Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Event Calendar

The Poem

Núria Güell 11 - 26 Nov 2024 'The Poem' is a video-essay which analyses the role of the “criminal” and the penitentiary system in the governmental devices of the nation-state. This video-essay was made with the testimony of 7 former inmates who have served sentences in different correctional facilities in Spain. In collaboration with: Amadeu Casellas, Daniel... More information

Soirée #5: Carlos Aires

9 Nov 2024 ADN Marais On November 9th, ADN Marais will host an intimate gathering featuring Carlos Aires, while also taking the opportunity to exhibit some of his works. More information

Public Bench

Eugenio Merino 19 Sep - 16 Nov 2024 ADN Galeria The initial evocation of the past that articulates the meaning of public monuments has today given way to a reactionary nostalgia. Hence, concealment functions here, at ADN Galeria, as a political form based on the poetics of the visual, and especially on a material as coarse as cement. In the... More information

On flesh and ether: Picasso, Miró and Tàpies

Julio Anaya Cabanding 19 Sep - 9 Nov 2024 ADN Galeria Made on fragile media, the trompe-l'oeil paintings by Julio Anaya Cabanding (Málaga, 1987) establish dialogues with works from a historical moment that is not our own. Irreverent in practice but respectful in technique, Anaya Cabanding's copies examine certain ideas that have to do with authorship, authenticity and ownership, as well... More information

Recherche sur l’origine 1974

ADN Collection: Robert Filliou 19 Sep - 9 Nov 2024 Locker Room Fortunately for us, and following the usual formula of the time, Filliou produced an edition of 400 copies that are not just a miniaturization of the original model. The edition includes a booklet that helps us to understand the intentionality of the piece and the decisive stages of cosmogonic creation... More information

Registres de comportament (1994-1998)

Antonio Ortega 8 Jun - 24 Aug 2024 ADN Galeria In Registres de comportament (1994-1998), a photographic series presented at ADN Galeria grouped into sixteen different case studies, Antonio Ortega analyzed the growth of various plants, exploring their predictability and equating their everyday records with social behaviors. The term 'record,' very present in conceptual art practices, is related here to... More information

Cézanne y la Sainte Victoire: catálogo razonado

Pep Vidal 8 Jun - 24 Aug 2024 ADN Galeria Pep Vidal's work proposes a reflection on what is controllable and what is wild, randomness, and rules. From an ecological and scientific perspective, the artist seeks through his works a formula to understand the reality of nature. In his fourth exhibition at ADN Galeria, titled Cézanne y la Sainte-Victoire: catálogo... More information

Les faits sont têtus

Alán Carrasco in Berta Caldentey's collection 9 May - 18 Jul 2024 Locker Room In 1951, with Europe still managing its own ruins, Hannah Arendt warned us in 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' that the ideal subject for totalitarian domination was not the follower or fanatic of a cause, but rather the one for whom there is no longer a distinction between fact and fiction,... More information

Soirée #4: Esther Ferrer + Tom Johnson + Carlos Pazos

6 Apr 2024 ADN Marais On April 6th, ADN Marais will host an intimate gathering featuring Carlos Pazos, Esther Ferrer, and Tom Johnson, while also taking the opportunity to exhibit some of their works, featuring three videos in which they've collaborated. More information

Bodies in Alliance

Marinella Senatore 17 Feb - 10 May 2024 ADN Galeria Marinella Senatore is a multidisciplinary artist with an special interest on establishing temporary communities where people with common and diverse bonds come together. Simultaneously, as she contemplates the significance of connection and coexistence within these communities, Senatore crafts pieces utilizing diverse mediums such as paper, paint, fabrics and light. Her... More information

We Protect You from Yourselves

Group Show 17 Feb - 27 Apr 2024 Locker Room Ten years ago, on October 3, 2014, we inaugurated the exhibition We Protect You from Yourselves by DEMOCRACIA collective at ADN Galeria. Among the pieces that made up this exhibition, there was a series of portraits of officers who were part of the Intervention Units of the National Police Force.... More information

Dreams and Nightmares

Margaret Harrison 2 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 ADN Galeria Margaret Harrison appeared on the cultural scene of the second wave of British feminism, which emerged as the heir to the birth of trade unionism, the creation of labour rights and the suffragettes. In this period, marked artistically by the triumph of pop, minimalism and conceptual art, she sought an... More information

Exploded Views

Joan Pallé 2 Dec 2023 - 3 Feb 2024 ADN Galeria Beyond its technological aspects, the Eurodrone serves as a focal point for addressing ethical concerns related to drone use in armed conflicts. Issues explored include the role of these weapons in the fourth industrial revolution, the application of artificial intelligence, the construction of European identity, and the ethical values of... More information

Distanciamientos: Que reste-t-il de nos amours ?

ADN Collection: Tàpies / Grup de Treball 2 Dec 2023 - 3 Feb 2024 Locker Room It was 1942 when Charles Trenet wrote and published this beautiful ballad Que reste-t-il de nos amours, which remains the great emblem of nostalgia for once young loves, now faded: Ce soir le vent qui frappe à ma porte, me parle des amours mortes. France had been occupied since June... More information

Soirée #3: Kendell Geers

21 Oct 2023 ADN Marais In 1993 Kendell Geers became the first artist to pay the highest respect to fellow artist Marcel Duchamp by urinating into the “Fountain.” The damage was slight because the design and function of the object were in harmony with the performance. It was true to the spirit of Dada because... More information

Structures et éclats

Abdelkader Benchamma 14 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 Locker Room Bringing together a series of drawings that, with particular attention to his early explorations, this exhibition allow us to delve into the continuities and transformations in the artist's work.   Abdelkader Benchamma's artistic practice turns drawing into a poetic and timeless space where reality and fiction converge to give rise... More information

Fanning the spark of hope in the past

Bouchra Khalili 14 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 ADN Galeria Fanning the Spark of Hope in the Past, the second solo exhibition by internationally renown artist Bouchra Khalili at ADN Galeria, Barcelona. More information

Back to the Present

Julio Anaya Cabanding in the Colección Manuel Expósito 3 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 Locker Room Back to the Present is Julio Anaya Cabanding's first solo show at ADN Galeria. Focusing on those works related to historical avant-gardes. More information

(Con cuidado)

Helena Vinent 3 Jun - 1 Sep 2023 ADN Galeria ADN Galeria presents a solo show by contemporary artist Helena Vinent. The project is based on her own identity positioning as a deaf and disabled person. More information

Complete Works. Deluxe Edition

Núria Güell 3 Jun - 19 Aug 2023 ADN Galeria ADN Galeria presents a new solo exhibition by Núria Güell, offering a comprehensive look at the artist's career and the presentation of two new projects created specifically for this occasion. More information

Soirée #2: Marcos Ávila-Forero

30 Mar 2023 ADN Marais Soirée #2: Marcos Ávila-Forero More information

Antiguo: Carlos Pazos + ADN Collection

Erik Dietman · Robert Filliou · Hessie · Jean Tinguely · Endré Tot 11 Feb - 13 May 2023 Locker Room In Antiguo there is a group of works from Carlos Pazos' early years as an artist and a selection of works from ADN collection by artists such as Hessie, Erik Dietman, Robert Filliou, Endré Tot and Jean Tinguely. This selection demonstrates the proximity in language and phonemes between works that... More information

