Adam Kleinman

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Adam Kleinman is an American curator and writer who has served as the director and chief curator of Kunsthall Trondheim since 2023. [1]

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Career

In 2004, Kleinman curated the "Arrivals" program as part of the exhibition Terminal 5, at John F. Kennedy International Airport. [2]

In 2009, he became the curator of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and led to the development and programming of LentSpace, a temporary public art park that occupied a disused block in Downtown Manhattan. [3] [4] A review in The New York Times described the inaugural installation of sculptures as a "...[play] on the conventions of city park design or on the idea of what deserves to be classified as public art." [5]

From 2007-2008 Kleinman participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. [6]

In 2012, Kleinman acted as Agent for Public Programming at dOCUMENTA (13). [7]

From 2013, Kleinman was editor-in-chief and adjunct curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art. [8] He has also served as the regional curator for North America at Kadist. [9]

Teaching and residencies

In 2012, Kleinman participated in the International Visitor Programme run by the Office of Contemporary Art Norway. [10]

In 2013, Kleinman was a Robert Lehman Visiting Artist at the Cooper Union. [11]

In 2016, Kleinman was a fellow at the Banff International Curatorial Institute. [12]

Exhibitions and writings

Artists centered in Kleinman's work include Pierre Huyghe, [13] Britta Marakatt-Labba, [14] Emilie Louise Gossiaux, [15] American Artist, [16] [17] Gala Porras-Kim, [18] Emilija Škarnulytė, [19] Hannah Ryggen, [20] Walid Raad, [21] Rossella Biscotti, [22] Trevor Paglen, [23] John Gerrard, [24] Sin Wai Kin, [25] Andros Zins-Browne and Jérôme Bel. [26] Kleinman has also interviewed the physicists Karen Barad [27] and Anton Zeilinger. [28]

Recurring themes addressed by his exhibitions and articles include the history of computing, surveillance, the affordances of technology, [29] [30] [31] [32] relations of art and politics, [33] [34] [35] [36] as well as natural disasters and other forms of nonhuman agency. [37] [38] [39]

His curated exhibitions have garnered multiple best-of-year recognitions, including "Gala Porras-Kim: Precipitation for an Arid Landscape" [40] and "Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Kinship". [41]

In 2022, he went on assignment for Artforum to cover the cultural response to the Russo-Ukrainian War from Kyiv. [42]

References

  1. ↑ "Adam Kleinman named director of Kunsthall Trondheim". Artforum . 2022-10-12. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  2. ↑ Ho, Cathy Lang (2004). "The Architect's Newspaper" (PDF). usmodernist.org.
  3. ↑ "LentSpace". e-flux. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  4. ↑ Dunlap, David W. (2008-03-07). "Sculpture Park Takes Shape at the Holland Tunnel". City Room | New York Times. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  5. ↑ Konigsberg, Eric. "An Art Park Sprouts (for Now) Where New Buildings Were to Grow". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Independent Study Program: 40 Years. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 110.
  7. ↑ "Adam Kleinman - The Creative Time Summit". summit.creativetime.org. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  8. ↑ "Adam Kleinman - Kunstinstituut Melly". Kunstinstituut Melly. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  9. ↑ "KADIST Regional Curators – Kadist" . Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  10. ↑ "International Visitor Programme". Office for Contemporary Art Norway. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  11. ↑ "INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR: Adam Kleinman". The Cooper Union. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  12. ↑ "Banff International Curatorial Institute | Banff Centre". www.banffcentre.ca. 2024-07-02. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  13. ↑ Vecchiarelli, Chiara (2012-01-01). "On the Reversal of Time and Space, Ali Brivanlou and Pierre Huyghe with Chiara Vecchiarelli and Adam Kleinman, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel". dOCUMENTA (13).
  14. ↑ "Fall 2016 exhibitions - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  15. ↑ "Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Kinship - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  16. ↑ "American Artist: The Monophobic Response". LACMA. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  17. ↑ Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2022-09-26). Shaper of God: American Artist in conversation with Ayana Jamieson . Retrieved 2024-09-28– via YouTube.
  18. ↑ "Gala Porras-Kim Precipitation for an Arid Landscape". Amant. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  19. ↑ Olsson, Tommy (2024-08-20). "Og lengst nede på havets bunn våkner Cthulhu". Kunstkritikk. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  20. ↑ Grann, Annemona (2024-02-22). "Da amerikaneren kom til Trondheim, ble han fascinert av hvordan byen er formet av branner". adressa.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  21. ↑ "Daisy Hildyard on "Tongues of Fire" - Criticism - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  22. ↑ "WIELS | For the Mnemonist, S." WIELS. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  23. ↑ "KADIST and e-flux present Ways of Reading Symposium - Events - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  24. ↑ "John Gerrard: Neural Exchange" (PDF). LACMA.
  25. ↑ Mørk, Mats (2025-01-16). "(+) Anerkjent drag-kunstner kommer til Norge". www.blikk.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  26. ↑ "Adam Kleinman". Frame Contemporary Art Finland. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  27. ↑ Barad, Karen. ""Intra-actions" (Interview of Karen Barad by Adam Kleinmann)". Mousse.
  28. ↑ "Mousse 34. An issue about dOCUMENTA (13) - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  29. ↑ Bak Herrie, Maja (2019). "Tracing the outlier: digital objects and algorithmic sorting in Rossella Biscotti's Other". Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. 11. doi: 10.1080/20004214.2019.1605801 .
  30. ↑ Ayas, Kleinman, Saelemakers, D., A., S (2015). Art in the Age of Planetary Computation. Witte de With.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  31. ↑ "New York: Ways of Reading, Symposium – Kadist" . Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  32. ↑ ""Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" - Criticism - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  33. ↑ "XII BALTIC TRIENNIAL: "Foolishly Sharp. The Future of War," a lecture by Adam Kleinman". CAC. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  34. ↑ "Hito Steyerl's "Adorno's Grey" - Criticism - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  35. ↑ "e-flux lectures: Adam Kleinman". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  36. ↑ Chan, Sewell. "Urban Theory at the Down Town Club". The New York Times: City Room.
  37. ↑ "Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Kinship - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  38. ↑ ""Tongues of Fire" at Kunsthall Trondheim — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. 2024-03-19. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  39. ↑ "Gala Porras-Kim: Precipitation for an Arid Landscape - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
  40. ↑ Weng, Xiaoyu (2022-12-01). "TOP TEN". Artforum. Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  41. ↑ "Det beste fra kunståret 2024". klassekampen.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2025-01-26.
  42. ↑ Kleinman, Adam (2022-08-02). "POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-09-28.
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