Author: AGA LAB

From December 24, 2016 until January 1, 2017 AGA LAB is closed due to the holidays! We wish you happy holidays and a new year filled with creativity and experiments!

During the symposium of the international printmaking festival Graphicall 2016 jewelry designer Liesbet Bussche gives a lecture about two projects she executed at AGA LAB. In which she tells more about her artistic approach of the graphic techniques cyanotype (blueprint) and toyobo (photo etching). You are welcome to join!   GRAPHICALL 2016 4bid Gallery, OT301, Overtoom…

The third Tijdelijke Binnenland Atelier work period (subsidized by the Mondriaan Fund) will be completed by Eva Pel and Claudia Doms. Like their predecessors, they make use of the facilities and expertise of De Waag and AGA LAB. They want to explore and experiment how physical objects / artifacts, or the supposed existence of this,…

Friday December 2nd, Broedplaats BOUW – where AGA LAB is situated – will be officially opened. In the past year our building, on the initiative of the tenants, transformed into a new breeding ground. The partially vacant building has been renovated and turned into a breeding place where ‘create, build and exchange (crossover)’ are central.…

Two-day etching workshop (3 and 4 December) in which various basic techniques and applications, in combination with other techniques (Riso, Toyobo, laser print), will be introduced. Olga breaks with her workshop Playing Etching through the perception of etching as a complicated technique inflexible. Nothing is less true according to Olga! It is perfect to play…

Olga got her first degree in Language and Literature in Russia and graduated from St. Joost Academy of Arts (Netherlands) as a graphic designer. Today she often works on self-initiated projects that balance between design and art. Her media are text, photography, mixed media and graphic arts. In her work she connects disparate elements and…

AGA LAB presented itself during the Dutch Design Week 2016 in line with the theme “The Making of” with an interactive installation by Maze de Boer: “Painted Strategy”. Visitors could make a print during a foosball game. The (gym) floor was covered with a fine art paper. The ball would be dipped in an ink…

Sunday afternoon, October 30th,  the third Knust@AGALAB presentation took place. Curator Suzanne Caerteling presented (In)discernible (Ir)regularities. A visual examination for patterns as natural, theoretical and artistic phenomena. Most of the ten designers / artists were present, together with an interested group of visitors. After the artist book presentation by Joakim Drescher (The Idea), the workplace…

Sunday October the 30th already the third Knust & AGA LAB presentation takes place: the two newest mimeographed publications created by Knust / Extrapool, Work and Holiday (In)discernible (Ir)regularities, will be presented. In addition, various image makers who have printed at AGA Lab give a short lecture about their work. The afternoon will conclude with…

Cyanotype (or blueprint) is an old photographic technique which can be printed directly via a contact negative on paper, wood or textiles. For this you can use a digital image by printing it as a negative on a transparent material. Benjamin Brandenburg, expert in analogue (and digital) photography, will teach you the basic techniques to…