{{Short description|American curator and writer}} '''Adam Kleinman''' is an American curator and writer who has served as the director and chief curator of Kunsthall Trondheim since 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-10-12 |title=Adam Kleinman named director of Kunsthall Trondheim |url=https://www.artforum.com/news/adam-kleinman-named-director-of-kunsthall-trondheim-252174/|access-date=2024-09-28|website=Artforum|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Career== In 2004, Kleinman curated the "Arrivals" program as part of the exhibition Terminal 5, at John F. Kennedy International Airport.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ho|first=Cathy Lang|date=2004|title=The Architect's Newspaper |url=https://usmodernist.org/AN/AN-2004-09-21.pdf| website=usmodernist.org}}</ref>
In 2009, he became the curator of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and led to the development and programming of LentSpace, a temporary public art park that occupied a disused block in Downtown Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=LentSpace|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/37744/lentspace/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=e-flux|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=2008-03-07 |title=Sculpture Park Takes Shape at the Holland Tunnel |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/07/sculpture-park-takes-shape-at-the-holland-tunnel/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=City Room {{!}} New York Times |language=en}}</ref> A review in ''The New York Times'' described the inaugural installation of sculptures as a "...[play] on the conventions of city park design or on the idea of what deserves to be classified as public art."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Konigsberg |first=Eric |title=An Art Park Sprouts (for Now) Where New Buildings Were to Grow |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/arts/design/17lent.html?searchResultPosition=8|website=The New York Times|date=16 September 2009 }}</ref>
From 2007-2008 Kleinman participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Independent Study Program: 40 Years |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art |pages=110}}</ref>
In 2012, Kleinman acted as Agent for Public Programming at dOCUMENTA (13).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Kleinman - The Creative Time Summit |url=https://summit.creativetime.org/athens-2017/adam-kleinman/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=summit.creativetime.org}}</ref>
From 2013, Kleinman was editor-in-chief and adjunct curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Kleinman - Kunstinstituut Melly |url=https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/people/2559-adam-kleinman |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=Kunstinstituut Melly |language=en}}</ref> He has also served as the regional curator for North America at Kadist.<ref>{{Cite web |title=KADIST Regional Curators – Kadist |url=https://kadist.org/curators/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
==Teaching and residencies==
In 2012, Kleinman participated in the International Visitor Programme run by the Office of Contemporary Art Norway.<ref>{{Cite web |title=International Visitor Programme |url=https://oca.no/visitors/international-visitor-programme/recipients/2012 |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=Office for Contemporary Art Norway |language=en}}</ref>
In 2013, Kleinman was a Robert Lehman Visiting Artist at the Cooper Union.<ref>{{Cite web |title=INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR: Adam Kleinman |url=https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/interdisciplinary-seminar-adam-kleinman |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=The Cooper Union |language=en}}</ref>
In 2016, Kleinman was a fellow at the Banff International Curatorial Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-02 |title=Banff International Curatorial Institute {{!}} Banff Centre |url=https://www.banffcentre.ca/banff-international-curatorial-institute |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.banffcentre.ca |language=en}}</ref>
==Exhibitions and writings==
Artists centered in Kleinman's work include Pierre Huyghe,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vecchiarelli |first=Chiara |date=2012-01-01 |title=On the Reversal of Time and Space, Ali Brivanlou and Pierre Huyghe with Chiara Vecchiarelli and Adam Kleinman, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel |url=https://www.academia.edu/44132080 |journal=Documenta (13)}}</ref> Britta Marakatt-Labba,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fall 2016 exhibitions - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/6139/fall-2016-exhibitions/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref> Emilie Louise Gossiaux,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Kinship - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/616889/emilie-louise-gossiauxkinship/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref> American Artist,<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Artist: The Monophobic Response |url=https://www.lacma.org/press/american-artist-monophobic-response |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=LACMA |date=13 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjp43uOH5Fs |title=Shaper of God: American Artist in conversation with Ayana Jamieson |date=2022-09-26 |last=Los Angeles County Museum of Art |access-date=2024-09-28 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Gala Porras-Kim,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gala Porras-Kim Precipitation for an Arid Landscape |url=https://www.amant.org/exhibitions/4-gala-porras-kim-precipitation-for-an-arid-landscape |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=Amant |language=en}}</ref> Emilija Škarnulytė,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Olsson |first=Tommy |date=2024-08-20 |title=Og lengst nede på havets bunn våkner Cthulhu |url=https://kunstkritikk.com/og-lengst-nede-pa-havets-bunn-vakner-cthulhu/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=Kunstkritikk |language=en-US}}</ref> Hannah Ryggen,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grann |first=Annemona |date=2024-02-22 |title=Da amerikaneren kom til Trondheim, ble han fascinert av hvordan byen er formet av branner |url=https://www.adressa.no/kultur/i/ve0p0V/da-amerikaneren-kom-til-trondheim-ble-han-fascinert-av-hvordan-byen-er-formet-av-branner |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=adressa.no |language=nb}}</ref> Walid Raad,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daisy Hildyard on "Tongues of Fire" - Criticism - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/603025/tongues-of-fire |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref> Rossella Biscotti,<ref>{{Cite web |title=WIELS {{!