Attention
the internet used to feel like a new, empty space today it feels more like a bad habit i have never been able to come up with anything while browsing the web i need an empty room to find ideas the internet is the opposite of an empty room
Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal (1980) is an artist based in New York.
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to paint or to paint that is the question
“Details” at Takuro Someya Tokyo
photos by Shu Nakagawa “Details”, exhibition at Takuro Someya in Tokyo. Thin washes of paint are layered and rolled in a methodical manner, replacing the pixelʼs clinical precision with surface variability. The series moves between flatness and spatial suggestion, anchored in consistently cool tones, which lend each form a sense of suspension and quiet fluctuation. [ ]
Light in Seoul
Light (Seoul) An extension of the exhibition Light (MoMA) in collaboration with Hyundai Card until fall 2025 Photography by: Byeongchul Chun
Homage at Lacma
My project Homage is showing at Lacma until July 13, as part of the Digital Witness exhibition. Photos by Michael Wells
Interview for MoMA Magazine
Photo by Naeem Douglas Interview by Paola Antonelli, Amanda Forment Prudence Pfeiffer. I worked closely with them for my exhibition at MoMA, and this interview is a culmination of many conversations about art, work, museums, cities, and the internet.
“Light” at MoMA
Light: Rafaël Rozendaal Museum of Modern Art November 16, 2024 Spring 2025 Curated by Paola Antonelli Photos by Jonathan Dorado “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 [ ]
A dialogue between art and haiku
haiku tsurezure #37 A dialogue between art and haiku Rafaël Rozendaal + Yuzo Ono September 2024 Yuzo Ono YO: As an artist, you have been presenting your internet artwork for a long time, and have had many exhibitions, including one at the Towada Art Center in Japan. In the process, you encountered Japanese haiku [ ]
Manual
Manual at Upstream Gallery August 31 October 12, 2024 Photos by Gert-Jan van Rooij Upstream Gallery is proud to present Manual, an exhibition of new work by Rafaël Rozendaal. This marks Rozendaal’s fifth exhibition with the gallery and shows a remarkable shift in his practice. He gained recognition by using the internet as his [ ]
Focus
in an attention economy, focus is the ultimate luxury
Into Time at Pola Museum of Art
Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan Modern Times in Paris 1925 Art and Design in the Machine-age December 16, 2023 May 19, 2024 © Rafaël Rozendaal Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art Photos video by Shu Nakagawa
Taboo
don’t make art on the internet, that will never work don’t show websites in museums, they belong online don’t make gallery objects, you’re a web artist don’t write poetry, you’re not a poet don’t use blockchain, that’s for investors don’t paint, that’s for painters
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when you don’t like the new you feel old
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if you don’t understand it you get it
FARO staircase mural Tokyo
Photos by Shu Nakagawa Thank you to Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
81 Landscapes
81 Landscapes is a new collection of 81 fully on-chain artworks. Smart Contract by Alberto Granzotto. This is not a generative project. All colors were manually chosen… human intuition. This project will be “released” next year. I decided to mint them early, the works were ready, and I like the feeling of having a record [ ]
Into Time 22 10 series
Into Time 22 10 series Framed lenticular prints 160 x 120 cm Courtesy of Upstream Gallery Photos by Gert-Jan van Rooij
Homage at Josef Albers Museum
Homage 43 49 at Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop Photos by Philipp Ottendörfer, 2023 Thank you to Family Collection Klinkhamer, Collection Tim Whidden, Infinite Objects.