About the artist
Rafaël Rozendaal (1980) is a Dutch-Brazilian artist who currently lives in New York.
Rozendaal’s artistic practice comprises NFTs (Non Fungible Token), websites, installations, prints and writing. His work takes shape through a range of transformations – from movement into abstraction, virtual into physical space, and website to print – with all of them interacting with each other. All of his works have one thing in common: they stem from a fascination with moving images and interactivity in its most basic form.
Although Rozendaal is best known for his artworks in the form of websites, he sees no hierarchy between his websites and physical works: “The experience that you have when you are at home using Abstract Browsing on your computer is as authentic as viewing one of the tapestries in a gallery. From my point of view, the internet is like a waterfall, an exhibition more like an aquarium.”
Rozendaal’s work has been exhibited at many venues, including: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA); Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR); Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL); Kunstverein Frankfurt, (DE); Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki (JP); New Museum, New York (USA); Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul (KOR); Hammer Museum Los Angeles (USA); Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL); MOTI Museum Breda (NL); Times Square Midnight Moments, New York (USA); Telfair Museum, Savannah (USA); Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble (FR); With Project Space, New York (USA); and Towada Art Center (JP).
Picture: Philippe Gerlach.