What was the working location for Gabriel Lester from 1999 to 2000?
Gabriel Lester Gabriel Lester ( Amsterdam , 6 February 1972 ) is an inventor , visual artist and film director living and working in Amsterdam . His practice encompasses music , cinema , spatial installation , performance art , sculpture , architecture , photography and prose . Family and early life . Gabriel Lester was born in Amsterdam on 6 February 1972 . Son of Mark Dunning Lester ( New York City , USA 1947 ) and Frederika Rolande Wilhelmina Erwteman ( Brussels , Belgium 1944 † Groningen , Netherlands 2006 ) . Lester grew up in a cooperative commune named ‘Impuls’ in the small village of Pieterburen , in the province of Groningen ( the Netherlands ) . Early career in music . In 1984 , he moved to the province’s capital , the city of Groningen . It was around this time that Lester became interested in early street and hip-hop culture . He began graffiti writing under the ‘tag name’ Catch . Lester later produced rap music using so called tape loops , cassette decks and turntables before moving into digital samplers and sequencers . In 1986 , he formed the group ‘Definitely Def’ with Andy Godderis . In 1989 , Eugen Walker ( E-Walk ) joined the group to become ‘Utile Connection’ ( or U.C. ) . Andy left the group after which Dennis Murray ( D da Don aka DéShawn aka Mr . Stacks aka Royal MC ) joined as M.C . U.C . would record several tracks and perform in the Netherlands , Belgium and Germany . Education and early career in cinema . In 1991 , Lester moved to Amsterdam , where he frequently MCed and performed freestyle spoken-word together with various jazz and Hip Hop musicians . In that same year , Lester attended a weekend course that was dubbed the pre-cinema school . In 1994 , Lester moved to the city of Breda ( the Netherlands ) , where he attended a course of audiovisual arts at the Sint Joost art academy . After successfully completing the first year , Lester decided to travel instead of spending more time at the academy . That summer he traveled by bus to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi , where he spent a number of months researching and writing his first feature length screenplay titled ‘Travel without a Course’ . Upon his return from Georgia , Lester entered a course in experimental cinema at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels ( Belgium ) . Again , he concluded the first year of a four-year course , without the inclination to continue . Lester returned to Amsterdam in 1995 and worked as a director , assistant director and editor of video-clips and commercials for the film production company Filmhouse . In 1996 , he was engaged by Carlos Amorales , with whom he had previously worked on a short film , to collaborate in his Amorales art and performance project , a collaboration that lasted for two and a half years . This project introduced Lester to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam , to which he applied and was admitted in 1998 . Before starting at the Rijksakademie , Lester traveled to Iceland , where he lived for five months farming and writing a collection of short stories . Upon his return to Amsterdam , Lester self-published a selection of the stories in a book called “Over and Done With” . Early artistic practice . In January 1999 , Gabriel Lester started a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie , with the intention to do further research into cinema and produce some short films . However , in April of that year , shortly after an internal open-studios , Lester decided to avoid making film-art or video-art and rather create cinematic experiences in a three-dimensional fine arts practice . Later that year , Lester joined Fons Welters Gallery . At the end of 2000 Lester moved back to Brussels , where he was based until 2008 . Current artistic practice . In the years following the Rijksakademie , Lester initially focused his practice on spatial installations , sculpture and occasional experimental film and video . Later he would direct part of his attention back to writing , film directing and performing . In the period of 2011 - 2013 , Lester was based part-time in Shanghai , where he has participated in several group exhibitions , leading up to his solo show ROXY at the Shanghai Minsheng museum . He currently resides in Amsterdam and is represented by Leo Xu Projects in Shanghai and Fons Welters in Amsterdam . Lester frequently collaborates with Raimundas Malašauskas , Aaron Schuster , Onco Tattje , Job Chajes and Arnaud Hendrickx . Other collaborators include : Jennifer Tee , Freek Wambacq , Thomas Bakker , Herwig Weiser . Lester’s work is part of several public and private collections , including the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam , 798 Art Zone Beijing , 21 Museum Nashville , Mudam Luxembourg , CitizenM , and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam . Publications on the work of Gabriel Lester include : How to Act ( monograph , Veenman publishers 2006 ) , ‘Gabriel Lester’s Elevating the Witte de With’ ( Paperkunsthalle 2007 ) , ‘62 Gasoline Stations’ ( artist book self-published 2007 ) , Forced Perspectives ( monograph , Sternberg Press 2015 ) . PolyLester . PolyLester - established by Gabriel Lester and Martine Vledder in 2013 - is a multidisciplinary design studio focusing on artworks , public sculptures , architectural interventions , landscapes , and interior design . PolyLester works together with an array of architects , designers , including such prominent creatives as Irma Boom , Beau Architects , Monadnock , Rem Koolhaas , URA Architects , Richard Niessen , Hella Jongerius and Jennifer Tee . Residencies , collections , publications and commissions . - 2014 Elam School of Art , Artist in Residence , Auckland , New Zealand - 2013 TWS Tokyo Wonder Site , Tokyo , Japan - 2006 ROAD , capacete , mobile residency , Brazil & Peru - 2005-2006 ISCP , New York , USA - 2003-2004 IASPIS , Stockholm , Sweden - 1999-2000 Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten , Amsterdam - 1995-1996 Hogeschool Sint Lukas , Brussels - Experimental Film - 1994-1995 St . Joost Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving , Breda - Audio Visual Selected solo exhibitions . - 2017 Aeon and Lester’s Loops Groninger museum , Groningen ( NL ) - If you happen to be Ryan Lee gallery , New York ( USA ) - 2016 Apple Z De Appel Art center , Amsterdam ( NL ) - The 9 Day Week CAC museum , Vilnius ( LT ) - 2014 The Ears Have Walls Leo Xu Projects , Shanghai ( CH ) - Follies Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn ( D ) - Blank Stare Gus Fisher Gallery , Auckland ( NZ ) - 2012 Roxy Minsheng Museum , Shanghai ( CH ) - The Future that Was NASA/Smart , Amsterdam ( NL ) - 2011 Suspension of Disbelief Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam ( NL ) - 2009 ProMotion Z33 , Hasselt ( B ) Selected group exhibitions . - 2018 Busan Biennale , South Korea - 2016 Heaven , Hell & Earth Stedelijk museum Den Bosch - forming in the pupil of an eye Kochi Biennale , India - 2015 Moscow biennale Moscow ( RUS ) - Istanbul biennale Istanbul ( TUR ) - 2014 Sydney biennale Sydney ( AUS ) - Marrakesh Biennale Marrakesh ( MOR ) - CAFA museum Beijing ( CH ) - Play Time Corner House , Manchester ( UK ) - 2013 Garden of Diversion Sifang museum , Nanjing ( CH ) - Performa 13 New York ( USA ) - Venice Biennale Venice ( IT ) - Sharjah Bienniale Sharjah ( UAE ) - Call of the Mall Utrecht ( NL ) - 2012 dOCUMENTA ( 13 ) Kassel ( D ) - Blind Cut Marlborough Chelsea Gallery , New York ( USA ) - 2011 Secret Societies Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt ( D ) - Television Commune Nam June Paik Art Center , Seoul ( SK ) - 2010 Not Our Cup of Tea 29th Sao Paulo Biennial ( BR ) - De Nederlandse Identiteit Museum De Paviljoens , Almere ( NL ) - A Map Bigger Than Its Territory Valand Fine Arts , Gothenburg ( S ) - 2009 C.I.S . Kadist Foundation , Paris ( F ) - Secret Ninth Planet MA CCA , San Francisco ( USA ) - Slow Movement Kunsthalle Bern ( CH ) Boards / Positions . - 2016 - now Main tutor Fine Arts Sandberg , Rietveld , Amsterdam - 2013 – now Teacher Audio Visual Department Rietveld , Amsterdam - 2014 – 2015 Artist in Residence Academie van Bouwkunst , AHK , Amsterdam - 2016 – now Board Witte de With center for contemporary art , Rotterdam - 2014 – now Board The One Minutes Foundation , Amsterdam Coined Phrases and Quotes . - Trust me , Im an Artist . - See you in the future . ( i.e . “See you soon , “Au revoir , “Tot ziens” , “ Bis zum nächsten Mal” ) External links . - PolyLester - LestarFilm - Artist Page At Fons Welters Gallery - Ryan Lee Gallery - Lesters News at Leo Xu Projects 1 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121024205429/http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/gabriel_lester/ 2 . http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/tablog/entries.en/2006/10/interview_with_gabriel_lester.html 3 . http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl/2010/12/8-dec-beamclub-16-gabriel-lester/ 4 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101206175349/http://boijmans.nl/en/7/calendar-exhibitions/calendaritem/625/gabriel-lester - Gabriel Lester at Artist Pension Trust