Solo project of Adam Harrison. Born 1983 in Vancouver. Lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Solo Exhibitions
2022
A Manual for Retaining Light in Dark Ages, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach / DE
2021
Fabulist Manifesto: Audio/Visual Agitprop (for Children), Swallow Project Space, Vilnius / LT
2019
The Storytellers’ Fountain; a tale told by A Gust of Wind (in the low and dark rooms), Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli / IT
2018
SCENOGRAPHY: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light., Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen / CH
2017
in relation to a Spectator:, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover / DE
& faintly heard (as it sinks, slowly):, Swiss Institute, New York / USA
2016
IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, Kunstverein Düsseldorf / DE
BETWEEN THE SOUP & THE CLOUDS & IN EQUAL MEASURE, Taylor Macklin, Zurich / CH
Scenes at an Inauguration, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn / DE
Institutional exhibition projects
2020
NOT MADE? NOT CHOSEN? NOT PRESENTED?: 3rd Studio for Propositional Cinema Film Festival,Camden Art Centre, London / UK
2017
On The Wall In Chalk Is Written: 2nd Studio for Propostional Cinema Film Festival,Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover / DE
2016
EXHIBITION, Kunsthaus Bregenz / AT
2015
We Are a Parasite on the Institution of Cinema, An Institution of Parasites: 1st Studio for Propositional Cinema Film Festival, mumok, Wien / AT
2013
INAUGURATION, Kunstverein Düsseldorf Schaufenster, Düsseldorf / DE
Group Exhibitions
2019
Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf / DE
Terms and Conditions: A Sonata for Two Women, Projektsrom Normanns, Stavanger / NO
2018
Scripts, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld / DE
2017
Oh… Jakob Lena Knebl and the mumok Collection, mumok, Wien /AT
PRODUKTION: Made in Germany III, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover / DE
Asymmetric Architextures: Readings in the Postwar History of the Kunstverein, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf / DE
2016
FADE IN: A TRACKING SHOT, Istituto Svizzero di Roma / IT
Von den Strömen der Stadt, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach / DE
2015
more Konzeption/Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen / DE
2014
Another Place / Another Space / Together, Quadriennale Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf / DE
f/stop Festival für Fotographie, Leipzig / DE
Selected performances
2018
RECITAL: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light., Liste Performance Project, Basel / CH
RECITAL: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light., St. Alban Kirche, St. Gallen / CH
RECITAL: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light., Reading International / UK
2017
The Tenderness of Maggots, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf / DE
OVERTURE: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light., Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover / DE
2016
The Tenderness of Maggots, Swiss Institute, New York / USA
Cut With Some Pieces of Cinematography: A Sonata for Two Women, Kunsthall Bergen / NO
Cut With Some Pieces of Cinematography: A Sonata for Two Women, Index, Stockholm / SO
AS WATER DISSOLVES SUGAR:, Paris International, Paris / FR
When the cast invades the streets tonight…, Istituto Svizzero, Rome / IT
IN DARK AGES:, LISTE Performance Project, Basel / CH
2015
In Like a Lion and Out Like a Leech: A Lecture in Ten Scenes, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln / DE
In Like a Leech and Out Like a Lamb: A Lecture in Ten Scenes, Kunstraum München / DE
2014
In a cuture…, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen /DE
A door left open…, Quadriennale Düsseldorf / DE
CUT!, Kunstfilmtage Düsseldorf / DE
2013
INAUGURATION, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf / DE
Publications
2021
Myths and Manifestos, pub. Kunstverein München & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
LIBRETTO: Redundant as eyelids in absence of light., pub. Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen & Mousse
2020
Ancient Knowledge Survivalist Manifesto, pub. A Gust of Wind & University of Washington
2019
Ancient Knowledge Survival Kit, pub. A Gust of Wind & Tanya Leighton
Fabulist Manifesto, pub. A Gust of Wind & Fondazione Morra Greco
The Storytellers’ Fountain [Frame Tale], pub. A Gust of Wind & Fondazione Morra Greco
2018
FOCAL VOCABULARY INDEX: INAUGURAL PARTICIPATION OVERTURE: LEXICAL ITEMS 2013–2018, pub. One Star Press
2017
in relation to a Spectator:, pub. APE Art Projects Era, Kestner Gesellschaft & Sternberg Press
2016
Scenes at an Inauguration, pub. Bonner Kunstverein & Strzelecki Books
IN ADVANCE OF A SHIPWRECK:, pub. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
2015
In Like a Lion and Out Like a Leech: A Lecture in Ten Scenes, pub. Kölnischer Kunstverein
In Like a Leech and Out Like a Lamb: A Lecture in Ten Scenes, pub. Kunstraum München