Adrian Schindler (Périgueux, France, 1989) graduated in Fine Art from the École Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts in Paris and went on to take the Art in Context postgraduate course at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He also studied at Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he specialised in performance. He is currently involved in the Research Platform and Doctoral Practice in Arts in Geneva.
His practice is constructed around the points of intersection and divergence between the big historical stories and individual or fringe narratives. He focuses his attention on documents akin to the private realm – letters, objects, family photos and so on – as well as elements that are constituent features of the public sphere – monuments, buildings, gardens, etc. – linking in both cases his research with the dérive. In recent years, he has been exploring a family-format archive consisting of extensive correspondence and more than 300 photographs taken by his German great-grandfather during the Second World War.
He has presented his work at La Grande Halle de La Villette (Paris, 2018), La Comédie (Reims, 2018), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, 2017), La Capella (Barcelona, 2017) and the Ludwig Forum (Aix-la-Chapelle, 2014), among others. He has been an artist in residence at Superdeals (Brussels, 2018), L’Estruch (Sabadell, 2018), Le Centquatre (Paris, 2014-15) and the ZKU - Center for Arts and Urbanistics (Berlin, 2013). In 2017, he published the book Itineraries and detours of a migrating monument with the AKV Berlin publishing house, co-produced by the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne.
He has been working with Eulàlia Rovira since 2013 and together they have shown work at the Galerie Martin Janda (Vienne, 2018), Musée de Bibracte (Saint-Léger-sur-Beuvray, 2018), Sala Muncunill (Terrassa, 2018), the àngels barcelona gallery (2017), Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitoria, 2017), Turf Projects (Croydon, 2016) and Fireplace (Barcelona, 2016), among others.
Biography made in 2018