Wat zijn de openingstijden?

Maandag 09:00 - 17:00 Dinsdag 09:00 - 17:00 Woensdag 09:00 - 17:00 Donderdag 09:00 - 17:00 Vrijdag 09:00 - 17:00 Zaterdag 10:00 - 17:00

AGA LAB

Name: AGA LAB
Address: De Roos van Dekamaweg 7, Amsterdam, 1061HR, NL
Telephone: +31(0)20 6252186

AGA LAB is a maker space for artists and designers - in Amsterdam West - offering techniques ranging from etching to screenprint and digital printing.

AGA LAB facilitates professional artists, designers and photographers with all the equipment and knowledge they need. From Monday through Saturday the studio is open for use. AGA LAB also developes many projects and programs in which research and experimentation are leading, serendipity is embraced and artists from other disciplines are invited within the Artist in Residence program.

03/06/2026

Workshop: Basic Etching on zinc plates
🗓️ 20 June, 10:00—17:00
👤Max. number of participants: 5
✨Level: Beginners & Intermediate

In this workshop, we’ll cover the basics of etching and aquatint on zinc starting from your own drawing. You will learn how to polish and degrease the plate, etch lines with hard ground and copper sulphate, how to create different greyscales with aquatint, and how to print on paper with the etching press.

Etching is a traditional intaglio printmaking technique. In it, lines and textures are engraved over a zinc plate, allowing the incised areas to hold ink. The technique is suitable for illustrative and abstract artworks.

🎟️ Workshop fee: €170

The workshop fee covers most of the printing materials for the session, and you will get one extra day for free in the AGALab workshop to come back and experiment further!

💛What’s included:
Introduction to Etching on zinc.
1 master
Ink (black)
Paper, tools, and materials

⚠️ Important:
You must bring a drawing or idea for a project that you would like to reproduce on your plate. (maximum A5)
We will do a maximum of three aquatint baths, which means that you can have a maximum of three grey levels.

📄 You go home with:
Your etched plate, which can be used again
A set of 2-3 prints of your own design

✉️ Sign up: [email protected]

21/05/2026

Etching by our May resident
There are still a few spots available for our etching workshop on 30 May. Find out more via the link in our bio.

Etching van onze resident van mei
Er zijn nog een paar plekken beschikbaar voor onze etsworkshop op 30 mei. Meer informatie vind je via de link in onze bio.

18/05/2026

Workshop: Silkscreen printing on paper

🗓️Sat. 6 June, 10:00–17:00
👤 Max. number of participants: 6
✨ Level: Beginner & Intermediate

In this workshop, we’ll explore the basics of silkscreen printing by creating prints from your own image, text, or drawing. You will learn how to prepare artwork for screen printing, expose a screen using UV light, mix inks, and print by hand onto paper.

Silkscreen printing is a versatile stencil-based technique that allows for bold graphic results, layered colours, and making editions. The technique is widely used in art, publishing, textiles, and poster-making, and is suitable for both photographic and hand-drawn imagery.

🎟️ Workshop fee: €170
The workshop fee covers most of the printing materials for the session, and you will get one extra day for free in the AGALAB workshop to come back and experiment further!

💛 What’s included:
Thorough Introduction to Silkscreen Printing
A4-sized transparency
*Important: If you want to work with a picture of your own, you must bring a printed positive print of your photo over a transparency (more information on our website).
Ink, coating, paper and tools

📄 You go home with:
A set of A4 prints that you have printed
A certificate for working independently at AGALAB
Manual of tips for silkscreen

✉️ Sign up: [email protected]

18/05/2026

Workshop: Silkscreen printing on paper

🗓️Sat. 6 June, 10:00–17:00
👤 Max. number of participants: 6
✨ Level: Beginner & Intermediate

In this workshop, we’ll explore the basics of silkscreen printing by creating prints from your own image, text, or drawing. You will learn how to prepare artwork for screen printing, expose a screen using UV light, mix inks, and print by hand onto paper.

Silkscreen printing is a versatile stencil-based technique that allows for bold graphic results, layered colours, and making editions. The technique is widely used in art, publishing, textiles, and poster-making, and is suitable for both photographic and hand-drawn imagery.

🎟️ Workshop fee: €185
The workshop fee covers most of the printing materials for the session, and you will get one extra day for free in the AGALAB workshop to come back and experiment further!

💛 What’s included:
Thorough Introduction to Silkscreen Printing
A4-sized transparency
*Important: If you want to work with a picture of your own, you must bring a printed positive print of your photo over a transparency (more information on our website).
Ink, coating, paper and tools

📄 You go home with:
A set of A4 prints that you have printed
A certificate for working independently at AGALAB
Manual of tips for silkscreen

✉️ Sign up: [email protected]

15/05/2026

Thu 21.05.2026
17h–19h
De Bouwput
Ferdinand Huyckstraat 74

In Residence:
Maddie Alexander
Alizée Bauer
Denitsa Ilcheva

This Thursday, our Artists in Residence will be presenting their work at .