}} For the Mnemonist, S. |url=https://www.wiels.org/en/bookshop/catalogue/for-the-mnemonist-s |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=WIELS |language=en-BE}}</ref> Trevor Paglen,<ref>{{Cite web |title=KADIST and e-flux present Ways of Reading Symposium - Events - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/events/309842/kadist-and-e-flux-present-nbsp-ways-of-reading-symposium/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref> John Gerrard,<ref>{{Cite web |title=John Gerrard: Neural Exchange |url=https://www.lacma.org/sites/default/files/techlab/2018-11/171018_NeuralExchange_Publication.pdf |website=LACMA}}</ref>Sin Wai Kin,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mørk |first=Mats |date=2025-01-16 |title=(+) Anerkjent drag-kunstner kommer til Norge |url=https://www.blikk.no/drag-kultur-kunst/anerkjent-drag-kunstner-kommer-til-norge/260780 |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=www.blikk.no |language=nb-NO}}</ref> Andros Zins-Browne and Jérôme Bel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Kleinman |url=https://frame-finland.fi/en/programme/visitor-programme/adam-kleinman/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=Frame Contemporary Art Finland |language=en-GB}}</ref> Kleinman has also interviewed the physicists Karen Barad<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Barad |first=Karen |title="Intra-actions" (Interview of Karen Barad by Adam Kleinmann) |url=https://www.academia.edu/1857617 |journal=Mousse}}</ref> and Anton Zeilinger.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mousse 34. An issue about dOCUMENTA (13) - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/187367/mousse-34-an-issue-about-documenta-13/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref>
Recurring themes addressed by his exhibitions and articles include the history of computing, surveillance, the affordances of technology,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bak Herrie |first=Maja |date=2019 |title=Tracing the outlier: digital objects and algorithmic sorting in Rossella Biscotti's Other |journal=Journal of Aesthetics & Culture|volume=11 |doi=10.1080/20004214.2019.1605801 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ayas, Kleinman, Saelemakers |first=D., A., S |title=Art in the Age of Planetary Computation |publisher=Witte de With |year=2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=New York: Ways of Reading, Symposium – Kadist |url=https://kadist.org/program/ways-of-reading/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title="Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" - Criticism - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/353531/marking-time-art-in-the-age-of-mass-incarceration |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref> relations of art and politics,<ref>{{Cite web |title=XII BALTIC TRIENNIAL: "Foolishly Sharp. The Future of War," a lecture by Adam Kleinman |url=https://cac.lt/en/event/xii-baltic-triennial-foolishly-sharp-the-future-of-war-a-lecture-by-adam-kleinman/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=CAC |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hito Steyerl's "Adorno's Grey" - Criticism - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/234053/hito-steyerl-s-adorno-s-grey |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=e-flux lectures: Adam Kleinman |url=https://www.e-flux.com/events/96159/e-flux-lectures-adam-kleinman-trump-l-oeil-nbsp/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Chan |first=Sewell |title=Urban Theory at the Down Town Club |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/urban-theory-at-the-down-town-club/ |work=The New York Times: City Room|date=14 April 2009 }}</ref> as well as natural disasters and other forms of nonhuman agency.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Kinship - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/616889/emilie-louise-gossiauxkinship/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-19 |title="Tongues of Fire" at Kunsthall Trondheim — Mousse Magazine and Publishing |url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/tongues-of-fire-kunsthall-trondheim-2024/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.moussemagazine.it |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gala Porras-Kim: Precipitation for an Arid Landscape - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/428226/gala-porras-kimprecipitation-for-an-arid-landscape/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref>
His curated exhibitions have garnered multiple best-of-year recognitions, including "Gala Porras-Kim: Precipitation for an Arid Landscape"<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weng |first=Xiaoyu |date=2022-12-01 |title=TOP TEN |url=https://www.artforum.com/features/xiaoyu-wengs-highlights-of-2022-252301/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>, "Emilie Louise Gossiaux: Kinship"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Det beste fra kunståret 2024 |url=https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2024-12-30/det-beste-fra-kunstaret/f4Qj |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=klassekampen.no |language=nb}}</ref>, and Sin Wai Kin's "Man's World".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Olsson |first=Tommy |date=2025-12-03 |title=3 December |url=https://kunstkritikk.no/3-december-7/ |access-date=2025-12-14 |website=Kunstkritikk |language=en-US}}</ref>
In 2022, he went on assignment for Artforum to cover the cultural response to the Russo-Ukrainian War from Kyiv.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kleinman |first=Adam |date=2022-08-02 |title=POLITICS BY OTHER MEANS |url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/on-the-front-lines-of-ukraines-art-world-251977/ |access-date=2024-09-28 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>
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