Contact
Email: adriaans.jan@gmail.com
Agenda
September 2018 Plexus Project Space Brooklyn New York
November 2018 Beautiful Distress art space Amsterdam, collaboration with Marianna
Maruyama and Gerwin Luijendijk, curated by Esther Vossen
May 2019 Extrapool, Nijmegen / performance event with Monique Hendriksen #2
Education
2017 - 2017 Posthumanism, alien bodies, cyborgs and Artificial Inteligence in American Literature / Leiden
University, as part of the MA North American Studies and the (Res) MA Literary Studies
2016 - 2017 Didactic certificate, HKU Utrecht
2013 - 2015 MA Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem
1999 MFA Post St. Joost, Breda
1992 - 1998 BFA Academy of fine Arts St. Joost, Breda, Magna Cum Laude
Exhibitions (selection)
2018 Presentation, Het Vijfde Seizoen Den Dolder, Artist in Residence / collaboration with Marianna
Maruyama and Gerwin Luijendijk
2018 7 Reasons to Stop Thinking of the Interface, Extrapool Nijmegen / performance event
with Monique Hendriksen
2018 Radical Hospitality at Black Box Theatre, Oslo, curated by Hanan Benammar
2017 The Wrong, new digitale art biennale, official pavilion, curated by: Ilavenil Jayapalan
2017 BB15 space for contemporary art, Linz / Vocabulary of Noise
2017 Espaciocenter, Canarias / Now and After, ecology without borders, curated by Marina Fomenko
2017 CCI Fabrika, Moskow / Now and After, ecology without borders, curated by Marina Fomenko
2017 Samara in TK Storehouse Moskow / Now and After, ecology without borders, curated by Marina
Fomenko
2017 White Suite / Nijmegen
2017 Synchrony Collapse / BB15 space for contemporary art, Linz (solo)
2016 Now and After, ecology without borders / The National Darwin Museum Moskow, curated by Marina
Fomenko
2016 Collectors view / Amsterdam, curated by Fons Welters and Laurie Cluitmans, with Job Koelewijn,
Gabriel Lester, Alexandra Leykauf, Sarah van Sonsbeeck
2016 Visions Programme 1/ The Nunnery London, with Uriel Orlow, Fiona Walsh, Amy Lunn, Jacek Ludwig
Scarso, Tanya Syed, Eeva Siivonen, curated by Cinzia Cremona and Tessa Garland
2015 There’s absolutely No cause for alarm / TAAK Amsterdam, curated by Katia Krupennikova
2015 Do the Right Thing / lectures by Dutch Art Institute graduates, Showroom, Arnhem
2015 To Make a Work / Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brasil, curated by Grant Watson (Dutch Art Institute)
2015 Shift & Drift / Tent, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014 After Year Zero / Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade curated by Doreen Mende (Dutch Art
Institute)
2013 Upon Return / Greylight Projects, Hoensbroek (solo)
2012 A Possible Relief / Gueststudio, Künstlerhaus Bethaniën Berlin (solo)
2010 Quickscan #01/ Photography Now / Dutch Photography Museum, Rotterdam
2009 Paris Photo, Caroussel du Louvre, Paris
2009 Festival Urbaines / Gallery 1m3, Lausanne, curated by Federica Martini, (solo)
2009 Videonale 12 / Kunstmuseum, Bonn
Screenings (selection)
2017 Askal Alwan, Beirut / presentation by Aarti Sunder
2017 Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Rencontres Internationales – library, Berlin
2017 Gaîte Lirique / Rencontres Internationales, Paris
2016 Prometheanism 2.0 / Showroom Arnhem, symposium curated by Bassam El Baroni, collaboration
with Katia Barrett, with Mohamed Salemy, Patrica Reed, Yuk Hui, Inigo Wilkins, Peter Wolfendale
and Benjamin Burtenshaw
2011 Art Rotterdam, Zapp videoprogramm / Cruise Terminal, Rotterdam
2010 Film + Design Festival / Dutch Design Week, Plaza Futura, Eindhoven
2010 Medrar Video Festival Cairo / Goethe Institute, Cairo
2004 World Wide Video Festival / Post CS Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Artist in Residence (selection)
2018 Het Vijfde Seizoen Den Dolder, Artist in Residence / collaboration with Marianna
Maruyama and Gerwin Luijendijk, supported by the Mondriaan Fund
2017 BB15, Nudging Preconditions, Linz
2017 BB15, AiR, Linz
2015 Casa do Povo (DAI), Molecular Revolutions, Sao Paulo
2015 Van Abbemuseum (DAI), The Van Abbemuseum presents: Practicing with Institutions, Eindhoven
2014 SeMA NANJI Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2014 See You in The Hague, Consequences of Counterterrorism Policies / Stroom, The Hague
2014 If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part Of your Revolution, Appropriation and Dedication / DAI Coop
Academy, Arnhem, Amsterdam, Berlin
2013 Archives Works Marathon / Institut fur Raumexperimente, Berlin
2012 Gueststudio, Künstlerhaus Bethaniën Berlin
2011 Projectstudio, Künstlerhaus Bethaniën Berlin (Mondriaan Fund)
2008 Townhouse, Cairo (Mondriaan Fund)
Text/ Publications
2017 Outline / Why Do we want Animals to like us?
https://www.outline2017.com/anything-makes-sense-4-copy.html
2017 Contribution to Deep Body Massage booklet by Marianna Maruyama
2014 Unfold newspaper, ed. Dutch Art Institute, Netsa Art Village, Ale Art School Addis Ababa, 500 copies,
published by Dutch Art Institute
Bookmarkets (selection)
2013 Book Gallery, St. Petersburg
2013 A different kind of order / ICP Triennal bookmarket, New York
2011 Anti-Photo (FW: Books) / Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2011 Unseen Photobookmarket (Peeping Tom) / de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
2010 Off-Print (Fw: Books), Paris
Side activities (selection)
2018 The Other Tongue Summer School, 't Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder en Amsterdam (by Dirk van
Lieshout en Marieke Zwart)
2017 Het Wilde Weten, Disclosed / Dusk to Dawn Choruses, a musical event by Song-Ming Ang & Julien
Grossmann, with Milou van Ham, Michiel Huijben, Cora Schmeiser, Kathrin Wolkowicz, and me
2016 Noletloodsen, Ketelfactory, performance in the work of Wineke Gartz 'Dagger Smart Dagger, works
with thigh', with Julien Grossmann
2009 – 2018 Teaching at HKU, Photography department, Utrecht
2014 – 2017 Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam, residency program