RADAR

Live streaming from the opening of the exhibition "fortresses of foam" by Nisja

2016-02-20T15:24:00.001+01:00

New Exhibition!

2016-02-03T16:59:00.002+01:00

Live from Radar

2015-05-23T13:42:00.001+02:00

Live streaming video by Ustream

Radar featured in the Colours Magazine

2015-05-07T22:45:00.000+02:00

agencyfish.com/Garuda_Colours_Magazine_May2015
page 134-135

Radar announced finalist in international competition AIM - The Legend of Tent

2014-05-06T19:41:00.001+02:00

We are very proud to announce that our project ‘Tent Cloud Hotel’ has been selected for the final phase of the international competition Architects In Mission - The Legend of Tent.
Please click here to have a look and ‘like’ our project.
You will find our project under the name of Marco de Piaggi / Weronika Wawrzyniak

New project in Warsaw

2013-12-23T23:29:00.001+01:00

New project in the very center of Warsaw - have a look on our web page for more images!
www.radar-amsterdam.com/warsaw

Gold Coast Cultural Precinct Competition, Australia

2013-12-04T18:22:00.001+01:00

Gold Coast Cultural Precinct Competition: the names of the architectural studios that took part in the competition are now public: among the other OMA, Norman Foster, MVRDV, Zaha Hadid, Dominique Perrault...
You can see all the entries - including the RADAR project - here: www.goldcoastculturalprecinct.info/submissions

Live streaming from the POP-UP event 'don't make me angry'

2013-07-05T13:08:00.002+02:00

Live broadcast by Ustream

Don't make me angry!

2013-05-28T17:55:00.002+02:00

Friday July 5 and Saturday July 6, 2013 from 13:00 to 20:00 Radar gallery Amsterdam will host the POP-UP event "don't make me angry”. During the event three selected artists will be working live on the realisation of three different artworks.

The traditional process of creation-exhibition of works of art almost always foresees a specific itinerary, where the work is presented as a "finished product" and therefore directly "consumable". While acknowledging the creation as an intimate act, Radar Gallery wants to reverse the institutional trend for once, hosting three artists which will create work live, using their own techniques and ways of working.

The POP-UP event "don't make me angry" should be seen as an attempt and a possibility to make the public participate in an activity often seen as 'secret' and to allow them for once to have a look behind the mask that the artist wears when presenting a finished work.

Everybody present will be free to interact with the artists through questions and comments or may simply observe the creation of a work of art. In this way Radar wants to establish a link between the artists and the audience and create an unique work in progress event.

The three artists invited to the POP-UP event are:
Immo Jalass: digital art, galeriejalass.tripod.com
Nisja: urban paintings, nisja.carbonmade.com
Marcel Ozymantra: post-expressionistic storyteller and painter, ozymantra.nl

Photos from the opening of the show 'the flexible and the furious!' 30.6.2012

2012-07-01T17:58:00.000+02:00

Live streaming from the opening of the show 'the flexible and the furious!'

2012-06-30T16:47:00.000+02:00

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Radar is back with a new architecture exhibition: the flexible and the furious

2012-06-11T13:18:00.001+02:00

On Saturday the 30th of June 2012 Radar Architecture & Art will start the exhibition entitled ''the flexible and the furious!'', showing seven projects of the group Radar Architecture in various places in the world. The central theme of the exhibition is the flexibility and adaptability of architecture to different situations imposed by a furious society in constant acceleration. We cordially invite you to the opening of the show at 18:00 in the Eerste Rozendwarsstraat 17hs. The opening hours of the exhibition are Friday and Saturday from 13:00 to 18:00 and on appointment.

An ever-changing world

In the last three and a half years, Radar Group has been participating in international architecture competitions parallel to organizing art exhibitions. Radar found itself thus directly involved in issues such as 'reuse' 'sustainability' 'flexibility' or 'adaptability', which in the last years have become part of everyday vocabulary. The unstable socio-economic conditions that characterize the current decade force people more and more to an adaptability to situations of daily life and work. The same adaptability is therefore required from structures that accommodate the events of the social and private life of people. The main engine of these changes is likely to be found in the dizzying increase of the exchange of information, in which Internet has played and plays a key role. Art and Architecture have been affected by these developments, especially in recent years characterized by a global economic crisis.