Blind Faith No More

Kendell Geers 11 Feb - 13 May 2023 ADN Galeria BlindFaithNoMore is Kendell Geers’ fourth solo exhibition at ADN Galeria and the artist’s most engaged to date in a sophisticated game between language and its discontent. The spiritual catharsis that began with HellRaiser (2012) gave rise to the pagan iconoclasm of ProPaganDaDa (2016) both of which blossomed into the spirit... More information

Desencuentros de Pamplona

ADN Collection: Equipo Crónica, Antoni Tàpies y Oteiza 17 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Locker Room Ephemeris use to be a fertile ground for both mythification and mystification: the fiftieth anniversary of the Encuentros de Pamplona has not been the exception. For 9 days between the end of June and the beginning of July 1972, centers, squares and streets of Pamplona were full by an international... More information

Soirée #1: Carlos Pazos

1 Dec 2022 ADN Marais Soirée #1: Carlos Pazos More information

Coalescence

(Coalescències, Coalicions, Col·lisions, Col·lapses) 26 Nov 2022 - 3 Jun 2023 ADN Platform Coalescence is the outcome of the ongoing demystification of art's production and mediation processes, and while it denounces the position of the curator as a master-planner, it is a reflection on how curatorial praxis can become apparent within the exhibition-as-form. The gallery becomes a mutating environment for the collaboration between... More information

Air de...

Pep Vidal 26 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 ADN Galeria In 1919, when Duchamp made his famous Air de Paris, the world in which he lived wasn’t globalized. Last year, Pep Vidal bought something online from Great Britain and it came wrapped in small cushions of air intended to absorb the potential impact of transit, and he wondered where the... More information

Act of Grace

Nicolas Daubanes 15 Sep - 5 Nov 2022 ADN Galeria Nicolas Daubanes began working in the field of incarceration in 2008 after being artist-in-residence in a prison for minors. Faced with the strict and hyper-regulated way of life he discovered through this experience, the artist devised strategies involving the use of cheap and harmless materials, which could pass through the... More information

Can our cities survive?

Domènec 15 Sep - 19 Nov 2022 ADN Galeria The exhibition title is taken from the book Can our Cities Survive? An ABC of Urban Problems, their Analisis, their Solutions, where its author, Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, collects and theorizes all the elements in the renowned Athens Charter of 1934, which contains the ideas agreed upon during the... More information

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Laura Llaneli 15 Sep - 26 Nov 2022 Locker Room Can we talk about a sound which does not sound? Do we need to generate more sound stimuli in such a noisy society? Can we refer to subjective sounds from the collective experience? Can we use the silence of written language to represent sounds? As Murray Schafer pointed out in... More information

No te creo

Regina José Galindo 18 Jun - 20 Aug 2022 ADN Galeria Regina José Galindo's pieces never leave anyone indifferent because she always sticks her finger in one of those purulent sores that humanity has yet to heal. That finger points directly to power and to those who, whether we are aware of it or not, lead us along paths far from... More information

Fire and Wounds

Miquel García 18 Jun - 20 Aug 2022 Locker Room Aligned with microhistory, which seeks to observe events far from the big stories, Miquel García deals with small fragments of the past from which the story expands and expands until it reveals a larger episode. Thus, the exhibition Fire and Wounds takes small fragments of 20th-century Spanish history from works... More information

The multiple and its replica

Antonio Ortega 19 Mar - 14 May 2022 Locker Room In 1991, Antonio Ortega walked through the Le Samaritane department store in Paris. Ortega, who was at the time an Erasmus student, went through the DIY section and bought a couple of 1m iron rods. Back in the studio, the artist spent 10min. bending the rods, to later straighten them... More information

Everybody talks about the weather. We don't

Alán Carrasco 19 Mar - 14 May 2022 ADN Galeria In Melancholy of the Left (2019) historian Enzo Traverso points out that, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which he deems as the end of utopia, those who took part in the revolutionary movements of the sixties and seventies assumed a sad vision of history that traced back to... More information

STANDARD COLORS / COLORS STANDARD

Jordi Colomer 18 Dec 2021 - 26 Feb 2022 ADN Galeria Jordi Colomer aims to outwit the authority of codes and representations by using simple pieces of paper; classrooms move to the street, traffic distorts, and through concrete actions, myths find their alternatives defying standard models. Colomer pinpoints a visit to the house-studio of the architect Barragán in Mexico City –a... More information

Indignadas

María María Acha-Kutscher 21 Sep - 11 Nov 2021 ADN Galeria María María Acha-Kutscher, Indignadas, 2021 More information

It's time to go back to street

Marinella Senatore 15 Sep - 20 Nov 2021 ADN Galeria Marinella Senatore's projects fit into the tradition of participatory art that began in the 1960s, a movement marked by the urgent desire to radically reinvent the traditional roles of artist and public, finding new modes of artistic production and interaction between art and the real world. However, due to their... More information

Inventory of Love

Joan Pallé 22 Jun - 11 Sep 2021 Locker Room In the exhibition Inventory of Love artist Joan Pallé shows for the first time part of the research he has conducted on the representations of non-monogamous relationships in cinema. The project focuses on films that have approached concepts such as open relationships, ménage à trois, and orgies. From Design for... More information

Monument to corruption

Eugenio Merino 5 Jun - 28 Aug 2021 ADN Galeria More information

Beyond Words

Avelino Sala 5 Jun - 28 Aug 2021 ADN Galeria Beyond Words presents a selection of recent works that describe a world in collapse. For Sala, each piece works as a mark on what is being done wrong in the current global context. With that in mind, he looks at issues that may pertain to different realms but that result... More information

The observer effect

mounir fatmi 20 Mar - 22 May 2021 ADN Galeria The Observer Effect, brings together a series of recent productions through which the artist explores new ways of creating from paradigmatic elements that have been present in his work: analog technology and the written word. The title refers to the theory of quantum physics by which the observer influences the... More information

Rayon Fossile

Abdelkader Benchamma 12 Dec 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 ADN Galeria Abdelkader Benchamma’s artistic practice focuses on drawing. An expanded drawing that overflows the limits of the paper and occupies the exhibition space creating a new dimension that surrounds the viewer. Rayon Fossile, the artist's third solo exhibition at ADN Galeria, a title taken from the field of astrophysics that alludes... More information

She, the eye, the finger, the hand

María María Acha-Kutscher, Margaret Harrison & Núria Güell 17 Sep - 14 Nov 2020 ADN Galeria She, the eye, the finger, the hand establishes a dialogue among a selection of works by three artists of different nationalities and generations: Margaret Harrison (1940, Wakefield, United Kingdom), María María Acha-Kutscher (1968, Lima, Peru) and Núria Güell (1981, Vidreres, Spain). In spite of their generational and contextual differences, and... More information

Palpitar Palpar

Laura Llaneli 25 Jun - 22 Aug 2020 ADN Galeria Palpitar Palpar (What a beautiful sonority!). Some would say an audio-installation or el parlamento de las cosas. A commune, a forest, a lung, the neural network, a symbiosis... A first glance may suggest that Laura Llaneli's gesture relates to a certain idea of sonic hospitality, which incorporates the voices of... More information

Suspended questions or Déjà vu?

