give way to more complex relationships and a meditative awareness. Through deceptively modest interactions using only the mouse, the viewer can expand many of the pieces and affect the shape and course of events. Rozendaal’s work often twists banal situations like dropping a stone into an endless hole or emptying a roll of toilet paper. Travel on a deserted road, turn right or left. Which way you choose doesn’t really matter, the road leads nowhere.
The artist sees the computer not only as a tool, but as an actual place that exists in parallel with the material world. A place somewhere between fantasy and reality. Inaccessible, but infinite. The computer screen becomes a window that explore and opens up new ways to represent the outside world.
Images of the physical world are mediated through Rozendaal’s work to question viewers perceptions and examination the perfunctory act of clicking your way through a work of art or from website to website. Drawing attention to the users active participation and physical presence, the mouse and keyboard become extensions of your own body and the works consolidate the viewers presence into a position in his virtual world.
Rafaël Rozendaal does not tell stories or claim to communicate with the viewer, instead he hopes to trigger ideas or feelings. He wants them to be ”independent entities that are part of peoples lives and can be used or seen in any way. Like having a tree in your garden.”
Galleri Pictura will display an installation consisting of the work ‘Hybrid Moment’ and drawings.
Rafaël Rozendaal (b. 1980) was born and raised in the Netherlands but has lived and held exhibitions all over the world. Los Angeles, Barcelona, Tokyo and London amongst others. He creates websites as art pieces and sells their domains as collectibles. Perfect Vacuum at Galleri Pictura is his first exhibition in Sweden.
The exhibition is a collaboration with Art on Network and part in Full Pull ’10.
With support from Royal Netherlands Embassy.
free art tattoos at incubate festival
A few years ago someone emailed me: “Would it be OK if I got your kissing piece tattooed on my chest?” “Sure” I replied. A few months later he emailed me this photo.
This weekend is the first edition of Tilburg Ink, part of the Incubate Festival for independent culture.
In the tattoo world, the one who handles the needle is considered the artist. From the perspective of the fine arts this is a unique situation because the ‘tattoo artist’ merely makes a copy of an already existing image. Ten contemporary artists such as Ronald de Bloeme, Marc Bijl, Rafael Rozendaal and Thomas I’Anson will create their own designs for tattoos. This collection will be presented in the traditional way, on so-called “flash sheets”. Incubate will distribute these to tattoo shops throughout the Netherlands. This project will theoretically create an infinite number of copies of these artist’s works.
speed show amsterdam
Thursday, 16th of September 2010, Opening 7:00 – 10:00 PM
Speed show is a new type of exhibition that takes place in internet cafes around the world.
Aram Bartholl is organizing Vol. 3 “Peace” in Amsterdam with works by: Constant Dullaart, Evan Roth, Guthrie Lonergan, Jan Robert Leegte, JODI, Jon Rafman, Peter Luining, Rafaël Rozendaal, Timur Si-Qin.
new poster coming up
This poster will be available at my show in Sweden next week, I will keep you posted.
gallery collection TSCA
If you are in Tokyo, TSCA gallery is presenting their artists in the exhibition “Gallery Collection”.
My piece Le Duchamp will be shown.
August 28 – September 25, 2010
TSCA, 3-3 Wakaba-cho, Kashiwa-shi,
Chiba, 277-0024, Japan
taipei art fair
Happening now! August 20 – 24, Art Taipei, the main art fair of Taiwan.
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art will be showing my work and many others in booth C05. Thank you!
BYOB event in berlin tonight
Tonight, from 9 PM: Together with Anne de Vries I am organizing an event called BYOB: Bring your own beamer. We’ve invited 25 artists who will all bring their own beamer (projector) to show their work. The entire space will be filled with moving image on the walls, floor and ceiling. Hope to see you there!
July 20th 2010 from 21:00 to 01:00, in Bureau Friederich projectstudio, Holzmarktstraße 14, Berlin-Mitte.
