ADAM ADACH – With any luck they might forget all about it

Adam Adach

Born 1962 in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland. Lives and works in Warsaw and Paris

Education

1995 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, France

1990 Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France

1981 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, SGGW, Warsaw, Poland

Solo exhibitions:

2009 "Przy odrobinie szczęścia może o tym zapomną”, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland

2008 La Galerie, Centre d'art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, France (catalogue)

"Cheap History", Gallery Arndt &Partner, Berlin, Germany

2007 "Chemical Sunset", D'Amelio-Terras Gallery, New York, USA

"The Evil-Pop+Politik", Galerie Lehmann, Dresden, Germany

"Portraits, Mirrors", Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue)

2006 Stille Beobachtung", Gallery nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria

"Ivernia", Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland

2005 Musée National Message Biblique Marc Chagall, Nice, France (catalogue)

Gallery nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria

Gallery D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA

2004 Centre d’Art Contemporain, Château des Adhémar, Montélimar, France (catalogue)

2003 "Peintures", Gallery Jean Brolly, Paris, France

1999 "A la merci", Gallery Laboratorium, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

1995 Chosaland, Lyon, France

1990 Maison Arche, Ambleteuse, France

Group exhibitions:

2009 "Conflicting Tales. Subjectivity", Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany

"Take a Look at Me Now"- Contemporary Art from Poland, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

"Un Salon Particulier – les inattendus du désir", I Love My Job, Paris, France

2008 "Restaging the Past", Baltic/Balcan, Contemporary Art Museum, Szczecin, Poland

"Targi Taniej Sztuki", Raster, Warsaw, Poland

"HeartQuake", Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

"Imagenes Latentes", Gallery Fucares, Madrid, Spain

"Lieux de Vie (Place of Life. Memories and Fantasies of Roots)", Abbaye Saint André-Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France

2007 FIAC, Le Prix Marcel Duchamp, nomination. Cour Carrée du Louvre, Paris.France

"Intrusions au Petit Palais", Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

"Leve de Schilderkunst! Terug naar de figuur", Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Holland

"De leur temps-Art(2). Art contemporain et collection privées en France", Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

2006 "Zurück zur Figur – Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung", Munich, Germany; Museum Franz Gertsch, Bern, Switzerland (2007)

"Le mouvement des images", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

"A Selected State", Emily Tsingon Gallery, London, England

"La Force de l’art", Grand Palais, Paris, France

"Bienvenue a bord", FRAC Alsace, Selestat, France

"Profiles", Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2005 "Day Sleepers", Tresor, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria

"Otwarcie / Początek / Zmiana", Lokal 30, Warsaw, Poland

2004 "Adam Adach, Gabi Hamm, Susan Turcot", Gallery Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany

"Recent Acquisitions", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

"Affinités électives", Centre Départemental d'Art Contemporain, Cimaise et Portique, Albi, France

"Voir en peinture", Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue)

"Przesylka z Paryża", Galerie Lichy, Attac Polska, Gdansk, Poland

2003 "Voir en peinture", Le Plateau, Paris, France (catalogue)

"Je t’aime de loin", Institut Polonais de Paris, Paris, France (catalogue)

"Sztuka wspolczesna dla wszystkich dzieci", National Gallery of Art – Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland

"Une promenade en été", Gallery Jean Brolly, Paris, France

2002 "Urgent Painting", Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (catalogue)

"Figuranci", Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland

"Kocham cie z daleka", Galeria Miejska-Arsenal, Poznan, Poland (catalogue)

2001 "Une boutique d’été", Paris Project Room, Paris, France

"Méng Kollection", Luxembourg

"Artistes Nomades", Galerie D. Nick, Aubais, France

2000 "Prodige", Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France (catalogue)

"Singulier-Pluriel", Galerie Corinne Caminade, Paris, France

"Passeur", Le Rectangle, Lyon, Paris (catalogue)

"Multipass", Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan (catalogue)

1999 "Nous nous sommes tant aimés", ENSBA Paris, France (catalogue)

"Managers de l’immaturité", Centre National d’Art Contemporain Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (catalogue)

Galerie Yoshii, Paris, France

"L’impromptu", Festival Improvisation et Ephémère, Château de Champdor, France.

1998 "Limits of Painting – Polish Painting since the 90s", Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Biennale d’Art Contemporain Issy-les-Moulineaux, France (catalogue)

1996 Bac Off +, Lyon, France

1995 Art 95, Gallery Display Stand, New York, USA

Bibliography

Adam Adach, NOManifest, Obieg on-line, 24.09.2009, http://www.obieg.pl/teksty/13934

Adam Adach, exh. catalogue, La Galerie – Centre d'art contemporain: Noisy-le-Sec 2008

Adach, Adam. Gryzmoły dla ślimaka, National Gallery of Art – Zacheta: Warsaw 2003; Wydawnictwo BEA: Warsaw 2008

Adam Adach. Portrety. Lustra. Portraits. Mirrors, exh. catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle: Warsaw 2007

Adam Adach, exh. catalogue, Réunion des Musées Nationaux: Paris 2005

Adam Adach, exh. catalogue, Chateau des Adhémar: Montélimar 2004