Andre Amaral was born in 1972 in Sao Paulo and lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.

Selected exhibitions>
2008 - Projeto Acervo – Espaço Cultural Bananeiras, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2007 – 10 years of Visual Language Masters at Centro Cultural Hélio Oiticica, RJ, BR
2006 – “Nanoexposição” – Federal University of Vitória, ES

2003 - “O fio e o espaço” – at Paço Imperial, RJ, BR
2002 - “9th Salão da Bahia” MAM Salvador BA, BR
2001 – “Salão Rioarte contemporânea”, Museum of Modern Art MAM, RJ, BR

Next to his visual work Andre Amaral works as a DJ and poducer and is a known figure
of the Rio music and club scene. He hosts his own radioshow and has numerous collaborations
with performers and DJ’s from all over the world. One of his recent projects
together with MC CHUPARINA is currently hitting off the (under)gound

Anno_MC,
geboren en getogen in Amsterdam, is sinds jaar en dag bezig met entertainen. Van een show voor familie en vrienden, tot optredens op de grote podiums van Nederland. Anno_MC heeft op de volgende podiums mogen staan; Sail 2005, Melkweg, Paradiso, Black Magic Woman Festival, Vitamine V, etc. Daarnaast is  Anno_MC ook het gezicht van “The Bijlmershake”, hij creëerde daarom ook de gelijknamige hit “The Bijlmershake” in opdracht van het CBK Zuidoost en de kunstenaars Glebbeek en Krijl. Maar ook in het buitenland is hij niet meer weg te denken. Na een succesvolle promotietour te hebben gehad in Zuid-Amerika heeft Anno_MC zeker ook plannen om alle andere Nederlands sprekende landen kennis te laten maken met zijn talent.

Daniela Bershan was born in 1980 in Zweibrücken, DE,
She lives and works in Amsterdam. She studied Multimedia Design in Stuttgart and later at the Rietveld-Academy in Amsterdam. She makes sculptures, installations, performances and sounds and has participated in various projects and exhibitions in Holland and abroad ao. 1646/The Hague, Kunsthaus/Graz, Capacete/Rio de Janeiro and Centro d’Arte Santa Monica/Barcelona.

Next to her research and practice Daniela Bershan works as a DJ/producer a.k.a. Baba Electronica.

The Netherlands in 1978.
She works as an artist, performing and exhibiting her photographs in art institutions such as Institute Neérlandais/Paris, Kruller Muller Museum/De Hoge Veluwe, SMBA/Amsterdam, Fons Welters/Amsterdam, Foam /Amsterdam, Gallery/Los Angeles, MadVickyTea Galley  in may 2009 she will have a solo show at Ppow Gallery NY. In addition to numerous exhibition catalogues, a book showcasing a retrospective of her work will be published in September 2008 by Capricious publishing. She is winner of the Dutch Young Artist Award 2003 and in collaboration with Kinga Kielczynska winner of the bookprice Pup Award 2007. Her work has been published in Capricious, Eye-magazine, Glu,Livraison, Famous magazine, Mollusk and many more.

Stichting Bijlmer Style heeft als doel en platform te zijn voor het ontdekken, ontwikkelen en promoten van creatief talent in het Amsterdamse Stadsdeel Zuidoost. Beginnende artiesten en international gevestigte namen leveren ieder hun bijdragen. En werken samen om een creative broedplaats te creeren voor en door mensen uit Zuidoost. Met als doel en gezonde creative industrie op te bouwen.

De drijvende kracht achter stichting Bijlmer Style en spil van het geheel is Robert Coblijn. Deze jonge dertiger is geboren en getogen in de Bijlmer Hoogbouw. Zijn liefde voor HipHop en zijn buurt leidde tot oprichting van Bijlmer Style in 2002. Zijn energie en persoonlijkheid zorgde voor een samenklontering van gelijkgezinde. Zo divers Hip Hop is, zo divers is de Bijlmer. Het is de bedoeling dat deze diversiteit nog verder ontwikkeld en naar buiten wordt gebracht.

Muzikanten, videomakers, fotografen, journalisten, producers, vormgevers en graffiti artiesten, ze weerspiegelen en verwoorden de liefde voor hun stadsdeel. In de bewoording van de Amerikaanse rapper Mos Def: “What ever my home is, my home is mine!” De Bijlmer is waar zij wonen, waar zij leven en waar ze van houden. Hun doen en laten vorms de stijl: Bijlmer Style!