Carlos Pazos 14 Mar - 23 May 2020 ADN Galeria In this exhibition, which runs away from chronology, works from different periods and subject matters are shown showcasing the circular and open nature of Pazos' art. Videos, photographs, “climatic” pieces and objects recall the artist's journey during the last 50 years. This path has led him to work and exhibit... More information

Fingers Crossed

Group Show 14 Dec 2019 - 4 Apr 2020 ADN Platform Divided into three sections, Fingers Crossed explores: 1) imaginative efforts by earlier artists who jumpstarted environmental awareness, 2) practical actions by contemporary artists who are fighting environmental degradation from different angles, and 3) some more technological visions that inspire the imagination around these issues. Like scientists, today’s artists either attempt... More information

Nothing New

Carlos Aires 14 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020 ADN Galeria Aires makes an statement with this exhibition’s title against the self-imposed pressure on artists who create in search of originality or those who end up seeing their art turned into a product whose value is solely imposed by the market. Thus, the strategy of capitalism that manages to keep the... More information

5994 is just a number

Group show 10 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 ADN Galeria Within the framework of Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2019, we are presenting a collective exhibition with the artists who we work for; some of them since the beginning, and others who have been incorporated to the program over the years. The new headquarters of ADN Galeria, with more than 500 sqm,... More information

A Soviet militiaman eats a McDonald's hamburger in Moscow

Alán Carrasco 5 - 28 Sep 2019 ADN Galeria In 1976, during Montreal Olympic Games, McDonald's Canadian franchise chairman George A. Cohon and Soviet Union Government representatives had a discreet meeting in order to come to a business agreement which was not possible until 10 years later. After Mikhail Gorbachev came to the Party’s general secretariat, and then the... More information

ORDER Act I. Eat the rich - Kill the poor

DEMOCRACIA 8 Jun - 23 Aug 2019 ADN Galeria ORDER, which began to be planned in 2014, is an ambitious work both for its sophisticated production and aesthetics and for the large number of agents involved in. The project led the art group to work in the cities of Houston, Dublin and London in their attempt to capture the... More information

Mundus Novus

Federico Solmi 8 Jun - 28 Aug 2019 ADN Galeria Works presented on this occasion are focused on America's colonization. Explorers, colonizers, warriors, natives, villains, scoundrels and tricksters are positioned within fantastical scenes of grotesque comedy that debase the very myth of the New World’s conquest. Skipping the historical chronology, settlers make their entrance like red-carpet stars while natives receive... More information

No more landscapes. Physicality strategies

Esteve Subirah 8 Jun - 9 Nov 2019 ADN Platform In 1984, Jacques Lacan warned us about neologisms: they are empty words which can become relevant over time and have a linguistic role commonly accepted, but their main task it is to stop signification. In 2008, Esteve Subirah (Ullà, 1975) decided to stop generating new pictures. The snapshot proliferation strengthens... More information

Welfare State

DEMOCRACIA 8 Jun - 9 Nov 2019 ADN Platform In this context we propose a meeting between the integrated and the marginalized society at the right time when the welfare state acts in search of justice and equality: One of the largest slum settlements in Europe still survives in Madrid, which is called El Salobral and is located in... More information

Real Beauty

Group Show 8 Jun - 9 Nov 2019 ADN Platform ADN Platform presents Real Beauty, a group exhibition which shows how contemporary art revisits the idea of beauty through the works of five local and international artists. Oriol Fontdevila, curator of the project, highlights that beauty and sensuality are returning to art concerns. Whereas 20th Century art considered beauty as... More information

#iPROtesttHEReforeIam

Kendell Geers 6 Apr - 19 May 2019 ADN Galeria The Cartesian logic that once ruled the world has ever since fallen to the wasteland of newspeak, now dubbed fake news. Around the world politicians are capitulating in favour of the highest bidder, selling their souls for a quick fix while we are facing crises that require long-term solutions. The... More information

Y la tierra será el paraíso

Domènec 19 Jan - 16 Mar 2019 ADN Galeria The phrasing perfectly sums up the utopian character of modernity, an era in which the society believed that all good things were at hand and everything could be achieved through effort. Domènec invests that statement in order to throw an ironic smile verifying the naivity of those who uncritically entrusted... More information

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Group Show 19 Jan - 18 May 2019 ADN Platform Image is trapped in word. In the beginning was the word. In the beginning of what exactly was the word? The word, for William S. Burroughs, is a parasite that has achieved a permanent coexistence with the host that he has invaded: human being. The North American writer considers that... More information

Action painting

Avelino Sala 19 Jan - 18 May 2019 ADN Platform Appears just as defense device but in fact it’s an immediate response and forceful control instrument. Avelino Sala started using riot shields as support for painting interventions in his series Give me Shelter in 2016. This title anticipates a friction between opposite meanings: the coercive power of the shield and... More information

Screens & Pills

Group Show 19 Jan - 18 May 2019 ADN Platform The exhibition is a tribute to the novel written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), published for the first time in three parts in the March, April and May 1954 issues of Playboy magazine and proposes to place the contents of the book in the center of a current debate... More information

It hasn’t changed: and babies?

Margaret Harrison 26 Sep - 24 Nov 2018 ADN Galeria The British artist Margaret Harrison (b. 1940) examines the female condition in patriarchal society. Her drawings, paintings and installations explore the traditions, narratives and attitudes that shape women’s subaltern position in relation to men. Specifically they consider the gendered dimensions of the workplace, domestic environments and lifestyles, art history, and... More information

Al final de todos los sueños humanos no hay más que polvo

Núria Güell, Levi Orta & Adelita Husni-Bey 30 Jun - 8 Sep 2018 ADN Galeria 'At the end of all human dreams there is nothing but dust,' said Federica Montseny in the last years of a life of struggle. Perhaps the dust of those frustrated revolutions is the germ of the mud of this vulnerable force that we have to grasp in our days. Penetrating... More information

Poder el separarse

Jaume Ferrete 30 Jun - 17 Nov 2018 ADN Platform The prosody gathers those elements of oral expression that constitute the most physical, even plastic, essence of the speech. This has to do with the accent, tones, inflection, but also the speed and the rhythm as properties that appear in the gestural. Understanding the voice as a gesture is one... More information

BKF. Cinegética y Modernidad

Domènec 30 Jun - 17 Nov 2018 ADN Platform From a set of photographs, site-specific installations and structures / sculptures, Domènec reflects on the so-called crisis of Modernity through a critical review in order to give these utopian projects visibility and to discover what remains of their original proposals. With all this, the artist questions urgent topics such as... More information

Let’s Democratise Democracy

Daniel G. Andújar 30 Jun - 17 Nov 2018 ADN Platform Works by Daniel García Andújar (Almoradí, 1966) propose a critical approach to current topics of great interest. Through research and action, the artist and activist questions communication strategies in our society. Andújar uses subversive methodologies and appropriationist tactics in order to expose oppressive power relationships. His interest focuses on the... More information

Desde las montañas

Marcos Ávila-Forero 3 May - 16 Jun 2018 ADN Galeria Referring to the way in which Colombian guerrillas sign their statements not to be located, Desde las montañas deals with the questions of the war violence, but also of struggle and dignity, applied to different contexts generating approximations and revealing diverse readings. Marcos Ávila-Forero takes his actions as ways of... More information

Memoria Selectiva

Adrian Melis 10 Feb - 18 Mar 2018 ADN Galeria Censorship, reproduction and construction of memories in Adrian’s works state that new speeches generate new realities upon self interests, providing evidence of methods and manipulations adopted by post-truth politics. Melis compiles in his work ruins of utopia, dreams and nightmares, bounded by images, lines and walls visible and invisible, marked... More information

Who wants to be an impatient gardener?

