Announcing Exhibition Launch

Painting, stencils, collage, tattoo designs, burning, silkscreen and tyre prints are a just few of the techniques used in the Zaishu Amsterdam project.
Twenty new limited edition Zaishu chairs, each standing as an unparalleled collectable artwork that also functions as furniture, will be exhibited and sold at furniture design store and artspace, Wilhelmina Winkel. This is a rare opportunity to see some of Amsterdam’s progressive talents express themselves individually and collectively and for visitors to purchase a never to be repeated piece of collaborative art.

Opening; Sunday 7th December 4pm
Wilhelmina Winkel, Amsterdam
Exhibition runs 7th December – 31st January

Exhibition team meeting

Planning the big day with the help of coffee, croissants and coca-cola!

Geert, Chris, Jacob, Jennette…and Morten.

Timelapse Movie – The making of: ZAP

Timelapse film of creation of the limited edition version of Zaishu: Zaishu Amsterdam Project. Making unique chairs with twelve different artist in an amsterdam warehouse.

Film by Geert Van Kerckhove : Music by Vardos

The journey continues

Transporting our finished Zaishu’s to the studio space for filming & documentation!

Connecting our Zaishu panels

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We met at Winkel Wilhelmina where the first Zaishu Amsterdam exhibition will be held and connected the panels of all the different artists. Each artist will exhibit one complete chair featuring their own work and the remaining 10 chairs are made up of a compilation of each artist. Of the 20 chairs, there will be 10 individual chairs featuring artwork from 5 different artists. It was a complex and difficult task to decide which panels to put together, but we ended up with some fabulous looking chairs!

Artists at work

Our big Zaishu painting day was a brilliant success and we produced some awesome artwork. It was great to see the collaborative spirit and sharing of techniques and work practices between the artists. Everyone was buzzed by the inspirinig energy and sensational creations that were produced!

Photos by Morten Årstad

Preparing our playground

Although a little early for a Saturday morning, we got busy preparing our playground for the day’s event, making sure coffee was plentiful and installing Gert’s time machine.

Transporting & unpacking the first Zaishu

Clearly not much of a problem to load 20 flatpacked Zaishu onto a couple of bikes! We’re off to Weasels atelier to unwrap our canvases and get started on the big painting day.

Zaishu arrives in The Netherlands

Destination arrived. We have received 100 Zaishu panels that will be turned into 20 beautiful and unique chairs. They have now completed the first part of their journey.

First artists & team meeting

We had the first meeting with the artists and project team to brainstorm and discuss our ideas for the painting day.