BUSHDOOF
weaty keyboard, mic, hard-disk and fx: for the dance.

amsterdam jumpstyle melbourne shuffle axis of evil. ghettojacking bass spasms all up in your doof.

www.bushdoof.eu

DJ JANE DOE - QUEEN OF THE DUTCH DECKS

An unknown, upcoming, female dj, were the three main ingredients for the name “Jane Doe” that was supposed to represent this young lady 10 years ago at age 15.

Through out the years, the name Jane Doe took her in a different direction. She felt, loved and became hip hop, when not knowing music was her teacher all along. The only tool she had was real music that became the creator of her skills she owns today without even possessing decks over the past years. “Creating beautiful music is a true art, ya have to feel it”, she says.

Jane Doe’s strong love for music, mixed with her passion for the craft are two motivational forces that lay the foundation for a long term career - in a field saturated with individuals whose sole drive is only based on what’s “hot”. Radiant beauty and a charismatic smile is what audiences see every time this young talent plays “their favorite tune”, her track selection and keen ability to adjust to the mood of the room is a skill that can be considered a gift as opposed to learnt.

Jane Doe, although “unknown” on various plateaus, she can definitely rise to the challenge and command the attention of the “big boys” – Just in the past years she has opened shows for the Lords Of The Underground and Dilated Peoples, played @ Nas' private party on request, played in countries such as Greece, Jordan and Dubai just to name a few...

Constant Dullaart (the Netherlands, 1979) has recently finished his residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, with a practice focusing on contemporary image language at it’s dirtiest. Trained as a video artist, his work has recently focussed on the Internet and re-contextualizing found material. His works are widely discussed online on websites as Rhizome.org, Artinamerica.com, etc. Dullaart teached at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, and curated several events in Amsterdam, such as the periodically held Lost and Found evenings, the exhibitions ‘Contemporary Semantics Beta’ in Arti et Amicitiae, and the 10.000 euro show in the w139. His work is shown internationally in places as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Art in General and MWNM gallery in New York, ICA London, de Appel, W139, and was shown in the Stedelijk Museum exhibition ‘Off the Record’ during Art Amsterdam, FOAM, and NIMK recently.

Robert Dupic was born in 1978 in Zisak, Croatia

My name is Robert Dupic and I am originally from Croatia. I came to Amsterdam to prepare for applications at the Rietveld in 2005 and got admitted in 2006.

I like to work outside the mainstream academic box and to be innovative.
Art for me is a way to grow together with life. For me it is the most direct way to communicate.
My visual language therefore is direct and unpolished.

I like to work with different media. I produce drawings, animations, sound-installations, photography,
video and site specific work. I have participated at various solo and group shows in Holland.
Like 1646/The Hague, FUCK/Amsterdam, Kattenback/Amsterdam and Quarantaine/Amsterdam.

Gilbert van Drunen was born in Steenbergen, NL,  1966

everything they tell you is bullshit
make your own choices
make your own decisions
check your state of mind
every breath you take is a choice between life and death
be your own hero
don’t bother other people
be free
and if you, reasonably, achieved all that; buy a ticket around the world and make friends

Guga Ferraz  was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1976

Guga is represented by Ernesto Netos and Laura Limas gallery “A Gentil Carioca” since 2005.
He studied architecture at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro UFRJ from 1992 until 1996, switched to sculpture and concluded his studies of Fine Art in 2001.
He begins to work with public action and urban art joining the artist collective “Atrocidades Maravilhosas” in 2000. Since then Guga hasn’t stopped to propose and execute projects using the city and its language as background for his actions.
“(...) Guga’s critique is more acid and more ironic and the ambiguity between the functional
and the aethetic, the urban equipment and sarcasm at least makes one wonder
about his work suspiciously. We don’t question if what we see is art, we question what
we see. (...) “ A Gentil Carioca

Kaleb de Groot was born in Haarlem in 1974

Mijn werk wordt geboren uit de herinterpretatie van een onderwerp: een specifieke ruimte, tekening of concept. Daarbij houden de tragedie en de schoonheid van menselijke interactie mij voortdurend bezig. Dat komt doordat de (on)mogelijkheden van mensen die hun directe omgeving manipuleren me intrigeren.Mijn werk houdt niet op bij een bepaald medium, ik gebruik alles wat nodig is om mijn ideeën te realiseren: tekeningen, installaties, (sociaal) sculptuur, performances of tatoeages.

