Adam Saks

About

Adam Saks was born in 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark. 

He has studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 1993 to 1999. In 1996-97 he studied at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany, under Professor Bernd Koberling.

Adam Saks currently lives and works in Berlin.

For further inquiries, please contact the artist or Galerie Forsblom.

Current And Upcoming Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Selected

* = catalogue available

2023

Everything the Light Touches is your Kingdom, Meliksetian & Briggs, Dallas (US)

2022

Faith and Hope in a Handful of Dust, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg (DK)

2021

Wide Open, Kunstverein Heppenheim (D)

And All Is Always Now, Meliksetian & Briggs, Los Angeles (US)

2020

Adam og Asger (with Asger Jorn), Galerie Moderne Silkeborg (DK)

2019

We Are The Human Waterfall, Galerie MøllerWitt (DK)

2018

Infinite Voyage, Galerie Forsblom (FIN)

Pilgrim on a Hidden Path, Meliksetian & Briggs (US)

Loops of Utopia, Lieu d'Art Contemporain, LAC Narbonne (FR)

 2017

Dissolved, Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm (SE)

What’s done in the dark will be brought to the light, Norske Grafikere, Oslo (N)

Inhaling Darkness, Exhaling Galaxies, Kunstverein Reutlingen (D)

2016

Galerie Møller Witt, Aarhus (DK)

Setting Sail in a Teardrop of Fear and Desire, Kunsthal Nord (DK)*

2015

Strange Fates Some Fruits are Given, Galerie Møller Witt (DK)*

2014

I am a Ghost I am a Totem I am a Still Life, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FIN)*

Flora Empire, Galerie Møller Witt, (DK)

2013

Portrait of the Moon & a Single Blue Frog, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki (FIN)*

2012

Meconium, Galerie Møller Witt (DK)*

Atropa, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (D)*

Ende Neu, Städtische Galerie Offenburg (D)*

2011

Follow You Follow Me, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (D)*

2010

Sealevel, Buchkunst Kleinheinrich, Münster (D)*

Visual Voodoo, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (DK)*

Dry Your Eyes, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen (DK)*

2009

Mexican Standoff, Schäfer Grafisk Værksted, Copenhagen (DK)

Lonestar, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, (S)*

Sacré nom de Dieu, Gallery Bourouina, Berlin (D)*

Group Exhibitions

Selected

* = catalogue available

2024

Ravinen, Konstgrafik – Ur Ateljé Larsens Samling (SE)

2023

Trapholt Collect 2022, Trapholt (DK)

Nyförvärv i museets samling, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (SE)

2022

Dallas Art Fair w. Meliksetian & Briggs (US)

60 års jubilæumsudstilling, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg (DK)

2021

Gestalter, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (SE)

Diversity United, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (RU)

All Together Now, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg (DK)

2020

Explorations, Turku Art Museum (FIN)

Bed and Clock, Moon and Beach: Edvard Munch, Galerie Max Hetzler (D)

2019

Nordisk Akvareller 2019, Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum (DK)

2018

Fusion, Nordiska Akvarelmuseet (SE)

New Black Romanticism, Topičuv Salon, Prague (CZ)

New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (AT)

New Black Romanticism, Galerie der Stadt Backnang (D)

2017

Neue Schwarze Romantik, Künstlerhaus Bethanien (DE)

New Black Romanticism, Muzeul Național de Artă al României, București (RO)

New Black Romanticism, Stadtgalerie Kiel (D)

Galleri Ismene, Trondheim (N)

2016

Vitales Echo, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)

International Print Biennale, Newcastle (UK)

Træsnit, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg (DK)

Let’s Get Physical: Spatial Confrontations and Narrative Collisions, KKW, Leipzig (D)

2015

Out of the Darkness, ARoS (DK)

Vattenkonst, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (S)

Berlin Artists' Statements, BWAContemporary Art Gallery Katowice, kurator Christoph Tannert (PL)*

2014

Kunsten besøger Brandts, Brandts (DK)

Queen Sonja Print Award 2014, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (S)

Queen Sonja Print Award 2014, Prisverdige, Norske Grafikere (N)

Hausbesetzung, Kunstverein Wiesbaden (D)

»Wo ist hier? #1: Malerei und Gegenwart«, Kunstverein Reutlingen (D)

Künstlerhaus Bethanien (m. Fabrizia Vanetta) (D)*

Luggage and Observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese (D)*

Cap Jorn, Galerie Moderne (DK)*

2013

Under Pressure, Stolper & Friends, Oslo (N)

Moraltarantula 6, Hamburg, (D)

2012

Flying, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)

Charade, Sammlung Haubrok, Haubrok Shows Michel Würthle and His Artist Friends, Berlin (D)

Light & Space, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, (S) *

Status Berlin (1), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (D)*

Public Collections

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (DK)

Statens Museum for Kunst (DK)

Malmö Konstmuseum (S)

Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum (DK)

New Carlsberg Foundation (DK)

L.A.C Narbonne (F)

Aalborg Kommunes Kunstfond (DK)

Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (S)

Trapholt (DK)

Statens Kunstfond (DK)

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg (DK)

Emma, Espoo Museum of Modern Art (FIN)

Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection (FIN)

Zabludowicz Collection (UK)
Pori Art Museum (FIN)

Kiasma (FIN)