A flexible architecture

After a series of projects Radar Group has decided to present the results of that work taking the opportunity to do an analysis of the main guidelines underlying the projects. This study revealed some points in common, like an invisible wire stretched between the conscious and unconscious that binds all projects. The most important aspects that unite the seven projects are in fact flexibility and adaptability. By flexibility is meant the ability of architecture to meet different requirements of users that in the present day change with a remarkable rapidity. By adaptability is meant a kind of 'external flexibility' that allows a concept or architectural strategy to be applied with minor changes to different places or urbanistic contexts. The exhibition 'the flexible and the furious!' shows projects in several places (from Warsaw to Venice, from Amsterdam to Austin, from Rome to Oslo) and of different typologies (from a SPA in a skyscraper to temporary pavilions for art exhibitions, from an adventure playground to a family house) and analyses how and to what extent the key concepts of flexibility and adaptability are present in them.

Press release by Marco Radar

Exhibition "Now We Are Gone" by Chidi Onwuka

2011-09-04T21:16:00.005+02:00

On Saturday September 10th at 16:00 the gallery RADAR Architecture & Art will start the exhibition 'Now We Are Gone showing works by the English photographer Chidi Onwuka. We cordially invite you to the opening of the show in the Rozengracht 77A.

Theme

The series of photos exhibited shows the interiors of two buildings in Amsterdam, that were about to be demolished: the former Post CS Gebouw and the Wibauthuis building on Wibautstraat. In this superb series, the photographer concentrates his attention on the remains of the buildings; capturing what the current conformity tends to forget or hide.

Unconventionality often leads to surprising results: in 1632 Rembrandt portrayed in his painting "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" in a completely new way until then, a professor who dissected a corpse in front of his students. Similarly Chidi Onwuka, referring to the buildings in question, speaks of a "wounded animal" that is about to die, and it is this particular “wound” that fascinates him.

The city as a whole is composed of a variety of buildings where the human activities take place. They are put onto a scale of importance where at the top we find the monument, par excellence untouchable and beautifully displayed, and at the bottom the buildings to be demolished, hidden behind anonymous scaffolding. And it is exactly on the latter subject that Chidi Onwuka wants to point his finger: on what is hidden and considered embarrassing by the common sense, trying to find the beauty that lies in the unusual.

The artist

Chidi Onwuka is an English born Nigerian, brought up in Oxford. He graduated in Architecture and studied Film Theory & Criticism. In 1989 he moved to Amsterdam were he now works and lives. The photographer has worked as an architect in Dutch studios (OMA, Neutelings Riedijk, West 8) and then as an interactive designer, art director and programmer.

Ocassionally he writes about architecture and urbanism. His true love in life though is to observe the world around him and in photography he has found the perfect outlet in which to express himself.

Group exhibition 'summer on a solitary beach'

2011-08-07T17:07:00.004+02:00

This summer Radar would like to invite you to a group exhibition of the artists that exhibited in the gallery in the last 6 month and one guest artist.

The artist represented will be :

Laser 3.14 (graffiti art)

Nisja (paintings)

Marcel Ozymantra (paintings)

Immo Jalass (digital paintings)

Steven Smith (photography )

Ikko To

The gallery is open every Friday and Saturday from 13:00 to 17:00. Come to visit us at the Rozengracht 77A.

collage by Marco Radar

photo of Laser 3.14 by Lisa Elsenburg

Radar in The Guardian

2011-06-22T23:23:00.005+02:00

Radar is featured in the The Guardian in "10 of the best independent galleries in Amsterdam"!
Have a look!
www.guardian.co.uk

Cosy summer party on Friday 1st of July 'Paintings: a musical comment'

2011-06-16T13:39:00.006+02:00

Marcel Ozymantra: The Veil, oil on canvas, 35 x 30, 2010

Radar would like to invite you to a special event on Friday the 1st of July: Paintings: a musical comment. The composer Vera van der Bie has written a musical comment to some paintings of the exhibition Street | Spirit.
You are welcome from 20:00 for a short presentation, music and some drinks.