Pep Vidal 25 Nov 2017 - 8 Jan 2018 ADN Galeria Vidal soon realized that each plant required a distinct watering schedule. He developed his research in collaboration with his colleagues at the optics group in the physics department at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. By using lasers to measure the cells’ composition and the water accumulation in leaves, Vidal and... More information

From nothing to void

Pep Vidal 25 Nov 2017 - 28 Apr 2018 ADN Platform The words void and nothing are commonly referred to a similar concept: a lack of content in a space. When we are referring to a space with nothing, an empty space, we use the word void. At the same time, we understand that void is a space where all the... More information

Exhibition

Guillaume Bijl 25 Nov 2017 - 28 Apr 2018 ADN Platform First Bijl’s installation, along with the publication of his statement and the determination of the direction of his works since 1979, is the driving school carried out in April of that same year in Ruimte Z Gallery in Antwerp. Recreated as a tri-dimensional illusion of what a driving school would... More information

I felt like I had myself walked into a visualization

Anna Dot 25 Nov 2017 - 28 Apr 2018 ADN Platform Within the multiple versions and copies remaining of Peter Brueghel the Elder’s The construction of Babel Tower, there is only one version in which the figure of a minstrel appears. This mysterious character points with his index finger towards something that is little defined. What is he meaning? Is it... More information

Baixar al carrer / Bajar a la calle / Descendre dans la rue / Going down into the street

Jordi Colomer 28 Sep - 18 Nov 2017 ADN Galeria Colomer presents a series of works that orbit around the city and ways of perceiving it. The city is formed by circulation of people and vehicles, buildings appearing and disappearing, ever-changing neighborhoods, population displacing other population, and so on. This flux of movements shape the urban landscape. Its constant activity... More information

Home Swiss Home

Eugenio Merino 20 May - 11 Aug 2017 ADN Galeria In this sense, Eugenio Merino reproduces a faux souvenir of current tax havens, the axis of the exhibition at ADN Galeria: the Bahamas, Luxembourg, Cayman Islands or Switzerland, the latter being the title of the show. Switzerland is, according to Falciani, “the best manager of untaxed money”. Merino uses deck... More information

South of Heaven

Tobias Bernstrup 20 May - 11 Aug 2017 ADN Galeria The Swedish artist takes as a starting point the painting Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Friedhof im Schnee), by romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich (1770-1840). The painting was destroyed in 1945 in the bombing of Berlin by the allies in the last stages of World War II. The only remaining... More information

Fuerza centrífuga

Teresa Margolles 20 May - 20 Oct 2017 ADN Platform In truth, Margolles’ show doesn’t offer a realistic reading of documentary sources. It does not use photography or textual witness either. It provokes, instead, a reality of impossibility marked by time, carried out through an artistic proceeding related to performance. The lack of images constitutes the basic element to understand... More information

Relationship of command

Laura Llaneli 20 May - 20 Oct 2017 ADN Platform The translation of Laura Llaneli’s representation codes into aggressiveness is something that the context of these subjects makes possible. It allows to direct the abstraction of a pattern towards something physical. However, there is a recognizable trace in Laura’s work: the mechanical. The investigation on patterns, intervals and scales directs... More information

ORDER Act III. Dinner at The Dorchester

DEMOCRACIA 9 Feb - 10 May 2017 ADN Galeria Dinner at The Dorchester is the third and last act of a project shaped as an opera called ORDER. It consists of three actions that have been carried out in different spaces, both private and public. ADN Galeria presents in its exhibition space this last act, which is in turn... More information

Soft Power

Virginie Barré & Bruno Peinado 19 Nov 2016 - 27 Jan 2017 ADN Galeria ADN Galería presents an exhibition by Virginie Barré and Bruno Peinado, that takes as starting point what the artists themselves call “soft power”. The Soft Power is a politics of implication in the facts and experiences that happen in daily life, through tools that are both agents of power and... More information

Medina Parkour

Jordi Colomer 19 Nov 2016 - 19 May 2017 ADN Platform Medina-Parkour (2013) presents a set of videos and photographs undertaken by Jordi Colomer during a residency program in Tetouan (Morocco), the former capital of the Spanish protectorate. While there, Colomer directed a workshop with students from the École Nationale d’Architecture that was registered in video format -the piece Architectes (Tétouan).... More information

Untitled Shack Up with

Bruno Peinado 19 Nov 2016 - 20 Jan 2017 ADN Platform Bruno Peinado presents at ADN Platform Untitled Shack Up With, a prolongation of Soft Power, his show with Virginie Barré at ADN Galeria. The exhibition consists of a series of sculptures the artist has been making with Barré and his two daughters, Joséphine and Simone, as a sort of “elective... More information

The index and the machine

mounir fatmi 19 Nov 2016 - 19 Jan 2017 ADN Platform ADN Galeria presents the second solo show by mounir fatmi at ADN Platform: The Index and the Machine. The Index and the Machine has been a word association used in Western history for a long time, at least since the Renaissance, the period in which the printing machine originated and... More information

ProPaganDaDa

Kendell Geers 29 Sep - 5 Nov 2016 ADN Galeria Kendell Geers presents ProPaganDaDa, a series of projects that question elements such as language, the art system, history, perception and spirituality. The artworks also challenge logical mechanisms and fixed structures. Geers’ work avoids any type of verbalization, even as the artist employs linguistic elements in his pieces, or he himself... More information

Buenas intenciones

Núria Güell 28 May - 9 Sep 2016 ADN Galeria Núria Güell presents her solo show Good Intentions at ADN Galeria, a set of projects, beginning in 2014, which question the limits of the art institution, and use its infrastructure at different levels -from legal to financial issues- in order to shed light on the moral basis of the status... More information

Proyecto John Rambo

Núria Güell & Levi Orta 28 May - 19 Nov 2016 ADN Platform John Rambo Project (USA, 2016) is the result of a collaboration between Núria Güell and Levi Orta, a project where the two artists’ viewpoints collide. Based on Peter MacDonald’s film, Rambo III, Güell and Orta find two incarnations of Rambo in the same military conflict: Mike Prysner and Ayyub Faleh... More information

Dom Kommuna

Domènec 28 May - 19 Nov 2016 ADN Platform The miniatures of Narkomfin, Casa Bloc and Unité d’Habitation are, in the first place, miniatures of miniatures. They are reconstructions of barely fulfilled old promises. History hardly gave them the chance of becoming something more than a mild simulation. Their reapparition operates as a sort of new chance, a renewed... More information

Hablar por boca ajena. Cielo: Coda

David G. Torres, Antonio Ortega & Marc Caellas 28 May - 19 Nov 2016 ADN Platform Hablar por boca ajena. Cielo: Coda is an exhibition about traces, a narrative of alien experiences, a meta-narrative of a meta-narrative. Its inspiration comes from “Cielo”, a non-fiction novel depicting radical outlooks from the 1980s, ultimately showing how telling stories implies explaining what others do. The show is the sequel... More information

Recent Shipwrecks

Carlos Pazos 17 Mar - 14 May 2016 ADN Galeria The artist resorts to a wide range of potentially evocative objects that invoke a lived period of time: memories of the long summers of his childhood, of his extended stay in Paris and other events in the artist’s life, which do not try to describe or explain a period or... More information