Participating artists:
AIDS-3D, Alexandra Domanovic, Andreas Angelidakis, Andrew Keaton, Angelo Plessas, Anne de Vries, Billy Rennekamp, Constant Dullaart, Dafna Maimon, Darri Lorenzen, Emile Zile, Hayley Silverman, Helga Wretman, Jaime Whipple, Juliette Bonneviot, Kari Altmann, Katja Novitskova, Kinga Kielczynska, Lindsay Lawson, Mai Ueda, Mike Ruiz, Oliver Laric, Rafaël Rozendaal, Spiros Hadjidjanos, Timur Si-Qin, Voin de Voin, Wojciech Kosma
article in parool newspaper
On the occasion of the yes for sure exhibition at NIMk, Dutch newspaper Het Parool published a nice article on me. Daniel Bertina, thank you for your excellent journalism.
group show in london opening this friday
Opening Friday 25th June, 6-9pm:
Binary Code View: Rob Smith, Rafaël Rozendaal, Anthony Gross
The Agency Gallery in London
26th June – 30th July 2010
exhibiting at Pinkpop music festival
This weekend, my piece popcorn painting will be shown at the Schunk museum tent inside the Pinkpop music festival. Participating artists: Anna Bjerger, Graham Dolphin, Stanley Donwood, Charlotte Dumas, Cheryll Dunn, Ugnius Gelguda, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Edward Lipski, My Barbarian, Cleon Peterson, Rafaël Rozendaal, Donja Saed, Deanna Templeton, Helen Verhoeven.
kunsthalle athena opening tomorrow
Opening party kunsthalle athena – the bar, Thursday 13 may, 20:00, keramikou 28, keramikos metaxourgio.
KUNSTHALLE ATHENA-THE BAR will host a variety of events related both to the city of Athens and the newly launched Kunsthalle: Site and conceptually specific works, responsive public performances, screenings, as well as Athenian pop archives, an Athens book archive, dj-sets and concerts, selected Athenian blogs, magazine launches, even an artwork–taxi service, will come together with DIY catering activity within the specially designed interior (one of the artworks) of the venue. The content of this event-cum-exhibition – or better, the bar itself- will be the outcome of what can only be described as a collective offer: that of artists, curators, theoreticians, choreographers, friends of KUNSTHALLE ATHENA, and hopefully the public, in order to put ideas into orbit.
Merging everyday life and art can take many different forms. KUNSTHALLE ATHENA-THE BAR prefers the form of a fleeting get-together. This is the moment to say what you think and think what you say, a moment to make friends and a moment to repeat. You are invited to be part of it as you make it happen!
Participating Artists: Aids-3D, Alexandros Georgiou, Penelope Georgiou, Alexandros Mistriotis, This is Amateur, Andreas Angelidakis, Angelo Plessas, Annika Larsson, Christina Dimitriadis, Christos Lialios, Dimitra Vamiali, Forte, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Helga Wretman, Iraklis Renieris, Lo-Fi, Hior Chronik, Jenny Marketou, Joulia Strauss, Juliette Bonneviot, Kostas Tsioukas, Lydia Dambassina, Manolis Baboussis, Marc Bijl, Matthieu Laurette, Olaf Nicolai, Panos Koutras, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Paul Zografakis, Heinrich Spaeth, Rafael Rozendaal, Robert Pettena, Socratis Socratous, Vvork, Warren Neidich, Ylva Ogland, Yorgos Sapountzis, Yorgos Stamkopoulos.
motif magazine launch
Online culture magazine Motif just launched. On the cover: my piece into time .com, and an interview with me here.
future gallery & transmediale
Better Brain: Projected Manifestations of Futurity
January 30 – February 7, 2010
Opening Reception:
Friday, January 29th, 7 – 10 pm
The Future Gallery would like to cordially invite you to the opening of out next exhibition, Better Brain: Projected Manifestations of Futurity, an exhibition featuring new works by artists: Charles Broskoski, Martin Kohout, Oliver Laric, and Rafaël Rozendaal. This exhibition is a cooperation with transmediale 10 FUTURITY NOW!, as one of the festivals partner events and satellite locations
“Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by the future.”
-Vladamir Nabakov, Transparent Things
What would this ?better brain?—we could use to balance our future with our past—be like? Is it possible to simulate this concept through a work of art? This exhibition will explore this aforementioned notion through a presentation
of four distinct positions of manifested futurity. The digitally created works offer a glimpse at varying aspects of a projected world to come.
THE FUTURE GALLERY
Hasenheide 56, 10967 Berlin-Kreuzberg, U-bahn Südstern
www.thefuturegallery.org
Saturday – Sunday 12 – 5 pm
exhibition in tokyo jan 23 – feb 20
Rafaël Rozendaal – I’m Good at TSCA Tokyo
Opening Saturday January 23, 18:00 – 21:00
Exhibition Jan 23 – Feb 20
3 websites
2 paintings
13 drawings
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Map (in english)
Tsukiji KB Bldg. 1F, 1-5-11 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan
don’t worry be happy in rotterdam
image by Aids-3D
Opening this friday, january 22:
group exhibition Don’t worry be happy, curated by Gerben Willers at showroom Mama in Rotterdam.