Alex Hamburger was born in 1955 in Belgrad (lives and works in Rio de Janeiro)

Since the very begining of his activities in the 1980’s, Alex had his interests & searches bended towards the possibilities of interaction, merging, interdisciplinary crossings of different media, taking experimental poetical strategies as a starting point.
During the 80’s and 90’ until our decade he developed some exciting achievements in visual poetry, poem
objects, artist’s books, live pseudo-art performances, audiopoems, nontexts, installations, etc., contributing in his way to an understanding of new potential technical discovery channels in the local circuit of Rio de Janeiro, his for long adopted action space.

Manja Hunger was born in Leipzig in 1979

Manja Hunger makes collages and installations that are generated by research on and appropriation of folklore in the broadest sense. Often a found object or artefact serves the artist as an initial spark that enriches and directs her artistic practice towards new work.

By combining for instance the very formal German Bauhaus textiles from the 1920ies or the design of playing cards with the more spiritual aspects of the annual rite of the maypole she stresses her sources and references and restructures them, constructing new configurations from the remaining parts.

START A NEW ART WORLD
Ad de Jong works and lives in Amsterdam.

I am happy to work in Amsterdam, one of the best city’s for me and artists in the world. Here we can experiment and set our own rules, like on the rooftop of Kraaiennest.

I want to start a new art world, one in which the visual and physical
component is the one and only the public needs to respond to.No concept or reaction on art in art stuff. Art can transform as a visual language.My art is made for people to look, no understanding is necessary .

www.addejongart.nl

Roosje Klap is a studio for visual communication, mainly graphic design. The studio researches the experimental boundaries of custom fit design, collaborative yet peculiar. We mainly work for a clientèle in the cultural field: museums, galleries, art publishers and artists.

Clients include The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Fonds BKVB, the Mondrian Foundation, The Audax Textile Museum, SKOR, Foam, The Royal Dutch Mint, and for publishers like Valiz, Nieuw Amsterdam, Pels&Kemper, Revolver en JRP Ringier. Recent projects lead to collaborations with Krist Gruijthuijsen & Koen Brams,het Tropenmuseum, Jan Rothuizen and Mister Motley.

Roosje Klap is Antoine Bertaudière, Roosje Klap, Joris Lindhout and Angeline Ostinelli and interns Evelien Crooy and Adrien Borderie.

Mark Meeuwenoord, 1972 studeerde filosofie en esthetica aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Tijdens zijn studie speelde hij in diverse bands, was hij betrokken bij verschillende muziek & multimedia projecten en ontwikkelde hij zijn fascinatie voor nieuwe media en audio design. Momenteel is hij naast muzikant en componist ook filosofie docent & coördinator aan de Academy for Media & User Experience (Breda) Verder sluit hij op dit moment een research
periode af bij oa STEIM en het SAE Institute naar performance mogelijkheden binnen (pop)audio compositie en electroacoustics.

Gabriel Lester was born in Amsterdam (1972). He currently lives and works in Amsterdam and New York. His artworks consist of installations, performances and film/video. Other activities include art in public space, film directing, teaching, advising, writing and video-editing and.

At an early age Lester got involved in electronic music, recording and performing in the Netherlands and abroad. Composing music and writing lyrics led to writing poetry, theory and literature.

Lester’s main focus had always been (narrative) cinema, until, through several collaborations and experiments with visual art and artists, between 1996 and 1999, his attention gradually shifted from cinema to visual arts.

From 1999 to 2000 Lester worked at the Rijksakadmie in Amsterdam. Here he found himself drawn to the medium of installation art. Evers since his first year at the Rijksakademie he has worked with numerous international institutes, curators, museums and biennales in East and West Europe, Asia and North and South America.
Lester is represented by the Fons Welters gallery in Amsterdam and the Rodeo gallery in Istanbul. He has been an artist in residence at the IASPIS in Stockholm, Capacete in Rio de Janeiro and the ISCP in New York.

Lastplak is a group of eleven painters with different backgrounds and diverse skills. Our goal is to paint, no matter what surface, size or location. Our work can be found all over the world, but our homebase is Rotterdam(Holland), so that's where most of our stuff can be seen.

Lastplak is: 
Oles, Boortorrie, Sake, Acab, Grrt, Pinwin, Ox-Alien, Yen, Mayb,Thor & Sterf.

"Lastplak" is sort of a word-joke in the Dutch language, a contamination of the old fashioned word "lastpak" (:An annoying person , a "pain in the ass") and the word " plak " (from: "plakken" :  to stick, paste) Combining these words would mean something like an annoying sticker, an irritating person who puts up stickers or a disturbing message spread with the sticker as medium. 
 
