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NADJA ADELMANN *1987
works and lives in Frankfurt am Main and Stuttgart, Germany.
Nadja Adelmann’s artistic practice operates at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and interactive media. She works with processes of perception, spatial relationships, and the dialogue between material and meaning—with the aim of creating aesthetic and conceptual interspaces in which reality reveals itself as something relational. She is particularly interested in constellations where firmly held truths begin to waver. Whether through mechanisms of movement, sensorially responsive surfaces, or subtly displaced materials, her works seek to challenge patterns of thought and perception—not provocatively, but in a subtle, poetic, and almost incidental way. Her engagement with theories from quantum physics, philosophy of language, and sociology is not illustrative but serves as a conceptual space in which art, research, and lived experience interpenetrate. The resulting works—such as Gegenstrich, Mediopassive II, or This is Air—often emerge from an exploration of movement, observation, affection, and the role of the viewer as a co-creator of reality.
In recent years, her work has been shown at local and international exhibitions (e.g. in the Netherlands, Vienna, Singapore and Seoul) as well as art fairs (such as Art Düsseldorf, Art Cologne, VOLTA Basel and Enter Art Fair Copenhagen). Several of her works are held in private and public collections.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
21. – 23. November 2025
THE FAIR at Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg, Gallery Heike Strelow
2026
Soloshow
AUNN Museum, SKY Museum, Shenzhen, China
PAST EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2024 Beyond White, Gallery Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main
2023 Less Matter More Waves, Double Show at Gallery Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main
2023 Jsselbiënnale, Biennale der Niederlande, Zwolle
2022 Walk the Line, Gallery Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main
2020 L‘Esprit, Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
2019 Lash23, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden
2019 Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, Introduction by Rose Field
2019 Junge Kunst mit Zukunft, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2018 Linien und Fläche, Solo Show, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
2017 Städel 200, Gallery Perpetuel, Frankfurt am Main
2017 Déjà-Vu, Brother Joseph McNally Gallery, Singapore
2017 Junge Kunst mit Zukunft, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2016 Blockadia, Gallery Satellit, Berlin (Kreuzberg)
2016 Junge Kunst mit Zukunft, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2015 Christmas in Northkorea, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2015 24h Exhibition, Dongdaemun, Seoul, South Korea
2015 Opening of the Art Installation Glas Sphere at the Bankhouse Metzler, Frankfurt am Main
2014 Competition of Bankhouse Metzler, Frankfurt am Main: 1. Place with the Installation Glas Sphere (incl. purchase of the artwork)
EDUCATION
2020 Graduation as Meisterschüler of Tobias Rehberger, at "Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule", Frankfurt am Main
2016-2020 Education of "Fine Arts" in the class of Tobias Rehberger, at "Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule", Frankfurt am Main
2015 Pre-Diploma, Fine Arts, at HFG Offenbach am Main
2014-2016 Education "Fine Arts" at "Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main"