Elsewhere I am you

Solo exhibition, 2025
Galerie Wedding

Curated by Maj Smoszna

Adam works site-based, relational, transdisciplinary, exploring the deep entanglement of body and place: how where we are shapes who we are. For over a decade, he has developed works across landscapes, galleries, theatres, and public space — with groups, solo performers, and his own body. Adam creates environments: choreographies of presence, movement, sound, and text that invite audiences into a state of sensing. He sees site not as backdrop but as partner — fragile, layered, active. His work engages through attention: to vulnerability, to transformation, to what it means to inhabit a place with care. Adam is looking for forms of being-together that are soft, attuned, and open. He works between performance and installation, body and concept, sensation and language, time and space, participation and reception, creating pieces that ask not only what we see, but how we are present. (Maj Smoszna, Curator and Art Historian)

The exhibition draws from Adam’s ongoing exploration of the relationship between the human body and landscape. In their video and performance works, the artist and invited collaborators engage with remote, hybrid techno-natural sites – from a mountainous hydroelectric power station in Austria, to a dried-out forest in the deserts of southern Spain, to a ship graveyard in a former harbor of Copenhagen. These environments become stages for physical and poetic inquiry, where boundaries between body and landscape, visual and performative practice, begin to dissolve.

A central focus of Adam’s practice is the deconstruction of binary perspectives – whether in terms of gender, language, or the divisions we draw between nature and technology, presence and absence, self and other. As a queer artist, Adam reclaims the unstable in-between as a space of agency, tenderness, and resistance. For this exhibition, Adam also turns their attention to the urban landscape surrounding Galerie Wedding. Over 28 days, they carried out a continuous durational performance titled Wo alle sind (Where Everyone Is), in which they wrote a daily journal onsite dedicated to the Rathausvorplatz, the square in front of the gallery.

This act of presence – poetic, observational, and embodied – unfolded slowly over time and became an integral part of the exhibition itself. The performance culminated in a public reading, engaging with and responding to the very place that had shaped the writing – blurring the line between observation, experience, and shared space. The collected texts from the performance were later published as a book, designed by Cristina Talpa. In parallel, Paradise, one of the central video works in the show, was presented as a live concert. Musician and sound artist Judith Hamann, who composed the film’s original soundtrack, performed a live cello set in response to the installation – adding another layer of temporal and sensory resonance to the work.