Lastplak started in 2000 as a one man project that through the years grew to the current collective of about 10 artists with different roots in graffiti, design and (street-) art. They all operate individually and as a collective on murals, pieces, stencils, posters, stickers, paintings, etc. Every participating artist has there own specific characters, styles, inspirations and themes that are all put together in the melting pot where everybody interacts with each other's work, usually without a sketch. 
 
Lastplak has many activities in public space. Besides stickers, paste ups and other, they initiated several large wall paintings and projects in the streets of Rotterdam, mostly spontaneously, self initiated and independent, playing the city's laws and procedures a bit.  
Besides this they also do commissions and other paid projects, as long as they like the idea and can paint what they want. If there is a profit, it is mainly used to fund their independent projects..... or to get some more beers.  
 
Projects vary from painting shop shutters, trucks and vans, several murals, a 700 m2 wall, a church, an entire street. exhibitions and later on live paint sessions at festivals, events, expo's and parties, from underground squatter parties to hipster dance clubs where they normally would be refused.entrance. During these events often other related artists who are invited to join in. There are frequently other guest appearances, collaborations and activities, as long as it is fun and a good time. 
 
Since the collective started painting more on canvas, there have been several exhibitions in different galleries in Rotterdam and other cities of the Netherlands and later also abroad.  
 
Check the website for more info and pictures. 

www.lastplak.com

Margit Leisner was born in 1971 in Curitiba, BR (lives and works in Curitiba)

After her studies of Visual Arts at the F+F Schule fur Kunst und Mediendesign in Zurich, Switzerland she returned to Brazil where she works as an artist and curator. In 2007 she was a resident artist at CAPACETE in Rio de Janeiro, BR.

In 2008 she was co-curator of Poéticas Experimentais da Voz/Experimental Poetics of the Voice (Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC- Niterói – RJ / GGG-Curitiba) and Arte em Circulação/Art in Motion (Galeria da Caixa, Curitiba), where she has worked amongst many others with Laura Lima, Jarbas Lopes, Alex Hamburger, Ducha, Alexandre Vogler and Guga Ferraz.

In 2008/2009 she is granted with the IV Bolsa Produção para Artes Visuais , of the Cultural Foundation from Curitiba for the project “O Corpo da Voz/ The Body of the Voice”, which is in progress. She is currently taking part in the exhibition Proposal to the Major II – An exhibition by Brandon Labelle at Ybakatu Espaço de Arte, Curitiba.

Michele Matyn is an artist based in Antwerpen. More infos will follow soon.

Fagner Marçal is a Brazilian Architect with a particular interest in how relationships are formed between temporary artistic activities and public space.

During his A.I.R at FLATstation, he will explore the particularities of Bijlmer urban spaces and how they are perceived and used by the artists in residence. His research will result in written and photographic work. His photos will be exhibited at FATFORM.

Carlos Antonio de Mattos was born in 1963 in Rio der Janeiro (lives and works in RJ)

Carlos Antonios de Mattos, a.k.a. Tantao is a legend of the Rio de Janeiro music scene.
In the 80’s he reached fame as a member of BLACK FUTURE. They were pioneers in Rio and the first Brazilian Electronic Band to release their own vinyl. (www.myspace.com/bandablackfuture). Until today they are remixed by MUNCH and Daniel Harksmann in Europe and the US.
In the 90’s Tantao was with the experimental electronic band THE JOHN MARRICK EXPERIENCE. Since 2000 he is walking on solo paths. Always out on the streets he has earned respect as an MC, performer and artist all over Rio de Janeiro.

Next to his music Tantao always produced visual works. His territory is clearly public space. His tags are all over town and he expresses his personal and political statements in the form of performances, drawings, t-shirts and paintings.

Magnus Monfeldt, was born in Avesta, 1973,  Sweden

Playing indians and cowboys.
Favoring indians over cowboys.
Transmutating identity concepts.
Ignoring geopolitical borders. Twisting your words.
Fucking with your stereotypes. Flaunting un-hip fetishes. Shooting from the hip. Running with the wolf.
Howling at the moon. Chasing squaws. Embracing the hidden agenda. Going to bed with Hollywood.
To hell with Hollywood.

