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Adrien Sina |
| Adrien Sina is a curator, dance & performance art historian, architect & artist. He has curated cross-disciplinary exhibitions involving architecture, performance, video and philosophy: ‘Fugitive Fluctuations’, 1995; ‘Tragédies Charnelles’ & ‘Immanences Spatiales’, 2000; ‘Feminine Futures: Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism’, Performa Biennial, New York, 2009. Through curatorial advisory, with theoretical essays or key loans, he has contributed to the historical sections of ‘Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance’, Tate Liverpool, 2003; ‘Traces of the Sacred’, 2008, ‘Danser sa vie’, 2011, Pompidou Centre; ‘Futurism’, 2009, Tate Modern, ‘Inventing Abstraction’, MoMA, 2013; ‘The Great Mother’, Palazzo Reale Milano, 2015, ‘Women in Abstraction’ at the Pompidou Centre & the Guggenheim Bilbao, 2021-2022. He was Thinker in Residence at London’s Live Art Development Agency, advisor for ‘PSi #12, Performing Rights Festival’, 2006. Solo exhibitions: ‘Archaeology of Desire’ at t1+2 artspace, London, 2005, ‘Archaeology of Desire II – A history of medical gaze & flesh’, Richard Rogers’ NEO-Bankside Pavilion, London, 2012-2013. ‘Feminine Futures’ was exhibited at The Consortium Contemporary Art Centre, Dijon, 2014. ‘Feminine Futures – The Membrane of the Dream I & II’ were shown at the Museum Langmatt, Switzerland, 2015. Forthcoming publications: following its first edition of 2011 at Les presses du réel, the extended version of Feminine Futures – Avant-garde female artists in the fields of performance & dance through film & photography in seven volumes including Futurism, Antique Modernity, European & American Expressionism and Contemporary. | |
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| Feminine Futures – The Membrane of the Dream I/II Part I: 26 April – 30 August, 2015 Part II: 6 September – 29 November, 2015 Curated by Adrien Sina Museum Langmatt, Switzerland |  |
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| Feminine Futures – Avant-garde female artists in the fields of performance and dance | Feminine Futures curated by Adrien Sina, was first exhibited in New York in 2009 during the PERFORMA Biennial directed by RoseLee Goldberg. All along its conception process it contributed to the historical sections of ‘Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance’ (2003) at Tate Liverpool, ‘Traces du Sacré’ (2008) and ‘Danser sa vie’ (2011) at the Centre Pompidou, ‘Futurism’ (2009) at Tate Modern and ‘Inventing Abstraction’ (2013) at MoMA, through curatorial advisory, knowledge transfer, theoretical essays in related publications and key loans. In 2014, Feminine Futures is shown at the Consortium Art Centre in Dijon, directed by Xavier Douroux, and in 2015 at the Museum Langmatt in Baden directed by Sarah Zürcher. After this new step, it will be eagerly awaited in other European Museums and in China. |
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| Feminine Futures Valentine de Saint-Point Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism Curated & edited by Adrien Sina Les presses du réel, November 2011 |  |
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| Feminine Futures Texts by Adrien Sina, Giovanni Dotoli, RoseLee Goldberg (Performa), Nancy G. Moore, Philippe de Lustrac, Sander L. Gilman, Frédérique Poissonnier, Maja Durinovic, Sarah Wilson, Patricia Guinard, Eric-Noël Dyvorne, Barbara Ballardin.  | |
Feminine
Futures. Historical Section, the first half of the twentieth century |
| Cybercities, megacities, slumcities Adrien Sina, 2012 |  |
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| © Adrien Sina, 2015 | |
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