Contemporary Art Exhibitions: Event Calendar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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