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My project “Homage” is showing at @Lacma until July 13, as part of the 💿 Digital Witness exhibition. 📸 by Michael Wells @regressionarymovements taken in LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art by @newrafael

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“Light” is on view at MoMA until spring 2025 @themuseumofmodernart 🍊 Curated by Paola Antonelli 🍉 photos by Jonathan Dorado taken in MoMA The Museum of Modern Art by @newrafael

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Light: Rafaël Rozendaal at MoMA 🌹 on view until spring 💡 curated by Paola Antonelli 📸 by Jonathan Dorado 💎 work shown: returnreverse.com, Orlow Art Collection

“Abstraction is the intensification of perception,” says Rafaël Rozendaal, an innovator in the realm of Internet-based art. Since the early 2000s, Rozendaal has produced vibrant animations that explore the aesthetic and conceptual possibilities of code, treating it as if it were paint. This installation presents a selection of his artworks, each sampled for two to three minutes.

Each work starts as a storyboard sketched on paper, which is then translated into code, into a program that occupies only a few kilobytes. The final form is an autonomous website powered by that algorithm, which generates the animation in real time.

Because Rozendaal has chosen the Internet as his canvas, his works exist within the browser’s flat yet multidimensional digital landscape. For the same reason, though they are held in private and public collections, his artworks are accessible to everybody online through their URLs. “I always wanted to make work that could be seen by anyone, anywhere, anytime,” the artist affirms. “I wanted to create work that gives the viewer a feeling of possibility.”

From the start, Rozendaal planned his websites to be robust enough to withstand the evolution of both software and hardware, and to be equally vivid at any screen resolution. The artworks adapt fluidly to any display, from a smartphone to the high-resolution LED screen—nearly twenty-five feet across—you are contemplating here. The result is a state of immersion so complete that it seems to merge with the physical world. As the artist explains, “I imagine we will live in a world where there is no difference
between a screen and any other surface.” Lean, light, and indestructible, his websites will still be there. by @newrafael

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Thank you for the team at websiteswebsiteswebsites.net putting together a great exhibition! by @newrafael

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“Books” 📚 exhibition at @upstreamgallery in Amsterdam, on view until October 24. 📸 by Gert-Jan van Rooij taken in Upstream Gallery Amsterdam by @newrafael

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Color is at the center of @newrafael's practice. As he shifts between mediums, color behaves differently, and in his new paintings, he has found that subtler gestures produce movement and focus. In the end, the work continues to be about how art helps us understand how we see.

Watch the full interview at the link in bio by @newrafael

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ARTIST CONVERSATION Jan Robert Leegte and Rafaël Rozendaal | On Saturday 5 September, 17.00, Upstream Gallery opens new solo exhibitions by Jan Robert Leegte and Rafaël Rozendaal, two pioneering Dutch internet artists and longtime peers. To mark the occasion, the artists will go into conversation, touching on their shared history in net art, how their practices have developed since, and the new works now on show.

The conversation is open and free of charge, please RSVP via the link in bio.

It will be followed by the public opening of both exhibitions, with drinks and bites, alongside the opening of Nestor Siré's presentation in the private viewing space.

Photo Jan Robert Leegte by Galya Feierman
Photo Rafaël Rozendaal by Naeem Douglas

@leegte @newrafael #upstreamgallery #upstreamgalleryamsterdam #janrobertleegte #rafaelrozendaal taken in Upstream Gallery Amsterdam by @newrafael

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My Exhibition “Books” opens Saturday, September 5 at @upstreamgallery in Amsterdam 📕 📗 📘 The paintings arrive at a moment of image inflation. Stimulation has become an ambient condition rather than an event. Absence, for Rozendaal, is not a lack but an opening: the blank page as unclaimed territory, an opportunity to create. In his words: “In an attention economy, focus is the ultimate luxury.” 🌷 taken in Upstream Gallery Amsterdam by @newrafael

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The internet used to feel like a free open space. Now, @newrafael says, it feels like a bad habit. And that, he argues, is exactly the question digital artists are set up to answer, because they understand the patterns better than anyone.

Watch the full interview at the link in bio. by @newrafael

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In 1999, calling yourself a digital artist was confusing to most people. Today, Rafaël Rozendaal argues, every artist is a digital artist. The question is just how much you emphasize it.

Watch the full interview at the link in bio. by @newrafael

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2026 ☁️ 120 x 175 cm / 47 x 69 inches 🎨 acrylic on canvas 📸 photo by kyle knodell by @newrafael

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