Exhibition ‘Street | Spirit’ by Nisja and Marcel Ozymantra, May 28th - July 2nd 2011

2011-05-10T23:03:00.001+02:00

Radar is proud to present it's 10th exhibition ‘Street | Spirit’ where the artists Nisja and Marcel Ozymantra will show all new works. You are cordially invited to the vernissage on the 28th of May at 17.00.

Theme

At this double exhibition two talented painters are presented at gallery Radar for the second time. Each one approaches the city from his/her own viewpoint. Nisja searches for the often hidden and not apparent spirituality that pervades life in an urban situation. Ozymantra dives in the crypts of personal experience of somebody who has ventured half his life close to the asphalt. Where Nisja elevates from the profane, Ozymantra looks for the biographical. Where in Nisja’s case the colors almost dissolve, Ozymantra confronts with intense outbursts. They meet each other in the streets and have a conversation about what it means to be human in the city, one of the greatest inventions of humanity.

The artists

Marcel Ozymantra

His aim as always is finding the balance where paint becomes image and is still paint, but in these paintings Ozymantra let go the idea of an uniform style. He chooses eclectic from the wide range of possibilities accumulated during his 19 years of experience. Fantasy, photo and directly observed reality join into something that’s more. These different elements enter into an uneasy relationship. In this way he creates a new world in which everything has purposeful friction. Between these elaborated canvases others hang with a more simple slant. It’s like there are two artists, one brutally direct and the other mysterious and subtle, but a true clash is absent, for both approach the canvas with the same thoroughness. Through incidental repainting and lots of dripping he demolishes the image in the search for the freshness of improvisation.
As subjects he uses divorce and confusion of the genders, mythical animal motives, helmets & masks, cityscapes of Amsterdam, India and other cities/places, the exaggerated superhero body.

Nisja

In the paintings of the young Polish artist Nisja department stores, industries, block of flats, empty spaces, parking places and abandoned fields form fields of color as seen from a bird's-eye view. Some buildings are shown in architectural perspective, some as floor plans, with few seemingly random details. All are united by the magic of a silent equilibrium.
This equilibrium seems precarious but at the same time it invites to meditation and contemplation of a world without time. Though this world is a reflection of places lived or seen by the artist and is not an ideal world, it's elements are not beautiful or eye-catching. The industrial agglomerations or the big dormitory quarters of post-socialistic cities seem rather symbols of a long gone or fake prosperity. In the paintings they have been transformed by the spirit of the artist through a process of purification, simplification and abstraction and put in a place that can’t be found on any map, ascetic and silent (like some of the images by Stanley Kubrick). It is a place made of voids and solids, without movement, sound or time. But it also is not a post-nuclear landscape. Life is apparent but is standing still for a moment of contemplation.
They are interior landscapes that come to life through a sophisticated use of colours, transparencies, delicate lines and simple shapes.

During the exhibition it's possible to listen to compositions that musician/composer Vera van der Bie made to accompany some of Ozymantra's paintings. She plays for, among other things, Quartet Quenetique (www.qq4.nl).

Queen's Day at Radar

2011-04-29T19:04:00.004+02:00

Kunst & Koffie for your bloodstream!

While you're enjoying the crazy city have a nice Italian coffee and a look at the new exhibition of Laser 3.14 'This Cold Metal Future'!

Grand opening of the exhibition 'This Cold Metal Future' by Laser 3.14 at Radar

2011-04-10T21:10:00.005+02:00

On Saturday April 23rd at 17.00 the gallery RADAR Architecture & Art will start the exhibition of the well known street-poet Laser 3.14 entitled ‘This Cold Metal Future’. In occasion of the ten years of his writing the artist will present a series of brand new works, never shown before.

