Dadara
“My two favorite mediums to use as an artist are acrylic paint and mindfuck.”
Dadara began his artistic career in the early nineties designing flyers and record covers, and doing live-paintings for the then emerging electronic dance scene. This early work, as well as projects such as the Dadababy speakers and the Greyman Statue of No Liberty, marked the start of a decades-long career creating drawings, paintings, installations and performances.
Since the turn of the century, his focus has shifted towards extravagant interactive performance-installations in public space. Many of these creations were built at the legendary Burning Man event in the Nevada desert, where he was the first international artist to create a big interactive installation. In 2023 he also created the visual image of Boom Festival and his Loading Love Temple got a permanent home on Boomland.
Dadara also started his own bank – the Exchanghibition Bank – exploring the value of Art and Money, where visitors could exchange their money for his banknotes of Zero, Million, Infinite, and Love.
Besides these type of projects he has also done many guerilla style interventions in public space. His work is a kind of tweaked mirror which reflects our society, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy. Perhaps a black mirror, but one that has a rainbow at the end of the tunnel.
Show artworks
2026
Alexxx and the Walls we Live in, No Limits! Art Castle, Amsterdam, NL
Walls that Matter, 8Marvila, Lissabon, PT
Anzio R.I.S.E, Port of Anzio, IT
2025
Prisma, Because Art Matters, Lissabon, PT
Envisionary Art Gallery, Boom Festival, Idanha-a-Nova, PT
A Scan through Dutch Rave Culture, Door Open Space, Amsterdam, NL
IA – Intelligent Artist in the Time of Donkeys, Mahalla, Berlin, DE
KochXBos Gallery, Kunst RAI, Amsterdam, NL
Friendly Capitalism Lounge, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin, DE
Street Art Zandvoort, Zandvoort, NL
2024
Momentum, Because Art Matters, Lissabon, PT
Transformational Overload, BIG ART, Amsterdam NL
KochXBos Gallery, Kunst RAI, Amsterdam, NL
Next Planet, FishArt. Participatory Art for the Ocean, UN Ocean Initiative, Port of Anzio, IT
2023
Draw me a picture, Go Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Into Infinity, NFT-show, Openspace Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
NFT-AMS, De Bouwput, Amsterdam, NL
20th Anniversary Show, Base Elements Gallery, Barcelona, SP
Rise, Because Art Matters Gallery, Lissabon, PT
Gallery², presented by IRL Art at ETHDenver, Colorado, US
Envisionary Art Gallery in collab with Rare Effect, Boom Festival, Idanha-a-Nova, PT
2022
7.9 billion Cryptogreyman NFTproject
Reality is Overrated, curated by Dadara, Base Elements Gallery, Barcelona, SP
Cash on the Wall, Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, Berlijn, DE
Experience NFT, SOHO House, Barcelona, SP
Transitions, 2B Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, SP
Not For Sale, NFT project
2021
Cryptogreyman project, Physical & Digital, Koch & Bos, Amsterdam, NL
Naar de Gallemiezen - an Amsterdam Love Story, Artotel, Amsterdam, NL
Avant Groove, Base Elements Gallery, Barcelona, SP
Garden of Unity, Platoon Art Space, Seoul, KOR
2020
Atmospheres - Artists of the Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, GB
2019
Big Art, Hembrugterrein, Zaandam, NL
2018
Bigger Bolder Better, Go Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Summer of Like, Publieke Installatie, Graphic Matters, Park Valkenberg, Breda, NL
Kaapstad Festival, Publieke Installatie, Tilburg, NL
Wandelism, Wilmersdorf Berlin, DE
2016
Money does not rule our world, Platoon, Mexico City, MX
Macht, Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, NL
2015
#2,Platoon, Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE
2013
Remake, Platoon Kunsthalle, Berlin, DE
2013
Glastonbury Festival, Performance, Glastonbury, GB
2012
Design Column #2 - The Human Index, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, NL
2011
Exchanghibition Bank, MuseumN8, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2009
Salon de l’amitié, Arti et Amicitia, Amsterdam, NL
This is the end of the world, MOHS exhibit, Copenhagen, DK
2008
False Space and the Time of the Apartment, Centraltrak, Dallas, US
2007
Kunst van Geld, Geldmuseum, Utrecht, NL
2006
Design Warriors, Butter Factory, Singapore, SG
Dakart Off, Villa 7, Dakar, SN
2005
Dance is More than Music, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2004
Characters at War,Pictoplasma, Berlin, DE
2003
Urban Explorers, Planetart, Enschede, NL
2002
Liquid, Addict Lab, Brussel, BE
2001
Heroes Square, Over het IJ Festival, Amsterdam, NL
2000
Sculpture Biennale, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2025
Everything is Real – especially that what we cannot see, KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2024
CTRL ALT DELIRIUM, KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Here for the Art, Base Elements Gallery, Barcelona, ES
2022
Getting Lost in the Beauty of Chaos, KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Ancient Future Lifeforms, 2B Art Gallery, Mallorca, ES
2021
Men at Work - Business as Unusual, show with Jim Avignon, OD Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Every journey of a thousand hearts starts with a single beat, KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam
I am Dream, KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018
Life inside a Pixel, i.s.m. We Make VR, KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Open your Mind, KochxBos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2014
Time = Art = Money, Midlands Art Center (MAC), Birmingham, GB
2012
Transformoney 2.0, Famous, Amsterdam, NL
2011
Last Train to the Inevitable Beyond, Famous, Amsterdam, NL
2009
Guantanamo Brain, Famous, Amsterdam, NL
2006
File Not Found, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2005
Retrospektive, Dialekt, Stuttgart, DE
2002
Fools Ark, Famous, Amsterdam, NL