Windfall - Voor De Wind — City of Zeist - 2019
PolyLester Arts & Design
Trek — South London Gallery - Pelican Estate
Void-Non-Void — NDSM-werf
Void-Non-Void is a light sculpture placed on a wide empty square in the middle of the NDSM-terrein, makes both light and darkness a penetrating sensory experience.
In a city filled with light like Amsterdam, darkness is scores. But at the NDSM-werf, it can still be pretty dark. A dual quality, because she can bring discomfort and fascination at the same time. From the dark shore of the IJ, the NDSM brings you one of the most beautiful views on the city, where you can see thousands of lights sparkle on the other side. Void-Non-Void is a artwork that makes darkness sensible. Whit light flickers against the inside and the outside of the six bij three meters high walls. In the blink of an eye the object changes from a white cube, to a block box, from a empty shell to a filled core and from a blind spot to a penetrating after-image. After the clear light your eyes will glow in the dark for a while.
TWIRL — Konstradet, Stockholm, Sweden
PolyLester's Peels
Delta - Den helder
The Moveables — Kunstfort Vijfhuizen - Haarlem, NL
Horst Festival — Horst Festival
The Electrified Line — Creative Foundation Folkestone, Folkstone, U.K.
Olam — exhibition scenography Groninger Museum
The Adventurer (London & Bonn) — Bonner Kunstverein & Sculpture in the City London
Animal Languages — exhibition scenography Cobra museum Amstelveen
FreeWalk — Amsterdam Prison Re-design - icw Barcode Architects
Elevating Witte de With — YMERE + Amsterdam City Council, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Skyline of the Recurring Dream — Room on a Roof - Bijenkorf Amsterdam + Rijksmuseum
Big Bang Pang — Sifang Museum, Nanjing, P.R.C
Vayu Vatu Monaco — Nuit Blance Monaco
Re-design of the North Delegates' Lounge — Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Diamond Greenhouse — Rabobank Bergeijk
Roombeek Water — Gemeente Enschede Dienst Maatschappelijke Ontwikkeling
Kentering — Amsterdam City Council, The Netherlands
Aqua Spectra — Municipality of Sint-Oedenrode
Neck of the Woods — Het Hem, Zaandag
Beemster Arch — BPD vastgoed - 2019
Nucleus Two — Tai Kwun - Hong Kong
Layover / Tussenstop — Bergen op Zoom
Locomotion — Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
Aura Utrecht — Public Works Utrecht, NL
NS Station Groningen — icw Koen van Velsen architecten for ProRail
Grosvenor Squair — London, UK
Anyang Scope — APAP, Anyang City, South Korea
The Ripple — TAAK / Hortus Haren
Between Time — Amsterdam City Council, The Netherlands
Arcadia Grandview Pavilion — London Southbank Centre, London, U.K.
Sleepwalk — Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, P.R.C
Sicco Mansholt — Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Sun Inside Out — CBK Utrecht, The Netherlands
Transition N34
G.O.D. — City Council of Genth, Belgium
Martini Banners — SKOR
Yggdrasil — CBK Utrecht + Gemeente Oudewater
Post Office — SKOR
Renovation Anna — Rijksbouwmeester
News
The final result of Qianhai Mawan Landmark Design is published
— July 20, 2020 —
Together with MLA+ Architecture, Planning and Consultancy, PolyLester was invited to design landmark architecture. We were not shortlisted, but got pretty far. Here some results. 
PolyLester wins landmark sculpture for facade new HQ PostNL
— July 8, 2020 —
Aqua Spectra has been completed
— June 24, 2020 —
Polyester has completed Aqua Spectra a landscape of water mirrors at the HQ of furniture manufacturer Ahrend (see image) and is currently awaiting proper documentation – for now some images can be found in the site, sop do enjoy.
Parade Oestgeest
— January 10, 2020 —
Some catching up to for 2020. last year was spend wining lost of competitions and some are even soon to be delivered. To start with the last thing we won: Parade a wall with approx 600 3D shapes of fossil fish swimming in a school. each fish has a reflecting eye, forming a starry ensemble of playful dots.
Weg en Water (Road and Water)
— March 6, 2019 —
A Day with Gabriel Lester – Unseen
— November 26, 2018 —
Our founder Gabriel was recently interviewed by Unseen about a day in the studio, check out the article here
New Video Released Directed by Gabriel Lester – ‘Binnen’ by Yung Internet
— November 5, 2018 —
During the display of ‘Void Non-Void’ at NDSM in Amsterdam, Gabriel Lester used the hip-hop culture inspired installation as a set for Yung Internet’s new video Binnen. Check out this article to find out more!
Gabriel Lester Featured @ Paris International
— October 15, 2018 —
Gabriel Lester work to be featured at Paris International, check it out!
Neck of the Woods @ Lek Art
— October 11, 2018 —
Our piece ‘Neck of the Woods’ was recently exhibited at Lek Art, we hope you enjoyed it!
The Conditioning @ Busan Biennale 2018
— October 1, 2018 —
The Conditioning (2018), our latest site-specific installation for the Busan Biennale pursues a more sober but no less immersive critique of architectural space, and politics. Read More.
Trek @ South London Gallery
— September 24, 2018 —
New piece Trek, an artwork about the politics of migration was installed last Saturday for the South London Gallery on Pelican Estate. “When seen from the block above this group of sculptures, coloured to resemble birds of paradise, are designed to appear as if they are being blown in the wind. From the ground they will look like foreign bodies in motion, alien newcomers passing through the Pelican Estate”
Read about the piece HERE Installed 15/09/18
Void-Non-Void @ Designboom
— April 3, 2018 —
About
PolyLester – established by Gabriel Lester in 2013 – is a studio focusing on art, public sculptures, architectural interventions, landscape, interior design, stage design etc etc.
Featuring commissioned artworks and designs by Gabriel Lester since 2001, as well as an array of collaborations with a.o. Martine Vledder, Arnaud Hendrickx, Jennifer Tee, Richard Niessen, Koen van Velsen architecten, Irma Boom, KRFT, URA, Hangmen, Hella Jongerius, Rem Koolhaas (OMA), Barcode Architects, Monadnock, BeauArchitects, Auguste van Oppen
Based in Amsterdam, available in the rest of the world.
Contact
P o l y L e s t e r
Ottho Heldringstraat 3 unit BG 030
1066 AZ Amsterdam
www.polylester.com
info@polylester.com
+31 611 27 49 17 (Lester)
+31 642 12 80 95 (Vledder)