Adam Nankervis
Adam Nankervis
Morphic Mirror
2020
international co-ordinator
Morphic Mirror
Adam Nankervis
another vacant space.
found another vacant space
March 1 1992 – Present 2020
Adam Nankervis
dedicated to
David Medalla
(my soul mate, my husband, my best friend)
Piet Mondian.Lon Chaney. Luciano Fontana.Erich von Stroheim. Asger Jörn.Hart Crane. Marriane Moore.Mei Lan Fan.brion gysin.dsh.wilfred owen.rilke.cavafi.walt whitman.arthur rimbaud.
guy brett
Septemeber 30 2020
(due to corvid 19 by appointment only)
Adam Nankervis
found another vacant space
March 1 1992 – Present
Adam Nankervis
Born: Melbourne, Australia.
Married: David Medalla Manila 2017
Lives: U.K./ Berlin/ Syracause/ Rome/ NYC/ Sydney/ London/ Aarhûs / Lightning Ridge Australia/ Manila/ Hobart/ Brisbane/ Aukland
Director, Museum MAN, Berlin 1997-ongoing
International Coordinator, London Biennale 2000-2020
Founder, Changing Channels
London Biennale Pollinations, 2003
-
Exhibitions (selected)
2020
Morphic Mirror
Adam Nankervis
another vacant space.
Wedding Berlin
Deutschland
Germany
2019
An Opera For Animals
#skyblue
curator Cosmin Costinas
Para-site
Shanghai Museum
An Opera For Animals
#skyblue
curator Cosmin Costinas
2017
Should The World Break In II
Autogestion: DIY
Adam Nankervis
Museum Man
Joan Miro Foundation
Barcelona Spain
Mondrian Fan Club
David Medalla + Adam Nankervis
Venice Biennale 57
Viva Arte VIVA!
curator. Christine Marcel
Giardini
Venice Biennale
Italy
2015
The Letter P
Mondrian Fan Club
David Medalla + Adam Nankervis
Daniel Kupferberg
Peggy Guggenheim
Venice Italy
sattelite project of The Phillipine Pavillion
curator: Patrick Flores
2013
Black Stars On A White Sky
A Hommage to Mallarmè
Artist In Residency
Chateu de Sacy
Hermine Demorian
2011
Adam Nankervis
re-found
another vacant space.
Berlin Germany
ongoing
2010
The Secret History of the Mondrian Fan Club III
David Medalla + Adam Nankervis
BARÓ GALERIA
Sep 18th – Nov 20th 2010
São Paulo, Rua Barra Funda, 216 Santa Cecilia
Brazil
2010
IZOLATSYIA
Donetsk Ukraine
Luba Mikhailova
2009
A spires Embers
Luba Mikhailova+Ludmila Bereznitska Arsenal, Kiev, Miystskiy Arsenal (collection)
Should the World Break In
Ludmila Bereznitska+Partner Gallery, Kiev
Reliquaries of Empires Dust
Adam Nankervis
Museum MAN
Ludmila Bereznitska+Partner, Berlin
Ludmilla Bereznitska Gallery
Berlin Germany
2008
Museum MAN
Adam Nankervis
Should The World Break In
Ludmilla Bereznitska Gallery
Kiev
Bouquets For A Dead End Street
, Royal Academy London event horizon - curator temporary contemporary
Indifference (is bliss)
Berlin - curated by Johannes Buss
Museum MAN
Valparaiso, Chile
Reliquaries Of Empires Dust
Adam Nankervis
Museum MAN
Ludmilla Berezsnitska Gallery Berlin
Berlin
Germany
2007
Adam Nankervis
Museum MAN
Santiago de Chile
Metropolitana Galerrie
Museum MAN Valparaiso
History of Disappearance
Franklin Furnace Archives, Museum MAN, Chile Centro Culturelle, Palicio de La Moneda, Metropolitana Gallerie, Santiago, Chile
Museum MAN
InneROUTEr
Adam Nankervis (curator/ artsist)
3 exhibitions over time. ongoing
Yokahama Boogie Woogie Zaim
Kyoto, Japan - curator Koan Baysa
2006
Blurprints
Adam Nankervis (curator/ artsist)
Museum MAN’s Another Vacant Space, Liverpool Biennial
Bouquets For A Dead End Street
Deformes-First Latin American Performance, Biennale, Chile
Flagenations
concept for the inaugural opening of The London Biennale
2006 -
Adam Nankervis
Liverpool Biennal Independents
A global manifestation with 160 artists worldwide participating in cities from New Delhi, Sydney, NYC, Liverpool, London, Naples, Tokyo
Blueprints