Uit de Amsterdamse Bijlmer komt het duo M.O & Brakko. Deze twee brachten onlangs het album Catharsis uit. Relaxte boombap beats met sterke flows van M.O en Brakko. De rappers vullen elkaar goed aan en wisselen elkaar af op een manier zo dat een track fresh blijft. Daarnaast gaan de teksten ook nog eens ergens over.
M.O.& Brakko is voor de echte hiphop-liefhebbers, die wars zijn van commerciële toevoegingen. Geen grappen en grollen, geen overbodige toeters en bellen en bovenal geen zangers en zangeressen. Hier zijn twee mc’s aan het woord met het hiphop-hart op de juiste plaats. Met een voorliefde voor de betere boom bap hiphop uit New York, denk aan: Mobb Deep, KRS-ONE en Wu-Tang Clan, maar ook de jazzy invloeden van bijvoorbeeld A Tribe Called Quest zijn terug te horen. Het is vooral die specifieke sound, met een donkere maar toch warme sfeer, die hun muziek zo dope maakt.

I am Jonas Ohlsson.
Originally from Örebro, Sweden.
I live and work in the Bijlmer, Holland.

I use intuition and improvisation to create information heavy drawings, music and installations that “reveal mystical truths”. Or boring truths, or sometimes angry, sexy, funny, political or provocative  truths.

I believe there is a funnier, smarter, more intelligent source within me.
Thru using various automatic techniques I can sometimes connect to this deep, flowing river of material, dreams, information and knowledge and then the outcome can be quite rich and surprising...also for me.

Mick La Rock (Aileen Esther Middel, Groningen, the Netherlands, 1970) started writing her name on walls at the age of 13. 
She wrote her nickname “Mickey”, that was given to her by neighbors for always wearing a  Mickey Mouse print on her shirts.

In 1985 she painted her first piece. These were the years that Hip Hop culture reached The Netherlands and the rest of West Europe. With passion Mick La Rock pioneered the culture in most of its elements, of which graffiti writing soon became her number one activity.
She became a legendary graffiti writer.

Mick La Rock lives and works in Amsterdam. Since 2001 her style developed beyond the style rules of graffiti. In 2005 she was admitted to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Fine Arts.

Today Mick la Rock works as a fine artist, muralist and art consultant.

Typerend in Lieven Segers’ werk is dat hij zowel “ware” als “mythische” evenementen en thema’s, van zeer uiteenlopende aard weet te analyseren,  te ontleden en te ontrafelen, om ze vervolgens terug aan elkaar te rijgen volgens zijn eigen specifieke perceptie en visie.
De vindingrijke vormgevingen van zijn percepties impliceren een waaier van accenten; extreem, ongecompliceerd, komisch, spiritueel, ritmisch, imponerend, verwonderend, fris…
Zijn teksten, al dan niet als  accessoires, zijn diepgaand, intelligent en raak.
Het kunnen omgaan met deze vormkrachten geven de kunstenaar een gevoel van voldoening en scheppingsvreugde, maar geven ook blijk dat hij hiermee vreedzaam de stormen van het leven probeert te trotseren.
Hij is een denkend en explorerend  iemand, op een zoektocht naar zichzelf en naar zijn eigen zieleleven.

Sabrina Seifried was born in South Germany in 1980and grew up in the country side of the Black Forest.After graduating in Fashion Design at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg,she moved to Antwerp, where she now lives and works.

Sabrina draws. It feels in a way automatic to her to do so.Her drawings show a strange imaginary universe, dreamy worlds anchored in the real. In her work she is going on a journey inside, where all her experiences, feelings and thoughts are trapped. There they get mixed, filtered and tumbled around to get suddenly released and create intuitively alternative fantastic worlds that often even surprise herself.

‘Zoek Dekking!’ is het nieuwe project van de MC’s Rex en Undercover uit Amsterdam Zuidoost. De twee jeugdvrienden zijn 27 jaar & 28 jaar afkomstig uit Ghana. Met Zoek Dekking! werken ze voor het eerst samen aan een Nederlandstalig project dat gaat uitkomen bij het platenlabel Samen Sterk Records dat o. a. bekend is van M. O. & Brakko en de compilatie CD District 7 vol. 1

Rex is met zijn Engelstalige Hip Hop groep Amon in de jaren negentig al flink bezig geweest. Voor de film ‘The Delivery’ van Roel René maakte de band de soundtrack. En bracht Amon hun single ‘Free Your Mind’ uit. Amon bestaat uit de leden Phantom, Crookid en Rex. Met Phantom en Spliff-a-tack maakte Rex de track ‘District 7 Anthem’ in 2005. De videoclip is nog steeds te zien op YouTube.

