Gabriel Lester

♂ *1972 / Netherlands

Solo exhibitions

Odeon

Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (US)
17 May 2024 – 15 Sep 2024
You have to dig it to dig it, you dig?

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
18 Feb 2023 – 25 Mar 2023
SHAKE A FACE

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
23 Nov 2018 – 12 Jan 2019
The Nine Day Week

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) , Vilnius (LT)
25 Nov 2016 – 12 Jan 2017
UNRESOLVED

de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL)
25 Jun 2016 – 2 Oct 2016
The Big One

Ryan Lee, New York (US)
12 May 2015 – 27 Jun 2015
The Silent Trilogy

Kunsthal 3,14, Bergen (NO)
21 Mar 2014 – 4 May 2014
THE SECRET LIFE OF CITIES

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
27 Apr 2013 – 1 Jun 2013
It is no great wonder..

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
9 Apr 2011 – 14 May 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 (NL)
9 Apr 2011 – 14 May 2011
Suspension of Disbelief

Museum Boijmans Van Beun, Rotterdam (NL)
12 Feb 2011 – 8 May 2011
The Last Smoking Flight

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
6 Sep 2008 – 18 Oct 2008
Video_04

DUVE Berlin, Berlin (DE)
6 Mar 2008 – 22 Mar 2008
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Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
5 Apr 2006 – 30 Apr 2006
Chiaroscuro

Natalia Goldin Gallery, Stockholm (SE)
10 Sep 2005 – 15 Oct 2005

Group

We Never Sleep

SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
24 Sep 2020 – 10 Jan 2021

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Maja Bajevic, Park Chan-kyong, Guy de Cointet, Thomas Demand, Simon Denny, Stan Douglas, Forensic Architecture, Douglas Gordon, Rodney Graham, Eva Grubinger, Alfredo Jaar …
14th International Istanbul Biennial

SALTWATER: A Theory of Thought Forms

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
5 Sep 2015 – 1 Nov 2015

with Haig Aivazian, Francis Alys, Song-Ming Ang, Ed Atkins, Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri, Sonia Balassanian, Lynda Benglis, Karl Blossfeldt, Janet Cardiff, Edgar Cleijne, Tacita Dean, LIU Ding …
19th Biennale of Sydney

You Imagine What You Desire

Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (AU)
21 Mar 2014 – 9 Jun 2014

with Ahmet Oeguet, Rosa Barba, Yael Bartana, David Claerbout, Bindi Cole, Nathan Coley, Joost Conijn, Henry Coombes, Hubert Czerepok, Tacita Dean, Krisztina Erdei, Aurelien Froment …
Performa 13: New Visual Art Performance Biennial

Performa, New York (US)
1 Nov 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

with Ahmet Oeguet, Pawel Althamer, Einat Amir, Eleanor Antin, Ed Atkins, Rosa Barba, Hans Breder, Tamar Ettun, Zachary Fabri, Dani Gal, Rainer Ganahl, Subodh Gupta …
Momentum 7 - Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art

Momentum, Moss (NO)
22 Jun 2013 – 29 Sep 2013

with Per Christian Brown, Loulou Cherinet, Paolo Chiasera, Cevdet Erek, Laura Horelli, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Hassan Khan, Raskin, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Sharjah Biennial 11

<em>Re:emerge</em> - Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
13 Mar 2013 – 13 May 2013

with Ravi Agarwal, Francis Alys, Jananne Al-Ani, Nevin Aladag, Carlos Amorales, Burak Arikan, Ismail Bahri, Matthew Barney, Tony Chakar, Tiffany Chung, David Claerbout, Thomas Demand …
dOCUMENTA (13)

documenta, Kassel (DE)
9 Jun 2012 – 16 Sep 2012

with Lida Abdul, Bani Abidi, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Francis Alys, Maria Thereza Alves, Kader Attia, Judith Barry, Gerard Byrne, Kudzanai Chiurai, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Attila Csoergoe, Manon de Boer …
Liverpool Biennial 2008

Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (GB)
20 Sep 2008 – 30 Nov 2008

with Guy Ben-Ner, David Blandy, Kyungwoo Chun, Nancy Davenport, Leandro Erlich, Omer Fast, Rodney Graham, Lauren Greenfield, Jesper Just, Yayoi Kusama, Luisa Lambri, Ulf Langheinrich …
Micro-State Capacete

Petzel Gallery, New York (US)
9 Feb 2008 – 8 Mar 2008

with Ducha, Jean-Pascal Flavien
Contour 2007 - third biennial for video art

Contour Mechelen vzw, Mechelen (BE)
18 Aug 2007 – 21 Oct 2007

with Bohdan Stehlik/Una Szeemann, Aline Bouvy, Gerard Byrne, Omer Fast, John Gillis, Cao Guimaraes, Carsten Hoeller, Saskia Holmkvist, Hassan Khan, Tsui Kuang-Yu, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rosalind Nashashibi …
Ready Media

Netherlands Media Art , Amsterdam (NL)
18 Jan 2007 – 10 Feb 2007

with Pierre Bismuth, Heather+Patrick Burnett-Rose, Claude Closky, Sami Kallinen, Matthieu Laurette, Julika Rudelius
Being, in Brussels

Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE)
27 Nov 2006 – 20 Jan 2007

with Orla Barry, Pierre Bismuth, Jota Castro, Peter Downsbrough, Dora Garcia, Aglaia Konrad, Charlemagne Palestine, Beat Streuli
For four hands

Wako Works of Art, Tôkyô (JP)
12 Sep 2006 – 14 Oct 2006

with Jordan Wolfson
Who if not we should at least try to imagine the future of all this?

7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe - episode 6, OLANDU BIURAS-VILNIUS

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) , Vilnius (LT)
19 Nov 2004 – 9 Jan 2005

with Jennifer Tee, Edwin Zwakman
Group show - new work by gallery artists

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
28 Nov 2003 – 17 Jan 2004

with Daniel Roth

Events

Amsterdam Art Weekend 2022

Amsterdam Art Weekend, Amsterdam (NL)
11 May 2022 – 15 May 2022

with Tasio Bidegain, Melanie Bonajo, John Edmonds, Bart Groenendaal, Thomas Hoepker, Kristof Kintera, Meiro Koizumi, Paul Kooiker, Michel Lamoller, Cristina Lucas, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Danielle van Ark …
Momentum 10 - Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art

Momentum, Moss (NO)
8 Jun 2019 – 9 Oct 2019

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Julieta Aranda, Knut Asdam, Johanna Billing, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Keren Cytter, Anne de Vries, Olafur Eliasson, Ilkka Halso, Saskia Holmkvist, Ragnar Kjartansson, Annika Larsson …
Amsterdam Art Weekend 2018

Amsterdam Art Weekend, Amsterdam (NL)
22 Nov 2018 – 25 Nov 2018

with Melanie Bonajo, David Claerbout, Katharine Cooper, Shezad Dawood, Masahisa Fukase, David Goldblatt, Ryoji Ikeda, Ellen Kooi, Paul Kooiker, Zanele Muholi, Antoinette Nausikaae, Arno Nollen …
UNSEEN PHOTO FESTIVAL

Unseen Photo, Amsterdam (NL)
16 Sep 2016 – 25 Sep 2016

with Mohamed Bourouissa, Dirk Braeckman, Christto and Andrew, Anton Corbijn, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Ola Lanko