Curator / Assemblage, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin
Anywhere in the World
David Medalla’s London Cosmic Wrestling Match - Marcel Duchamp vs Joseph Beuys: performance and installation, Institute Of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London
2004
Museum MAN
Liverpool Biennial 2004 Fireworks Tablet Gallery, Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London - Curator Mark Wilsher
2001
Star Maps
Los Angeles Biennale - Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica - Curated Koan Baysa
1997
Museum MAN
founded
Kastanienallee 72
D- 13349
Berlin Germany
Deutscland
Pansy Takes A Trip: When Summer Has Almost Gone
SdB Rotterdam - Curator Sico Carlier
Cosmic Carco Cult DAAD
Atelier Dahlem, Berlin - Curator David Medalla
1995
Life/Live collaboration with David Medalla
The Bird Man of Waikiki
Centro Culturelle De Belem, Portugal Musée D’Art Moderne de la ville, Paris - Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist
1996
LIFE/ LIVE
curator: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Musee Art de Modern Paris France
Bird Man of Waikiki
photo Sergio Goes
curated by Koan Jeff Baysa
artist in residence- David Medalla and Adam Nankervis
University of Oahu Hawaii Hawaii
1992
Adam Nankervis
found
another vacant space.
Mercer Street
SoHo NYC NY.
1991
Portraits of Ascencions
Billboard Danceteria, NYC
David Medalla
Andrew Cooper Reyner
Ruby Lyn Reyner
Patsy Craig
Izhar Patkin
James Moores
Impostures, Delusions and Fanatic Missions
another Vacant Space, Mercer St., NYC
founded by Adam Nankervis
1991
Mondrian Fan Club
founded by David Medalla and Adam Nankervis
Chelsea Hotel Rm. 603
204 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
1989
The Lightning Brothers
Polaroids and Hand-Made Jewellery from the elements of The Australian Desert 1988/ 99
Remo, Sydney, Australia
-
Adam Nankervis is an artist and curator who has infused social, conceptual and experimental practice in his lived in nomadic museum, museum MAN, and his ongoing project 'another vacant space.'. His immersion into the experimentation of social sculptural forms and aesthetic collisions are a trademark of his art.
His ongoing project 'another vacant space.', has re-manifested in Berlin Wedding 2011, since being founded in an abandoned shoe shop on Mercer Street NYC in 1992. The project focuses on the re-emergence of the hidden in subject, content and theory, the ephemeral, exploring the art of creative destruction and reconstruction inviting contemporary artists and the historical.
His curatorial practice is infused within his own projects, and singularly, Johannesburg Biennale 1997,curated by Okwui Enwezor and Gerardo Meesquera, LIFE/LIVE Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Los Angeles Biennale 2001, curated by Koan Baysa, Museum MAN/ Blurprint of The Senses Liverpool Biennale, 2004/ 2006, aFoundation and Arts Council England. Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile, curator, Isabel Garcia. A Spires Embers, Arsenal Kiev 2009,’ iIsolation’, Izolyatsia Donetsk, Luba Mikhailova, Ukraine 2010, Dumbo Arts Center, NYC November 2012, Peggy Guggenheim Collection 2015, Foundacion Joan Miro 2017, Venice Biennale 57, 2017.
Nankervis, in collaboration with David Medalla, formed The Mondrian Fan Club, & is the International Coordinator of the London Biennale 2000–2014 which was founded as a free-form artist initiative.
Adam Nankervis is represented in the collection of Arts Council England, aFoundation, James Moores Collection, Leo Keulbs Luba Mikhailova Collection, Ludmilla Bereznitzka Collection, QAGOMA Queensland, Australia and private collections worldwide.