La puesta en marcha de un sistema

Iván Argote 21 Nov 2015 - 30 Jan 2016 ADN Galeria In his second solo exhibition in Barcelona, Iván Argote presents at ADN Galeria La puesta en marcha de un sistema (Setting up a system), where the empirical and the speculative intertwine in order to build relationship systems within a sphere in which Argote appropriates, analyses, recycles and deconstructs ideological and... More information

Ne travaillez jamais

Group Show 19 Nov 2015 - 19 Apr 2016 ADN Platform The exhibition Ne travaillez jamais takes the city of Sant Cugat del Vallès as a context and pretext to question those discourses that shape the common notion of work. The exhibition brings together four artistic projects, which use different strategies to explore and reveal specific labour dynamics of the city... More information

Foreign Office

Bouchra Khalili 1 Oct - 9 Nov 2015 ADN Galeria Produced within the framework of the SAM Art Prize (Sam Art Projects, Paris), and first premiered earlier this year at Palais de Tokyo, Khalili’s solo show, Foreign Office, combines the homonymous digital film , a series of photographs and a silkscreen print entitled The Archipelago. Made in Algiers, this new... More information

Trees, treelines and global patterns

Pep Vidal 2 Jul - 19 Sep 2015 ADN Galeria Pep Vidal, a mathematician who recently received a doctorate in physics, focuses his research on the infinitesimal changes that can happen at any time and in any place. In other words, on changes that are imperceptible to the human eye and, precisely because of this, enormously surprising. Another branch of... More information

Microacciones de emergencia #3

Pau Faus & Alia Farid 24 May - 25 Oct 2015 ADN Platform Emergency: a sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or occasion requiring immediate action. Micro-actions of emergency#3presents two artistic projects which dialogue with the public space through an appeal to the community that inhabits that space and context. Both projects explore a divergent and imagined reality other than the officially established while... More information

Walk to the end of the world

Avelino Sala 23 May - 26 Jun 2015 ADN Galeria Avelino Sala adopts a stance in relation to the belief that we are getting closer to the dark future that dystopian works predicted and continue to predict, although the future as such has already arrived. Within this context, we could state that the projects presented by Avelino Sala at ADN... More information

Surplus Production Line

Adrian Melis 23 May - 26 Jun 2015 ADN Galeria Surplus Production Line (2014) explores the shifting politics of labour within the framework of neoliberalism, in which employees and jobseekers are forced into harsh competition with each other and alienating them from their personal feelings. Melis started a private company in Amsterdam, where he is based, in order to publish... More information

Walk to the end of the world

Avelino Sala 23 May - 26 Jun 2015 ADN Platform “In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia”. George Orwell, 1984 (1949). Written more than half a century ago, this reflection by Orwell in one of the... More information

Tedium Vitae

Group Show 23 May - 23 Oct 2015 ADN Platform 'Why cannot exist art any more in the West? The answer is simple. Artists in the West are not lazy. Artists from the East are lazy; whetherthey will stay lazy now when they are no longer Eastern artists,remain to be seen' MLADENSTILINOVIC The exhibition Tedium Vitae explores boredom as an... More information

Decolonized Skies

Group Show 23 May - 23 Oct 2015 ADN Platform Since the invention of aerial photography during the last decades of the 19th century, the sky above our heads has become a territory subjected to militarized conflicts over mastery and command. Following this evolution, the view from above has become associated with state control and corporate power. This reality is... More information

No song to sing

Group Show 19 Apr - 19 Nov 2015 ADN Platform The point of departure for No Song to Sing starts with two songs belonging to pop culture: a homonymous theme composed by the English musician Michael Chapman for Rainwater (1969), his first album; and one of Stevie Wonder’s most celebrated hits, I Just Called to Say I Love You (1984).... More information

Paisajes revoltosos

Marcos Ávila-Forero 5 Feb - 24 Apr 2015 ADN Galeria In all his works, Marcos Avila Forero shows difficult and harsh realities in a human, sensitive and poetic way, becoming a witness and an accomplice to these stories, confronting the geographical and ideological borders that exist today. Imperceptible boundaries that separate the city from the mountain, the native from the... More information

Light & Fire

mounir fatmi 22 Nov 2014 - 14 Jan 2015 ADN Galeria The exhibition brings together a series of works that explore the basis of history and society expressed through the written word and in various forms of language: religious, political, ideological and literary. The title’s ambiguity positions us in front of the paradox of these two elements: light and fire. Since... More information

The art of war

mounir fatmi 22 Nov 2014 - 22 Jan 2015 ADN Platform ADN Platform hosts Art of War’s exhibition by mounir fatmi, an extension of Light & Fire solo show at ADN Galeria. Art of War takes the homonymous Chinese book’s title on military strategy historically attributed to Sun Tzu in order to build a personal and contemporary discourse about war and... More information

La balada de Wendy

Eduard Arbós, Joan Morey and Maria Pratts. Curated by David G. Torres 22 Nov 2014 - 25 Apr 2015 ADN Platform “La balada de Wendy entre d’autres, cielo preview, visual mode” is the translation of the first chapter of the non-fiction novel “Cielo” by David G. Torres to another sort of narration: visual and expositive. Several characters parade throughout the project such as the singer Wendy Williams, the performer Tomislav Gotovac... More information

We protect you from yourselves

DEMOCRACIA 3 Oct - 11 Nov 2014 ADN Galeria Globalization brings with it a feeling of mistrust, rejection and powerlessness towards the mechanisms of government and political power. This turns into a crisis that alters our perception of events such as social conflicts, economic crises, wars, violence, catastrophes, etc. In the face of this scenario, a group of intellectuals,... More information

17m

Luz Broto 4 - 23 Sep 2014 ADN Galeria Using the space’s characteristics as a starting point- architectural elements and infrastructure; organisational structures; regulations; protocols; historical or recent events- she creates minimal operations of displacement that, in the process of being carried out, bring into play the constrictions and complexities of the framework they inscribe themselves upon. More information

Accomplices & Witnesses

Group Show 24 May - 31 Jul 2014 ADN Galeria The exhibition “Accomplices and Witnesses” is based on the idea of the artist as an accomplice and witness of social dynamics requiring an active implication, commitment and a positioning which goes beyond the act of denouncing. The works exhibited are introduced as propositional statements of intentions, whether in a documentary... More information

Rebel City

Group Show 24 May - 25 Oct 2014 ADN Platform The geographer David Harvey argues that capitalism is more and more marked by the inequalities that result from uneven development. He observes that a disrupted social order has emerged globally, and that it is most apparent in metropolitan areas. He concludes that “the revolution in our times has to be... More information

This is just not fucking business

Carlos Aires 25 Jan - 30 Apr 2014 ADN Galeria This is not just fucking business articulates an aesthetic of chaos in an inclusive way, where opposite realities cohabitate and ultimately foster. Aires interferes with our perception of reality through ideas crossbreeding and a conscious use of stereotypes. The dichotomy between reality and fiction, truth and falsity, irony and sincerity,... More information

The margins of the Factory

Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum 25 Jan - 30 Apr 2014 ADN Platform The Margins of the Factory presents two recent projects by the Rotterdam-based duo Iratxe Jaio & Klaas van Gorkum that are motivated by their interest in art’s relationship with labour. Each explores sculptural form and manufacturing processes from the perspective of artists who have not usually made objects. Jaio &... More information