Undercover timmerde in de jaren negentig aan de weg met zijn groep S.O.M. wat stond voor State Of Mind. De groep was een optelsom van de muzikanten Sandman, King L, Mix-A-Mill en Undercover. Via een talentenshow in Drachten hebben ze een bijdrage geleverd aan het ‘Platform Project’ met hun lied ‘Run, Step, Hide’.

Tim de Wreede was born in Amsterdam in 1976. He grew up in the South East part of the city, where he soon had his first taste of reggae music. Dipping his hands in his parents’ and friends’ record boxes, he wanted one of his own. It was soon filled up with mostly Jamaican music. At home his parents had just one turntable, and later a cd player. When Pioneer announced the release of the first pioneer cdj100, he knew what he had to work for. The day he finally saved up the money to purchase two cdj100’s and a mixer, his passion for Jamaican music had a direction. Two Stanton str8 turntables soon joined his cd players and Tiny Tim started dropping unique mixtapes left right and centre, juggling riddim albums. Heavily addicted to Jamaican music and soundsystem culture by now, he went to every gig and dance he could in Holland and spend every penny he earned in Boudisque record shop in Amsterdam. In 2002 things completely changed when he got the opportunity to live in London and explore Jamaican music there. Coming from Amsterdam, the amount of British born Jamaicans and Jamaican immigrants was a true blessing to him as he soon got in touch with several people in the music industry. Working for Primetime Entertainment, a booking agency/promotions company owned by June “star” Hayles, he felt he could do more with his own ideas and in 2005 started his own soundsystem. With his roots in Amsterdam (in London mostly known for it’s tolerance towards marijuana, or sensi as it’s often called in Jamaican patois), and his sincerity in his love for Jamaican music Sensirity sound was born, now spelled SENSIRITI SOUND. Starting off in London, SENSIRITI has now played in several places in the United Kingdom and beyond. 2010; Well equipped in life experience and music, a box full of dubplates with the likes of Sizzla, Buju Banton, Beenie man, Bounty killer, Marcia Griffiths, Ken Boothe and many more representing. Father Tim has now taken Sensiriti back to South East Amsterdam where he bursts into the scene with a sound that blends 50 years of Jamaican music with sincerity and a true love that will satisfy all those who love music, all who love life. With the wide range of atmosphere’s (vibes) Jamaican music can create, Sensiriti can provide music for all occasions. From roots and lovers, 80’s or 90’s dancehall, to the newest bashment. Fom weddings and dinner dances to artist support and the freshest club nights, Sensiriti can can play the right selection of music. The grass roots of soundsystem culture lies in open air sets. Street dances and festivals are where a good soundsystem is at it’s best. Sensiriti sound can provide all equipment that’s needed to play anywhere, wether it’s for a small block party or a big festival. We also have many contacts in the music industry in the uk, Jamaica and the Netherlands. We can provide bookings for the following artists: Ricky Chaplin, Prince Jazzbo, Laden, Chino, Bramma, Snypa King, Anthony Cruz, Konshens, Sizzla, Gyptian, Shinehead, the Mitchell bros, Tuggawar, Phantom, Versatile Child, and more.

Selected exhibitions
2009 X Havana Biennal; Cuba
2009 Investigações Pictóricas, Museum of Contemporary Art MAC, Niterói, BR
2009 Tridente / Base, Centro Cultural São Paulo, BR
2008 Base para Unhas Fracas, Galeria Carminha Macedo, Belo Horizonte, BR
2008 Coletiva, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2007 Abre Caminho, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, BR
2006 Expedição Rio-Amazonas, 27° São Paulo Biennal, São Paulo, BR
2006 Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, US
2006 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE

Rooted in the South-East area of Amsterdam, Vinger.nl works hard in various fields of
the creative industry. Our work ranges from concept, strategy and art-direction to design,
photography and film.
Vinger.nl has many clients in the non-profit sector with a specialized focus on youth culture
and education. The Vinger.nl approach is to get the most out of the link between our
commercial and non-profit partners; we like to see everyone in our extensive network get
ahead.
Part of this network we call our creative family. Savvy people exchanging work and good
ideas. We are designers, filmmakers, photographers, writers, producers and artists from
various fields.
Most of us grew up in the same neighborhood, went to the same school and have been
working together for years. This makes us a band apart.
The love for hiphop is our founding connection and still our greatest strength. Its mentality,
vitality and values drive us to this day. It’s about good ideas and getting it done.
www.vinger.nl

zakzakenbof
is an express train to the dark lands of deep techno, dubstep and dub.

Complexity, repetition and technology are recurrent patterns defining a desolated manmade landscape.