We cordially invite you to the opening party of the show at our new location, Rozengracht 77 A in Amsterdam. Music selection by DJ Hans Plasma, Laser 3.14 and Marco Radar.

“The Future Is Now The Future Is Set To Be”

Laser 3.14 has been writing the streets of Amsterdam for 10 years. Today more than ever his science-fiction/cyberpunk tags are a perfect commentary to a world in which the future predicted by the fathers of science-fiction is now happening. The artist is fascinated by the fact that the future we dreamed of as children, represented in science-fiction books, movies, comics, animation, music, we are actually living today.

“This Cold Metal Future”

In Laser 3.14’s work written on the streets in the last 10 years one can see both admiration and at the same time a subtle criticism towards our futuristic world dominated by technology. Everything that surrounds us today is ruled by the binary code as rightly mentioned by Laser 3.14. That on one hand gives us unseen possibilities of communication, while on the other it exposes us to an incredible amount of information and a constant control of every aspect of our lives. We are becoming “Slaves Of The Digital Overflow” to quote the artist.

These issues have evolved and matured over the years in the work of the artist and are the center of the exhibition This Cold Metal Future.

The soundtrack of the exhibition will be strictly Post-Punk and New Wave music because the same message of admiration and criticism of the technological world has been and still is expressed by many bands of this genre since the early 80's.

Contact person Laser 3.14:
Manuela Klerkx
manuelaklerkx@gmail.com

Opening of the exhibition by Immo Jalass 'Distorted cities to rob and lie"

2011-03-21T20:56:00.004+01:00

On Saturday March 26 at 17:00 the gallery RADAR Architecture & Art will start the exhibition 'Distorted Cities to Rob and Lie', showing digital paintings by the German artist Immo Jalass.

We cordially invite you to the opening of the show in the NEW LOCATION of the Radar Gallery in the Rozengracht 77A.

The images presented by the artist are imaginary landscapes, abstract expanses or shots of cities that seem to be taken on another planet.

Immo Jalass starts with a free composition, photos or parts of them, sometimes images of a city and details of buildings. In this sense he "steals" images from reality. Later on (in front of his "digital canvas") he begins to treat the images, to distort them, to cut them, to remove or add details, colors and elements from other photos or from god knows where. This process of "mystification" of the reality leads to the creation of an image that overtakes and goes beyond reality itself.

In his bewildered landscapes Jalass captures the grandeur of the space between the speed of light and the perpetual change and through the computer he freezes and crystallizes this vision into an image that takes on aspects of meditation and contemplation, or to put it in the words of the artist into "images that rest in the movement”.

Live streaming from the closing of the exhibition by Steven Smith

2011-01-15T13:38:00.001+01:00

Closing of the exhibition 'structure|nature' by Steven Smith

2011-01-08T19:55:00.003+01:00

On the 15th of January the exhibition 'structure|nature' by Steven Smith will close.

In occasion of the closing of the gallery doors, Radar will open from 16:00 till 19:00 for a pleasant finish with some drinks.

Hope to see you there!

Live streaming from the opening of the exhibition by Steven Smith

2010-12-03T18:43:00.000+01:00

Opening of the photography exhibition by Steven Smith 'structure | nature'

2010-12-01T19:05:00.002+01:00

On Saturday December 4th16:00 the gallery RADAR Architecture & Art will start the exhibition '| nature', showing photographs by the Australian photographer Steven Smith. We cordially invite you to the opening of the show in the Eerste Rozendwarsstraat 17hs.

The photo exhibition is about two elements, architecture and nature. Normally, those are seen as polar opposites, where most people identify nature as ...pristine and pure, and the city as a place of sickness. People living happily in their high-rise apartments still tend to glorify the beauty of unspoiled places far away from their beloved metropolis, seeing the two as completely different aspects of our world.

The aim of the exhibition is to give visitors a different interpretation, where the two opposing polarities of city and nature could match.

Museumnacht 2010 at Radar

2010-11-12T14:19:00.003+01:00

Performance of Anita Hrnic ‘MADE’ in front of Radar.