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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] Andros Zins-Browne and Jérôme Bel. [25] Kleinman has also interviewed the physicists Karen Barad [26] and Anton Zeilinger [27]

Recurring themes addressed by his exhibitions and articles include the history of computing, surveillance, the affordances of technology, [28] [29] [30] [31] relations of art and politics, [32] [33] [34] [35] as well as natural disasters and other forms of nonhuman agency. [36] [37] [38]

In 2022, he went on assignment for Artforum to cover the cultural response to the Russo-Ukrainian War from Kyiv. [39]

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