Micro-acciones de emergencia#2

Sharon Hayes, Carlos Motta, Joaquín Segura 20 Jan - 20 Apr 2014 ADN Platform Micro-acciones de emergencia#2 explores the limits and frustrations of ideals, utopias and collective protest movements that have taken place. It portraits the less affable face of social proclamations and political counter-currents that aimed to change the world but have unfortunately failed. Therefore, the projects selected in the second chapter share... More information

Lo viejo y lo nuevo

Group Show 20 Nov 2013 - 24 Jan 2014 ADN Platform If we think about the immediate context of this exhibition, there are certain aspects that lead us to the post-fordism and the transformation of the labour paradigm shaped during recent years. ADN Platform is an industrial warehouse reconverted to an art project space located on the border of Sant Cugat,... More information

Time to relax

Adrian Melis 26 Sep - 30 Nov 2013 ADN Galeria Instead of focusing its research in the imposed socio political frameworks existing in Cuba as he did in his first exhibition, the artist confronts here the Spanish contemporary situation centring his attention in the dichotomy of concepts such as presence / absence, voice / silence, leisure / claims, political discourse... More information

Rebel Karaoke

Ivan Brazhkin 5 - 21 Sep 2013 ADN Galeria Within the context of ART NOU, Adn Galería presents the artwork: 'Rebel Karaoke' (2011) by the Russian artist Ivan Brazhkin (1985, Russia). The project is a video installation showing recent political and social demonstrations, protests and strikes in Russia and all over the world all recorded as karaoke. The installation... More information

10 is more than a number

Group Show 29 Jun - 30 Nov 2013 ADN Galeria On June the 29th , ADN Galeria presents a group show which compiles works by all the artists working with the gallery to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Adopting the theory of the distribution of the sensible by Rancière, the projects presented in 10 is more than a number will to... More information

Micro-acciones de emergencia #1

Núria Güell, Levi Orta, Daniela Ortiz, Xose Quiroga, Marco Godoy. Curated by de vuelta y vuelta. 20 Jun - 20 Nov 2013 ADN Platform Taking the political, economical and social context as a starting point, the exhibition gathers microactions that have been performed in the public realm and refer to the attitude adopted in it. More specifically, the show reveals the need to respond and take action when confronting with certain legal measures of... More information

A million friends

Iván Argote 22 Mar - 31 May 2013 ADN Galeria In his first exhibition in Barcelona, Iván Argote presents at ADN Galeria A million friends: an approach which focuses on the experience of encountering the other and the joy of sharing. Curated by Albertine de Galbert the solo show evolves around the 'fair distance' portrayed in his works. Thus, the... More information

Alegaciones desplazadas

Núria Güell 14 Dec 2012 - 9 Mar 2013 ADN Galeria On the 14th of December, ADN Galería inaugurates its first individual exhibition dedicated to Núria Güell. Displaced Allegations is a compendium of trenchant projects that track her career and objectify her performative proposals. The exhibition analyzes the ethics of institutions that govern us, as well as power abuse allowed by... More information

A matter of faith

Chus García-Fraile 14 Dec 2012 - 9 Mar 2013 ADN Galeria Chus García-Fraile arises from the idea that religion, benchmark and catalyst for many events throughout history, has been replaced by other ideological systems, especially the political one. Vehicles of utopias whose failure has left its mark on the past century, they ended up melting in the matrix of neoliberal capitalism.... More information

Ser y durar

DEMOCRACIA 20 Sep - 30 Nov 2012 ADN Galeria One of the anchorage points of European culture, religion, is presented here in connection with other ideologies of the XX and XXI centuries. Through reappropriation or deflection of either places of worship or rituals, the works on show evoke the ideological legacies, their permanence and disappearance in this era of... More information

Right Constructions

Igor Eskinja 25 May - 28 Jul 2012 ADN Galeria The photographic compositions and installations displayed in Right Constructions transversally address the notion of construction as a creative principle and, according to Eškinja, “a crucial point of departure to understand, interpret and create worlds.” Through his characteristic economy of means, Eškinja temporarily leaves apart his illusionistic games to reflect on... More information

Nuevas estructuras de producción

Adrian Melis 2 Mar - 12 May 2012 ADN Galeria ADN Galeria will open Nuevas estructuras de producción (New structures of production), the first solo show of Adrian Melis at the gallery. The work of Adrian Melis questions the relationship between a framework constituted by sociopolitical, legal or economical structures structures and the strategies strategies invented invented by individuals individuals... More information

Hellraiser

Kendell Geers 25 Nov 2011 - 31 Jan 2012 ADN Galeria The whole selection of pieces relies on black humor and obscenity; it shows the artist’s clear predilection for a bitter use of blaspheme and a smiling and caustic provocation. Language itself, as an essential component in Geers’ work, has a double face: the enigmatic phrases appearing in his drawings or... More information

Signal Faible

Abdelkader Benchamma 16 Sep - 5 Nov 2011 ADN Galeria From a practice conceived initially as a kind of writing, with a particular emphasis on the drawing’s graphical properties and the flexibility of line, the French artist formulated in the last years a more complex vision. His actual work sets visual and mental proposals as graphic architectures developed in time... More information

She brings the rain

Ulrich Vogl 16 Sep - 5 Nov 2011 ADN Galeria Defined as both experimental and conceptual, though paying attention to the importance of formal qualities, the work of the German artist Ulrich Vogl involves different disciplines and methodologies. Vogl’s installations combine, among others, fragments of nature, common objects and materials, lighting, technological devices. Vogl’s works resist to the static condition... More information

Close up

Virginie Barré 27 May - 30 Jul 2011 ADN Galeria The situations imagined by Barré operate as the indexes or the beginnings of an upcoming event: they introduce incomplete elements of information – a character, an outfit, a behavior or a state of mind – that lead the spectator to construct his own narrative. The protagonists of Barré’s world are... More information

Wild angle

Bruno Peinado 27 May - 30 Jul 2011 ADN Galeria The title of this exhibition shows that even language is a means of hybridization for Peinado, an artistic matter he manipulates and distorts. Wild Angle plays with the idea of a broad and open point of view (“wide angle”, corresponding to a typology of photographic lens), juxtaposed with an unpredictable... More information

Lets get physical

Carlos Aires 15 Apr - 14 May 2011 ADN Galeria Carlos Aires is one of the artists identified in ADN Galeria as global busters; he handles processes of hybridization and an aesthetic of chaos in an inclusive way, thanks to which opposite realities coexist and foster unpredictable springs of knowledge. Aires interferes with our perception of reality through ideas crossbreeding... More information

For sale

Santiago Cirugeda 16 Dec 2010 - 4 Feb 2011 Cirugeda spent the last fifteen years developing countless projects in that architectonic branch which, instead of just designing buildings, tries to provide new habitats hoping for a possible social reorganization, inspired by the Archigram model of “Instant City” (1968). At the end of the 90’s he’d already caught media attention... More information

Body 5 Arrives

Tobias Bernstrup 9 Sep - 16 Oct 2010 Bernstrup has constructed his own unmistakable performance persona in elaborate costumes of glossy latex and heavy makeup during these years. Without establishing a distinction between high culture, popular or underground culture, he mixes references as eclectic as video-game aesthetics, pop culture, science fiction, gothic noir, new technologies, electronic music or... More information

