• Painting Plants at Bio Art Laboratory, DDW#18

    Lucila Kenny from Painting Plants participates in the Talent Pressure Cooker from Bio Art Laboratory. She started a few months ago to expand the ink research into a completely sustainable way of printing on textiles, for example, scientists and the support of Bio Art Lab. The opening of the new location of Bio Art Lab,…

  • PAINTING PLANTS at Bio Art Laboratory, DDW#18

    Lucila Kenny from Painting Plants participates in the Talent Pressure Cooker from Bio Art Laboratory. She started a few months ago to expand the ink research into a completely sustainable way of printing on textiles, for example, scientists and the support of Bio Art Lab. The opening of the new location of Bio Art Lab,…

  • AGA LAB prints 60 years – preview 5 special AiR-projects – 30th oct 5pm

    Tuesday October 30th from 5-7 pm in the BOUWputGallery, Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74 Special preview of the Artist in Residence projects of: Suzanne Bernardt, Didi Lehnhausen, Alexandra Hedberg, Maja Gajic, Olga Ghanza Suzanne Bernhardt uses the cycle of stone printing as a landscape from which traces of human movement arise. Mapping a choreography of possible meetings,…

  • EXPOSITION “AGA LAB PRINTS 60 YEARS”

    Friday 28th of September, 5pm, BOUWput gallery Presentation Weathering Prints & Painting Plants. Two presentations will take place at AGA LAB on Friday, September 28, at 5pm. In the context of the 60-year sustainability of AGA LAB, we now zoom in on the theme of transience. location: Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74 or entrance of AGA LAB.…

  • Expo Artists in Residence on August 30th

    On the 30th of August (starting at 5 pm) Emily Underwood (USA) showcases her experiments with color mixing and layering transparent colors using silkscreen and risograph printing. “It has been interesting to work with both techniques, as the image planning is quite similar, but the physical process is so different.”   Not only Emily will…

  • Celebrating NBV’s 25th anniversary with AGA LAB studio

    June 2nd, Saturday morning, 9am. AGA LAB studio is already busy. Participants are divided into small groups, assigned to each mentor and technique, which they will use to create their own booklet. It is a team work that will result in mastering or at least trying different print techniques. Letterpress, riso print, screen print and…

  • This week at AGA LAB

    We make the City Time: Saturday 23th of June, between 11am and 12.30pm Playing a game about creating your own color spectrum, join us! By Painting plants – research project, AGALAB. In the botanical garden, AGA LAB Subscription: verfplanten@agalab.nl   Expo: Critical Prints of PEIM In the hallway of AGA LAB   Sex, guns &…

  • Masterclass EYE CANDY – Screenprinting with Michiel Schuurman

    Masterclass during Whitsun weekend (Saturday 19th and Sunday 2oth of May) on the kaleidoscopic possibilities of color and design in silkscreen with the award-winning designer and silkscreen expert Michiel Schuurman. Screen printing is for many people one of the easiest or most accessible printing techniques: until you get to take a good look at Michiel…

  • Call for and from artists – AGA LAB 60 years in 2018!

    In 1958 (60 years ago) the AGA LAB was founded as an artist initiative, the former Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier. During sixty years the studio has been able to develop and rejuvenate itself. To celebrate this we call on all artists who have worked or are still working at AGA LAB to make an artwork for…

  • Making natural paint – workshop April 14th

    Workshop at AGA LAB Making natural paint and its application in printing techniques. Saturday the 14th of April the workshop “Making natural paint” will be organized, where we will share our experience after 6 years of research in and around AGA. We will focus on the process: starting with growing the plants, to extracting the paint, and eventually applying…