Adam Nankervis
another vacant space.
found another vacant space
March 1 1992 – Present 2020
Adam Nankervis
dedicated to
David Medalla
(my soul mate, my husband, my best friend)
Piet Mondian.Lon Chaney. Luciano Fontana.Erich von Stroheim. Asger Jörn.Hart Crane. Marriane Moore.Mei Lan Fan.brion gysin.dsh.wilfred owen.rilke.cavafi.walt whitman.arthur rimbaud.
guy brett
Septemeber 30 2020
(due to corvid 19 by appointment only)
Adam Nankervis
found another vacant space
March 1 1992 – Present
Adam Nankervis
Born: Melbourne, Australia.
Married: David Medalla Manila 2017
Lives: U.K./ Berlin/ Syracause/ Rome/ NYC/ Sydney/ London/ Aarhûs / Lightning Ridge Australia/ Manila/ Hobart/ Brisbane/ Aukland
Director, Museum MAN, Berlin 1997-ongoing
International Coordinator, London Biennale 2000-2020
Founder, Changing Channels
London Biennale Pollinations, 2003
-
Exhibitions (selected)
2020
Morphic Mirror
Adam Nankervis
another vacant space.
Wedding Berlin
Deutschland
Germany
2019
An Opera For Animals
#skyblue
curator Cosmin Costinas
Para-site
Shanghai Museum
An Opera For Animals
#skyblue
curator Cosmin Costinas
2017
Should The World Break In II
Autogestion: DIY
Adam Nankervis
Museum Man
Joan Miro Foundation
Barcelona Spain
Mondrian Fan Club
David Medalla + Adam Nankervis
Venice Biennale 57
Viva Arte VIVA!
curator. Christine Marcel
Giardini
Venice Biennale
Italy
2015
The Letter P
Mondrian Fan Club
David Medalla + Adam Nankervis
Daniel Kupferberg
Peggy Guggenheim
Venice Italy
sattelite project of The Phillipine Pavillion
curator: Patrick Flores
2013
Black Stars On A White Sky
A Hommage to Mallarmè
Artist In Residency
Chateu de Sacy
Hermine Demorian
2011
Adam Nankervis
re-found
another vacant space.
Berlin Germany
ongoing
2010
The Secret History of the Mondrian Fan Club III
David Medalla + Adam Nankervis
BARÓ GALERIA
Sep 18th – Nov 20th 2010
São Paulo, Rua Barra Funda, 216 Santa Cecilia
Brazil
2010
IZOLATSYIA
Donetsk Ukraine
Luba Mikhailova
2009
A spires Embers
Luba Mikhailova+Ludmila Bereznitska Arsenal, Kiev, Miystskiy Arsenal (collection)
Should the World Break In
Ludmila Bereznitska+Partner Gallery, Kiev
Reliquaries of Empires Dust
Adam Nankervis
Museum MAN
Ludmila Bereznitska+Partner, Berlin
Ludmilla Bereznitska Gallery
Berlin Germany
2008
Museum MAN
Adam Nankervis
Should The World Break In
Ludmilla Bereznitska Gallery
Kiev
Bouquets For A Dead End Street
, Royal Academy London event horizon - curator temporary contemporary
Indifference (is bliss)
Berlin - curated by Johannes Buss
Museum MAN
Valparaiso, Chile
Reliquaries Of Empires Dust
Adam Nankervis
Museum MAN
Ludmilla Berezsnitska Gallery Berlin
Berlin
Germany
2007
Adam Nankervis
Museum MAN
Santiago de Chile
Metropolitana Galerrie
Museum MAN Valparaiso
History of Disappearance
Franklin Furnace Archives, Museum MAN, Chile Centro Culturelle, Palicio de La Moneda, Metropolitana Gallerie, Santiago, Chile
Museum MAN
InneROUTEr
Adam Nankervis (curator/ artsist)
3 exhibitions over time. ongoing
Yokahama Boogie Woogie Zaim
Kyoto, Japan - curator Koan Baysa
2006
Blurprints
Adam Nankervis (curator/ artsist)
Museum MAN’s Another Vacant Space, Liverpool Biennial
Bouquets For A Dead End Street
Deformes-First Latin American Performance, Biennale, Chile
Flagenations
concept for the inaugural opening of The London Biennale
2006 -
Adam Nankervis
Liverpool Biennal Independents
A global manifestation with 160 artists worldwide participating in cities from New Delhi, Sydney, NYC, Liverpool, London, Naples, Tokyo
Blueprints
Curator / Assemblage, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin
Anywhere in the World
David Medalla’s London Cosmic Wrestling Match - Marcel Duchamp vs Joseph Beuys: performance and installation, Institute Of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London
2004
Museum MAN
Liverpool Biennial 2004 Fireworks Tablet Gallery, Tabernacle, Notting Hill, London - Curator Mark Wilsher
2001
Star Maps
Los Angeles Biennale - Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica - Curated Koan Baysa
1997
Museum MAN
founded
Kastanienallee 72
D- 13349
Berlin Germany
Deutscland
Pansy Takes A Trip: When Summer Has Almost Gone
SdB Rotterdam - Curator Sico Carlier
Cosmic Carco Cult DAAD
Atelier Dahlem, Berlin - Curator David Medalla
1995
Life/Live collaboration with David Medalla
The Bird Man of Waikiki
Centro Culturelle De Belem, Portugal Musée D’Art Moderne de la ville, Paris - Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist
1996
LIFE/ LIVE
curator: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Musee Art de Modern Paris France
Bird Man of Waikiki
photo Sergio Goes
curated by Koan Jeff Baysa
artist in residence- David Medalla and Adam Nankervis
University of Oahu Hawaii Hawaii
1992
Adam Nankervis
found
another vacant space.
Mercer Street
SoHo NYC NY.
1991
Portraits of Ascencions
Billboard Danceteria, NYC
David Medalla
Andrew Cooper Reyner
Ruby Lyn Reyner
Patsy Craig
Izhar Patkin
James Moores
Impostures, Delusions and Fanatic Missions
another Vacant Space, Mercer St., NYC
founded by Adam Nankervis
1991
Mondrian Fan Club
founded by David Medalla and Adam Nankervis
Chelsea Hotel Rm. 603
204 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011
1989
The Lightning Brothers
Polaroids and Hand-Made Jewellery from the elements of The Australian Desert 1988/ 99
Remo, Sydney, Australia
-
Adam Nankervis is an artist and curator who has infused social, conceptual and experimental practice in his lived in nomadic museum, museum MAN, and his ongoing project 'another vacant space.'. His immersion into the experimentation of social sculptural forms and aesthetic collisions are a trademark of his art.
His ongoing project 'another vacant space.', has re-manifested in Berlin Wedding 2011, since being founded in an abandoned shoe shop on Mercer Street NYC in 1992. The project focuses on the re-emergence of the hidden in subject, content and theory, the ephemeral, exploring the art of creative destruction and reconstruction inviting contemporary artists and the historical.
His curatorial practice is infused within his own projects, and singularly, Johannesburg Biennale 1997,curated by Okwui Enwezor and Gerardo Meesquera, LIFE/LIVE Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Los Angeles Biennale 2001, curated by Koan Baysa, Museum MAN/ Blurprint of The Senses Liverpool Biennale, 2004/ 2006, aFoundation and Arts Council England. Centro Cultural Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, Chile, curator, Isabel Garcia. A Spires Embers, Arsenal Kiev 2009,’ iIsolation’, Izolyatsia Donetsk, Luba Mikhailova, Ukraine 2010, Dumbo Arts Center, NYC November 2012, Peggy Guggenheim Collection 2015, Foundacion Joan Miro 2017, Venice Biennale 57, 2017.
Nankervis, in collaboration with David Medalla, formed The Mondrian Fan Club, & is the International Coordinator of the London Biennale 2000–2014 which was founded as a free-form artist initiative.
Adam Nankervis is represented in the collection of Arts Council England, aFoundation, James Moores Collection, Leo Keulbs Luba Mikhailova Collection, Ludmilla Bereznitzka Collection, QAGOMA Queensland, Australia and private collections worldwide.