Nowheristan

Igor Eškinja 14 May - 30 Jul 2010 ADN Galeria Eškinja emphasizes the constructed character of the gaze and the regimes of visibility which influence our perception of reality and its representation. A neologism forged by the artist, the exhibition’s title associates the idea of no-place (nowhere) and the definition of a specific territory, as expressed by the suffix –stan,... More information

Scratch

Group show 17 Dec 2009 - 31 Jan 2010 ADN Galeria Scratch is the third group exhibition at ADN Galería entirely dedicated to drawing, after “Drawing and Dreaming” (2007) and “Paperless Marks” (2008). On the present occasion, the dialogue between works is developed on a more conceptual context. SCRATCH puts together critical, direct and unambiguous proposals, really necessary to avoid the... More information

Ne vous laisser pas consoler

DEMOCRACIA 12 Nov - 12 Dec 2009 ADN Galeria The project begins with the collaboration between Democracia and the Ultramarines association, hooligans of the football team Girondins from Bordeaux. Starting from this collaboration and through a remarkable critical standpoint, Democracia proposes their intervention, consisting on the introduction of political sentences into a completely unusual context: a football stadium in... More information

Lo que nos queda

Concha Pérez 22 Sep - 31 Oct 2009 ADN Galeria Uninhabited places, ruins of a past routine, of habitats and habits that today seem remote, hidden by the flowing of time. Her photographs talk about the empty content of some spaces, but it is the emptyness itself that shows its content to us. They are not dead places. The change... More information

Danzad, danzad, malditos

Carlos Aires 28 May - 30 Jul 2009 Although the work of Carlos Aires talks about an uncomfortable reality, this is only its background. Sometimes the image hides its acidity by mimicking itself with pop colors; sometimes the image adopts the shape of its own content. At any case, the result is always a beautiful image, easy to... More information

Pièces

Virginie Barré 26 Mar - 8 May 2009 ADN Galeria In the exhibition Pieces, her principal referent will be the graphic designer Saul Bass, especially in his work on the credits of the film “Anatomy of a Murder”. Virginie appropriates now the shapes that appear in the titles of Otto Preminger´s film, reinterpreting them, playing with them, and finally placing... More information

Sin Estado

DEMOCRACIA 22 Jan - 13 Mar 2009 ADN Galeria Sin Estado offers a double reading from his name: the use of public funds destined to the art which have been turned aside to interventions of social character, in a space like La Cañada Real in which the same administration refuses itself to carry out any public service; as well... More information

Même les choses invisbles se cachent

Abdelkader Benchamma 18 Sep - 1 Nov 2008 ADN Galeria Born in 1975 in Algeria and living now in Montpellier, Benchamma developed a deeprooted passion for drawing and artistic notions since his childhood. He was used to transfer his interests in drawing comics and investigating the unknown. He studied Fine Arts in Montpellier and Paris while already participating in some... More information

Global Warming

Eugenio Merino 18 Sep - 1 Nov 2008 ADN Galeria “What I do concerns a lot the world of advertising: it must be understood at first glance and it must be playful, like understanding one thing through another: The fast cheating technique.” (E.Merino) Eugenio Merino was born in 1975 in Madrid. He graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University... More information

Save our Souls

Felipe Almendros 10 Jul - 16 Aug 2008 ADN Galeria Formado como ilustrador, Almendros esboza una iconografía depurada que bebe directamente del cine, registro que le ha servido de fuente básica para crear sus historias personales. La estética de sus personajes se podrían comparar con los cómics indie americanos, con semejanzas con nombres como Chester Brown o la generación Mome... More information

5 is only a number

Group show 17 May - 5 Jul 2008 ADN Galeria En ésta ocasión tan especial, deseamos aglutinar algunos trabajos de los artistas que nos han acompañado durante estos años y que han contribuido en primera persona a enriquecer la propuesta de la galería, facilitando su crecimiento y formación. ADN quiere celebrar este momento rindiendo homenaje a los artistas y a... More information

Fugaz

Igor Eškinja 31 Jan - 15 Mar 2008 ADN Galeria Eškinja plays with reality and fiction in neutral spaces, with primary colors or with gray and white, using poor materials for his installations, like scotch-tape and dust, coming from everyday-life. Eškinja gives attention to problems related to visual way-of-thinking, to perception, to the symbolic space of the gallery and its... More information

Monday

Judas Arrieta 31 Jan - 15 Mar 2008 ADN Galeria Arrieta paints and draws his characters on industrial tissues full of bright colors: crossing over lines, the faces are mixed up creating a pop-tasting mass. Born in Hondarribia in 1971, Judas Arrieta had an infancy of full immersion in television programs, especially in animation “made in Japan”. Once he attended... More information

Works of a decade

Daniel & Geo Fuchs 27 Nov 2007 - 19 Jan 2008 ADN Galeria The exhibition will include works from the series Conserving, Famous Eyes, Stasi and Toys, in which the artists developed during ten years original artistic projects (Conserving, Famous Eyes) and sociopolitical ones (Stasi, Toys), stressing each work with a personal style that can be defined as “analytic” and close to cataloguing.... More information

Drawing and dreaming

Group show 11 May - 9 Jun 2007 ADN Galeria Far from conceptuality and strictness, drawing shows innocence, freedom but also transparency becoming source of inside processes that may outcome as artwork. Drawing is emotional, experiential, a narrative trip from the inside to reach the outside, it digs into irrationality and repression claiming personal and unique realms, occasionally bordering utopia.... More information

Enemies of the earth

Tobias Bernstrup 29 Mar - 5 May 2007 ADN Galeria The post-productive approach developed by Bernstrup chases the anxiety of believing in improbability, therefore creating personal mythologies that shapes though audiovisual or performance formats. Virtual reality and first computer-games aesthetic like Space Invaders join in purely physical representations of the artist. Experimental and breaking sources bring about the merging between... More information

Blissfully

Virginie Barré & Bruno Peinado 13 Feb - 24 Mar 2007 ADN Galeria Each one displays a new series of artworks thought and made in symbiosis with ADN’s space, and coincide partially in the thematic without sacrificing their own creativity. If we should resume their exhibition proposal in a few words, the expression of “cultural shock” would be the most appropriate. Indeed, their... More information

Te mando un colega

María Cañas, Begoña Muñoz & Avelino Sala 24 Jan - 3 Feb 2007 ADN Galeria Te mando un colega es una expresión comúnmente utilizada cuando, haciendo uso de la confianza ente dos amigos, se envía al hogar del segundo una tercera persona avalada por el primero. Te mando un colega propone una relectura desde el arte contemporáneo de la presentación audiovisual del hecho cotidiano a... More information

Dancing with your eyes

Ismael Iglesias 2 Nov - 29 Dec 2006 ADN Galeria Sin embargo, la pintura es el medio donde desarrolla su idea sobre el arte. Sus composiciones fluctúan entre figuración y abstracción, nos sumerge en un mundo formas orgánicas, repeticiones, texturas, decorados artificiales. Su pintura roza lo etéreo, se expande fuera de los límites del soporte para cazarnos con un efecto... More information

For sale

Chus García-Fraile 12 Sep - 24 Oct 2006 ADN Galeria The search for comfort is programmed in successive stages of consumption, and one of its highest symbolic levels may be the vacation residence, a place where the simulation of leisure is one more expression of production. Paradoxically, these architectures are paradigms of a world in which there is no room... More information