Come visit us to see their research, work in progress, and have the opportunity to talk to the artists.

15/05/2026

Artist-in-Residence in May: Alizée Bauer is an artist who uses photography to connect what can be seen outside with what is hidden inside ourselves.

The camera then becomes the tool of transformation that allows her to reveal what is usually out of vision. As she walks around, she traces stories between her moods and the one of the environments that she crosses.

In her work, everything becomes the features of a presence that is both human and animal, emotion is linked to natural movements. Between inside and outside, intimate and foreign, emotion and matter; together they enclose an unspeakable state of life, seeking the world of the intangible.

15/05/2026

Artist-in-Residence in May: Denitsa Ilcheva’s practice is grounded in the circulation of images, gestures and motifs across different media. She generates her own visual material — through painting, filming, performance or digital manipulation — and observes how these elements mutate as they move from one medium to another. This process of translation never produces a fixed result; instead, it gives rise to hybrid bodies, unstable forms and shifting narratives.

Over time, this method allows her to construct a personal mythology, where images reappear, fragment and transform rather than conclude. Her work often unfolds in serial or episodic forms, privileging duration and accumulation over resolution.
She has a strong interest in cinema, particularly in the role of light and its interaction with surfaces, materials and bodies. Light functions in her work as both a sculptural and narrative element, shaping perception and atmosphere.

Her installations are conceived as ecosystems rather than isolated objects. They bring together moving images, painted elements, objects and live performers, creating environments in which each component affects the others. At this stage of her practice, she is less interested in producing finished works than in sustaining long-term experimental processes that remain open, porous and evolving.

14/05/2026

Artist-in-Residence in May: Maddie Alexander (They/He) is a trans artist, archivist, and arts worker based in Halifax, NS. He holds a BFA from OCAD University (2016), and an MFA from NSCAD University (2020), where they received The Reznick Family Fund for Student Creativity. Their work has been exhibited locally and internationally, with participation in residencies such as CSAV– Artists‘ Research Laboratory at Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como, Italy), and Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, USA). He was a 2025 AGO x RBC Emerging Artist-Researcher, as well as an Artist in Residence at the SPAO Photographic Arts Centre. His practice has been supported by Arts Nova Scotia, and the Canada Council for the Arts. In addition to their artistic practice, Maddie is a Research Assistant and Public Art Manager with IOTA Studios.

His artistic practice explores lived q***r and trans experiences through an autoethnographic approach, blending archival materials and personal records. Their research based projects centre themes of desire, failure, care and dissonance and are often site responsive and rooted in community collaboration. While his work reflects contemporary concerns, it frequently draws on the visual and cultural histories of 1980s and ‘90s q***r activist aesthetics, primarily the DIY print and installation practices of that era. Blending analogue and digital processes is a reflection on the fluid and layered nature of their trans experience, coming together to construct something that feels real and whole.His current work uses sunprinting and video documentation as a medium to explore his research into the historic and ongoing barriers trans folks face in accessing care. Using medical ephemera and documentation, this work is deeply informed by their own experiences accessing care as a trans person.

14/05/2026

Workshop: Photo-Etching with TOYOBO plates

🗓️ Sat. 30 May, 10:00–17:00
👤 Max. number of participants: 4
✨ Level: Beginners & Intermediate

In this workshop, we’ll transfer a digital photograph, design or drawing onto a Toyobo plate and print from it. Toyobo plates are light-sensitive photopolymer plates that can be exposed with UV light using a photo-positive transparency to create an etched printing surface. This versatile technique allows you to reproduce photographic and drawn imagery with the rich tonal qualities and tactile character of classical etching.

🎟️ Workshop fee: €185
The workshop fee covers most of the printing materials for the session, and you will get one extra day for free in the AGALab workshop to come back and experiment further!

💛 What’s included:
Introduction to Toyobo Printing
1 master
Ink (black)
Paper, tools, and materials

⚠️ Important:
You must bring a printed positive print of your photo over a transparency (maximum A4)
more information about the transparency on our website.
If you require assistance with the transparency, you can visit AGALAB on the 21st or 28th of May and our workshop manager will help you with exporting the file. Printing the transparency here at AGALAB is €5.

👜 You go home with:
Your etched plate, which can be used again
A set of 2-3 prints of your own design

💌 Sign up: [email protected]

Adres

De Roos Van Dekamaweg 7
Amsterdam
1061HR

Openingstijden

Maandag	09:00 - 17:00
Dinsdag	09:00 - 17:00
Woensdag	09:00 - 17:00
Donderdag	09:00 - 17:00
Vrijdag	09:00 - 17:00
Zaterdag	10:00 - 17:00

Telefoon

+31(0)20 6252186

Website

https://www.agalab.nl/

Meldingen

Wees de eerste die het weet en laat ons u een e-mail sturen wanneer AGA LAB nieuws en promoties plaatst. Uw e-mailadres wordt niet voor andere doeleinden gebruikt en u kunt zich op elk gewenst moment afmelden.