Intervention

Shiro Masuyama 29 Jul - 29 Aug 2006 ADN Galeria Many visitors often come to these openings just to drink and mingle without seriously looking at the work. Masuyama Intervention is an anti-socialization bar that contrasts with such ironic customs around the art world. The main concept in this project is to prevent visitors from communicating with each other. Masuyama... More information

A vida o muerto

Wolf Hamm 6 May - 21 Jun 2006 ADN Galeria This artists identifies himself as follower of Durero and the engravers Schongauer and Balgung Grien and falls in love with the gloomiest facet os xylography, which trapped as well the Mexican engravers Posada, Manilla among others. Hamm explores the interior landscape: believes, faith, the human condition indeed. In order to... More information

King Kong and the end of the world

Federico Solmi 4 May - 21 Jun 2006 ADN Galeria Solmi presents in ADN Galeria his last video animation, King Kong and The End of The World, as well as some drawings among the 1100 originally utilized for the making of the movie. This piece plays with several ikons of mass culture: the comercial brands, emblems of high culture as... More information

Enlaces. Obras recientes

Tono Carbajo 9 Mar - 8 Apr 2006 Sus primeros trabajos se desenvuelven en la órbita del postpop. Utiliza la pintura fluorescente, de colores ácidos que potencian la expresividad. Esta etapa coincide con su estancia en Barcelona, donde se impregna de la luz mediterránea. Al recalar en Madrid, en el año 1983, realiza un curso, en el Círculo... More information

Double top

Fermín Moreno Martín 19 Jan - 28 Feb 2006 More information

Killing Spree

Tobias Bernstrup 12 Nov - 17 Dec 2005 ADN Galeria Tobias Bernstrup presentará en ADN Galeria varios de sus trabajos coincidiendo con su participación en el Festival Loop 2005. Esta actuación, donde interpretará algunas canciones del disco Killing Spree, tendrá lugar el 12 de noviembre a las 2 de la madrugada en la sala de fiestas La Paloma con motivo... More information

Alojamientos

Concha Pérez 6 Nov - 7 Dec 2005 ADN Galeria La exposición invita al espectador a sumirse en unos espacios recreados con referencias domésticas, urbanísticas y naturales, abiertos a la calma, la reflexión y la intimidad. Concha Pérez cuestiona sin estridencias el concepto contemporáneo de espacio, fundamentalmente urbanístico, a través de la manipulación informática. La acomodación de los espacios por... More information

Próxima estación

Nic Hess 6 - 31 Oct 2005 ADN Galeria Su obra se presenta unas veces divertida y lúdica mientras otras es punzante y agresiva. Y aunque pretende remover las convenciones sociales y culturales no quiere cambiar el mundo, sino crear espacios individuales en una sociedad marcada por los media y la pluralidad cultural. Nic Hess dibuja en el espacio... More information

Oh my god!

Valérie Prot 6 - 31 Oct 2005 ADN Galeria El miedo a “lo desconocido' se contrapone directamente al concepto de 'lo cotidiano' y remite a otro universo oculto, el cual sólo puede contemplarse con un filtro estético que nos aleje de esos elementos, en este caso la fotografía con referencias al cine, al cuento… Esta propuesta es un modo... More information

Tengo que cortarme una oreja

Group show 30 Jun - 30 Jul 2005 ADN Galeria The Graffiti in Spain has not attained the recognition that it has in other countries. It has struggled to be considered an artistic form. It is still perceivd as an aggression to the urban landscape and it survives outside the gallery and the artistic professional circuits. In other hand it... More information

IKONS2

Marc Quintana 1 - 30 Jun 2005 ADN Galeria Estamos tan acostumbrados a lo espectacular que los pequeños detalles apenas excitan nuestra mirada. Algunos necesitamos la intervención de este artista para descubrir que lo a priori insignificante puede alcanzar insólitas poéticas visuales. Marc Quintana apuesta con arrojo por la dialéctica entre lo informal y la imagen infográfica, para realzar... More information

Situaciones Urbanas: Unidades 2 y 15

Santiago Cirugeda 7 Apr - 30 May 2005 ADN Galeria APTM Construmat 2005, es un proyecto que quiere explorar las nuevas condiciones espaciales, técnicas e ideológicas de la vivienda asequible a través, por un lado, de la generación de debate público, y por otro, construyendo un entorno visible de seis prototipos de apartamentos mínimos que representen un abanico de soluciones... More information

The Blind Architect

Alexander Pilis 7 Apr - 28 May 2005 Pilis ha incorporado el concepto del Parallax como base teórica en sus investigaciones sobre arquitectura. El proyecto examina el vínculo entre Emplazamiento, Arte, Arquitectura y Percepción. Alexander Pilis describe así su trabajo: “Para encontrar respuesta a una cuestión se necesita como mínimo tres puntos de vista; este discurso favorece la... More information

El corte francés

Bruno Peinado & Virginie Barré 27 Jan - 12 Mar 2005 ADN Galeria Esto también hace de él un artista en constante movimiento, en permanente renovación, que sigue añadiendo o quitando elementos a sus trabajos según el entorno físico y social en el cual está operando, dejando así que las ideas y las influencias del mundo exterior fluyan sin vínculos, sin presiones, sin... More information

Let us play

Ismael Iglesias 7 Sep - 9 Nov 2004 ADN Galeria Sin embargo, la pintura es el medio donde desarrolla su idea sobre el arte. Sus composiciones fluctúan entre figuración y abstracción, nos sumerge en un mundo formas orgánicas, repeticiones, texturas, decorados artificiales. Su pintura roza lo etéreo, se expande fuera de los límites del soporte para cazarnos con un efecto... More information

Pintura

Judas Arrieta, Chus García-Fraile & Pipo Hernández 11 Dec 2003 - 17 Jan 2004 ADN Galeria Chus García-Fraile (Madrid 1971) Pintora madrileña que explora la pintura realista, trascendiendo esa figuración y convirtiendo el objeto en un icono de forma, textura y color. Recrea un conjunto de imágenes de la era del plástico y los nuevos materiales, susceptibles todos ellos de reciclaje. Reciclajes visuales a escalas expandidas,... More information

Obra reciente

Concha Pérez 1 Oct - 22 Nov 2003 ADN Galeria La exposición invita al espectador a sumirse en unos espacios recreados con referencias domésticas, urbanísticas y naturales, abiertos a la calma, la reflexión y la intimidad. Concha Pérez cuestiona sin estridencias el concepto contemporáneo de espacio, fundamentalmente urbanístico a través de la manipulación informática. La fluctuación constante de la noción... More information

Darling something is burning...

Valérie Prot 1 Oct - 22 Nov 2003 ADN Galeria Su trabajo se nutre de la realidad exterior que la rodea, mostramos un trabajo fotográfico en el que manifiesta la violencia activista patente en las sociedades urbanas actuales a partir de un gesto anónimo. More information

En sus 13

Group show 22 Jul - 30 Aug 2003 ADN Galeria Dentro de la pluridisciplinariedad que caracteriza al arte de nuestros días, podemos ver obras con diferentes técnicas y soportes: pintura, serigrafía, video, fotografía, dibujo, instalación… conviviendo en un mismo espacio. Quim Cantalozella Su trabajo se centra en la investigación de los parámetros conceptuales que se plantean en la pintura figurativa... More information